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Job market looking brighter
Report says more
firms set to hire
BY KATHRYN ROEBUCK
STAFF WRITER
In a Michigan State University
report released Monday, 60 per
cent of companies questioned said
they expect to increase the number
of people they hire or hire at the
same level in 2004.
The report, written by Philip
Gardner, director of MSU’s
Collegiate Employment Research
Institute, stated that these increas
es will lead to heavier job recruit
ment on college campuses and a
larger job market for college stu
dents graduating in the spring.
“We saw a turnaround in the
overall direction of the labor mar
ket for college graduates," Gardner
said. “Last year there wasn’t a real
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first time this year.
Lin, who is Chinese, will mix the
traditional “cover-dish dinner”
with elements of both her
Southern lifestyle and her heritage
by serving green bean casserole,
mashed potatoes with gravy and
traditional Chinese dishes.
“I'm just looking forward to eat
ing an all-good, home-cooked,
wholesome meal and catching up
with friends and family,” she said.
But while some students on
campus still are anticipating their
Thanksgiving meals, junior
Colleen Carbott and 13 of her
friends from UNC-CH and N.C.
State University celebrated the
holiday at school and cooked their
own Thanksgiving dinner Sunday
night. The repast featured biscuits,
com bread dressing and macaroni
and cheese.
“More than the food, our dinner
had a Southern influence because
everyone brought their own family
recipe to the table,” said Carbott, a
communication studies major
from Charlotte.
“Some people brought recipes
based on the food their grandpar
ents used to grow on their farms.”
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Cramer and Reitman for defama
tion.
Cramer said he believes every
thing he has said is true.
“We expect them to be sanc
tioned for filing a frivolous law
suit,” Cramer said of the defama
tion suit.
Nakell said he and Merritt have
begun discussions about a possible
settlement.
On Friday, the Orange County
Superior Court ruled that APS was
in violation of a previous court
order requiring that Cramer and
Reitman be allowed to inspect and
HYATT
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Professor Bob McMurray cited
Hyatt’s ability to get along with fac
ulty and students.
“As faculty marshal, you have to
get people to work together,"
McMurray said. “And he’s pretty
good at that.”
Hyatt said the faculty marshal
also has to be equipped to deal
with the unexpected.
A foul-up by May 1993 gradua
tion speaker Ted Turner threw the
ceremony off-track.
Scheduled to speak for about 18
minutes, the noted television per
sonality talked about trivial mat
ters for five or six minutes before
returning to his seat.
“I don’t want to say he blab
bered, but that’s what it was,” Hyatt
said.
Accompanied by actress Jane
Fonda, to whom he was married at
the time, Turner advised graduates
men and women alike that
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change in direction because the
market was stabilizing.”
More openings will be created in
retail, finance and hospitality serv
ices than in manufacturing or tech
nological fields.
“The economy has picked up
enough to create a need for people
and a need for more jobs,” Gardner
said. “But areas like (manufactur
ing) and technology are still grow
ing slowly and making adjust
ments, meaning they are not ready
for such growths.”
The job outlook for graduates is
improving, said Marcia Harris,
director of University Career
Services at UNC.
“I’m guessing that the job mar
ket will be up 10 to 15 percent from
last year, and last year was an
increase from the year before," she
said. “Our economy is constantly
improving and constantly moving
in the right direction.”
“This is the last
part of the country
where we tend
to take our food
very seriously
JIM FERGUSON, history professor
UNC history Professor Jim
Ferguson, who teaches an honors
food and culture course, said
Thanksgiving meals in the South
include more pork products and
place more of an emphasis on fresh
vegetables than other parts of the
country.
“This is the last part of the coun
try where we tend to take our food
very seriously,” Ferguson said.
He attributes these qualities to
the “very agrarian” culture of the
South, characterized by its history
of growing produce and raising
turkeys.
“We identify ourselves by our
food,” Ferguson said.
