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4fThe Daily Tar HeelFriday, January 28 1983 Computer can help seniors plan, locate ideal career choices By SHERRI GOODSON Staff Writer During February, UNC students can find out which career is best for them through the use of a computer instead of a guidance counselor, parents or a fortuneteller. A computer-based System of Interactive Guidance and In formation designed to help college students make career and educational decisions on a personal basis, has been loaned to the Student Development and Counseling Center in Nash Hall for February. ' SIGI (Pronounced Siggy) helps students find careers related to their values, skills and interests through a four-hour pro gram, and also helps students, plan course schedules needed for those careers, said Jane Spanel, assistant director for UNC career counseling. ' "It helps students assess what's important in a career she said. ' : The SIGI program is divided into six stages that use per sonal information to guide a student to a career that is well suited to him. These stages are: values, locate, compare, prediction, planning and strategy. First, the value stage allows each student to rate the impor tance of such factors as high income, security, independence ' and leisure. Then; in the locate stage SIGI lists occupations that meet the specifications found in the values stage, Spanel said. While the compare stage allows the student to get more in formation on occupations of interest or to delete occupations that are of no interest, the prediction stage determines the stu dent's chances of making high grades in various preparatory courses for occupations. The planning stage is usually programmed for the college using SIGI, and suggests educational course programs for rm:?, lip" .. - each occupation. Spanel said, however, that SIGI was not set up specifically for UNC since its use is temporary. In the strategy stage SIGI evaluates occupations according to the rewards they offer and how easy they are to enter. The computer, which is used almost like a bank machine, gives students definite feedback about what is important to them and provides a computer printout of this information for students to keep, Spanel said. , Glen Martin, assistant director for individual counseling and coordinator of training at Nash Hall, said SIGI was a popular part of a permanent computer-assisted guidance pro gram at Ohio State University, where he worked as an intern at the Counseling and Consultation Service last year. "Students seem to really enjoy it maybe it's the novelty," Martin said. "We had waiting lines up to three and four weeks in advance at Ohio State." Spanel learned about SIGI in a computer guidance pro grams workshop, she said. The computer system has been loaned to Nash Hall by Radio Shack and the Educational Testing Service in Princeton free of charge. Spanel said the University had hoped to obtain an per manent SIGI system, and estimated its cost between $5,500 to $7,000. "It's expensive, and we don't have the budget for it nowj but we're always hopeful." Only 35 to 40 students will be able to use the computer next month, and all interested students should preregister at Nash Hall before Tuesday, Feb. 1 by calling 962-2175, Spanel said Students must be willing to commit one hour per week to complete the program, she added. The four-hour process is divided into one-hour sessions each week for one month! Counselor assistance is available, and students are given a prf and post-SIGI questionnaire. Technical wizardry redeems boring plot CAMPUS CALENDAR Compile ky Janet Otson r,TJrn Vfl nxoi P- 00Po-. win to priced. Al MwoufwiCTte mart be lathed to 25 word and cm only ma for two diw. By JEFF GRO VE Arts Editor The most unusual film to be released in this year's Christmas rush would have to be The Dark Crystal. The film, a labor of love for Muppet creator Jim Henson, was six years in the making because it uses no human actors Instead, Henson relies on sopmsncated, ultra realistic puppets as characters.. They make for fascinating entertainment despite the movie's twice-told storyline. r The Dark Crystal is set on a distant planet ruled by the evil Skeksis, a race of vulture-like lizards. They derive their power from the energy of the Dark Crystal, which had been benevolent until a misguided experiment cracked it a . thousand years earlier.