Major problems
RTVF policy hinders registration

In the old days, before FrogNet and online registration, students could be seen standing in line at the Registrar’s Office, hoping that when their turn arrived, there would still be space left in the most coveted classes.

This year, four semesters after the successful implementation of online registration, students are once again standing in line to register for classes.

This time, it’s the 260 students who currently classify themselves as radio-TV-film majors who are fighting registration hassles. It’s a song they’ve been singing now for three semesters.

An institution which affords students the opportunity to register online should also be an institution which allows all students to have the same experience.

Why should radio-TV-film students be excluded from the process? It’s not their fault that the university has failed to supply the department with enough instructors.

TCU boasts about its impressive full-time equivalent student to faculty ratio of 15:1, but what do those numbers mean if students are unable to get into classes that are required for their majors?

What it means is that they will be spending more time at TCU than they want to and thus spending more money than they intended.

TCU now caps freshman admittance, so why don’t they start capping it at numbers that can actually be handled?

Capping admissions, should help insure that 15:1 student to faculty ratio.

Unless the university does something to rectify this situation, it will eventually flow into other programs as well.

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