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Daily Tar Heel editor
Pride prevents us from being quite as critical of the past year's Daily Tar
Heel as have been the three candidates for editor Greg Porter, Sam
Fulwood and Mike York. But that pride is not so great that it keeps us from
recognizing the value in most of their proposals. We sense the problems and
the needs of the paper. In evaluating the candidates, we have tried to
determine if they perceive the same problems and needs we do and if they are
equipped to handle them effectively.
None of the three proposes radical change. All believe the paper's first
responsibility is to cover campus news, and all believe some national and
international news should be printed.
Mike York justly emphasizes improving the beat reporting system and
increasing consumer-oriented reporting. He overemphasizes the business
operation of the paper. The editor is not directly responsible for the business
operation of the paper. The Media Board, and a business manager chosen
by the Media Board are sovereign in financial affairs. (If the constitutional
amendment for the Daily Tar Heel passes, financial responsibility will
transfer to the new Daily Tar Heel Board of Directors.) If York's primary
goal is to increase advertising sales and thus increase the size of the paper, he
might better fulfill his purpose by applying for a position on the Media
Board.
Sam Fulwood's platform has some well-conceived, innovative proposals.
He suggests strengthening the existing student organizations coverage and
the University administration coverage, as well as creating a lifestyles beat
to "examine the trends and problems of the diverse communities" on
campus. He has said he would run proportionately more sports articles and
fewer arts and entertainment articles. '
Fulwood also proposes instituting a regular Saturday issue. This is a
feasible idea, but would probably require taking advertising away from the
Monday and Friday papers, thus making them smaller. We would prefer to
see efforts to expand the weekly paper rather than an attempt to institute a
weekend issue.
Greg Porter's platform is the most comprehensive, and his proposals have
apparently been well-thought out. He proposes appointing a national news
editor who will add local angles to wire service stories; he advocates the
creation of an editorial board to research and write editorials and he
suggests instituting regular student interest surveys. His platform indicates
that he is very sensitive to the unique needs of the Tar Heel a. sensitivity
that is no douht the result of his experience in various editorial positions on
the Tar Heel in the past.
We believe Porter is the best qualified of the three candidates.
Student body president
Of the seven candidates for student body president, two Mark Miller
and Bill Moss are extremely well qualified. Both stress academics and
academic reform, which have often been forgotten in past years by student
leaders who became caught up in the peripheral affairs of campus life. Both
have carefully conceived platforms which they have articulated well.
Miller has made several innovative proposals. He has suggested that a"
periodic "shit sheet" be pasted on the inside of bathroom stall doors arid
above urinals in dormitories to keep students abreast of the activities of
Student Government: He has also recommended that the profits of
dormitory pinball machines be given to the dormitories rather than to the
Student Stores.
Moss suggests a forum made up of the student members of various
Chancellor's committees to insure "more responsible representation." He
also proposes closed-circuit broadcasts of basketball games into Memorial
Hall.
Both Moss and Miller support the bus system as the only immediate
solution to the campus parking problems.
Either candidate could make a very successful student body president. We
favor Miller, primarily because he seems to be the more enthusiastic
candidate. The president must be able to excite people working for him in
order to accomplish even the most modest goals. The executive budget is
small, and enthusiasm must make up the difference.
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84th Year of Editorial Freedom
Alan Murray
Editor
Joni Peters
Managing Editor
Dan Fesperman
News Editor
Thomas Ward
Features and Freelance
Merrill Rose
Arts and Entertainment
Grant Vosburgh
Sports Editor
Charles Hardy
Photography Editor
Rob Rosiello
Wire Editor
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Nancy Sylvia. Subscription managers: Dan Smigrod. David Rights.
Advertising: Philip Atkins, manager; Dan Collins, sales manager; Carol Bedsole. Ann Clarke,
Julie Coston. Cynthia Lesley, Anne Sherrill and Melanie Stokes.