- The planet's three suns are due to align soon, and this would energize the Crystal and render the Skeksis invulnerable. There is an ancient prophecy, though, that a member of the Gelfling race will repair the Crystal in time to destory the Skeksis. Con sequently, the Skeksis have tried to kill all the Gelflings. Unknown to the Skeksis, however, two Gelflings, a male named Jen and a female named Kira, have survived the holocaust and are racing against time to repair the Dark Crystal. If this good-versus-evil struggle sounds familiar, it should. It is the classic "quest" story in Western literature. Jen is the brave but naive hero assigned to destroy evil, Kira is the wise and beautiful woman who aids him, and the Skeksis are his seeminelv unbeatable foes The story is as old as Homer's Odyssey and Review ZBT gives shuttle service second chance today's AcnvrriEs Dr. Marci Ory will speak on "AdradBt Edg la Rewarca on Aging" at noon in 231 School of Public Health. The African Student Organization will hold its monthly meeting at 7:30 p.m. in the Carolina Union. A slide presenta tion and short film will be shown and folk music will be per formed. There will be a MoodmobOe from noon to 5 p.m. in the Morehead Cellar (basement of Cobb Dorm), sponsored by the Morehead Confederation. La Tertnlla: Todoj estan tnenvenidot para drvertirse a Us 4 p.m. en d Upper Deck. Dr. Peter Mark, African Studies, will speak on Senegambia Masking Traditions as Evidence of Social History at 3 p.m. in the Carolina Union. Death and Dying: The Physician's PerspetUye will be shown ' at noon in the Conference room on the second floor of the Health Sciences Library. The UNC Women's Citw Team encourages you to join us at 6 a.m. Monday through Friday on Fetzer Field and at 8 a.m. Saturday. Call Mo at 942-3765 for information. jf COMING EVENTS . ' "5 New AIESEC members: Don't forget the training session at noon Sunday in the Carolina Union. AQ are welcome and en couraged. . UNC's Summer Immenioa Program in French at Cfeicooiimi, Quebec will meet for information andor registration on Mon day, Jan. 31 at 4 p.m. in Toy Lounge, 4th floor of Dry Hall. Please be there application deadline is March 1.. . The Grail Valkyries will bold a mandatory meeting at 7 p.m. Sunday in the Carolina Union. See the daily schedule for the room number. Nominations will be accepted. The Carolina Gay Association will sponsor a fund-raising dance at 9 p.m. Sunday at After Dark (beside Brendle's on the Durham-Chapd Hill Boulevard). WVC Circle K will meet at 7:30 p.ov Monday in the Carolina Uniffh. Lots is happening; it is important to attend. Bring T-shirt rful pancake money. Siiitj&ffl Jsiiiiii-j, CHEC, (CootractptiTt Health Education CSnic), now meeting Mondays at 4 p.m. in the Health Education Section of SHS, is geared to help UNC students to be responsible partners in matters concerning sexuality. Speech Anxiety Group starts at 7 p.m. Monday. Screening interview is required. Contact the Counseling Center, Nash Hall at 962-2175 for registration and additional information. AIESEC will meet at 5 pjn. Monday. Everyone must at tend. Nominations for Tuesday's election will be discussed. Lambda, Carolina Gay Association's newsletter, has an im portant meeting at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the CCA office to plan the February issue. New staffers are welcome. . Dr. Martin Beyer, a senior policy specialist in the drinking water and sanitation section of UNICEF, wili speak on "Water for the World: What Next?" at noon Monday in 331 Rosenau Hall. The Order of the Bel Tower will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday in 221 Greenlaw Hall. The Gaardiaat of light and Time will meet at 8 p.m. Satur day in the Carolina Union for a special AnniversaryBaker's Birthday Party. AH Dr. Who fans welcome. P- Delta Chapter of the Omega Pst PW Fraternity would like to invite everyone to the 1983 Que Cabaret Saturday at the Hotel Europa. AB candidates submitting petitions for the Feb. t elections are required to attend a meeting at 5 p.m. Saturday in the Carolina Union. The Clef Hangers will hold open auditions at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Psi Mu Alpha room upstairs in Hill Hall. Call Wylie at 933542 or Bill at 96S-195 for an appointment. The Sexuality Educatioa and Counseling Service (SECS) will i hold a mandatory meeting for all counselors at 7 p.m. Sunday : in the Carolina Union. There will be a New Jewish Agenda meeting Sunday. For : more information, call 967-4311. , UNC Cycling Crab members interested in discussing next year's budget will meet at 7 p.m. Sunday in the upstairs lounge of the Carolina Union. -v Rides for the UNC Cycling Club meet all p.m. Sunday at Carr Mill. AH cyclists are welcome. 