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Vcluma H, Issue 74
Friday, October IS, 1S82
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emors agree:
Job searches
not easy task
By KIM KLEMAN
Staff Writer
Mimi Pridgen says a lot of college
seniors are in her bind; she can't wait to
finally graduate, yet she might very well be
unemployed.
"It's scary. A lot of people just think,
'Sure, I'll get a job when I graduate,' "
said Pridgen, an industrial relations major
from Charlotte. "You have to come to the
realization that you're a senior now. It's
time to start looking."
Unfortunately, job-hunting seniors
might not like what they find. The number
of jobs offered to college graduates
dropped 11,545 in 1982 from 1981, from
62,835 to 51,290, according to the College
Placement Council, a trade association of
campus placement offices. And the U.S.
Department of Labor reports high school
and college student unemployment to be
14.4 percent, up from 13.7 percent last
year.
Marcia Harris, director of the Universi
ty's Career Planning and Placement Ser
vices, offers a more pessimistic outlook;
there are three jobs for every four
graduates, she said.
; "Hiring is very slow. It's almost at a
standstill now," Harris said. "Those who
are hired have to have entry level skills. All
recruiters say they want people who can
communicate well and who show integrity.
But in addition, they want to hire those
who need a minimum amount of
training."
Technical vs. libers arts
When it comes to getting a job in your
field of study, you are more likely to be
hired if you have a technical degree than a
liberal arts degree, Harris said. A nation
wide survey by the College Placement
Council revealed engineering students
received 57 percent of all job offers;
business majors received 23 percent;
science majors, 1 1 percent; and humanities
and social science majors, 4 percent.
Recruiting practices at UNC support
these findings. More than 200 companies
will interview here this year, including
representatives from management, govern
ment agencies, banks, industries and com
puter science companies. Yet the majority
will be looking for recruits with a major
closely related to business and finance and
technical fields, said Fay Goodwin, who
coordinates on-campus recruiting.
Carolina Power and Light, for instance,
will hire 346 college graduates this year,
146 of whom will be engineers. The rest
will have degrees in auditing, accounting ,
or business administration, said Bob
Elder, director of corporate recruiting.
GTE Corp., a telecommunications and
electronics firm, is recruiting here only for
finance and accounting majors, Vincent
Kress, a developmental administrator for
the company, said. .
One-third of the 6,000 people AT&T
hires annually are liberal arts graduates,
representing humanities, social science,
math and scientific backgrounds; but :
AT&T's hiring practices are -changing.
"There recently has been an upturn in the
. number of business majors hired, since we
are attempting to increase our direct sales :
staff to meet challenges of deregulation
and competition," wrote Robert E. Beck,
assistant vice president for human
resources at AT&T, in a 1981 publication
of the Association of American Colleges.
Starting salaries
Various surveys indicate that starting
salaries for graduates in technical fields are
also higher. As of July 1982, when the
College Placement Council conducted its
survey of 161 colleges and universities,
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WARSAW, Poland - Riots over the
ban on Solidarity claimed their first victim
Tuesday a young man who died of gun
shot wounds and police fired tear gas to
disperse mourners lighting candles for the
victim at a church. Worker anger was
reported spreading through Poland's coal
and steel heartland.
The- official PAP news agency said
Bodgan Wlosik, 20, died Thursday in a
hospital after being shot by a plainclothes
officer who was attacked Wednesday dur
ing fierce street fighting that left nearly 100
people injured in the Krakow steel-making
suburb of Nowa Huta.
Police fired tear gas into a crowd of
mourners placing candles and a floral
cross at a local church Thursday in honor
of Wlosik, PAP and reliable sources
reported.
It was the first officially acknowledged
death in the riots spawned by the outlaw
ing of the Soviet, bloc's first independent
labor federation a week ago.
Unconfirmed reports attributed to a
Polish ham radio operator said two others
died in Gdansk Tuesday evening, and a
government journalist claimed a worker
depressed by the upheavals killed himself
by diving into a vat of molten steel.
