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For Ediior of
The Editor of The Daily Tar
Heel must be highly trained in all
aspects of journalism and
newspaper production.
The election for editor is a
political contest to judge
journalistic and professional
qualifications. It is unfair to make
this decision in a political contest.
Each year we must hope that the
most technically qualified
individual gets the most votes.
Fortunately, most students
realize that when they vote for
editor they are looking for an,
individual that can supervise the
operation of a daily newspaper.
The talents necessary to perform
t'fie job in a professional manner are
tfiyerse and complicated.
!"The editor must command the
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For President
the campaign for President of
the Student Body has been low in
tempo but high in the number of
malicious rumors.
Joe Stallings has run a clean
campaign. Unfortunately, the same
cannot be said for some of his
opponents who have tried' to
replace qualifications with slurs.
(Some of Stallings' opponents
have tried to charge him with lavish
spending. However, we have not
seen any of these opponents
publish a list of their own campaign
expenses. Could it be that they
hve spent as much money but have
iio other way to win votes?
Gj ;They have tried to label Stallings
twjth a machine. We understand
many candidates have encountered
difficulty in obtaining supporters
who are willing to work for them.
,. Stallings, however, was fortunate
For Residence
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Steve Saunders has worked hard
through every available channel to
improve the conditions in residence
colleges on this campus.
Last spring he was elected
Governor of Morehead Residence
College. Saunders immediately
began working on an intensive
campaign to obtain the Faculty
Club for the residence college. That
campaign saw Saunders attempt
every method possible-petitions,
letters and meetings with
administrators-to help the
t-esidence college. v
The administration denied the
request, and Saunders immediately
began working on obtaining and
then implementing $20,000 for the
improvement of Cobb basement for
the use by the residence college.
l: Saunders worked with members
oi Morehead Residence College in
an attempt to get an increase in the
refrigerator quotas for those dorms.
That effort resulted in the dorms in
Morehead Residence college being
the only ones to have quotas
increased in the middle of the year.
Saunders has served as a
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of The Daily Tar Heel are expressed cn its
editorials are the opinions of the editor
columns represent only the opinions of
Tuesday, March 16, 1971
Tom Gooding, Editor
Endorsement
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the The Daily
respect of the entire newspaper
staff. They must trust both his
judgment and integrity.
The editor will be called upon to
make hard decisions on hiring and
firing personnel, on the handling of
news stories, on the most
responsible editorial policy and on
the overall administration of the
paper.
The entire staff of The Daily Tar
Heel has pledged their support to
Harry Bryan for Editor.
This respect, coming from the
people Harry Bryan has worked
with for the past year, speaks
higher of his ability to edit the
newspaper than could anything
else.
Harry Bryan possesses an
impressive list of journalistic
of the Student
in that many people respected his
ability and integrity enough to
volunteer to work for him. If
friendship and respect make a
machine then we find nothing
wrong with it. Those who are
making this charge would be happy
if they had elicited enough support
to attract a "machine."
But no candidate has attacked
Stallings' integrity. He has run the
race without stooping to "slurs and
innuendoes." He has not
surrendered to cheap political
tricks.
A candidate forced to substitute
sexual immaturity for qualifications
can't afford to question integrity.
Stallings has campaigned on the
issues and his qualifications.
He is chairman of the Carolina
Opportunity Fund, a special
Presidential Advisor, majority floor
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College Ch airman
Presidential Advisor on Residence
Colleges and as Secretary of the
Committee on University Residence
Life (CURL).
In an effort to improve
dormitory conditions Saunders
co-founded SEARCH, Student
Environmental Analysis Research at
Chapel Hill. That organization will
conduct massive research to
discover what changes in
dormitories are wanted by all
students.
Saunders saw the injustice of
required residence and has worked
in every method available to end
the requirements. He is currently a
member of the committee
investigating required residence.
Saunders has the initiative,
desire and ability to create and lead
an effective Residence College
Federation. He will work through
that organization to improve the
quality of residence colleges and
dormitories throughout the
campus.
Saunders should be elected
chairman of the Residence College
Federation.
editorial psse.
and the staff.
the individual
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Tar Heel
credits. He is a journalism major.