“Being Southern is the closest
thing to an ethnicity without being
one."
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copy documents at APS.
The courts ruling states that
Cramer and Reitman must be
allowed access to the APS mem
bership list, accounting records
and financial statements by Dec. 1.
“If we do not get full compli
ance, our attorney has made it
clear that he’s going back to court
to ask for sanctions,” Cramer said.
The ruling also requires APS to
pay some of the plaintiffs’ attorney
fees and other expenses.
“This case has been an exercise
in paper-slinging,” Merritt said at
the court hearing Friday.
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the key to success was to obtain a
good wife like his own.
Another challenging situation
came about at the 1996 winter
Commencement, during which
communication studies Professor
Michael Dyson used explicit rap
lyrics in order to express a specific
point.
“True, he was citing language,
but he used language that may well
have been inappropriate for the
occasion,” Hyatt said.
“That did not resonate well with
the audience.”
Hyatt, who has no say in the
speaker selection process, said
many offended people confronted
him afterward about why Dyson
was allowed to speak.
“I had more than several mem
bers of the crowd jump all over
me,” he said.
Aside from this isolated case,
Hyatt said, hostile feedback was a
rare occurrence in his position.
“Ninety-five percent of the
comments I received were posi-
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Harris said that the University is
responding to increasing job open
ings by contacting new businesses,
including those previously involved
in campus recruitment.
“We have begun contacting new
employers and posting many busi
nesses on the Web who cannot
come to our campus for recruit
ment,” she said. “We’re encourag
ing students to register their
resumes and hiring information
online.”
Gardner said the change in the
job market is a tremendous turn
around from previous years, but
will affect mostly those applying
for jobs at larger companies.
“The small companies will pick
up people looking for work w r ho
have higher degrees of education
and who have more experience,” he
said.
Harris said many smaller com
panies are hiring but do not come
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Chuck Edwards, district engi
neer for Alamance and Orange
counties, said that NCDOT is tak
ing steps to ensure that lanes
remain open and that it will halt
construction along main highways.
Travelers can visit
http://www.ncdot.org to obtain
information about roads, large
delays and accidents.
While UNC is scheduled to close
at 1 p.m., many out-of-state stu
dents have decided to leave cam
pus earlier to avoid delays.
Joy Diggs, a senior from
Houston and co-chairwoman of
the Out-of-State Students
Association, scheduled the shuttles
to Raleigh-Durham International
Airport for students flying home
for the holiday.
Although she will not be going
home for Thanksgiving, Diggs
said, leaving extremely early in the
morning is the best way to travel.
“When you fly later in the day,
tickets cost more,” Diggs said.
Diggs said that the last time she
left late during the day, she had to
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junior who lives in Cobb Residence
Hall. “Everyone on the hall is
affected."
There now are eight smoke-free
residence halls for students who
don’t want to live by smokers.
Conte said a major impetus behind
the policy is that it will create uni
formity throughout campus.
Payne added that it also would
improve fire safety.
Some smokers, such as fresh
man Michael Reklis, who lives in
Avery Residence Hall, are not
happy with the possibility of not
even being able to smoke on their
balconies. “I think that’s stupid," he
said. “Smoking outside doesn't
affect anyone. This is North
tive,” he said.
Despite the occasional problems
during ceremonies, Hvatt said, his
last Commencement experience as
faculty marshal w'as one of his
more outstanding ones.
The May 2003 graduation,
which featured well-known televi
sion personality Bill Cosby as the
keynote speaker, went smoothly,
he said.
“The students were well
behaved, the faculty was high in
attendance, the crowd was interac
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to college campuses, which makes
them harder to find.
“We post a lot of information
about smaller companies on our
Web site, but students have to
make more of an effort to look for
them,” she said. “The advantage of
looking at the site and these small
er companies is that they are
specifically for our graduates, so
students’ odds are much higher.”
