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8 Tuesday, May 2, 2000 NADER From Page 3 industry. Enloe said she was not sure what spe cific issues would be addressed during Nader’s speech. “This is an opportunity for him to speak about his views of social justice and economic responsibility." Stuber said Nader would speak about waste from the Shearon-Harris Nuclear Power Plant, urban sprawl, conserving the land, the World Trade Organization and the International Monetary Fund. Chimi Boyd, interim associate direc tor of the Campus Y, said the group brought Nader to campus because he promoted its mission. “We thought that he is an advocate for the rights of consumers and a watchdog and that he expresses our mission, which is “the pursuit of social justice through the cultivation of pluralism,’” he said. “We felt like he needed to be heard and that people needed to know ways to get involved in finding ways to pro mote social justice in society.” The University Editor can be reached at udesk@unc.edu. MAJORS From Page 3 tising or finance, but those fields involved two different professional schools. He opted for a third choice - com munication studies, the fifth most pop ular major on campus. “I knew it would offer management skills I could use in the business world and expose my creative side for adver tising,” he said. In May,Jennings will follow his inter est in finance to New York to work in listed equity trading sales at ING Bank. He credits his decision to his choice of major. “Communications let me explore all my assets,” he said. Assistant communications Professor Michael Waltman recommends paths like Jennings’ for all students. Waltman said he suggested students work back ward from their potential careers to their courses of study. “When I advise students, I really encourage them not to think of what the degree itself is going to do for them,” Waltman said. “I tell them to think about what they want to be doing after graduation and structure their experi ence here to get them to that place.” Marcia Harris, director of UNC Career Services, said many liberal arts majors were even less focused in their course of study than Jennings and Waltman suggested. RETIREMENT INSURANCE MUTUAL FUNDS TRUST SERVICES TUITIDN FINANCING TIAA>CREF provides financial solutions to last a lifetime. Building your assets is one thing. Figuring out how those assets can provide you with a comfortable retirement is quite another. At TIAA-CREF, we can help you with both. You can count on us not only while you're saving and planning for retirement, but in retirement, too. Just call us. 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Jim Hodges signed a bill Monday that offi cially institutes a Martin Luther Kingjr. holiday for state workers in South Carolina, but the NAACP criticized the measure because it also creates a Confederate Memorial Day. South Carolina became the last state in the nation to fully recognize the King holiday as a day off for all state workers. Before Monday, state employees could “For the most part, students in the lib eral arts study fields that interest them and are not so focused on their career direction as an undergraduate,” Harris said. “You can do so many different things. Majors don’t necessarily relate to a career path." Junior Joanna Clarke-Sayer stumbled into her history major, which is the 10th most popular on campus. She’s also majoring in French and plans to apply to law school next year. “I wound up choosing history because I really enjoyed my classes and took a lot of them,” Clarke-Sayer said. “My roommate did the same thing, then we found out we had enough credits to be de facto majors.” In contrast, students in professional schools like business, pharmacy or jour nalism go into directly related fields 90 to 100 percent of the time, Harris said. Although their degrees aren’t profes sional, biology majors also tend to stay within the field, said biology faculty member Jean DeSaix. She said many majors entered health professions, including medicine, den tistry and veterinary care. Some head out to work on environmental issues. And then there are the exceptions. “One became a plumber," DeSaix said. Although it’s rare, she said some stu dents chose biology without intending to be a biologist in any sense. “Some always know they’re going to go into something unrelated,” she said. 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Hodges said the compromise that also made the Confederate holiday, May 10, a day off for all state workers, was necessary for the bill to pass the Legislature, which is embroiled in debate over whether to remove the Confederate flag from the Statehouse dome. “In my judgment, passing a King holiday is a very important step for South Carolina, and that if I did not sign it, chances are that we might not get one next year,” Hodges said. “In fact, we might not get one five years from now.” The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is urg ing people to boycott South Carolina until the Confederate flag comes down from the Statehouse. James Gallman, president of the NAACP’s state chapter, asked Hodges to veto the King holiday bill. “Frankly, if I remember my history, we celebrate Memorial Day on the last Monday in May,” Gallman said. “I “But biology is what interests them. It’s what they choose to study and get their degree in.” 1999 graduate Julie Munoz also has taken a convoluted path from her biol ogy degree to her career. She said that like many freshmen, she picked biology because it interested her and filled her premedical requirements. But she knew by the end of her fresh man year that medicine wasn’t for her. Asa sophomore, she applied and was accepted to a master’s in education pro gram that she entered after graduating last May. She’ll receive her master’s degree to teach