Ohio State has been on a quarter system since autumn 1922, said Tamar Chute, associate university archivist. Before 1922 OSU was on the three terms system from 1873 to 1910, and then on a three semester system from 1910 to 1921, Chute said, adding that the Academic Council rejected a plan to move to trimesters in January 1964.If OSU makes the move from quarters to semesters, it would join a growing trend over the past few years which includes Michigan State University, the University of Minnesota, Georgia Southern and St. Cloud State University.Eddie Singleton, assistant director of the First-Year Writing Program, was a graduate student at Bowling Green State University in 1982 when they made the switch from quarters to semesters. He said for him the transition was smooth, and it seemed like there was less work with everything spread out over a longer period of time. Singleton also said there must have been a tremendous amount of work behind the scenes for the transition to go so well for students. His father, Edgar B. Singleton, was on the faculty of Bowling Green during the change in the 1980s and during the original shift from semesters to quarters in 1968.”The first rule was that no student would be penalized by the transition,” said Edgar B. Singleton, professor emeritus of physics and astronomy. “The second rule was that no department could gain credit hours by the transition. Some courses could not transfer exactly from semesters to quarters or vice versa, but if you gained a little here you had to lose a little there.”Singleton said the reason Bowling Green changed to quarters was that the Board of Regents wanted all state schools to be on the same system for funding purposes. The implication was that if you didn’t change you got less money,” Singleton said.”Of course Ohio State was the ‘pet’ school, so we all had to be on their system. Miami was on trimesters and refused to change. I don’t know why, but it seems to have turned out that the regents didn’t care that much anyway, and we changed back to semesters. A tempest in a teapot.”Youngstown State University is now in the middle of its first semester since undergoing the transition from quarters. Megan Walsh, a junior in pre-journalism, is in her first quarter at OSU after transferring from Youngstown State and said the change there was crazy and went on for four or five years.”A lot of classes were dropped and changed,” she said.She also said the university always claimed to have information regarding the change available, but to her, it didn’t seem like information was available to the students.