Although the demand for grad
uates with a bachelor’s degree is
larger than the demand for gradu
ates with advanced degrees, Harris
said, there are openings for every
body.
“Openings will be found in more
specific fields like computer sci
ence and economics and not in
general fields where many compa
nies offer education courses.”
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wait three or four hours for her
connecting flight.
RDU spokeswoman Mindy
Hamlin said the airport is taking
steps to ensure safe and convenient
travel for flyers.
The airport expects to see about
200,000 people come and go
between Monday and the begin
ning of next week.
Hamlin said there will be “holi
day helpers” throughout the termi
nals to offer advice or aid travelers.
“Security levels are at highest
possible,” Hamlin said.
The U.S. Transportation
Security Administration also has
committed additional staff to help
RDU during peak hours.
RDU recently opened a new’
parking garage that will allow pas
sengers to pay their parking fees
while in the terminal, reducing the
time it takes to exit the airport.
But the most important tip for
travelers is to arrive at least two
hours before the departure of their
flights, especially today, Sunday
and Monday.
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Carolina w'here do they think we
are, New'York?”
Sophomore and nonsmoker
Lydia Efird said that she likes liv
ing in the smoke-free Hinton
James North Residence Hall but
that she isn’t sure smoking should
be banned from all buildings.
“I don’t like the cloud of smoke
outside buildings." she said. “But
smokers should be able to smoke.”
Rick Bradley, director of infor
mation and communications for
the housing department, said the
biggest challenge the policy will
face is creating a place for smokers.
“We don’t want to infringe on
smokers’ rights, and we don’t w'ant
to make judgments.”
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tive and the rain held off.”
Hyatt, who is also a retired
National Guard colonel, said he
has enjoyed carrying out his duties
immensely, difficult or not.
“At all times, it’s been an honor
and a privilege to be faculty mar
shal at this great University and to
lead the most distinguished facul
ty in the United States as we honor
our graduates and ourselves."
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Atkinson and Nikita Bell led a sec
ond-half surge, and No. 13 North
Carolina defeated Kentucky 75-59
on Tuesday in front of 6,223 at
Rupp Arena.
Atkinson led the Tar Heels (3-0)
with 17 points on eight-of-12
shooting, and Bell scored 16
points.
Atkinson,
who also led the
team in assists
with four, scored
13 points in the
second half and
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Bell added 12 after the break.
Atkinson also grabbed 10
rebounds, eight of which came on
the defensive end, and Bell con
tributed five boards for the Tar
Heels.
North Carolina went on a 9-1
run midway through the second
half to open a 53-35 lead. Bell had
six points during the spurt,
Atkinson three.
The Tar Heels continued their
tough defense, holding the
Wildcats (2-1) to 31.4 percent
shooting in the game.
Tar Heel opponents are shoot
ing a combined 27 percent this
season. Kentucky managed to keep
the game competitive in the first
half despite missing its first 14
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North Carolina center Candace
Sutton finished with 12 points, 11
rebounds and six blocked shots.
Freshman guard Ivory Latta,
who began her Tar Heel career
with 17 points and 18 points
against St. Francis (Pa.) and
Hofstra, respectively, scored only
nine points against the Wildcats
and dished out four assists.
Camille Little, who led the Tar
Heels with 19 points and 13
rebounds against St. Francis,
scored 10 points but grabbed only
three rebounds against Kentucky.
The Tar Heels shot 50.8 percent
as a team but struggled from
behind the 3-point line, making
only three of 14 shots during the
game. Little, Latta and Leah
Metcalfhit the Tar Heels’ only 3-
pointers.
Sara Potts had 16 points and
nine rebounds for the Wildcats.
SeSe Helm added 15 points and
nine boards.
Shambrica Jones scored 11
points and grabbed six rebounds
for Kentucky, but she fouled out in
the second half.
North Carolina led 38-28 at
halftime and held its biggest edge
at 64-43 with 7:15 remaining.
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