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Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 36, Number 1. 28th February 1973

Rigmarolement

Rigmarolement

Sir,

When will somebody in the university administration use their god-given brains and finally come up with something that will simplify the whole rigmarole of enrolling? After having gone through the process for the third time (each year taking longer than the year before) I can't help feeling that there must be an easier way to complete all the pettifogging procedures. Firstly it seems incredible that it is necessary to waste two weeks to complete the enrolment of all the students. No doubt the official argument is that it takes time for all the staff to discuss the courses with the students but that in itself raises the question whether it is necessary to send a lot of students tramping ail around the varsity as if on a bloody jungle safari?

Frankly, when a guy has to see people in the English, History, Religious Studies Depts., then gets shunted over to the Registrar's office and then back to the Union to pay his fees and be accosted by over-zealous chaplains, account seeking bank clerks, and subscription sponging Socialist Action freaks, isn't it time for a change?

Couldn't the whole business take place in the Lecture Block, instead of people having to make a journey to the Union building to complete the farce? And if it is necessary to see a staff member, then why not put them in one place and, for Christ's sake, have more than one member for each department so that all those time-wasting queues could be eliminated!

No doubt sonic mumble fuck wit in Robert Stout (or some other bureaucratic hell hole) will say that the whole process is as streamlined as possible. In that case he should go through the whole chaotic cockup himself then he might realise what a complete and utter waste of time half of it is.

Robert Fenton.

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