LETTER: Do something about QUAD

Editor,

The majority of our student body has now registered for classes for next semester. I would imagine that many experienced some of the frustrations I did. At 7 a.m. the QUAD opens to allow students to try to get into the classes they need. Nearly an hour passed before I actually successfully logged in and started to register. The whole time I was attempting to use the QUAD, I had several thoughts going through my mind: We have a freshman from a small farming town who made a nuclear fusion reactor. We have helped with the growth of wheat on the space lab. We beam a green laser into space, from a building on our own campus, to measure things in our atmosphere. We’ve successfully cloned a mule. So why can’t we do a simple task and adjust the capacity during the registration rush?

We have 5,659 seniors, 3,597 juniors, 3,412 sophomores, and 2,928 freshmen (data from http://planning.usu.edu/Analysis/EnrolLevelTerm.asp) that may all be trying to register on their assigned day. Do we as students need to unite even more to have something done about the QUAD’s capacity? I say we fix the QUAD to at least be able to handle at least 95 percent of each given class to register simultaneously. Granted, I don’t know all of the reasons why capacity of the QUAD is the way it is, but I know for sure that we can do something about it if we can have other amazing advances in technology.

Kevin Lewis