The Communist Party newspaper
warned that new riots and strikes could ex
tend martial law, and the official informa
tion service Interpress said leaflets urging
street protests and a boycott of pro
government unions set up in place of
Solidarity have appeared in factories in .
Katowice province.
Miners at the Jankowice coal mine near
Rybnik refused to work for one hour
Wednesday despite the martial law ban on
strikes, but had gone to work after talks
with management and party officials,
Interpress said.
The new unrest followed riots and
strikes in Gdansk Monday and Tuesday
and street protests Wednesday in Wroclaw
and Nowa Huta. The government
reported 148 arrests in Gdansk and 170 in
Wroclaw.
Blaming the Solidarity underground for
the strikes and riots, the Communist Party
daily Try buna Ludu said Thursday that
such- actions could "extend, contrary to
the government's intentions, the period of
extraordinary measures."
Poland's martial law chief and Com
munist Party leader, Gen. Wojciech
Jaruzelski, said after Parliament outlawed
Solidarity Friday that protests had slowed
the government's plan to lift military rule
by the end of the year but not "crossed it
out."
Nonetheless, leaflets circulated Thurs
day by underground Solidarity leaders said
plants with more than 2,000 workers in
Warsaw should begin work stoppages in
sympathy with the Gdansk shipyard
workers.
Other leaflets said underground
Solidarity leaders in Krakow called for a
protest Oct. 20 or sooner if authorities try
to prevent it.
t However, it was not known how
workers would react after the protest on
the Baltic collapsed Wednesday under
pressure of severe government sanctions.
The agency gave no further, details, but
said in the same report a miner suffering
from "mental disease" had tried unsuc
cessfully to blow up a mine in Sosnowiec.
The coal and steel basin that includes
Katowice, Rybnik and Sosnowiec was the
See POLAND on page 9
Local employers, administrators say
Bouble majors
By LUCY HOOD
Staff Writer
"Overall, for going out and finding a job, I don't
think a double major helps.
Anne Coenen, student services manager for the Col
lege of Arts and Sciences, made that statement, and a
majority of the University administrators and local
employees interviewed agreed that a double major
may have its advantages, but it will not; help in the job
market. . '
The University curriculum is separated into the Divi
sion of Academic Affairs and the Division of Health
Affairs.
Within the Division of Academic Affairs, the op
portunities to double major are limited.; A student may
choose two majors within the College of Arts and
Sciences or he may double major in journalism and
- another department. Business and education majors
may not double major.
A student may find a double major to be beneficial
personally, Coenen said, but "I would encourage
students to take more electives to receive a more broad
education," she said. "All they, (the employers) want
to know is if you have the persevefence to do the job
(get a degree)."
Marcia Harris, director of Career Planning and
Placement Services, described the employer's side of
the job market in more detail. An employer wjll ask
for a transcript if he has a strong interest in the stu
dent, so the student must emphasize educational
highlights and relevant courses in the interview, she
said. ';
"A large, number of employers put people into
boxes according to their majors, and those who have
technical, business or industrial jobs are looking for
- potential on-the-job training," she said.
The journalism school is the only school that per
mits a double major by crossing into another, school.
James Shuinaker, a lecturer in the journalism school,
has been working with placement for 10 years. "I've
never had anyone ask me about it (a double major), or
..i6af- "hie Said. "I've never run ; into"
anybody who;was seriously concerned with iftV sub
jects and what they (the students) made in them."
Managing editors of newspapers ask about the stu-
dent's sense, writing, ability to learn, spelling and
grammar, he said. "They want to know very practical
things like that." .
Local employers agreed that a double major would
not enhance a student's chance of finding a job.
' "We're looking for experience, the primary basis
for a hiring decision," Mike Yap, the managing editor
for the Raleigh Times, said. "Majors are not that im
portant. It (a double major) would be a very small fac
tor." ' ' : . ... v
The personnel manager for Hotel Europa, an
employee at Investors Tide Insurance Company in
Chapel Hill, the station affairs manager for WPTF
television station, and the owner of three employment
companies agreed with Yap. All of them said they
looked for experience before anything else.
