The Carolinian [October 26, 1978]

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October 26,1978 Volume LVIII Number 14 The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Please Call Oar Hotline: 379-5041
Senior Apathy Causes
Interview Cancellations
BY LISA BROWN
Staff Writer
Patricia Barrie, counselor in the
Career Planning and Placement Of-fice
reports that few students are
signing up for interviews with
recruitment officers. She says this is
the worst year yet with seven com-panies
having already cancelled and
She says students in any major in-terested
in law school or other
graduate programs do not need a
resume but must schedule an ap-pointment.
Students must register with the
Career Planning and Placement Of-fice
and have resumes on file before
scheduling an appointment with
recruiters. To help prepare for the
interviews Ms. Barrie conducts
workshops every week in resume
development and interviewing
techniques. These workshops are
open to all students, not just seniors
and graduates.
During the rest of October and
November, representatives from
Blue Bell, Burroughs Corporation,
Texfi Industries, K-Mart Apparel,
Cone Mills, Jefferson Standart,
Aetna Life and Casualty, John
Hancock Mutual Life, and Pruden-tial
Insurance Company are
schedule to visit UNC-G. Temple
University and the University of
Richmond Law Schools will also
send representatives, and October
31 the Clayton County Board of
Education will be here.
The Career Planning and
Placement Office is located in the
lower level of the Alumni House.
Hours are from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm
Monday, Thursday, and Friday and
from 8:00 am until 7:00 pm Tuesday
and Wednesday.
Patricia Bank
without more student participation
future cancellations are likely to oc-cur.
Ms. Barrie feels the main reason
for the low turnout is that many
students are not concerned with
looking for jobs until spring, when
graduation is closer in sight. They
don't realize that now is the time to
prepare resumes and schedule ap-pointments
with employers.
Wright to Lecture
on Scroll Painting
A lecture on the significance and
art of Chinese scroll painting will be
delivered by Dr. Lenoir C. Wright
on Monday, Oct. 30, in Weather-spoon
Art Gallery at the University
of North Carolina at Greensboro.
The lecture, which begins at 8
p.m., will be illustrated by a collec-tion
of Chinese scrolls which Dr.
Wright, an emeritus professor of
history and political science at
UNC-G, has loaned to the gallery
for exhibition. The lecture is open to
the public at no charge.
The scrolls, which will be on
display through Nov. 12, represent
the Zen and Nanga schools and
range from the 15th century to the
20th century. Dr. Wright, who has
traveled widely in Eastern nations,
is a recognized expert on the
politics, history and culture of
China. .
Staffphoto by Hoby Low*
International House relatives sell German desserts at their traditional Oktoberfest.
I-House Holds
Annual Oktoberfest
Carter Threatens to Veto
Tuition Tax Credit Bill
By J.E. Kraenter
Staff Writer
The residents of International
House held their 83rd annual Ok-toberfest
last Monday. Oktoberfest
is traditionally a German beer
festival held in Munich in the mid
Fall.
The residents adhered to the
traditional festivities of Oktober-fest.
Dorm students dressed in Ger-man
costumes danced to Polka
music for the enjoyment of the
crowds. Other students and teachers
willingly joined in the festivities to
make the celebration a gala event.
German desserts, Kirschetortre
and poppyseed cake, as well as hot
pretzels, were sold at moderate
prices.
Free beer was available to all who
attended, while hot and cold apple
cider were sold for those who chose
not to indulge.
Some of the added attractions
provided by the dorm were the
kissing booth, a three-legged race,
and a sack race. Jeff Kelly amused
the crowd with his magic tricks,
also.
Those who attended the Oktober-fest
apparently enjoyed the
festivities as well as the free beer,
and despite the poor advertising for
the event, the Oktoberfest was
overall a success.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (CPS)—
After 10 yuan of false starts and
another eight months of tortuous
political wrangling. Congress had
finally passed legislation to provide
tuition aid to middle income
families. President Carter has,
however, threatened to veto the
tuition tax credit bill, which is
coming to his desk as part of a
larger, S29.3 billion tax cut bill.
President Carter officially stated
his opposition to tuition tax credits
in a letter to congressional leaders
last February'. He called the idea
wasteful and none too helpful to
middle income families trying to
cope with the rising costs of higher
education.
But in a last minute move two
weeks ago, Sen. Robert Packwood
(R-Oregon) tacked tuition tax
credits onto the larger tax cut bill as
a means of making it "veto proof."
The logic was that the president
would be reluctant to veto tax cuts
in this election year and age of "tax
revolts." The Senate did', in fact,
pass the bill containing tuition tax
cuts by an 84-6 margin, more than
enough to override a Carter veto.
The Senate has approved tuition
tax credits seven times since 1968,
but this year was the first time the
House has passed them.
