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Volume 53, Number 07
January 19, 2006
INSIDE Students can go online
and pay tution with E-commerce
By Jennifer Jiggetts
EDITOR-N-CHIEF
“Peep This” new CD by
Jamie Foxx.
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Fall into a good book at
the library.
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Norfolk State University students can now use
their MasterCards, Discover Cards and Visas online
to pay their tuition thanks
to a new feature called ECommerce.
Zaheer Tariq, NSU’s
Bursar, said E-Commerce
was launched on Jan. 4.
It took a year to finalize
because the University
wanted to make sure SpartanShield was successful,
Tariq said, explaining that
the new payment method
should decrease lines and
waiting times on campus.
“We’re trying to take
advantage of all this technology that’s available to us,”
Tariq said.
However, if a student
has a Spartan Payment
Plan and wants to use ECommerce, they must see
a cashier before doing so
to make a down payment
on their plan.
In other news, NSU will
no longer mail grades as of
this semester due to rising
Graphic by James Davis
mailing costs.
Regina Bynum, acting
registrar at NSU, said some
report cards come back as a
result of wrong addresses,
therefore, wasting paper,
ink and money.
Students can access their
grades on Spartan Shield.
But if an official report
card is needed, Bynum said
the school will honor that
request.
For more information,
please call the Registrar’s
Office at (757) 823-8229
or the Help Desk at (757)
823-8117
Parker named new assistant director of DNIMAS
By Tiana M. Stephenson
SPARTAN ECHO
Should you gamble in
the stock market?
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index
EDITORIAL...............2
NEWS.......................3
ENTERTAINMENT...4-5
STUDENT LIFE.....6-7
SPORTS...................8
Michael A. Parker loves
math. He loves every thing
about it.
“I would teach math even
if they did not pay me,”
Parker said.
When you first meet
Parker, he appears to be a
well-dressed student. He is
very personable and blends
well in the classroom.
However, when class
begins, his personality
continues to shine but his
intellect is magnified and
his passion for teaching is
undeniable.
He has the ability to
make every student feel like
they are receiving individual
tutoring in class.
DNIMAS, Dozoretz
National Institute for
Mathematics and Applied
Sciences, recognized his
talents and has appointed
Parker as its new assistant
director.
Before getting the new
job, Parker was a math
professor, voted Teacher of
the Year four times in the 18
years he’s been at NSU.
Parker said he is honored
to take the new position, and
he is ready to began helping
students take advantage of
opportunities for those who
are math savvy.
DNIMAS was created
at NSU in 1985. Its mission
is to give minority students
opportunities for full
scholarships.
Besides assisting his new
boss, Parker said his main
goals are to inspire students,
while increasing the
percentage of students that
pursue doctoral degrees,
which he is currently
working on.
His educational and
professional background
began at Virginia State
University, where he
received both his Bachelor’s
and Master’s degrees in
Mathematics.
The water, he said, drew
him to NSU.
Courtesy of Michael A. Parker
“I was a young
professor who loved to be
the near the water,” Parker
said. “The way they got me
is they said that Virginia
Beach was right up the
road.”
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