It's hip to have a quad
The proposed quadrangle between Fondren Library, the Student Center and Herring Hall is a great idea in many respects. (See story, page 1.) Most prominently, the quad and the accompanying pavilion will give students a needed extra place to be social. Undergraduates will have a place to hang out in addition to their colleges, and graduate students -- whose lives outside of their respective academic buildings tend to revolve around the Student Center -- will have a more appealing social space as well. Indeed, the graduate-undergraduate collaboration called for by President David Leebron may happen in this quad long before it happens in the colleges.
Set registration priority by class, not credits
Spring 2006 registration is about two weeks away, meaning registration policies can still be changed to make registration more fair to students who went to less prestigious high schools. This fall, how soon an undergraduate can register should be determined by how many semesters he has been an undergraduate, not how many credit hours he has.
Erratum
Last week's staff editorial ("How IT should spend $10 million on students," Oct. 21) should have stated that the Board of Trustees gave the Information Technology department $22 million to improve overall campus IT infrastructure.
Letters to the editor
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