i
Vcathcr
BUS:
r tp jjqv. iiuiiooire s wa
Beat Dook
Parade
3 p.m. today
Today: Cloudy with a 50 percent
Chance of rain. Low 40. High 52.
Friday: Cloudy with a chance of rain.
Low in the 40s. High in the 50s.
showdown with a Cosnmymiist
o o o
Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Copyright 1 986 The Daily Tar Heel
Volume 94, Issue 105
Thursday, November 20, 1986
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
NewsSportsArts 962-0245
BusinessAdvertising 962-1163
Omni
IS: UNC's
Mm
Frntwure looks torigM for liberal arts majors, sfady says
By RACHEL STIFFLER
Staff Writer
If you want to advance rapidly in
your career and have high-level
management as your goal, a liberal
arts major may help more than a
vocational one, according to a new
study conducted by a dean at
Northwestern University.
The study found that employers
are beginning to look more closely
at liberal arts graduates. Several
hundred corporations were surveyed
to find out who prospective
employees were, their majors and
how much they were paid, said
William Lindquist, Northwestern
dean of placement and author of the
Northwestern Endicott Report.
"What we found is that in the past
few years there has been an improv
ing market in these corporations for
liberal arts graduates, he said.
Kodak pulls
holdings out
of S. Africa
From staff and wire reports
Eastman Kodak announced Wed
nesday it will withdraw from South
Africa and prohibit its subsidiaries
from supplying products to the
country. UNC has invested more in
Eastman Kodak than in any other
company doing business in South
Africa.
The photographic equipment
manufacturer cited a weak economy
made worse by apartheid as the
reason for withdrawal.
UNCs holdings in the company
19,300 shares total $1,027,725,
about one-sixth of the $6.2 million
of the University's South African
investment portfolio, according to
Wayne Jones, associate vice chan
cellor for business.
Jones said he didn't expect Kod
ak's stock price to fall because of
the withdrawal, so UNC should
remain fiscally sound. The Univer
sity has about $102 million total
investments, he said.
When asked, Jones said Kodak's
withdrawal could make total divest
ment more feasible because UNC
would lose less money by divesting.
Kodak is the seventh U.S. com
pany to announce recently that it is
leaving South Africa and the first
of them to halt sales of its products.
Kodak employs 466 people at five
sales and service facilities in South
Africa. Ian Guthrie, director of
employee information at the com
pany headquarters in Rochester,
N.Y., said 130 are black, 130 of
mixed race, about 20 Asian and the
rest white.
Colby Chandler, chairman and
chief executive officer, said in a
statement: "Our South African
business has been affected negatively
by weakness in the South African
economy. We also have no doubt
that the system of apartheid has
played a major role in the economy's
under-performance."
His statement promised
employees Ma generous separation
package" and re-employment
counseling.
Atex, Inc., a Kodak computer
manufacturing subsidary based in
See KODAK page 2
Campaign
By JENNIFER HARLEY
and DAN MORRISON
Staff Writers
Quitting cold turkey is what nearly
7 million Americans did last year and
what many more may try to do today
in the American Cancer Society's
Great American Smokeout.
"Our goal is to get one out of five
people to quit smoking for a day this
year," Wendy Scott, director of
public .information for the North
Carolina division of the American
Cancer Society, said. The Cancef
Society estimates that 235,000 of the
550,000 smokers in North Carolina
tried to quit smoking in 1985 and
an additional 25,000 may try again
this year.
The Great American Smokeout is
an upbeat, positive effort to encour
age smokers to give up cigarettes for
And the report is taken seriously.
About 30,000 businesses in the
United States will see it, he said.
"They (the corporations) con
trasted graduates from professional
schools to those from liberalarts who
are taking well-divided academic
programs," he said. "They think
liberal arts graduates probably have
better communications skills. They
write, speak and make oral presen
tations better."
Although liberal arts graduates
may have a tougher time finding
their first job, they tend to advance
to management positions much
more rapidly than more specialized
graduates, he said.
"One of the largest corporations
in the country looked at its
employees and said its liberal arts
graduates were more flexible, adap
table and educable," Lindquist said.
; r: t U XV
'V ; " X X X ;1 i
' ' X, X t I
; ' ' ' ' ' 7 ' V;; ' V
IX," ' ' - ' " WWXS"X
ir 'X ' v? Kx
jl :v - XX ' " , . 'M j X .
Bear back
Senior Seale Deschamps, an English major, of Tampa, Fla., Seale found this bear to be a
disguises her books in a koala book bag. A native "chic" item in Paris this past summer.
works to.
Passive smoking dangers 3
24 hours, Scott said. It is designed
to "support people who want to quit,
not to condemn or criticize smok
ers," Scott said.
The Smokeout is the Cancer
Society's largest media event of the
year, with 3,000 counties across the
nation participating in various
activities.
"Cold Turkey Specials," balloon
releases, adopt-a-smoker programs,
button and pamphlet distribution
and "Star Quest" drawings are
among the Smokeout activities
planned for Chapel Hill and Carr
boro. This week, volunteers are
staffing booths in the Pit and in front
of the post office distributing adopt-a-smoker
packages, Smokeout but
tons and stickers and suggestions on
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
"It was from these ranks of people,
who had been with the corporation
at least five years, that they found
most of their managers came from."
Dr. Cynthia Dessen, UNC direc
tor of interdisciplinary studies and
an arts and sciences adviser, agreed
that adaptability is very important
for graduates entering the job
market.
"I think students want to be
flexible," she said. "When there are
fewer jobs, you need to be able to
move from one to the other. I find
it interesting that at a time when the
media are saying that students are
more conservative, that more stu
dents are designing their own majors
and doing interdisciplinary majors.
That's surprising. It takes more
initiative to do that."
