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Sinas to
head drive
®y Soott Lu^doo
UNCA’s Student Government
Association will launch a
three point campaign next
''^eek to prevent the U.S.
I^epartment of Energy (DOE)
from locating a nuclear repo
sitory in Western North Caro-
^^ha, said President Neal
Rhoades.
The DOE chose a site con
taining portions of Buncombe, \
^^ywood, and Madison Counties
twelve finalists
nuclear waste dump last
year.
”SGA wiU implement a three
P°^t plan to be done through
i^ohgressman Bill Hendon’s of-
Rhoades said,
said he planned to first
appoint Dave Sinas, a fresh-
from Rhode Island, as
^^nipus coordinator against a
huclear waste repository in
WNC.
The student senate must ap-
E^ove the appointment next
Tuesday.
"The student senate must
also vote on the three point
Plan next Tuesday,” Rhoades
said.
He listed the components of
plan:
• a petition drive on cam-
to acquire 1,000 signa-
against the repository;
• information centers dis-
^ibuting literature on the
ssue in the Carmichael
«uUding and the Highsmith
^®nter;
Thursday, Feb.'6, 1986
(Photo by Casey Bahiss)
ART MAJOR DAVID REED dnpes
the day in the cerainic shop.
jy a drive to enlist volun
teers to help Sinas with the
plan.
Rhoades said petition
booths would be set up at
various locations on campus.
I’They will probably be open
from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. week
days from Wednesday the 12th
to the 28th of February,”
Rhoades said.
Sinas said he needs as many
volunteers as possible. He
said volunteers should come
by the SGA office.
^®EKEND WEATHER: The UNCA Atmospheric Sdence department
provides this information to the campus community each
in the Blue Banner.
^Hday; Partly cloudy with scattered showers. High in
« the mid-50s and low in the low-40s.
S«^tupday: Partly cloudy with a high near 50 and a low in
o the low 30s. . , . XI. T cn^
Sunday: Increasing clouds with a high in the low 50s
and a low. in the mid 30s.
Johnston cites
job slowdown
By Paul Brock
Despite conflicting re
ports, college graduates
should not expect a boom in
the job market in the next
few years, according to David
Johnston, career planning and
placement counselor at UNCA.
And while some of those
market studies report that
many employers are looking at
liberal arts majors more fa
vorably, many companies still:
tend to prefer graduates with
technical and business de
grees, said the employee re
lations manager of a local
company.
Johnston, who said that the
most reasonable outlook for
today's job market is slow
growth in most areas, pre
dicts an increase of only 1.5
percent to 3 percent in the
number of jobs offered to
college graduates this
spring.
This increase will occur
mostly in fields such as en
gineering, finance and health
care, said Johnston. The
areas of business, management
and sales will remain level
in the number of jobs offered
or perhaps experience only a
slight increase.
One of the reasons that
Johnston cited for this slow
growth in the job market is
that the baby boom generation .
is already employed in many *
management positions.
Dr. J.B. Simmons, owner and
manager of Snelling and Snel-
ling, an Asheville employment
agency, agreed with Johnston.
Simmons also sees the job
market as only moderate right
now.
He said that the Asheville
area job market in particular
may be difficult for college
graduates to enter. Because
of the population of this
area and the structure of its
job market, there is little
chance of a hot field deve
loping in Asheville.
Another drawback to the lo
cal scene is the salary of
fered for entry level posi
tions. Simmons said that
salaries are better in larger
cities such as Atlanta, Char
lotte and Greenville.
Larry Peters, employee re
lations manager for the Flet
cher division of Rockwell
International noted that
technical degrees are seen as
more desirable than non-tech-
nical degrees by most employ
ers. Peters said that his
company would hire a graduate
with some sort of technical
degree before hiring someone
with a non-technical degree.
He added that if an appli
cant has prior experience
with another company, the
type of degree would not be
as important to Rockwdl, but
they would still prefer a
technical or business degree.
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(Photo by Caseiy ' .luss)
SPRING m FEBROABY? Fret .T»i
Jackie Ddk took advant _ ntj
the warm weather to do so ^
studymg outdoors near the
Carmichael Building.