The Carolinian [March 18, 1999]

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The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Thursday, Phone: (336) 334-5752 Fax: (336) 334-3518 Issue 36,
March 18,1999 Volume 78
Changing times equals a
changing job market
Michelle Ballard
Staff Writer
As graduation draws near,
college seniors around the
country have one thing on their
minds: getting a job. For them,
the word spring does not bring
to mind blossoms and bou-quets,
but instead signifies re-sumes
and navy blue suits. It
is the beginning of that ever-stressful
task of finding a way
to put those degrees to use.
However, there are a
few things that a young person
should know before embarking
on this journey into the job
world. For instance, today's
booming economy and the In-formation
Revolution have
transformed the job market,
creating new types of jobs.
Webmasters, desktop publish-ers
ar! wireless engineers are
only a lew examples of posi-tions
that didn't exist a few
years ago. Likewise, jobs such
as systems analysts, database
managers and software devel-opers
have increased in num-ber
and are among the fastest-growing
today.
There are also new
ways of working today that
were unheard of in the past.
For example, many workers
are partaking in what is called
job sharing. This means that
the responsibilities of a single
job are shared by two people.
The number of indi-viduals
who are multi-track-ing,
or holding down two jobs
at one time, is also on the in-crease,
as is the number of self-employed
entrepreneurs. Ac-cording
to a recent article in
Newsweek, 10.5 million indi-viduals
were self-employed in
1997.
So what do all these
new developments mean to a
person who is about to begin a
first-time job search? In a nut-shell,
they result in an increase
in the number of career oppor-tunities
and choices.
Many workers of the
new millennium will likely
have more professional inde-pendence
than their predeces-sors.
There has been a gradual
move away from the idea that
a person must find a job and
hang on to it, in fear that they
might not find another.
In fact, those unsatis-fied
with the first job they're
able to snare right out of col-lege
need not sweat it. Accord-ing
to recent job trend studies,
it is now the norm to make sev-eral
job or career changes dur-ing
a lifetime. Newsweek also
reports that 92 percent of
people who were laid off in
1998 later found newjobs with
equal or better pay.
Employment opportu-nities
will obviously increase
faster in some cities than in
others, but it is now relatively
easy to find a job in the city of
your choice from the comfort
of your own home. Electronic
job banks, located on the
Internet, offer a new and im-proved
way to search for jobs
around the country. At these
sites, employers post ads de-scribing
available positions,
while employees browse and
can post resumes if they find
something of interest. No
longer is it necessary to travel
to a particular city, buy a news-paper
and go door-to-door dis-tributing
resumes.
The bottom line is that
the future looks brighter than
ever for tomorrow's work
force. Graduates need to take
heart in the fact that the work
world is no longer a restrictive
and binding place of nine-to-five,
full-time employment
only. Instead, it has become a
universe where new and excit-ing
careers can be adapted to
many different lifestyle
choices.
Prosecutors: Rudolph not prime
suspect, but not yet ruled out
Associated Press
ASHEVILLE (AP) - None
of the evidence collected by in-vestigators
at the scene of a
weekend abortion clinic explo-sion
points directly to serial
bombing suspect Eric
Rudolph, federal authorities
said Monday.
But U.S. Attorney Mark
Calloway, talking to reporters
during a news conference in
Asheville, also stressed that no
one - including Rudolph - is
being ruled out as a suspect in
Saturday's blast.
"We have no evidence, at
this time, that this bomb is the
work of Eric Rudolph."
Calloway said. "It is too early,
of course, to draw any conclu-sions.
"We are committed to fol-lowing
every lead to its logi-cal
end and go to wherever the
evidence takes us."
Meanwhile, federal law en-forcement
officials would re-veal
only scant details about
the bomb that partially deto-nated
around 7:30 a.m. Satur-day
outside the Femcare
Clinic.
