Issue date: 11/2/06 Section: Campus News

Media Credit: Ian Abreu BSC Basketball player, Tom Cuddihy, looks over the Spring 2007 course catalog.

A new group of students can now register for classes on the first day. Student athletes join undergraduate seniors, undergraduate honors students and graduate students in the registration process on November 13.

Director of Athletics John Harper was the initiator of this new facet of registration. He said that having student athletes register at this new time will enable athletes to better schedule classes around practice times.

"The whole idea behind this project was to try to get student-athletes a chance to register for classes that were not in conflict with their intercollegiate games," said Harper. "We have a long-standing departmental policy that student-athletes cannot miss classes/labs for a practice."

Athletes are allowed to miss classes and labs for games only.

Varsity student athletes must meet certain requirements in order to join seniors and honors students in registration.

"Varsity student-athletes who will be eligible for this process are those who are: one, academically and athletically eligible; two, have no "holds" of any kind on their records; and three, for freshmen, must have seen their advisor in the mandatory advising process," Harper said.

There are also some restrictions among student athletes who meet the first three requirements.

"This will be available for any student-athlete on a varsity team who has intercollegiate contests during the week," Harper said. "This would eliminate the football, track and cross country student-athletes as they compete only on the weekends. However, it will only apply to the student-athletes whose teams will compete in the semester during which the classes will be held. As an example, pre-registration for spring classes will not be available to the soccer, field hockey, women's' tennis or volleyball teams since they play their regular season games in the fall."

There may be some concerns that non-athletes may be unable to register for classes that they need to take. Registrar Irene Checkovich believed that there should not be problems like this, if students follow proper registration processes.

"Based on our observation of the pre-registration process, most students are able to register for their upper-level course requirements if they take full advantage of the pre-registration period and register early on the designated day for their class," she said.

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