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Monday, November 16, 1981The Daily Tar Heel3 R esi den tmssmianMpei various and diversified roles By LYNN EARLEY . 1TH Slarf Wriler Students serving as resident assistants are expected to be administrators, educators, regulators, resource persons, friends and counselors, according to resident assistant manuals. RAs are expected to serve as model citizens in the com munity and to do this with objectivity. But before an inter ested student can tackle this job, he or she must gd through a 2'2 -month RA selection process which begins Nov. 30. "We're attempting to meet the needs of the students as best as we can meet them," Associate Director for Residence Life Jody Harpster said last week. RAs must provide a role model for residents of their halls. "What we expect RAs generally to be are model citizens in , the community," Harpster said, "but we accept that they're human and on human is perfect." Charlene Mason, a graduate student and RA in Cobb Res idence Hall, said being a role model was sometimes an un comfortable position. "You're always under scrutiny," she , said. "You always feel like people are watching you." Another goal for RAs is objectivity, Harpster said. "We want someone who can hold values at arm's length and be able to deal with the issue at hand objectively." Al Perry, a junior political science major and RA in Gran ville Towers agreed. He said he placed importance on being able to relate freely and easily with people and with different kinds of people in particular. Mason and Perry said that getting to know people, includ ing their residents and other staff members from various parts of campus, was one of the most beneficial aspects of their job. All applicants follow the same steps during the selection O process. There are four steps for all candidates and five for some. The first part of the process is the application. The forms are available Nov. 30 in the Housing Department and are due at 5 p.m ln 1 Thcv ran K turned in" rr1irjnts area director or to the Residence Life Office in the Housing Department. The second part is a mandatory convocation on Jan, 14. The next step is an individual interview with one resident assistant and the applicant unless an applicant is ruled out because his grades fall below 2.3. These interviews are sched uled for Jan. 18-Jan. 21. - The fourth step is a panel interview,, with five interviewers and the applicant. These interviews are scheduled for the weekends of Jan. 23 and 24 and Jan. 30 and 31. A fifth step will follow for some applicants. Harpster said, "At that point in time, after those steps, the interview pro cess for many people could end. But that doesn't mean they're cut." He said that follow up interviews were conducted in spe cific areas, with area directors, two resident assistants and a student representative to get to know certain applicants bet ter. These interviews will be from Feb. 5-Feb. 14, and no can didate will have more than three. Discussions about candidates between the nine area direc tors and the three assistant tower managers of Granville Towers will be next. These usually total 12-14 hours, Harp ster said. "Every candidate is discussed what their strengths were and what their weaknesses were." Finally, the resident assistants will be chosen and letters will be sent to each applicant on Feb. 16. The various steps allow the area directors and current RAs to get to know applicants from each part of campus. Empha sis is placed on applicants never interviewing with anyone from their area, Harpster said. He said most applicants are already known in their own area. After each interview, evaluation forms on the candidate will be filled out by the interviewer and submitted to the Resi dence Life Office. Harpster said thought-provoking questions would be brought up at each step, to give applicants a chance to think about the major step they were considering. .esolttt ion to aid t udents j redistriButing money; 6 6 s t s financial npp o rt By LYNN EARLEY ; 1)TH Staff Writer A resolution to increase financial aid to students attending the 16-campus UNC system by reallocating funds now given to private schools : was drawn up by the UNC Association of Student Govern ments, UNCASG President Scott Not berg said Sunday. LaVie Ellison, chairman of the State Affairs Committee, said that the resolu tion was unanimously approved Saturday: at the monthly meeting of. the UNCASG. The resolution "was drawn up as a result of a study by the State Affairs Committee which said that money now allotted by the state legislature to private colleges and universities was not used efficiently for its intended purpose. . v Nine sources of financial aid are avail able to students attending private schools, - and two of these are unavailable to stu dents at public schools." These are the North Carolina Contractual Scholarship Fund and the North Carolina Legislative Tuition Grant. Ellison said that these incentive pro grams were established at private schools to attract students since tuition was usually, higher there than at private schools. The Legislative Tuition Grant is a $600 grant credited to each North Carolina student's account at private institutions, regardless of financial Yieed. An amount of $200 per student is given to each private school to build up the State Contractual Scholarship Fund. This . pool is then allocated to students through need, Ellison said. However, no ceiling is placed on these awards, so there is no limit to the amount a certain student could get. The study conducted by the State Af fairs Committee found that the incentive . programs were not working, Ellison said. She said the enrollment of North Caro-. Una residents in North Carolina private colleges and universities has increased by 1,872 students between Oct. 1, 1972, and Oct. 1, 1980. The total state funds allo cated to these schools is $78,221,930. Therefore, Ellison said, allocated funds for each new student at private schools would be $45,224.07. She said that differences could be found in each school. She cited N.C. Wesleyan College and Pfeiffer College as examples. N.C. Wesleyan Coljege gained 189 students and received $1,597,912 in state funds. Pfeiffer College lost 140 students and received $1,572,305 in state funds. ' The study concluded that the incentive programs