As 2009 spring scheduling comes to a close today, students are scrambling to get into the sections they need.Students won’t be able to schedule after today until their billing statements are sent out in December, said Patricia Beste, senior associate registrar. The Registrar e-mail to remind students when to schedule was not sent to students for spring scheduling.”[We] overlooked it to be honest,” Beste said, explaining it was just a “human error” at the Registrar’s office. The University is offering 6,694 sections of classes this spring, but Beste said some will change or be canceled before the semester starts. She said the University offered 5,249 sections last spring.Office of the University Registrar tracks classes and tries to adjust sections if certain classes are in high demand, Beste said. Robert Doolos, University Registrar, said in an e-mail a group chaired by Stacy Haynie, Academic Affairs vice provost, meets during the scheduling period to “determine if we need to make adjustments in course offerings.” The group discussed Monday increasing the “enrollment maxes” in some psychology sections because of the amount of interested students, Doolos said.Paul Ivey, University College associate dean, said the Department of Kinesiology’s activity classes are some of the quickest to fill up. The departments work hard to accommodate the students, but classroom space ultimately limits the number of available seats.”Courses in construction management fill up quickly with freshmen,” Ivey said. Sheri Thompson, IT planning and communications officer, said in an e-mail the busiest traffic times on PAWS are between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. when students try to change classes or schedule.  Beste said not many problems were reported this semester with scheduling, and Information Technology Services adds more capacity during busy times.Thompson said ITS upped the mainframe’s capacity for 24 hours on Sunday because it expected the extra traffic from scheduling classes. Students have been piling into University College Center for Advising and Counseling and Center for Freshman Year to take care of last minute problems with scheduling. Herbert Dennis, kinesiology freshman and student worker at UCAC, said the shortest wait to speak with an adviser this week has been an hour for walk-in students. He said Himes Hall has been packed with students, and last week there was a two-to-three hour wait.Ivey said about 200 students a day visited UCFY this week. Ivey said UCAC helps advise students who are no longer freshmen but aren’t enrolled in a senior college. Students often wait until they are permitted to schedule before addressing scheduling problems, including flags that put a hold on their PAWS account, Ivey said.”We would like to see them early in the semester,” he said of e-mails sent to give students with flagged accounts a two-week period to meet with an adviser. Josh Dear, engineering sophomore, said he went online to check his PAWS account to find out when he could schedule and found out he had a flag on his account. “I skipped two classes to go get [my] flag raised,” he said.Dear said he spent three hours in Patrick F. Taylor Hall trying to find an adviser to lift his flag. He said because he was behind one day in scheduling, he didn’t get into the sections he wanted, forcing him to readjust schedules at his two jobs. —-Contact Joy Lukachick at [email protected] Writer