Composition Editor: Reid Tuvim. Circulation Managers: Tim Bryan and Pat Dixon.
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during tne regular academic year.
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Gregory Nye
Associate Editor
News: Keith Hollar, assistant editor; Ueff Cohen, Marshall
Evans. Chris Fuller, Mary Gardner, Russell Gardner, Toni
Gilbert. Jack Greenspan, Tony Gunn, Nancy Hartis, Charlene
Havnaer, Jaci Hughes, Will Jones. Mark Lazenby, Pete
Masterman, Vernon Mays. Karen Millers, Linda Morris, Chip
Pearsall. Elliott Potter, Mary Anne Rhyne, Laura Seism, Leslie
Seism, David Stacks. Elizabeth Swaringen, Patti Tush, Merton
Vance, Mike Wade and Tom Watkins.
News Desk: Ben Cornelius, assistant managing editor. Copy
editors: Richard Barron, Beth Blake. Vicki Daniels, Robert Feke,
Chip Highsmith, Jay Jennings, Frank Moore, Jeanne Newsom,
Katherine Oakley, Karen Oates, Evelyn Sahr. Karen Southern,
Melinda Stovall, Merri Beth Tice. Larry Tupler and Ken
Williamson.
Sports: Gene Upchurch, assistant editor; Kevin Barris, Dede
Biles, Skip Foreman.Tod Hughes, David Kirk, Pete Mitchell. Joe
Morgan, Lee Pace, Ken Roberts, David Squires, Will Wilson and
Isabel Worthy. ,
Arts and Entertainment: Betsy Brown, assistant editor; Bob
Brueckner. Chip Ensslin. Marianne Hansen, Jeff Hoffman, Kim
Jenkins. Bill Kruck, Libby Lewis, Larry Shore and PhredVultee.
Graphic Arts: Cartoonists: Allen Edwards, Cliff Marley and Lee
Poole. Photographers: Bruce Clarke, Allen Jernigan, Bill Russ '
and Rouse Wilson.
Kaleidoscope: Melissa Swicegood.
N.C.. the Daily Tar Heel publishes weekdays .
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By THOMAS WARD
. Looking back can be a precarious habit.
Runners lose races when they do it. Humans
lose their youth. And college graduates lose
their summer ."experiences.'
Still, we often look back. . .
. At 1 8, he came to college to avoid absurd
adult questions about his future and to meet
a cheerleader. (His high school football
coach had always preached simple, tangible
goals.) Besides, it was easier to meander with
the herd. And should any sense be made of it
all in the next four years, so let it be.
I n the fall of 1 973, he began to copy quotes
which made him wonder why.
"1 want you to know that I have no
intention whatever of walking away from the
job that the American people elected me to
do for the people of the United States."
Richard M. Nixon
"When I was young I used to think girls
were like buses another one would be
along in five minutes."
anonymous
"God didn't make the world in seven days.
H e laid around for six and then pulled an all
nighter." -
anonymous,
"When angry count to four; when very
angry, swear."
Mark Twain
"Always alone in the midst of people, I
return home in order to give myself up with
iWSw !
l.mwK X CAN ...
letters to the editor
Avoiding traps of 'homo politicus'
To the editor:
I am a retired student politico.
Let me emphasize that word retired: I am
not running for anything this spring.
However, I have spent the greater part of my
undergraduate years running for and serving
in different roles in student government.
Now. as a senior, haying been things and
seen places, 1 feel qualified to offer some
words of warning about the campaign
rhetoric of candidates for student body
president. So please get out your grains of
salt.
To pick his her way through the
campaign jungle, the intelligent voter must
learn to identify and avoid the cleverest traps
devised by the mind of homo politicus. Some
of the more common devices are exemplified
by the following examples culled from this
year's campaign.
have worked . . . in the following
positions . . . Beware of candidates who list
the positions they have held but fail to
mention what they have accomplished (or
failed to accomplish) in those offices.
