The Register, 1983-04-29

              because of the lobbying and pressure of chancellors presidents and congressmen the reagan administration had to back off its plan for the proposed cuts fort said he said many students became discouraged and didn't enroll the government proposed a cut in all financial aid packages by 50 percent for the 1983-84 school year that included pell grants by four per cent and elimination of supplemental educational opportunity grants and state incentive grants financial aid cuts fort said that the enrollment decrease was a result of federal but this semester a&t has 3,906 in-state students and 1,371 out-of-state students peedie snipes visits a&t made an honorary aggie peedie douglas smith lenny williams felita milligan leah hatch and lavoris in gram all students in runyon's soon joined by the whole university to set aside thurs day to celebrate his birthday and certify him as an aggie peedie's birthday is actually may 10 but final exams would conflict but runyon's students were means to help someone else and then told them about peedie lie joseph aurra phyllis hyman the system the dazz band and grand master flash and : urious five will perform in aggie stadium beginning 11 a.m saturday as a part aggie 83 celebration behavior he wanted them to further understand what it class was studying human runyon said that since his deterioration peedie who was the re cent subject of a greensboro daily news & record sunday front is one of 10 children in the country stricken with the rare disease that causes premature aging and body seated on a platform in memorial student union plaza with his mother susan 11-year-old sister sonya and brothers 6-year-old mikey and 9-year-old shaun shoarin dlila or peedie was showered with gifts of aggie paraphernalia and memorabilia that amassed his small and fragile frame aggie five-year-old peedie snipes is a special kind of little boy whose rare aging disease progeria has brought him special attention and thurs day dr eugene runyon's social psychology class brought him to a&t to be proclaimed as an honorary managing editor by audrey l williams see peedie page 5 complete awareness for complete commitment volume liv number 34 north carolina agricultural & technical state university greensboro nc friday april 29 1983 m thi4<5 register spring enrollment up short of fort's goal ****** aggie fest ****** * two years ago the university lost 2.8 per cent of its enroll fort said that compared to what happened this spring and what happened two years ago , we had a very successful recruitment program this spring the total enrollment is 5,277 that's up 77 from last semester's 5,200 fort said last fall that he wanted to increase spring enrollment to 5,313 by cordell archer staff writer university enrollment increased by 1.46 per cent this semester spring 1983 but it failed to reach chancellor edward b fort's goal by 36 students ment between the fall and the spring fort said it was the third consecutive year university enrollment dropped second semester see enrollment page 5