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Three Candidates Campaign for DTH Editor
Campus-wide elections will be held
on Wednesdy, February 14. Three
candidates for Daily Tar Heel Editor
declared their candidacey to the
BSM.
Allen Jernigan, Reid Tuvim, and
David Stacks have each expressed
their desires to function in the editor
position. Jernigan, a junior jour
nalism major from Raleigh, hopes to
make the DTH a paper worth looking
for. He favors having more papers
printed and an improved distribution
system.
He also feels that the DTH must
probe situations of racial and sexual
descrimination. He favors unbiased
reporting of racism and sexism.
Jernigan feels that soccer and
women’s basketball should be
recognized as major sports. He also
hopes to start an Intramural and club
sports scoreboard.
Jernigan has served as editor of the
Summer Tar Heel, Photography
editor, columnist and photographer,
and has contributed to Nutshell
Magazine, ACC Basketball Hand
book, and Cellar Door.
Tuvim, a junior journalism major
from Charlotte, favors a balanced
coverage of national, state, and local
and campus news, with a strong
emphasis on student stories.
He also favors finding a solution to
the distribution problem of the DTH.
He plans to have papers delivered to
every dorm on campus. Tuvim plans
to work with the Tar Heels full-time
business staff to reach a more
equitable solution.
Tuvim favors increased coverage of
the university administration and
coverage of the various
organizations, including the BSM. He
also feels that beats should be better
covered.
Tuvim has worked with the DTH
staff since his freshman year. He has
served as copy editor, night editor,
assistant managing editor^nd news
editor. He was the first editor of
Weekender, and worked on the news
desk of the Greensboro Daily News
this past summer.
Stacks, a junior journalism major
from Blowing Rock also favors a
better distribution system of the DTH.
He also feels that the DTH should be
a showcase of student-oriented ac
tivity.
Stacks has served as state and
Midnight Blues airs on WXYC
UNC’s campus radio station WXYC
has a new addition to its program
ming schedule.
A musical program, entitled
Midnight Blues, airs Monday nights
from midnight until 3 a.m. The show
is produced by Orlando Dbbin.
Dobbin, a junior RTVMP major got
the idea for the program from his
Radio Production class.
During the program, Dobbin plays
rhythm and blues music. He ex
plained, “I’ve been instructed to
exclude disco and popular music that
is played at parties. I’m hoping that
this will change.”
The Gamer native has been in
terested in radio work since the age of
nine. Working at the radio station is a
fulfillment of a dream he has always
had.
I hope that students will call in
more, Dobbin stated, I would like to
give students what they want;’’ He
plays requests for students during his
program.
Dobbin also makes public service
announcements, focusing on campus
events, and speakers.
Midnight Blues presently is a one
night a week affair, but Dobbin hopes
that the program will be extended to
other nights during the week.
Dobbin feels that music has played
a big role in the Black Experience and
he attempts to convey his feelings
through the sweet mellow sounds of
rhythm and blues to the campus
community.
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staff photo by D«wese GUyard
national editor for the DTH. He has
written for The Associated Press and
the United Press International, and
has worked for the UNC Jounalist and
(he University Student Handbook.
Stacks has spent the past two sum
mers as a reporter for the Greensboro
Record.
Jack Brayboy demon
strates the “class,” in
dicative of the Kappa
Alpha Psi fraternity, at a
recent fashion show
sponsored by the Kappas.
Currently, the Kappas
are 'seeking aniversity
clearance to sponsor a
campus-wide beauty
pageant.
NEWS, NOTES
On Campus
Cranford campaigns for CGC
Greg Cranford announced his candidacy for Campus Governing Council for District 10
(Hinton James).
Cranford hopes to implement ideas which the residents of James submit as
suggestions.
Cranford, a sophomore from Newton, North Carolina, hopes to push the CGC for a
Black Studies requirement at UNC. “It is important for all students to understand and be
challenged by minority perspectives and cultures because in a desegregated society we
must all deal with these.”
He also favors a quicker proposal and financial support for the proposed South Campus
Union.
Cranford also favors an increase in BSM funding. “It is almost the only student-funded
organization that displays Black culture on a supposedly “liberal” but traditional White
campus.
Cranford dislikes the scholarships that are provided for the officers of student body
president, treasurer, and attorney general. He hopes that this will be eliminated.
Cranford hopes to suggest that the CGC meetings will become open to the public.
Cranford, favors the CGC ^ringfest idea for the spring and plans to see that the
project is successfully completed and planned for next year.
Cranford is a Union Social Committee member, a BSM member, and Upward Bound
tutor, a campus Y Big Buddy participant, and a Young Democrats member.
Candidates for Senior office
Janet Moss and Karen Tagalos contacted the BSM office to announce their candidacy
for senior class president and vice-president respectively.
Moss, a junior zoology major from Mathews, N.C., has served as a resident advisor, on
the Orientation Committee, and with the Big Brother program.
Tagalos, a junior studio art major from Charlotte, also works as a resident advisor and
has worked on the Orientation Committee.
Both candidates enjoy working with others and becoming involoved. A major plan
which the two hope to further implement is the Senior Panic Week, which was started by
the present officers.
Minority health conference
The Minority Student Caucus and the Student Union Board of the School of Public
Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites you (public) to participate in
their 3rd Annual Minority Spring Health Conference to be held at the School of Public
Health on February 21 and 22, 1979.
This year’s theme is entitled: “REACHING MINORITIES WHERE THEY ARE; A
CHALLENGE TO THE HEIALTH PROFESSIONAI.S.” The keynote speaker will be Dr.
Geocge Lythcott, Director of Health Services Administration, Department of Health,
Education and Welfare.
There is no registration fee for the conference. Each participant will be responsible for
his4ier expenses. If there are any further questions regarding the program, please
contact Bill Small, Dean of Student Affairs at (919 ) 966-4152.
Instructor Attends Convention
Freddie L. Parker, and instructor at North Carolina Central University recently at
tended the 63rd Annual Convention of The Association for the Study of Afro-American
Life and History at the Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles, California.
He presented a paper entitled, “The Law Is Too Slow: Lynchings in North CaroliJia,
188&-1906.” Parker was a meml)er of the Upward Bound Program at UNC-CH, 19P8-1971.
The Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees were received at North Carolina
Central University, 1975 and 1976, respectively. He is currently a member of Phi Alpha
Theta National Honor Society in History, the Pi Gamma Mu National Social Science
Honor Society; the American Historical Association and the Association for the Study of
Afro-American Life and History. Additionally, he is doing graduate work toward the
Ph.D. at Duke University.