The current bill would allow
people to subtract 35 percent of
college tuition costs from their
federal income taxes, as long as it's
not more than $100 in 1978, SI50 in
1979, and $250 in 1980. After Jan.
1, 1980, part-time students enrolled
in college at least four months out
of the year would also be eligible for
the tax credits.
Virtually every major education
association has joined President
Carter in his opposition to tuition
tax credits. For example, W. Glenn
Turrell, president of Washington
State University and of the National
Association of State Universities and
Land-Grant Colleges, said the tax
credits plan "spreads minimal funds
over such a broad population that it
will have little impact on the relief
sought by middle-income families."
Turrell and others have instead
endorsed President Carter's alter-native
relief measure, later dubbed
the Middle-Income Assistance Plan.
It would add Si.2 billion to the $4
News Briefs
LOS ANGELES -Los Angeles
County Sheriffs Deputy Wayne
Burrow stated that an arsonist
deliberately set the worst of 11 fir*s
that have consumed over 38,010
acres and 186 homes in the '.-os
Angeles area.
"The evidence indicates that the
fire was intentionally set," the
sheriff commented. "The in-vestigation
is continuing. It was
definitely arson."
The fire has ravaged or damaged
homes belonging to actors Jack
Lemmon. Nick Nolle, and Clint
Walker, actresses Ali McOraw and
Katharine Ross, singer Neil Young,
and comedian Buddy Hackett.
WASHINGTON-President Carter
said Tuesday that American
workers who cooperate with his new
anti-inflation program may qualify
for federal cost of living insurance
and businesses will be awarded with
government contracts.
If successful the wage and price
guidelines would cut inflation to
between 6 and 6.3 percent by 1979.
down from I percent this year. Car-ter's
advisors said.
"We face a time of national
austerity," the President com-mented.
"Hard choices are
if we want to avoid con-
LONDON-In a reaction to
President Carter's latest anti-in-flation
package, the dollar took
another beating on foreign currency
exchanges, but there was some
speculation that in the long run the
dollar would improve.
"All measures to stabilize the
economy have a positive effect, and
this program wilt have a mid-term
and long term internal benefit for
the U.S. economy." said an uniden-tified
Common Market economist
at the Common Market's executive
commission in Brussels, Belgium.
LOB ANGELES-Rolling Stones
guitarist Keith Richard was senten-ced
to a year's probation for heroin
possession, and ordered to give a
benefit performance for the blind by
County Judge Lloyd Graburn.
The rock star said at a news con-ference
after the sentencing Tuesday
that he was enjoying life without the
drug. "Once your down on it, the
only thing that matters to you is
'where's the dope and do I have
Enough I
Richards, addicted since 1972.
said he's been off heroin for IS
months and has received treatment
at New York's Stevens Psychiatric
Clinic.
billion in aid available under the
Basic Educational Opportunity
Grants, Guaranteed Student Loan,
and Work-Study programs. It
would also, among other things,
make dependents of families ear-ning
more than SI6,000 eligible for
work-study programs for the first
time. Moreover, it would increase
average grants to children of
families earning between $8,000 and
$16,000 a year by $200.
Though Congress considered
other relief measures this session-
Boston University President John
Silber's "Tuition Advance Fund"
idea was widely discussed before
being buried in committee-the big
fight has been between tuition tax
credits and the Carter plan.
Public opinion has been a rather
fickle guide in determining the
fight's outcome. Polls have been
clear only on one point: that the
middle class seems to want some
sort of tuition relief to cope with
higher education costs. The
National Center on Educational
Statistics estimated that this year the
average costs at public colleges is
S3000. $5000 at typical private
schools, and $8000 at some of the
bigger private universities. Since
1967, costs of public education have
gone up 74.2 percent, while private
education costs have risen 76.6 per-cent.
But if the middle class agreed help
was needed,jt has changed its mind
about what kind of help it wanted.
In April, a New York Times-CBS
survey suggested that a full 83 per-cent
of the American public wanted
tuition tax credits, while a Gallup
Poll estimated that 51 percent wan-ted
them, and 34 percent favored
Carter's Middle Income Assistance
Plam.
In August, though, the Roper
Poll found that 34 percent still
favored the Carter plan, but that
tuition tax credits' popularity had
wilted. Twenty percent of the
respondents were for direct aid to
colleges to help keep their costs
down, 16 percent -favored no ad-ditional
aid at all, 14 percent wanted
a $250 credit for families earning
less than $25,000 and only nine per-cent
favored the tax credit plan then
being debated in Congress.
Then the Collge Entrance
Examination Board added to the
confusion with a study disputing the
need for any tuition aid at all. It
contradicted an earlier
Congressional Research Service
report (later amended in the CEEB
report's wake), and said that family
income had risen faster than college
costs since 1967. Many observers
thus inferred that the middle class
was still capable of paying for a
college education, but that it was
simply less willing to do so.