'Treasures for the Ackland: Recent Acquisitions" opens Sunday at the Ackland Art Museum. These include Europe, Japan and India master photographs. ITEMS OF INTEREST '"Great Choral Masterpieces," a special-interest class begins Feb. 3. Registration must be completed one week prior to the beginning of class. Attention Seaiors: Were you in Phi Eta Sigma in 1979? If so, they you are eligible for a number of graduate scholarships. :-Stopr 306 SteeteBundktg for information. - - Ti Crafl Valkyrie are .now, accepting nominations for ' " selection into the order.' Applications are available at the Union Desk. Deadline is Feb. 11 at 5 p.m. The Lawrence Whitfield Travefing Fellowship is awarded annually to a returning undergraduate to aid in summer travel. Applications are available at the Campus Y, the Carolina Union and the Wesley Foundation. Nominations for the Society cf Jaiuts are due by Feb. 18 and should be submitted to 103-A Carr Building. Extra forms are available at Carr or the Union Desk. NTE (National Teacher Examination), Core Battery, March 5: Registration must be received by Jan. 31 with appropriate fee. Applications are available in 101 Nash Han. Please note that core and Specialty Tests now are on different dates. By JEFF SLAGLE Staff Writer A bus-shuttle service for campus residents reinstated by the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity has attracted significantly more riders than it did two years ago, ZBT spokesmen said this week. For a recent all-campus party, the ZBTs chartered a bus from Chapel Hill Transit for about $25 per hour, and set up a 9 p.m.-to-midnight route encompassing the two-mile distance from several dormitories to their Finley Golf Course Road fraternity house. In 1981, the ZBTs tried the same thing, but a poor turnout for the ser vice convinced the fraternity that the idea was ahead of its time. Brian Hunnicutt, ZBT member and president of the Interfraternity Council, said his fraternity gave the service another chance for two reasons to attract more people to the party and to reduce the number of people who might drive home drunk. The crackdown on drunken curving may have accounted for some of :Sigil-up system tries to cut lines the increased ridership, ZBT member Ken Boxer and Hunnicutt agreed. Martin Iindsey of Pi Kappa Phi fraternity, also located on Finley Golf Course Road, said that his fraternity would probably not institute bus ser vice for its all-campus parties because students were responsible enough not to drink too much if they had to drive. - The ZBTs used the service because "they felt state and local efforts to stop drunken driving might hurt the attendance at their parties," Iindsey said. This in turn would injure the ZBT rush and consequently, the ability of the house itself, he added. Boxer agreed that the bus was good publicity for the ZBTs because of the banners hung along its sides and because people thought it was a "fun idea to just get on a bus and go to a party." The service probably also helped many students who were unfamiliar with that section of Chapel Hill to find the fraternity house, he said. 1 irn i! i . .... . . . - iktpa nm puuee saia iney inougnt tne nae service was a good idea. crops up in such diverse works as Conrad's Heart of Darkness and Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, yith no new variables, the story is . boring because everyone has heard it before. What makes the movie so fascinating is its technical wizardry. Every penny of its $40 million budget shows on the screen. From walking trees to singing rivers, The Dark Crystal nevers ceases to pour out one meticu lous detail after another. The Skeksis castle, for example, is no clean, drafty stone fortress. Its walls are slimy, and tiny furry things scuttle about in the shadows. And, while Jen and Kira remain rather flat characters, physically reminiscent of Barbie and Ken dolls, the supporting cast is rich in ' diverse attitudes and motives. The emperor of the Skeksis is a power-mad despot. His outcast Chamberlain is all anxiety as he tries to get back in the Skeksis good graces. Kira's pet, Fizzgig, a two-jawed ball of fur with the temper of a Doberman