The Campus Echo
Number 7
Friday Dec. 7, 198^
Speaker, proposed
time change spark
commencement
controversy
By Helen Eagleson
While many students are agonizing over the thought of taking
finals and others are rejoicing about the Christmas break,
members of the senior class are thinking five months ahead to
graduation.
Why?
The recent announcement by Chancellor LeRoy T. Walker
that Charles Kuralt, CBS host of “Sunday Morning” would be
be the speaker for the 1985 commencement exercises has not set
tled well with many students.
Student Government president, William Barber said “This is
not an attempt by the seniors to make a fuss over something
that’s not important, but this is a serious matter in which we
have a vested interest which should be respected and recogniz
ed.”
Kim Hardy, senior class president said she was not aware that
a final decision had been made until she returned to campus
after the Thanksgiving break.
“It was Monday morning when an administrator asked if I
been notified of the decision to have Mr. Kuralt as commence
ment speaker I replied no.”
Chancellor Walker told Hardy, Barber and several other
See COMMENCE^NT, p. 2
Financial aid cuts
may lead to decrease
in student enrollment
By Brenda Campbell '
Possible cuts in student financial aid, included in several
Reagan Administration tax proposals, have many in the univer
sity community worried about a sharp drop in enrollment that
could mean loss of faculty and closure or merger for some black
colleges.
A cut in financial aid would “definitely hurt black students,
because without aid most blacks would not be able to attend col
lege,” Franklin D. HcJloway, administrative officer of student
aid, said Monday.
If, as one proposal would require, eligibility rules for student
loans are tightened up so that students must have a 2.0 average
per semester, “it will hiut emollment,” said Dr. Joseph Aicher,
chairman of the political science department.
Students are also concerned about how cuts in finanical will
affect them.
Rodney Jones, a freshman business major from Asheville,
sees a problem for NCCU since “most students here are
finanically supported by the Pell Grant. Instead of cutting
finanical aid, black. colleges should get the equivalent of white
ones, so if a cut is made it would be equal on both parts.”
Shirley Hargrove, a junior education major from Oxford,
a^ees that finanical aid should not be cut, but argues that the
eligibility rules be tightened.
There are some students who need aid. However, there are
some who don’t and others who abuse it,” she said.
It’s that time again...
Whether it’s out in the cold or the library students are
preparing for final exams
Registar office announces
format for advance payment
News Memo
The period Dec.5-14, 1984
has been designated for the ad
vance payment of tuitiion and
fees for the Second Semester,
1985.
During this period, students
who have pre-registered and
are prepared to make full pay
ment of tuition and fees will be
able to do so between 8:30
a.m. and 3:30 p.m.
If you are a pre-registered
student with a complete
schedule, (12 or more hours
for undergraduate students 9
or more for law, graduate, and
library science students) you
should do the following
things:
1. Present ID card and pick
up copy of course schedule for
the Second Semester at the
Registrar’s office Room 102,
Hoey Administration Building
2. Take the schedule to the
fee assessor’s station
(Communications Building)
and pick up fee receipt form
3. Pay fees at the Brnsar’s
station (Communications
Building) and pick up stamped
Validation Card
4.Take stamped Validation
Card and stamped Registrar’s
Fee Receipt to the Registrar’s
Office, Room 102, Hoey Ad
ministration Building for the
completion of registration.
Students who complete this
process will not have to return
to campus until the first day of
classes on January 9, 1985.
But, students who did not
pre-register, part-time
students, and students with in
complete schedules will not be
able to complete registration
for the Second .Semester until
classes have been selected, fees
are paid, and the number of
the semester hours is validated
by the Registrar’s Office.
However, to speed up this
process, students in this
category may do the following
things:
1 .Pick up a fee receipt form
at the fee assessor’s station in
the Communications Building
if you plan to enroll full time
during the Spring Semester
2.Pay fees at he Bursar’s
station (which will be located
in the Communications
Building) if you are prepared
to make full payment in cash,
financial aid, (exclusive of
work study-work aid) or ad
vance payment credits
Part-time students who did
not pre-register will not be
able to pay fees until the
registration period on
January 4-8, 1985.
All students who do not
complete registration for the
Second Semester during the
advance payment period must
report to the registrar’s station
in the Communication
Building to pick up registra
tion packets and select classes
duing the scheduled registra
tion period.
Those students who pay tui
tion and fees during the ad
vance payment period, but do
not complete all steps in the
registration process will not
have to go by the fee assessor’s
or cashier’s station
Remember: Payments msut
be made in either certified
check, cashier’s check, money
orde, or cash.
Personal checks will not be
accepted unless certified