(The candidate) said his lack of direct
involvement in (student government) in the
past will be advantageous. Although it can't
rival the federal bureaucracy student
government is still a complex beast, with
multiple ties to other student groups, the
town and the University administration.
This candidate probably won't know how to
avoid repeating the same mistakes that have
been made in the past.
... End averaging Incompletes as
Fs . . . Beware deception! The candidates
using this issue don't mean that you could
take an incomplete in a course and never
make it up. Under their proposal,
incompletes simply wouldn't be allowed to
spoil the looks of your grade average
between the time you take them and the" time
you made them up a purely cosmetic
change.
... academics . . . parking . . .
housing . . .. communications . . . Too
many candidates throw around catchy issue
words without explaining how they would
bring about changes in these areas.
. . . Cutting in half Student
Government officers' salaries of
$4,200
This may sound like a great sum to us poor
students, but in fact it represents only about
a one per cent savings out of the student
government budget. That may be a nice idea
but shouldn't be taken as an indication of
major budget overhaul. Candidates
frequently dangle such comparatively small
amounts in front of money-starved student -groups.
However. $2, 100 doesn't go very far
among the dozens of campus organizations
needing funds. ,
. . . beer sales on campus . , . From
the North Carolina General Assembly?
Many proposals, like this one, belong in the
Blue Sky Party's platform, along with that
giant Carolina-blue geodesic dome..
Do these issues sound familiar? They
unspeakable melancholy to my dreams.
How do 1 regard life today? 1 give way to
thoughts of death "
Napeoleon Bonaparte at 17
"If God did not exist, it would be
necessary to invent him."
Voltaire
And so it went for the college student iri
no set direction, at no set pace. Not that such
a situation was bad, however. College
allowed him to play in a game where the
score didn't matter much.
College administrators spoke of grade
inflation in 1 974, his sophomore year, but
Lewis Carroll had already spoken about that
in Alice in Wonderland:
'All Must Have Prizes'
"First it marked out the race-course, in a
sort , of circle ('the exact shape doesn't
matter,' it said), and then all the party were
placed along the course, here and there.
There was 'One, two, three, and away!' but
they began running when they liked, and left
off when they liked, so that it was not easy to
know when the race was over. However,
when they had been running for half-an-hour
or so. . .the Dodo suddenly called out,
'The race is over!' and they all crowded
round it, panting and asking, 'But who has
won?'. . . At last the Dodo said, 'Everybody
has won, and all must have prizes."'
Later in the college student's sophomore
year...
"It's better to be dead in this country
(America) than not have money."
a 1912 immigrant to his son
1 TMfMK t CAM ... 1 "THINK t CAN,. . '
should; they've been around long enough to
have been dug out of the Old Well.
I hope that no one mistakes my skepticism
for cynicism. There are nuggets of
inspiration and sincerity in any student
campaign, including this one. Sometimes
they're hard to find, but I think that it's
worth the effort. I believe that if we students
look hard enough for a good candidate, we
can usually find and select one with some
potential for representing us effectively.
Everyone else will have to judge that idea for
themselves. .
Dan Besse
4-E University Gardens
' GPSF endorses Moss, York
To the editor:
Of all the candidates running for
campuswide office only two have shown an
interest in graduate and professional
students as a whole. These two candidates
have sought information and advice from
the office of the Graduate and Professional
Student Federation. They have appeared in
person before the Federation to justify their
platforms. They have made an effort to open
channels of communication between
themselves and individual graduate and
professional students. These two candidates
are:
Bill Moss for student body president
Mike.York for editor of the Daily Tar
Heel
This office supports Bill Moss and Mike
York. We are urging all graduate and
professional students to vote for these two
candidates. And we are actively working for
the write-in election of David H ackleman for
president of the Graduate and Professional
Student Federation. We feel that these three
positions are critical to graduate and
professional students.
