The Campus Echo
Number 9
The official student newspaper of North Carolina Central University Monday, April 9, 1984
The students at NCCU
not only carry books,
but excel academically
On Friday, April 6tli, the university took time off from the
usual activities to honor and recognize its students who have
shown excellence in academics and service.
Three hundred students were recognized for their ex
emplification of the chancellor’s theme “Excellence Without
Excuse-A Shared Responsibility.’’
In this issue
Battle of the bands p.2
NCCU choirs p.4
Awards day speech p.5
The woman’s vote p.7
Jesse’s side p.8
Outstanding students
honored at Awards Day
By Helen Eagleson
North Carolina Central
University honored about 300
students for academic ex
cellence and outstanding
leadership and servicer to the
univeristy at its 35th annual
Award’s Day program April 6
in the B.N. Duke Auditorium.
The Chancellor’s Award
(given to the senior with the
highest cumulative average)
was awarded to Wanda Lynn
Hancock, a senior English
major from Ronoake, Va.
who’s cumulative grade point
average was 3.86 on a scale of
4.00.
Ms. Hancock also received
the Volkamenia award given
to the senior with the highest
average in English and the
Departmental award for ex
cellence in Spainish. This is the
second consecutive year this
award has been received by an
English major.
Other recipients of special
awards were: Karen J.
Thompson and Marian J.
Peters for the Majorie Lee
Browne Memorial Scholarship
for Excellence in
Mathematics; The Duck wilder
Memorial Award to an
Outstanding Junior Woman
Student was received by Renee
C. Bell, and Outstanding
Junior Athlete Wilson
Fraylon; The J.M. Hubbard
Memorial Scholarship Award
for Excellence in Chemistry
was awarded to Patricia Bobo;
Janis Nahrgang Anderson,
received the Octavia Bowers
Knight Scholarship Award for
Excellence in Special Eduac-
tion; The receipent of the
Francis A. Kornegay Com
munity Relations Award was
Betty S. Taylor; Sebsatian H.
Curtis and Jacqueline Pinnix
received the NCCU Education
Advancement Foundation,
Inc, Award for Excellence in
Athletics and Scholarship;
Sherrilyn Bray received the
John L. Stewart Memorial
Scholarship Award for
Outstanding Science Major;
The Eugenia McManus
Younge Award for Excellence
in Reading in the Graduate
Elementary Education Pro
gram was received by Barbara
David; and Linda A. Jackson,
received The Dean’s Award
which is given to the senior
with the highest cumulative
average in the School of
Business.
Departmerital awards and
outstanding leadership and
service awards were also given.
The University Choir, under
the direction of Dr. Charles
Gilchrist rendered music for
the service.
School of Business plans
to revamp its program
By Anthony Chiles
In the past, faculty and administrators within
N. C. Central’s School of Business have been
faced with false accusations, slight innuendos,
and other unfavorable comments pertaining to
the operation of the School of Business.
In an effort to reshape the tarnished image of
the School of Business, Dean T.R. Richmond
and the Administrative Council have enacted
new “enrollment management measures.”
These new management measures include the
following: Commencing with the start of the
Fall 1984 term, a formal enrollment limit will
be placed on undergraduate enrollment i.i
degree programs and courses offered by the
School of Business. The enrollment limit will be
applied to each business class which enters the
university during, or after, the Fall 1984 term.
Students already enrolled in the School of
Business will not be effected by the enrollment
cap.
Commencing with the Fall 1984 term, the
School of Business will accept a limited number
of qualified high school graduates as freshmen
business students.
The School of Business will continue its
intra-university transfer program, as means of
admitting qualified applicants from the
Undergraduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Transfer students who have not met re
quirements for admission to the university, and
expressed an interest in earning a BBA
(Bachelor of Business Administration) degree
will be evaluated for direct admission to the
School of Business.
Commencing with the Fall 1984 term, a
priority course assignment system will be used
to assign students to business classes.
There are a number of reasons for this struc
tural face-lift as Dean Richmond points
out,“At the present time we have more than
1800 students now enrolled in the School of
Business and with that many students
something has to be done.” stated Rich
mond.“You either increase the number of
faculty, or find a larger building to house the
School of Business; none of this can we do. So
the only alternative is to reduce the number of
students you enroll.”
Along with the new enrollment management
measures there is a new criteria in the admission
of freshmen into the School of Business.
Freshmen applicants interested in direct admis
sion to the School of Business, with less than 15
semester hours of acceptable college credits
must either; present a SAT score of 800, with at
least a score of 400 on the mathematics portion;
or present an SAT of 750, 400 on mathematics.
See SCHOOL p. 4