The Carolinian [September 23, 1993]

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Volume 73, Number 5 The University of North Carolina reen s
Pearson's address tackles issues
By SALLY THOMAS
Staff Writer
Student Government Presi-dent
Michael Pearson addressed
major campus issues Tuesday
night in his State ofthe Campus
Address.
Pearson's speech focused on
the Financial Aid crisis, the up-coming
bond referendum, stu-
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dent voter apathy, and campus
renovations.
Pearson said that he felt that
the financial aid problems this
semester hada variety ofcauses,
includingstudentsmissing dead-lines
and not taking the respon-sibility
to find out why they had
not received their awards yet.
"The person who waits like a
cow in the field waiting to be
fed will wait," Pearson said.
Part of the blame, according
to Pearson, needs to be given to
the Financial Aid Office.
"In my opinion, the Finan-
Perusing the display of goods
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Student Tisha Hunter takes the time to look over one of the many stands offering
merchandise in the Atrium.
Forum scheduled to address
financial aid concerns
Steele and Pearson to lead student discussion Monday
and refused to see its custom-
By HEATHER S. MILLS
News Editor
Student Body President
Michael Pearson and Associate
Provost Anne Steele will lead a
town meeting on the topic ofthe
recent financial aid problems
this Monday, September 27 at 6
p.m.
All students are invited to
attend.
"I'd like to see all 5,000 stu-dents
on financial aid there at
the meeting," Pearson said.
The discussion will be held in
response to recent accusations
by students that the Financial
Aid Office has not awarded aid
in a timely manner.
The Financial Aid Office de-fended
its operations by saying
that the reform of the Higher
Education Act lastyearhadcon-jpan,
•Alderman Lounge, Elliott
UniversityCenter.
fused students and caused de-lays
in the filing system.
Students claimed that they
did not receive their money and
missed the extended deadline,
set by Cliff Whitman, Director
of UNCG's Cashier Office.
Pearson plans to present
questions to Steele, and says
that he hopes other students
will do the same.
"Why can't the Financial Aid
Office keep experienced staff
members? Why is there such a
high turnover? If students are
customers, why has the Finan-cial
Aid Office closed its doors
era in the past? If there are 14
people who work in Financial
Aid, who are they? What other
jobs do they do? How experi-enced
isthe staff?" Pearson said.
Pearson also hopes to raise
questions in regards to Steele's
comments in the September 9
edition of The Carolinian in
which she said that 90 percent
of the students who had ap-plied
for financial aid on time
had been given their awards.
"If99 percent ofthe students
were awarded as of August 6,
how many of those people had
been awarded money that could
be applied to their bill [not
loans]?" Pearson asked.
According to Pearson, 1,830
(30.5 percent) of all applicants
for aid were given deferred
status this semester.
In Opinions: Arthur Jackson
rial Aid Office is extremely un-derstaffed,"
Pearson said.
Pearson called attention to
the $310 million Bond Referen-dum
which will benefit UNCGif
passed on the November 2 bal-lot.
Pearson said that the bond
would be used, in part, to build
a new music building on cam-pus.
According to Pearson, the
School ofMusic is one of the top
twenty in the country and its
current facilities do not support
a program of that quality.
"Even if all [of the! repairs
See Address, page 2
Process begins
for graduates
By LEIGH KALE
Asst. Newt Editor
Seniors who plan to graduate
in December must turn in de-gree
applications to the
Registrar's Office by October 1
to qualify for graduation.
Applications for graduation
were mailed out to all seniors. If
you are graduating in May 1994
the deadline to turn in this ap-plication
is January 21. The
deadline for returning the appli-cations
in order to graduate in
Summer 1994 is July 6.
Many have turned in these
applications and have already
been preparing for graduation
already, but those who haven't
turned their application in still
have a little bit of time left, ac-cording
to Academic Advising.
"The most important thing for
students to do is to order a de-
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gree audit and keep up with it
all along so they can graduate
with no surprises," said Rose-mary
Morley, Director of Aca-demic
Advising.
"I got an audit, but I won't be
able to graduate until the sum-mer,"
said Melanie Rupprecht,
a Psychology majorfflitioringin
Social Work.
It is important to get the ap-plication
in by October 1, so that
Academic Advising can clear
students for graduation by the
beginning of December.
According to Morley, students
need to make sure these appli-cations
are returned to the
Registrar's Office because the
offices have many other jobs to
be concerned with aside from
graduation. However, gradua-tion
is something the office
See Graduation, page 2
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