ECU 11/02/23

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VOLUME 99, ISSUE 10

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Thursday, 11.02.23

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Front office worker Kaymber Whitehurst at the East Carolina University Office of the Registrar. Registration for the Spring 2024 semester takes place this month starting Friday.

ECU prepares for spring class registration

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FO R THE E A S T C A R O L I N I AN

Registration for the spring 2024 semester begins this month, and the university’s academic advisors prepare to answer students’ questions and fix problems they may have. Registering for the Spring Semester begins Monday at 7 a.m. The date and time depends on the student's credit hours earned, according to the Office of the Registrar website, and students are encouraged to reach out to their academic advisor. ECU College of Health and Human Performance Academic Advisor Kelsey Webster said students should include all information possible to their advisors when asking about registration difficulties. Academic advisors are critical in offering guidance and direction for students during class registration, Webster said, and students can schedule appointments with their advisors to discuss their 4-year plans, prerequisites, selecting the right courses for their majors and interests and to have any questions or uncertainties answered. “If a student receives a registration error that they need to email their advisor about, they need to be sure to include their banner ID, the class subject and number and the

specific error they received,” Webster said. “This will enable their advisor to help them much quicker. Also, it’s a good idea for students to have a list of backup courses that can replace any classes that may be closed when they go to register.” Priority registration p erio ds are granted to students in certain p r o g r a m s , We b s t e r said, such as the Honors College, G r a d u at e St u d e nt s , R O T C , Ve t e r an s or Kesley Webster other students who meet certain criterias to allow them to register for classes at an earlier time to ensure they get placed in the classes they would like. To see if you have priority registration, contact your advisor. Early registration for priority students begins Friday at 1 p.m, Webster said. “For students who have to waitlist for a class, it’s vital they check their ECU email at least once every 24 hours so that if they get in from the waitlist,” Webster said. “They don’t miss the window to register for it.” Andrew Pickett, teaching instructor and advisor for the Department of Health Education and Promotion emphasized

having a plan with the desired classes and conveying this plan to your advisor so everyone is in agreement. Some registration errors that may occur during registration are wait lists, which means the course is full, class restriction, which means the required classification for the course is not correct, prerequisite and test score error, which means you do not have the required prerequisite course to take the course or corequisite required, which means you need to be signed up for a corequisite along with the course you are signing up for (for example, a lecture and a lab). These errors will prevent you from registering from the classes you would like to take. “Know what your plan of study is for your degree and have this in your What-If plan in Degree Works,” Pickett said. “Degree Works is meant to face both the student side and the advisor side to ensure everyone is on the same page. In addition, make sure to construct a plan before you meet with your advisor.” To register for classes, Pickett said, log into Pirate Port, click on the Registration and Planning Card, then click on the Add or Drop Classes option, select the correct registration term from the drop down menu

(Spring 2023), put in your registration pin that was provided by your advisor and enter in classes. Once a class has been added, Pickett said, click submit to successfully register for the class. Benita Patel, sophomore nursing major, said it is greatly beneficial to make a plan plan ahead of time when registering for classes “I think the most important aspect of class registration is building out a plan beforehand in the Planning tab of Pirate Port,” Patel said. “This way, once it's time to register for classes, you can just sign up for the classes that you already planned for, which saves a lot of time and makes it easier for you to get the classes you want.” Patel said she recommends joining waitlists for desirable classes that are already full because it is not uncommon for students to change their schedules within the first week of school.

This writer can be contacted at news@theeastcarolinian.com.

Preseason analysis for ECU Pirates MBB Nick Bailey TEC STAF F

With the East Carolina University men's basketball team returning to Minges Coliseum in Greenville, North Carolina, on Monday, it's time to evaluate their talents after a year that saw significant progress as a program under now-second-year Head Coach Michael Schwartz. To finish off last season, the Pirates finished their regular season with a 16-17 overall record and a 6-12 record in the American Athletic Conference (AAC). The team arrived in Fort Worth, Texas, for the AAC tournament seeded ninth and was pitted against the University of South Florida. ECU accomplished something they hadn't done since 2017, winning a game in the AAC tournament. The Pirates won 73-58 over the Bulls. They went on to play the No. 1 ranked team in the country at that time in the University of Houston and put up a great effort in a 60-46 loss. The emergence of now sophomore forward Ezra Ausar was on full display as he posted 18 points and a career high 19 rebounds. ECU’s season ended there, but now with another off season for Schwartz, multiple coaching hires and transfers coming in, this team looks ready to make a statement in the newly formed AAC. After the departures of the University of Cincinnati, the University of Central Florida (UCF), Houston, with the additions of the University of North Carolina Charlotte, the University of Texas at San Antonio, the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Florida Atlantic University (FAU), the University of North Texas (UNT) and Rice University, the AAC now has 14 competitors for the 2023-2024 men's basketball season. The Pirates will benefit off of not having to play UCF, Cincinnati and Houston this year after going 1-5 against

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ECU beat USF 73-58 last season in the AAC tournament.

those teams last season. However, the group of teams joining the conference are sure to give the team trouble during conference play, as FAU is coming off a miraculous run to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Final Four last March. Coming into this season FAU has been ranked No. 10 in the country in the AP Preseason Top 25. UAB and UNT will be very competitive teams in the AAC after they are fresh off of a battle in the National Invitation Tournament championship where the Mean Green came out victorious. When you look at ECU's schedule from last year and see how they started the season with a 9-4 record before conference play, it's evident that the Pirates need to improve in conference games. As conference play began last year, they lost six of their first seven games. Schwartz said during men's basketball Media Day that conference play is going

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to be tough this year, if not more than last season. “We want a better conference record regardless of who came into the conference or who left, and that’s because we want to progress, and we want to move up,” Schwartz said. “There's six good teams that came into this league and there’s three teams that were very, very strong last year. Four of the six teams that joined our conference were playing in the final five days of college basketball. So, I would actually say that this conference got stronger basketball wise.” The Pirates return eight players from last year's squad, including four of its top five scorers in junior guard RJ Felton, junior forward Brandon Johnson, Ausar and junior guard Jaden Walker. Junior guard Quentin Diboundje, senior guard Benjamin Bayela, sophomore guard Kalib LaCount and sophomore forward Valentino Pinedo are also back from the team that won 16 games last season, the most for the program since the 2013-14 season. ECU has added eight new players to its roster, including five freshmen and three student-athlete transfers. Bobby Pettiford Jr. and Cam Hayes, both junior guards, return to their home state after playing at Kansas University and Louisiana State University, respectively, and Grant Smith joins the team after a season at Quincy College. Centers Cyr Malonga and Callum Richard, as well as guards Evan Montanari, Ta'Korrie Faison, and Logan Bourgeois, are the Pirates' five freshmen. The Pirates first month of the season will be entirely played at Minges besides one game and the first one will be Ferrum College on Monday at 7 p.m. The game can be streamed on ESPN+.

This writer can be contacted at sports@theeastcarolinian.com.

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