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The Daily Tar Heel Wednesday, January 13, 19879 indents straggle to cope with droo-add hardships By LAURA BENNETT Staff Writer ;ln the stifling heat of Woollen Gym Tuesday morning, junior Karen Crutchfield was sprawled on the floor, blankly staring at lists of courses she had not been able to schedule. Like many others, Karen was a victim of drop-add 1988. iTm so mad!" said Crutchfield, who had only been scheduled for nine credit hours. "Everything that I need is-closed. I was even willing to take an art class, that's how desperate I was." The lack of open courses was a common complaint among the often desperate souls in Woollen Gym. The problems this semester were the usual ones: too many people, too few classes and not enough organization. ; While some students wandered aimlessly from table to table, others were determined to get exactly what they wanted. ;Tm a junior and still trying to get a perspective from General College," said Penny McGhee, who had been standing in front of the English table for 35 minutes during her second day of drop-add. "Ill be here until somebody drops it," McGhee said. Tm ill, angry, tired King holiday still a source of controversy From Associated Press reports ATLANTA Forty-three states now celebrate a holiday in memory of Martin Luther King, but contro versy still surrounds some of the observances nearly 20 years after the civil rights leader was slain. "We've come a long way and picked up some (states) in the last year or so that we thought would be more difficult," said Lloyd Davis, executive director of the King Federal Holiday Commission in Washington. "I 'think it's just a matter of time before we get the others." The seven states that do not observe a holiday for King are Arizona, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, New Hampshire, South Dakota and Wyoming. The biggest controversy over the holiday has come in Arizona. Demo cratic Gov. Bruce Babbitt issued an order in 1986 creating a King holiday, but his successor, Republican Gov. Evan Mecham, revoked the order when he took office in 1987. ;Mecham insisted that his opposi tion to the holiday was based on a technical point, not race;' saying NOWS THETTME! 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He said he thought the weather conditions would have discouraged students from showing up on Monday. But the line of students, stretching from Fetzer Gym all the way to Carmichael Residence Hall at 8 a.m. Monday indicated the weather was no obstacle. Boyd Newnam, associate professor of physical education, occupied a seat at the General College table in Woollen Gym. "Yesterday, things were very busy," he said. "1 think it might be a little more hectic than usual this year, but I don't know why. "Some of the problem is because of students being closed out, and some of the problem is with students wanting a specific time. Nobody wants an 8 o'clock class," Newnam Babbitt's order was illegal. Later in 1987, Mecham came under fire for defending the use of the word "pickaninny" as referring to black children. Opponents charged that he had become a racist embarrassment to the state and he now faces a recall movement. Another debate over the holiday this time over the date of the observance erupted in November in New Mexico. The 1987 legislature authorized the holiday for the third Monday in January, the date estab lished by 36 other states and the federal government. But New Mexico's Personnel Board voted in November to have state employees observe the 1988 King holiday on Dec. 24, saying it would be better to give workers a day off next to Christmas than to have them off on the day before the legislature convenes. Civil rights activists demanded the resignations of board members who voted for the change; the board last month rescinded its vote and decided to celebrate with other states this year on Jan. 18." r MEXICO PERU SCOTLAND SPAIN JAPAN mm Rani's Plaza said. Kristin Tucker, a frustrated sopho more who received only seven hours from pre-registration, said this semes ter has been worse than usual. "IVe had better luck in the past." "I think everyone should be guar anteed at least 12 hours," she said, shuffling through pages of scribbled schedules. "I'm just taking what I can get that's all there is to it." Tucker hopes to see some major changes in the future. "I hope it will improve and change over to the telephone system," she said. Lanier said plans for the new phone-in registration system are underway. A contract is being drawn up with a software company, he said, and the system is expected to be installed in two years. Several students who could not pick up courses during drop-add said they would try to join classes by obtaining the instructor's permission. Some academic departments have a two-day rule, which allows inter ested students to take the places of those who do not show up after the first two days of class. Efforts have been made to ease the Davis counts New Mexico as one of the commission's greatest victories. Now he and King's widow, Coretta Scott King, hope to broaden the meaning of the holiday. 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