He has worked in professional
newspapers, spending parts of the
past five years on the staff of the
Asheville Citizen. He worked during
both his freshman and sophomore
years as a staff writer for the DTH.
He has served as Managing Editor,
Associate Editor, News Editor,
columnist and editorial writer for
the DTH during his sopflomore and
junior years.
Harry Bryan knows how The
Daily Tar Heel works. He has
devoted endless hours to improving
the DTH. He wants to continue
that effort next year.
Harry Bryan is by far the best
qualified candidate and should be
elected to the position of editor of
The Daily Tar Heel.
Body
leader of Student Legislature during
his sophomore year, a member of
the Consultative Forum, a member
of the Order of the Grail, a member
of the Student Strike Coordinating
Committee last May,; a member of
the North Carolina Good Neighbor
Council since last summer, a
member of the Judicial Reform
Committee, a Richardson Fellow
and a Morehead Scholar.
Stallings has the qualifications,
knowledge and experience to be an
effective Student Body President.
We need a new Student
Government which will base itself
on integrity and action. '
Stallings has based his candidacy
on his ability and desire to help the
students on this campus.
Joe Stallings should be elected
President of the Student Body.
Gar ?rd
79. Years; of Editorial freedom
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To the editor:
A significant piece of legislation is
going to be debated on the North
Carolina Senate floor within the next two
weeks. It deals with abortion. The
legislation basically leaves the decision of
an abortion to the patient and the doctor.
A doctor would be under no obligation to
perform an abortion, if he so chose. An
abortion could be performed in a medical
facility affiliated with an accredited
hospital, thus freeing hospital staffs to
deal with more serious illnesses.
Unfortunately this piece of legislation
is facing defeat because of pressure from
groups of people who view abortion as
some sort of crime. Their arguments go
along the lines of "they should have used
contraception," or "they should get
married," or "abortion on demand is the
same thing as murder on demand."
These arguments are persuading many
legislators, not because they make
rational sense, but because those people
who so fervently disagree with the
legislation are religiously writing letters to
their legislators voicing their opposition.
The fact that 25,000 North Carolina
women seek illegal abortions each year,
(Abernathy, Greenburg, Horvitz data
from Research Triangle) or that 1st year
the Maternal and Child Health
Department in Raleigh reported 2,500
cases of child abuse and that in most
cases the abused child is unwanted won't
matter to the legislators.
It isn't going to matter to the
legislators that women should be able to
determine their own fate, or that the
state really doesn't have a compelling
interest to require a woman to remain
pregnant during early months of
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Thomas Jefferson
Tar Heel columnists write page after
page of copy on the campus politics that
used to be, students murmur "student
government?" with a blank look on then
faces, and administrators wonder where
all those nice quiet students of the fifties
went to after graduation.
Students complain to faculty
committees (as they have for years) that
they have no voice in University
decision-making. And student
government is finally reduced to
nit-picking with the administration over
finances.
The Di-Phi Senate must have been
onto something when they abolished
student government some eight or ten
years ago, branding it ineffectual, Mickey
Mouse and unconcerned with the real
issues of our day.
But the basic reason for all this cannot
be found in the fraternity houses or the
smokey back-rooms of the Carolina
Union.
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pregnancy. The states of California and
Wisconsin have the precedent in
determining what rights women should
have. In the case of "People of the State
of California vs. Robb," January 9, 1970,
the California courts ruled:
that under the constitution
women have a total freedom of
choice as to whether or not to
bear children, including the
unrestricted right to have an
abortion, and the state may not
interfere in this area in the
absence of compelling state
interest.
On March 5, 1970 in the case of
4tBabbitz vs. McCann," the courts of
Wisconsin ruled:
that there are a number of
situations where there are
forceful reasons ro support a
woman's desire to reject an
embryo. These include a rubella
or a thalidomide pregnancy, or
one resulting from rape or
incest. The court held that even
when none of these
circumstances exist, the state
does not have the compelling
interest to require a woman to
remain pregnant during the early
months following conception.
Nothing rational is going to matter to
the legislators as long as their mail is
running five to one against the legislation.
So, perhaps "they should have used
contraception" and hoped for a zero per
cent failure rate. Or perhaps "they should
get married" even if they don't want to,
or worse yet, don't want a child. Or
perhaps it serves them right if they have
to go to a criminal abortionist. After all,
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government has been reduced to an
absurdity is that it has never been
anything more.
