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Salient. Official Newspaper of Victoria University Students Assn. Volume 40 Number 2. Feb 7 1977

Room to Move

Room to Move

Dear Editor,

I glanced at my watch — Woops! — 9.50am Tuesday morning — I would be too late to get a seat in my Accy 101/211 lecture in K303 —well, I could always try to repeat lecture at 3pm in E006 but informed sources tell me that the situation would be little different.

Just exactly how many students are enroled in Accy 101/211. The Accountancy Department say about 500. I would say more like 150 to 700. Three days a week, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, in K303 and E006 these '700' students crowd in to two undersized (for these purposes anyway) lecture theatres. All available floor space is taken up with students craving to hear their lecturer's every pearl of wisdom which may lead them as to the highest profit-making aspirations this world can offer!

When it was suggested to the lecturer after the second lecture in K303 that conducting a class so big constituted a safety hazard, he looked a trifle embarassed, and then laughed as did the majority of conventionally seated students in the lecture.

Maybe a word from Wellington's Chief Fire Safety Officer would have different effects! It appears that the Accountancy Department is acutely aware of the situation but reassure themselves with the fact that in June the class will decrease by one half or more anyway.

Could the Accountancy Department please answer the following questions:
(1)How many students are enrolled in Accy 101/211?
(2)Why the Accy 101/211 lecture at 3pm was not advertised at enrolment or some other suitable time?
(3)If, or what, the Department intends to do about the situation of overcrowding?
(4)If Accy 211 has become identical to Accy 101, except in name, and if so why Accy 211 students have not been informed? — Rumour has it that the work-bed in 211 may be different — if this is the case why have students not yet been given a written hand-out of their course requirements?

Just a thought if the Univeristy Authorities wanted K303 or E006 to hold 400 students they would have built 400 seats!!!!

Annoyed Accounting 211 Student.