Better On-Line Than in Line   The idea of no more waiting in line grab you? Well, the wait is nearly over for on-line degree navigation and registration. By Jennifer Reardon '99 The morning before classes begin every semester, hundreds of students can be seen grabbing their coffee and bubble sheets and hiking up to Hill Center in a last-minute scramble for classes, a tradition known as open registration. If plans follow through as scheduled, these days will be just a memory for current freshmen, sophomores, and juniors when they register for classes in November 1999. Students will use an Internet-based on-line registration system to sign up for spring 2000 classes and receive an instantaneous confirmation of their schedules. Students will no longer have to wait, as they do now, three to four weeks after advance registration to receive notice of class schedules, according to registrar John Stanton. Instead, they’ll be able to adjust their schedules at their leisure throughout the semester and during breaks, all the way up to the evening before the first day of classes. Other colleges have had on-line registration systems since the 1970s. But these systems were pretty primitive. The issue of creating an on-line registration system at Ithaca College has been discussed for some time, but work on it was not formally begun until 1996.