Members of the Campus Crusaders for Christ at Dargan’s Square last Friday at the University’s Ceremonial Opening.

NUMEROUS students turned out Monday, for the first day of the new academic year at the University of Guyana (UG) Turkeyen Campus, East Coast of Demerara.

The Information Technology Centre (ITC) was expectedly a hive of activity as some were still trying to get registered online.

Staffers there were offering assistance between 16:00 h and 19:00 h but one complainant said it was a most tedious wait for an application to be approved by Heads of Departments and Deans.

Evidence that the turnout was unusually high was in the crowded corridor that leads to the building shared by the Education and Humanities and the Social Science faculties.

Students clamoured around the timetables posted in Dargon’s Square throughout the day.

Faculty offices and the Examinations Division saw high traffic, too, as students anxiously enquired about grades, grade point assessments (GPAs), exemptions, registration changes and other important issues.

The University Library had heightened security and identification cards, pockets and handbags were checked with a metal detector.