The conflicting surveys and
reports only intensified the
congressional debate through the
summer. The president's plan,
though, seemed to be picking up
momentum even as House Rules
Committee Chairman James
Delaney (D-N.Y.), a supporter of
tuition tax credits, refused to let it
m. Carter, ptmti
International Studies
Program Approved
MARY CARSON
STAFF WRITER
For the past twelve years, UNC-G
has offered a certificate program in
International Studies within the
framework of Interdepartmental
Studies.
As the years passed, many of the
faculty members came to fed that
the program should be expanded in
order to prepare students for a
future in which understanding of
global affairs would be crucial. Af-ter
a year of planning, the new In-ternational
Studies Program was
approved by the Curriculum Com-mittee
on October 6, 1978 and ac-cepted
by Vice Chancellor Stanley
Jones on October 16,1978.
Dr. Claude Chauvigne, Director
of the program, elaborated on the
reasons for the expansion. "We
cannot ignore what goes on in our
world, for it will most likely have a
direct effect on our lives. Any
foreign policy be it political, com-mercial,
or cultural involving the
United States will affect us. For in-stance,
our position in the Middle
East could determine whether or not
we have another oil embargo. Also,
more and more US industries are
expanding into other pans of the
world and in reverse many foreign
firms seek opportunities in the US.
Thus knowledge of world
economics is essential for anyone
looking for a position in this field.
Likewise a background in Inter-national
Studies is also important
for anyone planning to go into
government work. And above all a
knowledge of the world will make us
better and more responsible citizens.
The expanded program consists
of four areas of concentration as
either a major; a second major, that
is, a major taken concurrently with
another primary major, or a minor.
The four areas are: "A Global Ap-proach
to International Affairs,"
"Cross-Cultural Understanding,"
"International Development," and
"Area Studies" with concentration
in Russian Studies (major and
minor), Latin American Studies
(major and minor), Europe (secon-dary
major and minor, Asia (minor
only), and Africa (minor only). The
courses in the program, with the ex-ception
of the interdisciplinary core
seminars, are culled from the cour-ses
listed in the Student Bulletin and
are open to all students, regardless
of major.
One important facet of the
program is the Self-Instructional
Language Program (SI1.P). The
student involved utilizes texts,
tapes, and a weekly session with a
drill instructor. SILP currently of-fers
two years of study in Chinese.
Japanese, Modern Hebrew, and
Modern Arabic. All of these can be
used to satisfy UNC-G's foreign
language requirement.
MT Studies, p—*i
BodyLanguageCourseOffered in Spring
BY KATHRYN LOSEY
Staff Writer
The intriguing study of body
language is coming to UNC-G next
semester in a course offered by Dr.
Elliot Pood, of the Com-munications
Department. The
major topics of the course involve
the study of nonverbal com-munication,
interpersonal relation-ships,
personal space and the art of
body language.
With this course Pood hopes to
improve the student's awareness fo
nonverbal communication and the
use of nonverbal skills. Pood also
wishes to have student* com-municate
by nonverbal means which
have not been used before. In an ef-fort
to do this. Bund and Silent days
have been planned for the student's
awareness of nonverbal com-munication.
The Blind day. consists
of the student wearing a Mind shade
and being accompanied by another
individual, for the course of a day.
This is done in-order to observe if
individuals can function property
when something taken for granted.
as sight, is removed. The Blind days
also help to note the comfor-tableness
or uncomfortabkness of
one when placed in a situation
where nonverbal reponses cannot be
observed. On Silent days the student
does not speak for the duration of a
day. The purpose of this is to study
the person's ability to communicate
with others without verbal response
and to communicate using nonver-bal
communication. Also oa the
i to a "sea role reversal Disco
roles and females take on the role of
the males.
Dr. Pood feds body language is
important in 68*% of messages given
by individuals that are nonverbal.
One can rely heavily on nonverbal
communication in events such as
being approached by a person
holding a knife and the person says.
"I am not going to hurt you." Or
when conversing with an in-dividual,
who state* that he is not
mad in an extremely loud voice
through clenchrd teeth. The course
is helpful in communication with
individuals on a one-to-one basts,
by enabling one to tell what a person
is connotating beyond facial ea-situations
oi family, friends and
in which psey*
can atoo be used to
improve relationships, as ia
The main aspect of the course to
the study of man's communication
from a behavioral viewpoint, at
Pood feds communication should
be studied as a social science. Only
recently has nonverbal com-munication
been used quite extcn
sively in interviewing situations,
with people aware of how they
should look, talk and act.
The course is academic and fun;
there to work, but it u work that can
be enjoyed. The feelings on the
course arc positive and if the
demand here to great enough, Pood
to willing to take up to 2001
The course has no
to) respect to preregtotration; Comm
206 to the study of hody
plus a lot more