. "Here, a double major would . not be an
advantage," said Beverly Kern, the personnel manager
for Hotel Europa. "It really would not make a dif
ference. . Usually we're looking for experience and
recommendations."
However, two UNC graduates who received degrees
within the last year with double majors said both of
their majors helped them find a job.
J. Andrew Parrott works for Burroughs Corp. in
Remington, N.J., as an associate engineering pro
grammer. A mathematical science and computer,
science major, he said, the double major helped
because he programs computers and the work is most
ly mathematical.
Administrators and employers also have said that a
double major is not a worthless effort.
... .c .
Yap said a journalism-economics combination
might attract the attention of a newspaper's managing
editor. And Richard Cole, dean of the journalism
school, said, "It seems to me it's a bargain. You get
in-depth knowledge on two subjects."
Entry-level positions are more accessible to students
with vocationally directed majors," Harris said,
noting that only liberal arts students can double ma
jor. "But liberal arts majors are doing just as well five
or six years down the road."
Trivia knowled
owlplayers
By SHARON OVERTON
Staff Writer
Since there may not be a Super Bowl this season,
why not bundle up in the raccoon coat and cheer on
the UNC College Bowl team?
The UNC College Bowl tournament starts Sunday,
Oct. 17, at 1 p.m., with 50 teams competing. Games
won't be open to the public, however, until the semi
final and final rounds in about two weeks.
If some fans do decide to convert from being
pigskin fans, it would be an ironic twist. Quiz game
competition was popular when it originated more than
20 years ago and was widely broadcast on radio and
teiepfju'Takiiws'were pushed off the air, though,
when networks decided to replace! mem with televised
football. ,
UNC College Bowl coordinator Julie Chui defends
the game's label as the "varsity sport of the mind," a
team sptrt in an academic sense. ,
"If you look at 'sports as purely athletic, then Col
lege Bowl isn't a sport," she said. "But there's a sense
of team spirit and competition here. It even requires
some training and coaching. In that way, it's definitely
a sport;" '
Imagine two teams of four players squaring off
against each other like the opposing front lines of a
football team. A moderator stands in the middle and
fires the first toss-up question for 10 points. Down the
line, players tackle buzzers in front of them, but only
one will be recognized. If he answers correctly, his
team has a chance for a bonus question worth 20 to 35
points. If he is wrong, they lose five. The entire play
lasts a little more than three minutes. The game is over
only 14 minutes after it has begun.
Four College Bowl players from UNC became na
tional champions last year in New York City in not 14,
but 37 minutes. Their 230-185 win over Rice University
was contested when the losing team claimed they were
"getting screwed by the system." After arguing for 20
minutes, tournament officials decided to replay the
last three minutes of the game. UNC won 250-190.
State can provide fresh scenery
. Since the University also grabbed national basket
ball, soccer and lacrosse championships last year, team
member Jonny Wike, a graduate student in English,
said he wasn't surprised that the team and College
Bowl didn't become instantly famous on campus.
"You have to be realistic about it," Wike said.
"College Bowl isn't as easy to get to like as basketball.
It doesn't bother me that most students don't think
about it. I'm interested because I play."
The national championship may have attracted
more students to the tournament this year, Wike
speculated. He disagreed with the idea that players
have to be "brains" to get involved.
See COLLEGE on page 9
Film
industry m
By TAMMY DAVIS
Staff Writer
' i . . .
Lights. ..Camera... Action! . '. ..
Film industry action in North Carolina is in
creasing as a result of the rising interest shown by
movie companies in using the state for filming.
Bill Arnold, director of the N.C. Film Office in
Raleigh, said recently that big-name movie com
panies look at North Carolina as a possible film
site for a variety of reasons.
