The Register, 1968-10-04

              KEYNOTER RAPS
This Is Your Bag,  Your Thing
"Students get what they want and do what they feel like," says Reverend
Howard A. Chubbs, pastor of Providence Baptist Church.
Addressing students at the
Fourth Annual Campus Religious
Leaders' Retreat, Reverened Howard AUen Chubbs, pastor of Providence Baptist Church, here, said,
"We ought to make the Negro community aware of its responsibility
to vote. You must do your part.
Dr. George Simpkins and the
NAACP need you. This is your
bag, your thing. Providence Baptist Church would open its doors
to an adult education class, if you
students would involve yourselves.
This is what Christ meant when
He said let your light so shine that
men in the dark may see. The
hospital, which has the most modern facilities and equipment,
needs you. The Office of Equal
Opportunity needs you. People in
the projects need you. You owe
it to these people because somebody has helped you along. Some
brother or sister, at home, has
gone without having a need fulfilled because you are in school.
There is no such thing as you
cannot make a contribution. Students get what they want and do
what they feel like."
Reverend Chubbs, speaking on
"Students Involvement from the
Religious Perspective," told students that they must let others
know where they stand. "You must
decide whether you are going to
march. We have been condemning
the KKK for years; now we are
in essence doing the same thing.
When you committed your life to
Christ, no one ever told you that
life is going to be easy. Your loyalty to Christ ought to be foremost.
"The role of the church has not
been what it should have been.
No one can imagine what the Negro church would have been like
had it been in the main stream of
American Ufe. The church is the
only source of independent leadership, though untapped," said
Reverend Chubbs. "But, the
church, in general, has never done
anything when it was comfortable.
The church does its best when it
is attacking or being attacked."
"The great tendency toward
materialism has given the church
a rather relaxing attitude. Its
membership by far is responsible.
We are too concerned about stained-glass and red carpet. The ministers in most instances have followed suit. Christ could not come
into my church," said Reverend
Chubbs. 'This is not' the kind of
church He founded. This is the
danger which some of you will
encounter as you enter the middle
class. You will forget some of the
values which you now cling to,"
he stated.
Preceding the keynoter, Dr. J. E.
Marshall, greeted the retreaters
and challenged them to return to
the campus with a burning desire
to enact unifying programs. Rev-
ernd C. M. McCoy, director of the
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"COMPLETE AWARENESS FOR COMPLETE COMMITMENT'
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VOLUME XL, No. 3
NORTH CAR OLINA AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL STATE UNIVERSITY, GR EENSBORO
OCTOBER 4, 1968
5,000 Needed
To Sign
Petition
By HILLIARD B. HINES, JR.
Members of the University's
family, faculty as well as students,
have been participating in voter-
registration in the city of Greensboro. The drive is a combination
of voter-registration and a drive
to acquire the signatures of
5,000 registered voters in the city
to do away with the "at-large"
system that is now being used by
the city in the election of its city
councUmen and to initiate a
"ward" system in its place.
The petition is addressed to the
County Board of Elections of Guilford County, "We, the undersigned
qualified voters of the city, re-
spectfuUy petition your honorable
body to cause to be submitted to
a vote of the voters of the city of
Greensboro the following question:
'Shall the city of Greensboro adopt
the form of government defined as
Plan B, as it is desired by petitioners and consisting of government by a mayor and councilors
elected from wards, according to
the provisions of the General Statues of North Carolina, the chapter
Municipal Corporation, Articles 22
and 25 inclusive'."
This   petition   was   begun,   ac-
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Gray Says He Is Unaware Of Problems
Registration '68: Students
Give Mixed Opinions
By BRENDA E.  GIBBS
ATR Reporter
Nineteen sixty-eight fall registration at North Carolina A&T
State University was the result of
a faculty-student forum established
for the express purpose of organizing an efficient and expedient
class registration procedure. Its
main element was the pre-registration of courses by returning students and upperclassmen who
were almost promised that they
would receive acceptable class
schedules and a place in essential
courses.
However, when questioned on
surveys, many of these persons
did not think highly of the results,
nor did they have favorable comments generally. Thurman Hampton, junior from Edenton, says, "It
still lacks a certain amount of
simplicity. . . too many cards to
fill out."
Carrie Roberts, Political Science
major from Florida, pleads for the
new students as she says, "The
faculty advisors for the freshmen
weren't concerned with the needs
of these students, and that is cer-
Cafeteria And Movie Problems
Head SGA Meeting Agenda
By FRANKIE PAULING
Along with the updated Constitution which begins, "We the students of North Carolina A&T State
University . . .' a new adviser for
the Student Government Association was selected by the class presidents and president and vice-
president of the Student Government. He is Dean E. A. McCoy,
director of Cooper Hall. When he
was asked how he felt about
being selected as adviser for the
students, Dean McCoy said, "I'm
very elated to have been selected
as adviser to the Student Government Association, and I feel that
I can help the organization a great
deal." He admits that he particularly likes to work with young
people and that Student Government Association at A&T becomes
too concerned with matters that
are really out of ther jurisdiction.