pinscher, provides the requisite comic relief while remaining fiercely . loyal and protective. . But the real gem of characterization is Aughra, a sorceressastrologerjunk collector who aids Jen by giving him a missing sliver of the Dark Crystal. An enigmatic figure, Aughra has a habit of removing her one eye from its socket and leaving it lying around to spy on people. The old crone is both funny and frightening with her raspy voice and arthritic movements. Jim Henson and co-difector Frank Oz (creator of both Miss Piggy and Yoda) greatly enrich the film, giving life to conceptual de signer Brian Fraud's outlandish but believable creatures. Their work demands a second view ing because everything cannot be taken in at one show. David Odell's script is another matter. It is peppered with every cliche in the book, and only once manages to parody the banalities of most fantasy films instead of falling victim to them. When Kira rescues Jen from an almost hopeless situation by sprouting wings and fly ing him away, Jen says, "Wings! don't have wings." Kira matter-of-factly replies, "Of course not. You're a boy." Despite the unrelieved triviality of most of the script, the characters and settings combine to make The Dark Crystal well worth seeing. By LYNN PEITHMAN t , Special to the DTH - "It's almost Lke it's harder to get interviews than it is basketball tickets," said Mcia Har- ris, director of the University Career Planning ; and Placement Service, . For the past few weeks, UNC students have been waiting in line since 3 a,m. every day out side the Hanes Hall placement 'service to sign' up Tor job interviews with local and national' , businesses. ' ' ' Because of this inconvenience, the place i iment service is changing-the interview system ' , beginning Monday. "The current system is really just insane," ; Harris said, "That's the only way to describe it. We feel really sorry for the students." - The new system will combine a lottery with - a ranking system. First, the placement service . will post a list of companies coming to inter view at UNC during the following two weeks. , ;Then students can pick the three they would ;Jike most to interview witind submit their list to the placement office. The office win draw students names from a lottery and assign the interviews according to the stu dents' own references. . The following employers and graduate school representatives will be on 'campus to discuss job - opportunities and academicjprosrams on the dates indicated. Students can sign up for arpointments with these representaa'ves'cight days ahead of the visit iii the UNC Office of Career Planning & Placement Services, 21 1 Hanes Hall. A resume is necessary at the time a student signs up for an interview. This is put in the folder accompanying the signup sheet, . - - , Harris said she hoped . the new system - 2e would be fair to all students, and that it should help "to eliminate the need to wait (m line) in the wee hours of the morning." The new, system will. be much harder on the staff? but we feel it's not fair for the students to wait so long," Harris said. The r.isht before the service posted the sign-' : up. sheet-for fcicniews wjih Wachovia rink,', ' students' 'began ""waiting at' 3 a.m.', 'Harris said there was "a steady stream of students" - about 200 waiting, "It was a seven-hour line, just continuous." : ' . In the past, students began waiting at 5 or 6 a.m., two or three hours before the office opened. "It seems that it gets earlier ' and earlier,"-Harris said. This past week, there, . were 30 to AO students waiting in line every day, she added.. , w w Monday, Feb. 7 Tuesday, Feb, 8 Wtdr.K Feb; 9 Thursday, Feb. 10 Friday, Feb. 11 Orgarlzalion - National Security Agency First Union National Bank Davison's Arthur Andersen & Company ' Duke Power Company Irving Trust Company .W. S. PqcV. :s & Ccrrpany . V :Uz::z LL'-:l-i V" ' V "' Cumberland County Schools Data General Corporation K-Mart Corporation - Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. Scovill Inc. Joseph T Ryerson & Son, Inc. Chesterfield County Public Schools Amdahl Corporation Camp Cheerio . Arthur Andersen & Company Westvaco Corporation RVI Home Care Lithonia Lighting - ' 'y'Y -V':v :-:'":::". r. : . : :"' ."A. ;V -V6 "Li J .1 . rg Public Schdoh. - Keller Mfg. Co., Inc." ' S C. Natic:-! C. k (Charleston) ; S.C. National Bank (Columbia) ! 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