Arnold said the most important reason for the
increase in interest in film-making in North
Carolina was the-creation of the Film Office in
January 19S0.
"Before then, producers had to call around
endlessly to state agencies to get information," Ar
nold said. "This office provides a one-stop process
id tt permits, leases and official dvi'ucntj that
used to take months to obtain."
ArrloIJ said another eitttzllcy U it.: trd4J
climate in North Carolina year 'round, ''We are
about the same latitude as Los Afrsks and the ar
CuUicture tvJ titt&i of ti 'JlU CVL"J li d
base for a lot of scripts," he added.
"There have been several companies which have
. asked about the use of Chapel Hill to simulate a
New England college town, and the main reason is
because they can t shoot in November and
December in Chapel Hill. If they shot in New
England, the cold and snow, and bad climate
would hamper much of the filming," Arnold said.
Arnold said a third attraction is the newness of
the area and the need for fresh locations that peo
ple have not seen.
"Most of the movies we see give the impression
they are filmed in New England or Georgia or
wherever, yet it is the same, yellow hills of Los
Angeles," he said. "People have become too
sophisticated. They're not going to buy this
anymore.
. And Arnold said an important difference in
filmLnj in Los Angeles or in North Carolina has
(h fd thit iri Los1 Angeks, everything is union
ized. ,
"Every facet of the movie industry in. Los
Anodes is unionized. You've got the Teamsters,
Ur.L.1 tizS Operators Actors Guild and many
more. Everyone does his job and these people
don't like to cross lines," he said.
However, Arnold said, in North Carolina,
there's a more cooperative attitude. Though North
Carolina is not entirely anti-union, producers have
;three ways to go. ' .
VFirst, they can go totally with their unions, like
they did in Brainstorm (filmed near Research
Triangle last fall and has not been released), and
that will require less people from our state,"
Arnold said. .
Companies may go part unionpart non-union
by bringing key people from Los Angeles but also
" using some local talent and technologists. ''This
neips our employment rate quite significantly," he
said,. .
Finally, Arnold said, the companies can, go
strictly non-union. There are a lot of professionals
very competent actors who do not want to be
part of a union and want to be free to negotiate
wases, he said.
: "This way .provides a general communication
;v "Lld things fioa't have, td be a set way; If a plant
has to be moved, there doesn't have to be a
designated plant mover. Whoever is closest moves
it," Arnold said. -
Arnold said North Carolina is also becoming a
popular filming site because of the movies already
made in the state. Such movies as Brainstorm, The
Private Eyes and Being There are great advertise
ment for the state, he said.
Arnold said that as recently as three weeks ago,
Universal Pictures filmed segments of an upcom
ing $20 million movie called Stand On It. The
movie, a racing film which stars Burt Reynolds and
Loni Anderson, was made primarily at the
Charlotte Motor Speedway and sections of
Charlotte, he said.
Ron Smith, production manager of Stand On It
with Universal Pictures in Los Angeles, said the
company was impressed with" tha N.C Film Office1
and its staffs
"Everything went very weih ' lte werd
. .very cooperative and w were treated very. will,'
Smith said. ' '. "'
1 Smith said the reason for fiLianj Li CILi'l
was largely based on the convenience of the
Charlotte Motor Speedway. "The speedway was a
good location to shoot," he said.
"I would like to add that I think Stand On It
will go over very well down there," Smith said.
"Racing seems to be very popular down in the
South."
Dr. Gohram Kindem," assistant professor in the
UNC Radio, TV and Motion Pictures Depart
ment, said the major benefits of the increasing film
productions would be a boost in the state's
economy.
' "The state gets, on the average, 1 million dollars
or more when a film company moves in because of
the food, housing, and other accommodations the
state makes for them," Kindem said.
. Kindem said he believed filming would definite
ly b good for Chdpel Hill if the movie industry
tame. However, in the past, there has been some
concern over how th imag of Chapel Hill would
U affected, fi3 t:l&,
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