These candidates have demonstrated their
willingness to go to the people, both to learn
what the problems are and to seek possible
solutions. Our constituency needs these
leaders.
J.. Daniel Lindley. President
Graduate and Professional Student
Federation
(Editor's note: This letter was also signed by
27 Graduate and Professional Student
representatives.)
'Mudslinging' campaign
To the editor: .
There once was a time when elections on
this campus were pretty clean affairs, pitting
the qualifications of one candidate against
those of another. Those days are over.
Strangely enough a change has come to the
Campus Governoring Council (CGC) race.
Brian Wirwicz, a candidate for CGC, is
"When you read about Mark Twain's
Mississippi men and pilots, or Bret Harte's
Western gold miners, they seem more remote
than the cannnibals of the Stone Age. The
reason is simply that they are free human
beings."
George Orwell
In his junior year, the college student was
just as puzzled as before. It was late 1975,
and America the founder of the Atomic
Age promised inflation, an outside chance
at a reasonable job and no more than two
pass-fail courses in any one semester.
"If you see somebody winningall the time,
he isn't gamblinghe's cheating. . .It is like
the Negro in America seeing the White man
win all the time."
Malcolm X
"Woodrow Wilson's 14 points bore me.
Jesus God Almighty only needed 10."
Georges Clemenceau
"Radicals
contemporary
finger."
point the finger and
philosophers study the
Abbie Hoffman
"We walked together in the woods and like
a dog I was befriended."
Paul Simon
"The truest act of courage The strongest
act of manliness Is to sacrifice ourselves In
a totally nonviolent struggle For Justice. To
be a man is to suffer For others. God help us
be men."
Cesar Chavez
waging his campaign by engaging in
"mudslinging."
First, Mr. Wirwicz asserts that Ms.
Schafer has never polled her constituents. If
Mr. Wirwicz knew anything about the CGC
he would know that often the speaker does
not know what bills will be presented 24
hours in advance! An important
qualification for a candidate is good
judgment. The kind which reaches rational
decision in heated situations rather than
"hopping on the bandwagon."
Second, Mr. Wirwicz attacks Ms.
Schafer's attendance record, which shows
that she attended at least 80 per cent of the
meetings. This is a very commendable
record. Mr. Wirwicz should check to see how
many members missed fewer meetings.
Third, Mr. Wirwicz asserts that Ms.
Schafer "did not keep her promise to oppose
CGA funding." Last year, Ms. Schafer
sought to place the CGA under the Human
Sexuality Counseling Service. A solution
which was unworkable. The funding of this
organization was passed by consent and
probably so was the budget as a whole,
though I do not think that anyone would
dare assert that there was not debate on the
funding of any other organization.
If Ms. Schafer supported an annual
student fee increase, she is advocating
something I, as a former CGC member,
recommended in a report to the Council two
years ago! Student fees have been stabilized
since 1957. After UNC's enrollment
stabilized, a few years ago, the number of
organizations kept growing. There is only so
much trimming which can be done to a
budget. If the needs of campus organizations
are to be met an increase is inevitable.
Seldom are individual members of the
Council polled as to their opinions on
student matters. To say that Ms. Schafer has
refused to "commit herself to meaningful
academic reform" fails to consider that. She
just may not have. been asked!
I would like to say that I firmly support
Diane Schafer's candidacy and believe that
she will do a better job if reelected. I urge
residents of Granville South and West to get
behind her and give her your support. Her
record on the CGC is one to be proud of.
Carl R. Fox
2219 Granville South
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to the editor. Letters must be typed,
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Unsigned or initialed columns on this
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Tar Heel. Signed columns or cartoons
represent (he opinion of the individual
contributor only.
The college student was now 22, a senior.
It was the spring of 1,977, and Jimmy Carter
had just been inaugurated as the 39th
President of the United States. Graduation
was just around the next bend. But the
college education and his collection of
quotations still left him wondering why.
