Editor,
Thanks so much for the explanation for the reason that the fall schedule will not be printed.
As a 42-year-old University Honors student, I really feel that the move to cyberspace schedules will be a temporary move. Students keep the printed versions long after the scheduling process is over. The printed version provides a library of resourceful information.
I am a junior, as well as the mother of a freshman starting this fall, and believe me, for incoming freshmen or anyone not knowing the ropes, not having a schedule to hold in one's hand will amount to UNM not having enough students enrolled to recover their losses in printing fees.
We are all adults here. We go with the flow, and if a class is canceled, we can adjust. Don't try to fool us - we know that tuition has gone up, and we know that this is a way to save money at our expense.
We want the printed schedule - every semester we plan our whole lives around it, our jobs, our child care, our friends and our families.
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Taking away the printed schedule subjects us to further demands on schedules that are already full. We don't all have up-to-date computers at home, and some of the classes that we might take that we are inspired by in the printed version, we won't see them online, because we won't have time to browse.
Our opportunities lie in the resources available - taking away the printed version makes our resources diminish.
Progress? I don't think so.
Sylvia Henrard
UNM student