Dean McCoy also attended A&T.
For the most part, there was
very little confusion as Calvin
Matthews presided over the meeting with the ease that he usuaUy
possesses. The most controversial
subjects in the meeting were
Homecoming activities, who to
have for the Pre-Dawn Dance, and
the current situations in Murphy
and Brown Halls. It appears that
there have been numerous complaints about the scheduled openings of the dining halls not being
enforced and the old familiar line
cutting problems were also discussed.
Matthews expressed deep concern over the problem of line cutting and stated that he felt the
line cutting problem could be
solved if the students would simply
keep their places in line and wait
their turn. Of course, someone in
the audience mentioned being late
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tainly no way to help them in adjusting to a new environment."
Dianne Cherry also criticizes the
procedure, "Rules are set down —
but never followed by the students
or members of the administration.
All of my classes were said to have
been closed by twelve o'clock noon
Wednesday when only freshmen
were supposed to be in the gym."
Newman Dalton and Cheryl Anderson favor the system, but say
respectively, "There was not
enough administrative preparation" and "Pre-registration dates
could have been better publicized."
On the positive side, however,
Betty Gist relates, "Class registration procedures were well executed
and this system appears to surpass
all others."
"Jerry Scott, senior history major comments, "I think that the
outlined procedure was very good.
This was my most trouble-free
year as far as registration is concerned." Roy Harrison answers,
an enthusastic  "100% better."
When asked to give suggestions
to improve this year's system, a
large variety of answers was
given. Most of the answers can be
combined into these statements.
1. Faculty advisors should be
fully informed and oriented as to
the requirements for graduation in
their departments and in course
arrangement. Certain faculty advisors should refrain from going
into hiding during the pre-registration and registration advisement
period.
2. Pre-registration is good, but
class schedule books should be
available during the pre-registration period so that students may
make allowances for schedule conflicts and courses that will not be
available and they may make a
more determined effort to obtain
those courses required with upper-
classman advisors to aid them
in those areas where faculty advisors can not be located.
4. Students should be able to
buy, or rent textbooks and simple-
mentary books. Some students,
especially on the sophomore, junior and senior levels would ratner
purchase books so as to build up a
library in their major or in areas
of interest. Furthermore, book rental lines  are  messy,   often  unor-
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By PRINCE LEGREE
"If students are displeased by the operations and procedures of our office, we don't know about them," said Vance
E. Gray, director of Student Financial Aid. He made the
statement when questioned on student charges that his office
was unfair in awarding financial aids. Gray said neither he
nor his staff had been approached by students, but that he
would welcome an invitation to meet with students to discuss
any issue or questions.
Gray stated that he has a very limited amount of funds
and a small staff. He said that each application that is submitted has to be reviewed as an individual case. Last year the
office gave some 756 work-study jobs, 729 scholarships and
1,056 loans. Gray said that one time his office received funds
directly from the federal government and now that the state
is making appropriations, some changes have been made.
"Another great problem that we have always faced is
getting our dropouts and graduates to complete their loan
transactions. If they would pay us these borrowed sums then
we could give more financial awards. "Aids given to students
who drop-out are funds down the drain because the students
feel that the University Jias not done anything for them;
therefore, they don't feel compelled to pay principal and
interest on their loans." In that we are a state institution and
receiving no endowments, our student aid funds are primarily
state dependent.
"We work on the premise that students are honest. We
try to be fair, based on the information on the applications,
we receive. And this all goes back to the integrity of the student. We have reviewed cases like a student from Philadelphia, saying that his father makes $3,000 as a machinist.
Everybody knows this can't be true. Students will sometimes
argue that certain groups of their peers receive awards and
that sometimes they get too much. Well, again it goes back
to the integrity of the students. Whenever awards are made,
they are based on the applications; this is all we have to go
by!
"High school counselors will have to do a better job.
They have not been giving us correct information. A student
came to me, arguing that he wanted to be in engineering.
When I asked him why he had not chosen that field at the
very beginning, he said, 'My high school counselor told me
that I must go into the School of Education to qualify for the
financial aid educational program.' Upperclassmen and others
create a lot of unnecessary work, for us, by submitting false
information, said Gray. "We are now asking students who
have received aid to submit a photostatic copy of their parents' or guardians' federal income tax (W-2) form, as a prerequisite to completing award transactions.
We have accepted recommendations of department heads
on certain work-study jobs, because some jobs require special
skills and the chairman would know the qualified students.
But, we may drop this because we have found that students
with parents on the faculty are getting these jobs and they
are not qualified by a second criteria — their parents' income."
Students have also been asked to notify the office in cases
where they have received financial aid in addition to ours, but
this is not being done."