NCCU pre-n should cut loi DURHAM - More than 2,000 N.C. Central University students next will be able to avoid the traditionally long registration lines for the spring semester. For what may be the first time, pre-registration at the university has produced complete class schedules for a majority of its students. Payment of tuition, fees, room and board are the only tasks re t t - * maining ior prc-rcgistercd students. An eight-day period for payment of those fees began yesterday. Chancellor LeRoy T. Walker told the university's Board of Trustees on Nov. 21 that 2,700 NCCU students had completed the pre-^egistration process. Those who pay their fees before Dec. 14 will add several extra days to their holiday break. Full-time pre-registered students with second 'semester .bills paid in full will not need to return to campus until Jan. 9. Their classmates who did not preregister or who did not pay their bills in advance will return Jan. 4 for registration. Long registration lines have brought increasing frustration to students and adminUtratnrc at NCCU. Chancellor Walker cited difficulties in the registration process as one of the reasons for this fall's decline in enrollment at NCCU. Walker told the board that higher admission standards were not significantly responsible for the university's 1984-85 enrollment decline. The 690-student decline included a drop of about 50 in the number of new students enrolled at NCCU, Walker said.) Students who pre-registered will not face the difficulties students faced in the fall. Walker said, and their absence from the lines will reduce problems for the other students. Pre-registered students have four steps to complete before they return to classes on Jan. 9, according to Dr. Bernell Jones, the NCCU registrar. The first step is to present their student IDs at the registrar's office in the Hoey Administration Building before Dec. 14. There, they will receive their completed course schedules. From the registrar's office, Dr. Bragg Review," "Cricket Magazine" and "Writer's Choice." Dr. Bragg, who teaches in the University's Residential College, received a bachelor's degree from Bennett College, an M.A. degree from Case Western Reserve University and a Ph.D. degree from Union Graduate School. She does extensive lecturing in and out of the state, and she is a writing consultant with the National Episcopal Church. Now at work on her second novel, Dr. it4?g m1 Iwahii both different and similar to writing poetry. "I love working with language," she said. "A lot of the passages in the book have the same feel as poetry. It's like a Vflf M f great strides in the past several years, many people still believe in myths about the field, he says. Many people, for example, don't understand that the brain is an organ that can be impaired. "The brain itself should be respected as any other organ of the body that becomes impaired," says Hunter. "With this in mind, one should realize an illness that involves the brain can manifest itself with impairment of intellectual skills as well as emotional and motor functioning. "When the brain gets sick, \ igistration I ig lines I students will go to a fee assess- H ment station in the Farriston- H Newton Communications H Building. There, they will receive I a package of "free receipt" H fnrmc VI IIM ? From the fee assessment sta- H tion, students will go to a fee payment station at the communications building staffed by representatives of the bursar's of- I fice. They will pay the tuition and I fees shown on the receipt form, H by certified or cashier's check, by money order, or in cash, but not by personal check. When the tuition and fees are paid, students H will receive a stamped validation I card and a stamped copy of their I receipt. I The validation card and the stamped fee receipt will be taken back to the registrar's office, where the registration process I will be completed. I The registrar's office and the I fee stations in the communications building will be open bet- | ween 8:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. I each weekday until Friday, Dec. I Students who will not be able to complete registration by payment of bills include those I students who did not pre-register, those who do not have complete class schedules (in many cases, m because of time conflicts between classes sought), and part-time I students. Students who have been awarded and credited with scholarships, financial aid grants and loans will be able to take ad- I vantage of the early payment program. Work-study and work-aid awards are not credited to student accounts until the work has been performed, and are not intended for payment of tuition I and fees. The university's strict policy of no postponement of tuition and I fee - payment* wttl continue** Walker said. I Although university officials say the postponement policy was responsible for half of the fall enrollment decline, some 350 students, Walker told the board that he does not expect it to be a factor in the spring semester. He said he believes the problems of the fall semester alerted students who previously had ignored the implications of the policy. From Page A8 long poem, but there is a nar- jj\ rative thread. You are telling a fl story. Poems are very focused and they have to do with a limited If/ number of images and points to make. Poetry can just show a cross-section of something." W As a writer, Dr. Bragg is con- \ cerned with expressing the black N experience. She compared black I writers to the Jewish Holocaust writers ? since both are trying to I keep their history and culture alive. Ihcfh 1 my 11 about healing and from the perspecitve of a woman, it is also about the veracity in the humanity of the black experience," she said. 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