The Register, 1985-09-03

              photo by jay hall it the cleared records means than when an a&t stu dent goes in a store and writes a check the merchant won't be worried about getting his money fort said another line after registering for classes students wait in another long line at the a&t book store gress fort credited the staff in the fiscal affairs office and com puter center for much of pro the report by state auditor edward renfrow will con clude that nearly all past pro blems - unbalanced checkbooks uncollected debts unpaid bills misspent funds - have been cleared up and that the university's books are in order the state auditor has in dicated that the universities books are clean and this is great news fort said it hasn't been easy a report to be released by the state auditor this month will show that a&t's financial records are in order after eight years of criticism chancellor edward fort said five years ago bills were paid 90 days late said fort who came to a&t in 1981 at present universities bills are up to date he said now the question is can we keep it that way my answer is yes he added freshmen artis said lines were especially long this year com pared to years in the past because incoming did not pre-register in the past two years at least 50 percent of the freshmen were the storm which occurred the day before registration caused computer breakdowns delaying registration for about five hours i think registration went as well as anyone could expect the only problem i did not an ticipate was the electrial storm,"said dr rudolph ar tis director of registration and records by steven b jones special to the register about 5,300 students in cluding 1,400 freshmen have registered at a&t this year and univeristy officials expect at least 200 more students to enroll before the registration deadline plans are being registration day he said 3,160 up perclassmen had pre-registered for the fall semester and only about 738 pre-paid before ' said artis pre-registered made to eliminate the long lines dur ing in registration artis said i can't say specifically what's going to be done but i am looking for new ways to improve registration he said enrollment expected to reach 5,500 lii students assigned temporary rooms after housing mix up just temporary dianne canty reaches for class materials in her file cabinet-closet in a make-shift room in barbee hall an ad said who supervised room assignments was directly involved with the mix-up of many students who were guaranteed rooms also he ministrator wanted to be on campus said buck this problem was not even known until the students began arriving therefore the housing department had few alternatives said buck he declined to give the ad ministrator's name as cancellations become available students with priori ty are being moved into dor mitory rooms said buck these students with priori ty consists of upperclassmen who were guaranteed rooms and those freshmen and transfer students who paid their room deposits by july 15 said buck much work is now being done to rectify the situation he said wilson is one of about 50 students who were guaranteed student housing prior to com ing to a&t for the fall semester but like the others when she arrived no room was available temporary rooms for these students mostly females have been set up in the suite halls of barbee and in the student union vice chancellor of student affairs dr roland buck said several factors con tributed to the mix-up in assigments including the in crease of women who wanted to stay on campus and a blunder by an adminstrator supply had succeeded de mand and more women special to the register by adrianne hamilton i don't like this situation at all there's no privacy said carolyn wilson a transfer student from san diego calif as she sat in her make-shift room in the hall of barbee suite 202 however he said the hous ing system is not fool proof we are human we have satisfied 90 percent of the students but when some of our students are dissatisfied 1 am dissatisfied he added because of the housing dilemma buck says that he has confronted with feelings of dissatisfaction from both students and parents they were angry i understood their frustration i very much sympathized with them we did everything humanly possible said buck s3 have crgt&xt year aggies complete awareness for complete commitment friday september 3 1985 north carolina agricultural and technical state university greensboro volume lvi dumber 01 a&t records finally cleared by frances ward editor in chief