were not being administered consistently and were not succeeding in attracting many students to the private schools. ... r .J i jit A &t if i X V-v.. v. ... va , Scott Norbsrg Norberg said that the UNCASG felt, the funding now being used for these two programs should be redefined as a need based financial aid fund for all North Carolina students. "Tuition aid sources are being cut and we think that rather than use this money as a grant fund not based on need.it should be' used as loans according to need," Norberg said. Ellison said the resolution would be submitted to Gov. Jim Hunt, Lt. Gov. Jimmy Green, the UNC Board of Gover nors, UNC President William C. Friday, the House Education Budget Committee and the Senate Education Budget Com mittee, to gain support. Norberg said, "We're urging the legis lators to introduce and adopt legislation ' according to what we've recommended." Secrist attends convention in Europe to present workshops on recreation Peace Corps recruiting college graduates; interviews to be held on campus this week By LAURA SEIFERT DTH Staff Writer Chapel Hill interim Town Manager Ron Secrist was one of three Americans to par ticipate in the European Recreation Soci ety's annual conference last week. The conference attempted to provide recreation directors at U.S. military bases in Europe with recreation solutions to the increasing drug abuse problem there, he said. Secrist attended the conference, held Nov. 1-10 in Garmish, Germany, in his capacity as Chapel Hill Director for Parks and Recreation. He will reassume the re creation director position as soon as the town council appoints a new town jman ager. The other two Americans asked to at tend the conference were a professor at The University of Illinois and a cultural director from San Jose, Calif. "I consider it an honor to be chosen," Secrist said. European Recreation Society officials contacted Secrist last June, while he was still serving as recreation director, about conducting workshops during the confer ence. "I was asked to present workshops at their expense to Americans who are pro viding recreation facilities on American (military) bases in Europe," he said. The three workshops Secrist conducted dealt with answers and alternatives to the growing drug abuse problem on the mili tary bases. The workshops were "The Or ganization of Youth Sports," "Public Relations" and "PerformanceApraisals? 'The drug problem with young soldier s over there is similar to many experiences that we see here (in the United States)," Secrist said. Secrist said that by sending 150 civilian recreation professionals to the conference, the military organizations, along with the European Recreation Society, were giving the drug problem more attention . "The recreation advisers on the bases are looking for a lot of alternative means for thejsoldiers to spend their free time," Secrist said. Since organized recreation activities di minish the chances for a person to partici pate in unstructured activities (like drug use), establishing good recreation pro grams is a necessity, he said. A typical description of a "good time" ' on any given base,. Secrist said, is "going back to the room, putting on the head phones and listening to the stereo while getting high off marijuana." By KATHERINE LONG , DTH Staff Writer ' The Peace Corps seeks a different kind of volunteer today, but the ideals behind the organization have not changed since it was started -more than 20 years ago, Corps recruiter Alex Wilson said recently. Today, the Corps is looking for volun teers with college degrees, Wilson said. Wilson will be on campus to talk to stu dents and faculty from Nov. 16-20. "Now we're trying to find people with skills," Wilson said. "Volunteer experi ence or work experience is vital." Volunteers are selected nine months to a year in advance, and are trained to work for two years with people in devel opingThird World countries. Wilson said the Corps was looking for people with skills in biological science, agriculture, nursing and health education, and a special need today exists .fordeaf volun-. teers-,;;rr.'...-r't;-' :4 :- -Wilson who joined" with2 the Corps' domestic counterpart VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) when he graduated from UNC in 1975, said students' moti vations have changed since the Corps was started. "It was a lot more altruism, a curiosity back in the early days," he said. "Now, people ask, 'What specifically am I train-, ed to do?' They come back (after two years) with a much stronger sense of abil ities." The Peace Corps was started in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy. Today, Presi dent Ronald Reagan has cut the program's funding by 15 percentbut Wilson said the Corps has the support of the administra tion. ' But the 17-year-old VISTA program will lose all its funding by 1983, the Rea gan administration has decided. Wilson said he has stopped recruiting for that program. "The Peace Corps program will ride through the cutbacks in fine shape," he said. "VISTA won't. There was a real fueling . it ; biamev orlylificaT bSl- lowing poor people to help themselves.'1 Wilson Isaid the Corps would absorb the 15 percent cutback, continue to serve in 62 countries and retain the same num ber of volunteers, which now stands at 5,508. - Wilson said the Peace Corps was "one of the first U.S. presences invited (into a country), and the last asked to leave when diplomatic tensions are high." "Volunteers see themselves as isolated from politics, religion, policy ... the real commitment is to see a health clinic be ing built, or introduce a new food crop." For example, Wilson said a volunteer might be assigned to introduce a high protein, fast-growing fish into a village, diet. ""After four months of training. you will be able to introduce a new food source that will last indefinitely," he said. "Often the most difficult thing is getting the local people to choose to eat fish in their diet. It takes good communications skills." ' Wilson will be available to talk to stu dents and faculty at an information "l6-20. Sign-Up sheets for interviews aire at the University Placement Service. Inter views will be conducted from Nov. 17-20. Tay Sachs Screening Wednesday, November 18th 3-7 pm CHAPEL HILL HILLEL HOUSE 210 W. 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