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Construction pinches campus parking TAYLOR YOUNG

Managing Editor

The sounds and ugliness of construction is apparent throughout the north and east side of campus and it is only the beginning. As a part of the strategic plan of Preeminence 2020, the new union and health center is only a spark of construction that will be continuous for years to come. In the literacy provided about Preeminence 2020, Chancellor Harold L. Martin, Sr. stated in an opening letter, “Higher education is facing significant so-

cial, economic and global challenges.” Meaning that currently N.C. A&T is not at the potential it could be to compete with other universities. The vision of Preeminence 2020 includes being “the institution of choice to high-achieving students who are inspired by outstanding teaching and learning, civic engagement, transformative research, and creative scholarship to solve societal challenges.” This includes making campus attractive as well as providing state of the art buildings to strengthen the reasoning behind

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PReeMINeNCe 2020 the name North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. According to Andrew Perkins, Associate Vice Chancellor for Facilities, he feels pretty strongly about the new student health center opening right after fall break, on Oct. 8. The Memorial student union is an on going project that is projected to be finished and fully functioning by Homecoming 2017. The union was closed for business on May 30. The union

will not actually be torn down until the third week in November. The office of facilities will make it an exciting moment just like with the groundbreaking of the new student health center. The plan is to have Chancellor Martin alongside the Board of Trustees break the ground. The union will be demolished in sections because of its size; it will not be torn down all at once. Some materials will be reused such as brick and concrete. This process will take roughly about four weeks to complete.

The office of facilities has put up temporary lights, mobilization fences, and a control gate on Drew Drive between the Academic Science Building and Barnes Hall for students safety. New detours for pedestrians have been implemented because of the mobilization fences. These fences will be in place for the next three years. In December 2014 construction is planned to begin for the union. The student union is meant to be the solid connection between old and new campus. Perkins described a descriptive vision of Oct. 2017, “Park

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MEAGAN JORDAN Editor-In-Chief

photo by MEAGAN JORDAN • ThE A&T REGiSTER A&T AND BENNETT STUDENTS pose after chanting “hands up, don’t shoot” in solidarity with the Ferguson protest.

City pushes for change MIJA GARY

Register Reporter

The city of Greensboro and its residents have come together to rally and protest for change in support of Michael Brown and his family; however, a year ago the city faced a similar dilemma. August of last year Ashley Buchanan, a graduate of Bennett College for Women became a victim of police brutality. Following two noise complaints about a graduation party Buchanan was attending, police arrived to break up the party. In the midst of gathering her belongings, Buchanan was forcefully grabbed by an officer and then pinned to the ground by two more officers. Buchanan was charged

with two misdemeanor counts of assaulting a government official and resisting an officer in which she was found guilty. “The show of force was way over done, way over blown. They really terrorized all those ladies there,” said Wesley Morris, 2007 alumni of North Carolina A&T State University, who now works with the Beloved Community Center of Greensboro, N.C. “This was a very big community coming together. You had ministers, you had city council people, you had the president of the university at that time, Dr. Julianne Malveaux. Ashley stood out because she was actually an advocate for the whole city. We understood this as a case that needed to be known in

our community, but we need to do a lot more work,” said Morris. Morris, who has been profiled many times in the city of Greensboro, is no stranger to injustice. “I’ve been profiled at least five times,” recounted Morris. “Mayor Yvonne Johnson, the first African American woman to be mayor in Greensboro, actually went to the police chief on my behalf and told them to stop messing with me. It was just getting absurd.” Now a year later, family, friends, and supporters continue to protest and riot for justice and peace, weeks after a black male was shot and killed. 18-year-old Michael

Brown of Ferguson, Mo. was unarmed when he was fatally shot six times by a white police officer. Protestors march with homemade signs that read “JUSTICE FOR MIKE BROWN” and “HANDS UP DON’T SHOOT,” which are believed to be Brown’s last words. As tensions escalate, the Ferguson protests have rallied supporters all around the world. “My life is necessary,” said Tigress McDaniel of Greensboro, N.C. quoting Connor McLean of Greensboro. McDaniel was one of many speakers at the Ferguson rally last Wednesday in downtown Greensboro in front of the  See ferguson on Page 4

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Senior accounting major Shannon Bryant was caught off guard when told on check-in day that she was one of 70 students who would not be able to move into their Suite E dorm due to unexpected flooding. “They told me I wouldn’t have access to my room for two weeks to a months time” said Bryant. On Friday, August 15 at approximately 2:00 p.m. a contractor was working on an air conditioning issue in the attic of Suite E, when he accidentally kicked and broke a sprinkler supply line resulting in a flood that damaged ceilings, walls, and floors. Floors one through three were affected. Six suites were damaged and nine other suites were closed due to the power outage necessary for repairs to that section of the building. Rooms were shut down while repairs were being made, and other rooms were closed simply because they shared the same power grid as the hallways who were affected by the flood. Bryant, an out of state student from Maryland was told her temporary housing will be at the Marriott hotel located in downtown Greensboro. “They didn’t go into detail but they said the water damaged the walls and that they had to knock the walls down,” said Bryant, who did not receive an email or call about the situation prior. “Turn off the water, make the necessary contacts,” said Dr. Melody Pierce, Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, when  See flooding on Page 3

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A North Carolina A&T employee was charged with embezzling more than $400,000 for over three years in December 2013. After the N.C. A&T University Foundation Center discovered the issue Shirlye Cornelia Grandy, the former Director of Accounting was discharged in March of 2014. The position still has not been filled. Students at A&T received only one email in regards to the incident, but no further information was released following the initial notification. As a result, students were concerned about whose money was being stolen and why there were not any further updates. “It was the foundation’s unrestricted money,” said Ralph Fennell, the Interim COO for the foundation. “It had nothing to do with endowments, scholarships, departmental scholarships, or any other funds. “It doesn’t affect the students. It’s an independent agency,” said Shirley Frye, President of the University Foundation. “The foundation supports the university in a variety of ways and the crime of stealing the money in no way compromise any of the foundations financial commitment to the students, the faculty, and programs that we support.” The foundation is insured, but no further details have been released in regards to whether the foundation will get the money back. Grandy managed to steal more than $400,000 over three years. Many concerned students and parents questioned how this was not caught. “It happens everywhere. It just wasn’t caught,” said Frye.

your car at the parking deck, you walk leisurely through the parking deck down through Aggie Village the green, pass the reflection pool, go into the front door of this new student center, see all the things that are ready in there, go out the back door and go through the green near Marteena and Barnes and Crosby Hall, go down to the stadium…” While this vision is becoming reality parking has been expanded for students, faculty and staff’s convenience.

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