See LIBERAL page 2
extinguish
how to quit smoking.
Sledd Thomas, chairman of the
Smokeout for Orange County, said
its division asked local restaurants
to include on their menus today
"Cold Turkey Specials," a take-off
on the idea of quitting "cold turkey."
At the beginning of the Maryland
football game, the University's
Association of Nursing Students
released approximately 150 balloons
bearing messages encouraging smok
ers to quit.
Six UNC fraternities and soror
ities have agreed to adopt a smoker
for a day, helping that person kick
the habit with "encouragement kits"
filled with candy and other goodies.
"Star Quest" is a national theme
for this year's Smokeout. The idea
behind "Star Quest" is to recognize
as stars former smokers who kicked
Interdisciplinary studies expand horizons
By TOBY MOORE
Staff Writer
Increasing numbers of students
are foregoing vocational fields of
study for a major in the liberal
arts, causing changes in the
curriculums of many American
universities.
At UNC, majors in the liberal
arts are growing steadily. One
benefactor of this trend has been
UNC's interdisciplinary studies
department.
"I think we are seeing more
students who want to have more
control over their majors," said
Dr. Cynthia Dessen, director for
interdisciplinary studies.
Students undertaking a major
DTH Janet Jarman
smpkin;
the habit during the last 10 years.
The organization will have a
drawing among area residents who
have quit smoking during the past
10 years. Dinners at Landlubber's,
Pyewacket and Squid's restaurants
go to the winners.
Across the nation, different states
and cities add their own twists to
the Smokeout themes. In Boston,
people organized a contest encourag
ing former smokers to submit photos
of themselves doing things they can
do better since they have quit
smoking. In Gainesville, Fla., a
fashion show is being held in support
of the Smokeout and ex-smokers
who have quit during the jfast few
years will be awarded with prizes.
In San Francisco, comedy clubs will
See SMOKEOUT page 2
in this course of study choose
between three major fields, then
combine courses in these
departments.
Dessen said that the number of
students taking an interdiscipli
nary studies major has increased
from about 30 to about 50 over
the last few years.
Many of these students incor
porate business courses into their
major core.
"Interdisciplinary studies
allows you to pursue a more
marketable major," she said.
Dessen said that while interdis
ciplinary majors may take a while
longer to find a particular job,
they are often able to rise faster.
Gffounps call.
of
By JO FLEISCHER
Assistant University Editor
UNC's Endowment Board doesn't
expect to discuss full divestment
from companies doing business in
South Africa at today's meeting,
despite plans of the UNC Anti
Apartheid Support Group and the
College Republicans to attend the
meeting, board members said.
The board, which oversees UNC's
$102 million endowment fund, is
meeting today at 9:30 a.m. in the
North Parlor of the Carolina Inn.
Its meeting will be in closed executive
session until 2 p.m., said S. Bobo
Tanner, chairman of the endowment
board.
Tanner said he did not expect the
board to discuss full divestment
because the meeting's agenda was
full. "Not unless they have something
new to report," he said. "Something
that's not in the minutes of the board
already."
In open session at 2 p.m., the
definition committee's report will
clarify the meaning of "direct and
substantial business" as it pertains
to a UNC faculty council resolution
calling for certain investment guide
lines, said J. Clint Newton, chairman
of the committee. The resolution,
passed by the council last spring and
adopted by the endowment board,
prohibits UNC's investing in com
panies with "direct and substantial
business with the South African
government," Newton said.
Tanner, who sets the agenda for
the board, said he had heard no
requests from campus organizations
to be included on today's agenda.
But Student Body President
Bryan Hassel, a member of the
definition committee, cited, recent
South African pullouts by IBM,
General Motors and Eastman
i -
x - 'X , - ) 1
isjssXv - x x
xXVv X
SPnTx r r xf .i
-5 j t Cξ
'ir - x
Great American Smokeout: today's the day to quit
Lewis Mumford
"They rarely get stuck in
middle-management," she said.
Lesley Ellis, a sophomore from
Eden, chose an interdisciplinary
major combining business, psy
chology and speech
communications.
MI wanted something that is not
going to limit me," Ellis said. "I
think the three different areas will
give me a broader view."
Ellis said that she thought a
business major would have
limited her choices of classes. "I
wanted to take a lot of electives."
Vicki Lotz, counselor for lib
eral arts majors in UNC's Career
See HORIZONS page 2
uirn
Kodak and the University adminis
tration's support of divestment as
new evidence to present to the board.
"I'm going to get my two cents
in," Hassel said. "If it didn't come
up, it would be a crime." The
endowment board has not voted on
full divestment since 1983, he said.
Hassel, an ex-officio member of
the Board of Trustees, said the
trustees were invited during its
October meeting to attend the
endowment board meeting.
Full divestment was discussed by
the trustees but not put to a vote
at the board's April 27 meeting,
when it adopted a six-point resolu
tion encouraging U.S. companies to
work towards the abolition of
apartheid.
. Newton said he couldn't predict
what the board will address beyond
what is on the agenda.
A Student Congress resolution,
sponsored by the Anti-Apartheid
Support Group and asking the
Board of Trustees to encourage the
endowment board to divest, was
tabled pending further study at the
trustees' Oct. 17 meeting.
The UNC Anti-Apartheid Sup
port Group will be marching from
the Old Well to the meeting at the
Carolina Inn at 1:30 p.m. to dem
onstrate support for divestment,
Robert Reid-Pharr, support group
. member, said. The group asked
Hassel to speak at the meeting on
its behalf, Reid-Pharr said. ; :
The UNC College Republicans
will be marching at 10:30 a.m. to
protest the divestment movement,
according to a released statement.
The group members also hope to
appear before the endowment board
"to plead their case against
divestment."
5N
1
DTH Janet Jarman