"People vote their resentments, not their
appreciation we do not vote for anything
so much as we do against something else."
Muno
"Nobody makes generalizations about life
unless they mean to talk about themselves."
Aldous Huxley
"Fact: That 'ambition' was not considered
a virtue in ancient times, since the word
originated from the Latin meaning 'running
around trying to get votes."
Sydney J. Harris
"Love is really the pursuit of a desired
object, not pursuit by it. Once you've caught
the object there is no longer any reason to ,
love it, to have it hanging around. There
must be other desirable objects out there,
somewhere."
Jules Feiffer
"When the second man appeared on earth
the rights of the first were cut in half. Now
divide yours by the total population and that
explains everything."
anonymous
Thomas Ward is a senior journalism
major from Midland, Tex.
Law interns
need boost
By BRIAN POWERS
A procession of corporate law Firms come
to the law school during the fall recruiting
season. Each strives mightily to differentiate
itself from the many other law firms
practicing the same corporate law.
representing the same corporate clients and
paying the same alluring salary.. The firms
that can afford to send summer job recruiters
to the school will often also pay a student's
expenses to fly to the firm for a second
interview where he or she will be wined and
dined for a day or two. Invariably these firms
restrict their efforts to the small universe of
students with the best grades. Inevitably a
few students will have their pick of several
job offers while the rest of the class doesn't
get a chance for a second interview. Few can
deny that this recruiting system provides an
exciting and valuable' summer experience for
those law students who have the desire and
the resume to work for these types of firms.
But few will pretend that the present
recruiting system serves the needs of a
majority of the law school student body.
The ways and means of the large corporate
law firms offer a sharp contrast to the
recruiting habits of public interest lawyers.
Unable to afford the expenses of recruiting
trips, public interest lawyers must rely on
word of mouth or resort to sending a letter to
the placement office indicating a readiness to
accept applications from law students
interested in working during the summer.
Those students who choose to work in
nontraditional jobs such as for public
interest organizations, legal services offices,
public defenders, civil liberties organizations
and some legislative and government offices
often have low or no salaries, while students
who choose and are lucky enough to get a job
with a private law firm may earn between
$200 and $300 per week.
A law school would be remiss if it failed to
train lawyers skilled in the practice of
commercial law. The need for qualified legal
counsel in the public law field is equally
clear. Legal service offices and other similar
organizations are terribly overburdened.
Unfortunately, economic restraints imposed
by law school indebtedness and and other
commitments discourage many otherwise
interested law students from working in the
public law field.
As a. response to the inequities in the
present summer job market, a group of
second- and third-year law students have
formed an organization called Student
Funded Fellowships. Patterned, after a
program which has operated successfully at
Yale, Harvard and Duke law schools, it is
designed to provide supplementary income
benefits to those students who choose to
work in public-interest related summer jobs
which offer low or no salary. The fellowship
will be funded by voluntary contributions
made by fellow law students. Students whose
professional interests lie outside the public
law field can pledge a small percentage of
their next summer's income to the fund.
Through the fellowships made possible by
these pledges, students whose professional
interests do lie in the public law field will
have increased opportunities to pursue those
interests.
Student Funded Fellowships is a self-help,
communitarian concept. Its design calls for a
student-run administration, student
financing and benefits which run directly
and immediately to fellow students. Given
this orientation, it is hoped that Student
Funded Fellowships can generate a needed
attitude of community among the members
of the student body.
It is. hoped that Student Funded
Fellowships will provide an impetus for this
law school to accelerate its efforts to
encourage its students to enter the public law
field. It also provides a serious challenge to
the sincerity of those who have disparaged
the vocational, commercial or corporate
atmosphere which is said to pervade this law
school. For these and many other reasons,
Student Funded Fellowships is a program
w hich deserves the serious consideration and
financial support of the entire law school.
Brian: Powers is a third year law student
from Massapequa, N.Y.