high-school science in June, then she’ll head off to teach English as a sec ond language in Japan for two years. Her plans baffled her biology class mates, she said. “When I told someone I was going into teaching, they would either look at me funny or give me a ‘You’re such a martyr’ speech,” Munoz said. She said that unlike those classmates, she chose a broad range of courses with a teaching career in mind. Not only did she survey multiple areas of biology, but she also took geology, astronomy and humanities courses. “I didn’t narrow myself down and didn’t bog myself down with the notion I was a biology major,” she said. “I got a great liberal arts education here.” .. The State & National Editor can be reached at stntdesk@unc.edu. folltis for COn *ui r tlti an don’t see why there should be another Memorial Day.” State Sen. Robert Ford, a black Democrat who sponsored the bill, said King wanted the races to come togeth er and would have supported both hol idays. The new law eliminates South Carolina’s Election Day holiday and the floating holiday for state offices. The Legislature approved the bill last month after a bitter fight in the Republican-controlled House. The bill failed on its first try and was approved only after lawmakers attached amend ments that protected Confederate mon uments and proclaimed the Confederate flag is not a racist symbol. Microsoft Stock Makes Rebound After Dive NEW YORK - Microsoft stock rose on Monday as Wall Street painted the government’s bid to split the software maker into two companies as both unre alistic and maybe even beneficial for investors. In trading on the Nasdaq Stock Market, Microsoft rose to $73.43 per share, a gain of $3.68 from the stock’s close Friday afternoon, before the Justice Department asked a federal judge to break up the company as pun ishment for monopolistic practices. Under the plan, also recommended by 17 states that filed antitrust com plaints against Microsoft, one of the companies created by the breakup would produce Windows, the comput er operating system whose dominance INSTITUTIONS From Page 3 Wake Tech are in this program. But Bob Raines, co-op director at Wake Tech, said the lure of higher aver age starting salaries for community col lege graduates also attracted students. He said many of the students were four-year college graduates returning to get a technical degree. Raines explained that these college graduates were attend ing community colleges because they were not successful in finding a well paying job with their major. He said, “The combination (of their degree and a community college education) puts them in a good-paying job.” Considering the potential starting salary of a graduate with a technical degree, the cost of attending a two-year vocational school is low. For only $568 per academic year, a North Carolinian can attend Wake Tech. After a two-year program, Raines said graduates aver aged a salary of $39,000 in their first year as a computer networker, $38,000 as a computer programmer or $35,000 as an automation/robotics technician. In comparison, a UNC-Chapel Hill graduate, after paying an in state tuition of $2,314 per academic year, received a median salary of $28,347 in the first year of employment, according to a UNC General Administration survey conducted last summer. At smaller, four-year liberal arts schools in the UNC system, the median starting salary was even lower: $26,363 at East Carolina University, $25,014 at UNC-Wilmington, $24,462 at Appalachian State University and $23,078 at UNC-Asheville. This salary trend continues at UNC schools with more of a technical empha sis similar to that found at community colleges, as students at those institutions also are graduating with more competi tive starting salaries. UNC-Charlotte, N.C. Agricultural & Technical, N.C. State and Winston- Salem State universities all had median starting salaries of more than $30,000. N.C. State’s median starting salary is UNCENSUS UNCENSUS UNCENSUS Attention: First Year Undergraduates!! Check your e-mail! You will find an invitation to join Student Affairs in painting a clear picture of the UNC-Chapel Hill experience. All it takes is 20-25 minutes to complete the CSEQ (College Student Experience Questionnaire), a web survey hosted by Indiana University. Your contributions will help us better serve you and other students in years to come. Completion will enter you in a drawing for one of ten $50.00 gift certificates to UNC-CH Student Stores. Do it now!! We thank you in advance. Any questions? Please call 966-4045. UNCENSIJS UNCENSUS UNCENSIJS "I'm a Tar Heel born, I'm a Tar Heel bred!" * o c *4? Find out the true meaning of these words this Friday in the DTH's Special Graduation Edition, was used to smother competition. The other new company would make popular software applications such as Microsoft Office and run Microsoft’s Internet operations including the MSN online service and network of Web sites. Many legal and industry experts crit icized the plan as too severe, unwork able, and unlikely to pass muster when challenged by Microsoft in appeals court. Either way, the appeals process and final resolution of the case is expected to take at least two years and Microsoft may represent an attractive investment as one or two companies, Wall Street analysts said. Meanwhile, Microsoft on Sunday launched a media campaign including TV commercials featuring chief execu tive Steve Ballmer and full-page ads in many major newspapers, detailing its position and warning of the impact a breakup would have. The software giant has until May 10 to respond to the government’s propos al to split the company into two rivals. Microsoft said it will respond to the deadline but made it clear it needs a major extension to prepare for a related hearing scheduled just two weeks later. White