No one was hurt in the blast,
which caused little damage
other than leaving black marks
on the
o n e -
story
brick
building's
exterior.
Rich-ard
Fox,
special
agent in
charge
of the
Bureau
of Alco-hol,
To-b
a c c o
and Rudolph
Fire-arms
office in Charlotte, said
"it was a considerably power-ful
bomb" that was intended to
cause harm.
"It would have devastated
the entire end of the building
and gone into the building ap-proximately
40 to 60 feet," he
said.
Pressed several times to
comment on whether the de-vice
bore
any simi-larities
to
previous
bomb-ings
charged
t o
Rudolph,
both
Calloway
and Fox
declined.
They
also de-clined
to
describe
Rudolph
as the prime suspect.
"We're not drawing that
conclusion," Fox said.
A spokesman for the South-east
Bomb Task Force, which
has been searching for
Rudolph for more than a year
in the rugged south Appala-chian
Mountains 75 miles to
the west, said the probe was in
the hands of the FBI and ATF.
"Our people have talked
with them, but don't look for
us to take over and do any
commenting," the task force
spokesman said Monday. "...
That's where it's going to stay."
Rudolph has been on the run
since the Jan. 29, 1998, bomb-ing
of a Birmingham, Ala.,
abortion clinic that killed an
off-duty police officer and se-verely
wounded a nurse.
The manhunt began in west-ern
North Carolina when hunt-ers
discovered Rudolph's gray
Nissan pickup truck in a se-cluded
spot just outside
Murphy.
The search reintensified
with a confirmed sighting of
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It's a matter of ethics
This week is Honor and Kthics week. Workshops and panel
discussions will be held all week to discuss the importance or
ethics in our lives and in the workplace.
Commission to draw
more black students
and faculty to college
Associated Press
CHARLESTON, S.C.
(AP)- The state's Higher Edu-cation
Commission is consid-ering
a series of recommenda-tions
aimed at attracting more
minority teachers and faculty
and helping them enter and
succeed in college.
About one out of three South
Carolinians is black. Yet. fewer
than one in 20 of the tenured
faculty members at South
Carolina's public colleges and
universities is black.
About one in nine master's
degrees and one in about 16
doctoral degrees awarded at
public colleges go to blacks,
according to the Southern Edu-cation
Foundation.
"We feel these recommen-dations
will create a level play-ing
field for all students in the
state." said Frank Gilbert, a
commission member who
chaired the committee that de-signed
the plan.
The recommendations must
be approved by the commis-sion,
probably in April.
Rayburn Barton. the
commission's executive direc-tor,
said he thinks most of them
will be adopted.
Among the recommenda-tions
are monitoring and an-nual
reporting of schools'
progress and more money to
increase access and equity.
The recommended amount
would equal one half of 1 per-cent
of the total higher educa-tion
allocations each year. The
money would be spent on ba-sic
grants for minority recruit-ment,
competitive grants for
schools that have programs to
improve academic preparation
of minority students and grants
for graduate fellowships to in-crease
black enrollment in ad-vanced
degree programs.
The committee also recom-mended
that SAT scores be
used as diagnostic guides
rather than determining crite-ria
for admission or eligibility
for financial aid.
Students must have a mini-mum
score of 1.000 on the
SAT to be eligible for a LIFE
scholarship. The average score
for South Carolina's w lute stu-dents
in 1998 was 1.010 and
the average score for black stu-dents
was 815.
"II the scores in South Caro-lina
are lower across the board
than the numbers expected, do
you have a scholarship that is
meeting the needs of the stu-dents
of South Carolina? No."
said Julia Wells. the
commission's access and eq-uity
officer who recently re-tired.
"They say it is based on
need, but it is actually based
on an artificial, arbitrary indi-cator."
she said.
Thought ofthe Pay:
"I don't think it's fair to
blame the First Amendment
when someone makes a fool
of himself in public."
-Mary Worth, Cartoon Character, 1998