TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1956
Watkins Shoulders
Scheduling Burden
To hear Ray V. Watkins, University scheduling officer,
talk, the title of scheduling officer is a semi-misnomer.
More appropos would be such names as doctor, lawyer,
psychatrist, public relations expert, and a few others.
Watkins, who is responsible for scheduling course sec
tions, final examinations, eight o'clocks, and Saturday classes,
says that during the course of a
year, professors and students use
his . shoulder for a crying towel.
Of course, some of their com
plaints are legitimate, he says.
Watkins' job of scheduling
course sections starts approxi
mately four to'six months in ad
vance of each semester.
Office Requests
The scheduling office requests
information from each depart
ment. The departments send in a
letter stating what courses are to
be taught during each semester,
how many sections are needed,
the number of students expected,
instructors' names, and what type
of room is needed for each course.
Then Watkins must make up a
time table with no conflicting
schedules.
' The office usually starts with
the required courses that most
students will be taking, Watkins
said, then adds other large classes
which may require special facili
ties. "There are about 1200 courses
with 1800 different listings be
cause of multiple sections, to be
worked into a reasonable pattern
every semester. "That's a lot of
jigsaw pieces," Watkins said.
Always Complications
Like a doctor's patient, compli
cations are always setting in. In
structor's hours must be kept free
for research. Some classes are re
quired to be scheduled in the
morning, and there's always a
shortage of laboratory space. -
Students and professors give
Watkins many headaches. One
professor, Watkins said, told him
he couldn't have any classes Mon
day mornings because he had to
help his wife with the . wash.
Many professors, Watkins said,
must be out of town on certain
days and cannot have classes.
Rock Rooms •
Watkins said . complaints al,
ways come from the geology de
partment. There are only three
classrooms in Mineral Industries
that have sample rocks needed
for certain geology courses, he
said. When his office is forced to
schedule these classes in -)ther
buildings, the geology professors
complain because they have to
carry rocks around the campus.
Another source of trouble is the
final exam schedule. After the
exam schedule is made up, Wat
kins said, all types of complaints
roll in.
Most complaints come from stu
dents, he said, who have to attend
a wedding or must be on boat
By LARRY JACOBSON
leaving for Europe the same day
of a scheduled final.
Sympathizes With Complaints
Watkins said he sympathizes
with most of the complaints and
trys to work things out if it's at all
possible. Usually, he said, the stu
dent misses the boat.
Along with scheduling courses
for 200 classrooms, 200 labora
tories, and meeting rooms, Wat
kins also schedules meetings in
Hort Woods. "Some may dispute
the connection between instruc
tion and Hort Woods," Watkins
said, "but, of course, even Hort
Woods could get overcrowded un
less someone was charged with
the responsibility of keeping
track of the dates various groups
want to use it."
Edz;cation Student Council
Education Student Council will
meet at 7:15 tonight in 204 Bur
rowes. .
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Frosh Elected
To ICG Post
At Conference
John Rapchak, freshman in arts
and letters from Mayfield. was
e'ected one of two assistant reg
ional directors from the central
part of the state at the Intercol
legiate Conference on Govern
ment in Harrisburg over the
weekend.
Twenty-three members of ICG
at the University attended the
three-day conference which was
composed of 600 college students
from all are...s of the state.
Students attending the confer
ence voted among themselves for
the 1957 presidential winner, and
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
won by a slim margin over Adlai
Stevenson on the second ballot.
The vote was 146 to 140. Estes
Kefauver, Chiet Justice Earl War
ren, and former president Herb
ert Hoover also gained votes.
The 23 University students fav
ored Stevenson, 12-11.
Alan Maloney, senior in arts
and letters from Teaneck N. J.,
president of ICG, acted as assist
ant campaign chairma.i for Ste
venson during the conference,
and David Scott, junior in agri
cultural economics and rural soci
ology from Chatham, N. J., was
campaign chairman for President
Eisenhower. Scott is chairman of
the Centre County Young Re
publican Club.
Police Still Looking
For University Cows
The State Pol:ce are still look
ing for the two cows stolen from
the University barns last month.
Police at the Rockview bar
racks said yeJterday that they
realize the cows are probably in
a barn somewhere, but that they
can't seem to locate the right
barn.
Attention
Iff ,
R.O.T.C. Graduates!
Officer's unforms on sale
for all branches of the
armed services
at
Smith's Tailor Shop
Smith's Cleaners and Tailors
110 E. Beaver Ave.
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Delta Sigma Pi to Meet
Delta Sigma Pi, commerce and
finance honorary will hold a
pledge meeting at 7:30 p.m. to
morrow at Pi Sigma Upsilon.
WSGA Senate Will Meet
Women's Stu - dent Government
Association Senate will meet at
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