House Refuses To Reveal Documents WASHINGTON - The White House is raising the possibility it may invoke executive privilege to keep Congress from seeing some documents in the controversy over missing e-mail messages that are under subpoena, doc $31,029, but in-state tuition of $2,414 is still much higher than at community col leges, keeping many students away. Jeremy Murdock, a technician at Buehler Motors in Cary, said he consid ered applying to N.C. State but went to Wake Tech because it was cheaper. With a recent promotion, Murdock said he now made almost $35,000 a year and was happy with his decision. Despite cases such as Murdock’s and other students that have benefited from technical degrees, most experts said the value of a four-year liberal arts would likely accrue more over time. Newlin said a UNC-CH degree would amount to more over a lifetime than a community college degree. High starting salaries reflect hot careers, Newlin said. “Take away this special comparison, and look at (salary) over time,” he said, “A (B.A. graduate) makes more over the course of a lifetime.” According to the U.S. Census Bureau's Web site, median salary increased with the level of education attained. Data from 1998 shows that a full-time, year-round worker over 25 makes $26,416 with a high school degree; $33,430 with a two-year degree; $42,695 with a B.A. degree; $51,085 with a master’s degree and $73,057 with a professional degree. These national trends show that lifetime earnings increase with higher levels of education, including graduate school, Newlin said. “I think you could assume the national trends would hold in North Carolina.” But for some students, graduate school might have lost appeal in recent years. Marcia Harris, director of UNC CH Career Services, said the decision to attend graduate school depended on the career field a student was pursuing. A computer science major, for exam ple, could make more than $50,000 after graduation, she said, adding that if the student went to graduate school, he or she could then earn a starting salary between $60,000 and $70,000. This dif ference in pay between an undergradu ate and graduate degree was not great enough to offset the costs of additional education and lost income, she said. On the other hand, Harris said stu ahr Daily (Ear Hrrl uments disclosed Monday. Meanwhile, investigators are poring over memos suggesting presidential aides could have begun retrieving tha missing messages more than a year ago to see if they should have been turned over to investigations ranging from Whitewater to impeachment. The White House sent the House Government Reform Committee, which is investigating the controversy, a one page list of documents it is not turning over under subpoena because they are considered covered by executive privi lege and attorney-client confidentiality. Among the documents on the list, which was obtained by The Associated Press, are handwritten notes by White House lawyers involving discussions they had with computer experts about the e-mail messages. The list says the notes “reflect men tal impressions” of the lawyers for the White House Office of Administration, which oversaw the e-mail system at the center of the controversy. The list is the first step in the exeat* tive privilege process. In past investigations, the White House has sometimes relented and turned over documents and in other cases they invoked the privileges to, shield memos. Meanwhile, the AP obtained an inter nal memo showing that presidential aides prepared to notify Congress as early as February 1999 about a glitch in their e-mail system and to begin re trie v-' ing thousands of unarchived messages' that might be relevant to investigators. Associated Press dents wanting to be lawyers or doctors did not have the luxury of bypassing graduate school, as these jobs required professional degrees. Undergraduates who major in fields such as history, psy chology or English and attend graduate school in their field are often not sure what they want to do, Harris said. Scott Dillin, a senior English and Asian Studies double major at UNC CH, said he was planning to attend law school because he had been unsuccess ful in his job search. “After interviewing, I felt like I would be trapped in a ‘Dilbert’ comic strip, with the cubicles and all,” he said. The salary (offered) definitely helped push me over the edge (to not accept the job).” Not all English and other liberal arts majors are interested in or can afford to go to graduate school, leaving them without a job. “Education never limits. It’s always nice to have additional degrees, but you can’t make the assump tion that in every field, a graduate degree is that valuable,” Harris said. • • Just as the decision to attend graduate school begins as an undergraduate, a student starts weighing options for col lege in high school. The majority of high-school students still apply to four year schools, despite the rising starting salaries of community college graduates. But guidance counselors said they informed high school seniors of every college option. “We try and let (the stu dents) see the whole range (of colleges) and weigh the pros and cons,” said Jim Craig, career development coordinator at South Mecklenberg High School. Jeff Reilly, a guidance counselor at Chapel Hill High School, said he advised students to research their options and discussed how community colleges were better for some students. “I personally wouldn’t argue with you (that community college salaries are more competitive today), especially in the computer industry,” Reilly said. “Nothing against Carolina, but certain students have an interest (in technical fields) and can earn a great deal.” The State & National Editor can be reached at stntdesk@unc.edu.
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