From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Sept. 7, 1974:

Students at Kansas University were campaigning for a pre-enrollment system. Members of the Student Senate Academic Affairs committee were scheduled to meet this week with Gilbert Dyck, dean of admissions and records, to discuss four basic pre-enrollment systems. Early enrollment at Allen Fieldhouse, using current methods, was the least-recommended option; the other three plans under discussion were computer sectioning program, a terminal enrollment system, and an optical scanning method. Computer sectioning, similar to the system then in use at Kansas State University, would allow students to choose their classes but not the section or time. The terminal enrollment system, similar to that used at the University of Minnesota, would give students the opportunity to submit an entire proposed schedule which would be confirmed or changed right away “through use of computer terminals.” This system, Journal-World readers were warned, “would depend on a more complex computer than KU’s Honeywell.” In the scanning system, students would indicate class preferences very early in the semester and a timetable would be designed according to those requests.