In the first place, student government
is not at all what the name implies. The
publicity handouts and catalogues may
bray about the long tradition of student
self-government, but we could get by
more accurately with a title like student
social services committee.
It is true that students are allowed to
take care of their own affairs as long as
they stay in their place. But the real
decisions about the long-range future of
the campus and its future students are
made quietly by University Committees.
Here and there we find a few token
students (hand-picked, of course) on
these committees, but there is rarely any
publicity or dialogue in these structured
situations. And the decisions about
controversial matters such as visitation
are settled by decree from South
Building.
Student government has been, in fact,
little more than a big, expensive toy
which the University has given students
to play with while the real work of
running the institution goes on elsewhere.
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criminal abortions rank rirjit behind
gambling and dmzs as the leading
criminal money producer. ("Birth
Control and Love," Alan Guttnucher).
And they shouldn't havs been making
love in the first place, they deserve
whatever they get.
One thing for sure, a legislature that
ranks 47th out of 50 (Time Magazine,
March 1, 1971) is susceptible to almost
anything, even the above arguments, and
unless the legislators hear some
concerned, rational arguments in favor of
the piece of legislation, it isn't going to
pass. So, perhaps some people should
take a few minutes to writs, a rational
letter in favor of the proposed law, so the
next time you face an abortion, it won't
be from the end of a coat hanger.
Thomas Vass
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Write congressmen
about SST money
To the editor:
The vote in Congress on the $230
million SST appropriation is coming up
this week. In response to public concern,
this appropriation will not slip through
unopposed this year. Students should join
with other interested citizens in voicing
their concern over such a wasteful,
needless project. Several North Carolina
Congressmen are opposing the SST, and
others are genuinely undecided. On this
issue, your letters and telegrams could
make a difference, encouraging a more
constructive use of the SST money for
domestic priorities. Moreover, the
Senators and Congressman who have
taken the lead in fighting the SST deserve
all of our support.
Virginia Carson
Female liberation
not only answer
To the editor:
In regard to recent letters which
appeared in the Tar Heel, one from a
woman who berated the paper for two
direct quotations, the content of which
seemed (as she felt) prejudicial to the
rights of women, the other a "school
psychologist" who utilized the phrase
"Male chauvinist pigs": 11
People, whose minds are possessed
-with some one object, take exaggerated
views of its importance, are feverish in
pursuit of it, and make it the measure of
things which are utterly foreign to it.
To consider the world in its length and
' breadth, its various history, the many
races of man, their starts, their fortunes,
their mutual alienation, their conflicts;
and then their enterprises, their aimless
courses, their random achievements and
acquirements, the impotent conclusion of
long-standing facts, the tokens so faint
and broken, of a superintending
design; the greatness and littleness of
man (and women, if you must), his
far-reaching arims, his short duration, the
curtain hung over his futurity, the
disappointments of life, the defeat of
good, the success of evil, physical pain,
mental anguish, the prevalence and
intensity of sin, the condition of the
whole race all this is a vision to dizzy
and appal. What shall be said to this
heart-piercing, reason-bewildering world?
May I suggest, as"a tentative start, this:
that female liberation is not the measure
of all things; that we might have "female
liberation" in its entirety and still have a
world as dreary and barren of good as we
have today; and that, as causes go, female
liberation is quite unworthy of
fanaticism.
J.H. Newman
Carrboro
vernier
I do not propose that the
Administration should surrender or
abdicate. I propose that the major policy
decisions below the trustee level should
be made by a University Council
including elected representatives of the
major campus groups students,
administrators, faculty and non-academic
, employees.
A group similar to this is currently
working at Duke with surprising success. I
see no reason why it couldn't work here.
And further, I see no reason why the
administration of a University must be
despotic. This, it seems to me, is little
short of blasphemy in a democratic
society.
There are those, of course, who will
wail that students who have been elected
in the past are irresponsible, that students
don't really care enough to gst
involved so why give them chance to
make any decisions, oi ien take part in
making decisions.
But these same wallers are the ones
who have never stopped to consider that
student government has never required
responsible leaders, for it never had any
real responsibility.