The Duke Ellington Ballroom does not have the thrills and chills of Disney World, but does have comparable lines during course completion.

Hundreds of NIU students have been waiting in lines at the Holmes Student Center for late registration, schedule completion and add/drop.

Bruce Oates, Registration and Records assistant director, said there has not been heavy overcrowding this year and most students were moving smoothly through the lines and finding classes.

Richard Durfee, director of Registration and Records, said students going to add/drop on Jan. 16 and 17 turned in 5,730 add/drop forms. In the spring semester of 1989, students turned in 6,091 forms in the same number of days.

Students have turned in 3,445 schedule completion forms and 1,916 late registration forms as of Jan. 17, Durfee said.

Students can attend schedule completion if they received a closed class, unschedulable or cancelled request notice on their schedule. The add/drop procedure is for students wishing to change or add classes to their schedule.

Counting forms is not a completely accurate way to size the crowd because some students that attend course completion make more than one schedule change, while others make no changes, Durfee said.

Sophomore music major Mike Greenberg said he was trying to pick up seven classes, but “trying… that is the key word.” He said he was adding classes for the fourth time as an NIU student. Compared to other schools he knows about, NIU has a good late scheduling system, he said.

“I think it’s very confusing,” said student-at-large Lynn Nakashima. She said she had never been to course completion before and was trying to pick up one class.

Cindy Meyer, a senior finance major, said she needed to add one class in order to graduate. Meyer said it was her fifth time at NIU course completion and did not know how to make it easier for students to complete schedules.

Michael Varon, a sophomore transfer student from the University of Arizona, said course completion at Arizona was much easier because they use a phone registration system.

NIU is planning to place a phone registration system to eliminate lines for course completion around the 1992-93 academic year, Durfee said.

When the phone registration is in place the registration will be available between 16 and 18 hours a day, Durfee said.