As of this weekend, the School of Library and Information Science at SJSU has eliminated the requirement to obtain permission to register for classes. The process involved making up to six class requests a few weeks prior to registering for classes. The idea was to make it a fair and equitable process by which students could be guaranteed getting the classes they wanted. Apparently prior to this, SLIS students with early registration appointments would register and fill up all the most popular classes. Two weeks into classes before the drop window, students would drop the classes that they really didn’t want but signed up for as backups. SLIS is(was) the only graduate program at SJSU using the permission number program. It was a huge workload for the administrative staff and the software that controls the permission numbers didn’t recognize them after the first batch was sent out. So, rightly, the adminstrative staff, after working their butts off, abandoned the whole cumbersome process.