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Ann Peters. Aform? Efctor
KENMlNGISMaaaatfEitor LlNDA ROBERTSON, Associate Editor
Rachel Perry, unhmity Editor Elaine McClatchey. Projects Editor
Lucy Hood, ca, Editor Teresa Curry, Features Editor
JIM WRINN. State and National Editor JEFF GROVE. Arts Editor
S.L. Trice, Sports Editor Jane Calloway. Weekend Editor
Laura Shfert, Afa Eitor , al Steele, photography Editor
GELAREH ASAYESH, Contributions Editor
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Before you know it, you may not be able to walk into Spanky's, sit down and
order a beer. That's because the movement to increase the drinking age in the
state is getting so strong that there's a definite possibility that the drinking age
for beer and wine may be raised to 21 . To do so would be an overreaction to the
drunk driving problem that may make the problem worse, not better.
Gov. Jim Hunt has proposed a number of changes in the state's drinking laws,
some reasonable, some not. One proposal is to raise the drinking age forbeer
and wine to 19. That would help to accomplish Hunt's goal of keeping beer and
wine out of high schools and away from less mature drivers. Those who argue
that it is a double standard to be a legal adult at 18 and not be able to buy beer
and wine should remember that drinking is a privilege, not a right. Few people
would argue that 18-year-olds should have the right to buy liquor.
Raising the drinking age for beer and wine to 21 , however, would be an over
reaction to the current antidrunk driving trend. Changing the beer and wine
drinking age to 21 does not necessarily mean that fewer people will drive drunk.
Studies have shown that when the drinking age was raised in some states, Mass
achusetts for example, the number of driving under the influence arrests went
up. That was the result of people under 21 driving to bordering states to purchase
alcoholic beverages that they could not buy in their state.
Another reason why the beer and wine drinking age should not be raised to 21
is because of the number of enforcement problems it would create for the police.
With a large number of 18- to 20-year-olds at numerous North Carolina univer
sities and military installations, raising the beer and wine drinking age to 21
would almost be an invitation to break the law. Police and Alcoholic Beverage
Control officials now concerned with stopping 18- to 20-year-olds from drinking
liquor would face an even tougher task: preventing anyone under 21 from drink
ing alcohol. Given the resources and manpower available now, such enforcement
would be nearly impossible.
Raising the beer and wine drinking age to 19 makes sense. Raising it to 21,
however, would create a whole host of additional problems without necessarily
decreasing the problem of drunken driving. But without more political pressure
from 18- to 20-year-olds, there's a good chance your representative may vote to
keep you out of your favorite local pub.
The Bottom Line
"Ask not what your country can
do for you, ask what you can do for
your country," President John F.
Kennedy said. And out of respect for
JFK, liberty and the American Way,
we at the Daily Tar Heel are going to
do- our- part,-We're -closing up the
rag.No 'more -editorials, basketball
stories, or even The Bottom Line.
We at the DTH are putting on our
khakis and going into the air force
supply business. Howard G. Rein
heardt, Chief of Systems at Seymour
Johnson Air Force Base, wrote us
the other day. He has asked us if we
could send back his weapons and of
fice supplies form, SF 129, filled in
with what destructive tools of doom
we can provide. Well, sir, what can
you use? How about something from
DTH group 13, guided missile
warheads? Maybe some explosive
rockets or land mines to wipe out the
commies and preserve peace? Throw
out those typewriters, we can give
you stuff from group 58, Commu
nication Detection and Coherent Ra
diation equipment. The latest in
radar and teletype. So don't go into
the DTH to complain - we might be
practicing with our 30mm guns or
our gun launchers.
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just a front for clandestine opera
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Kevin Monroe
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Jon Reckford
Hugh Reckshun
All the candidates' people
By LIZ LUCAS
A student body presidential candidate does not just
appear from out of the blue, even at Carolina. On the
contrary, hours of hard work and planning by student
workers go into a campaign, building the candidate's im
age and selling that image to the public.
Planning campaign strategy is perhaps the most im
portant part of an election, agree Sam Mitchell, cam
paign manager for Kevin Monroe; Bonnie Fass, cam
paign manager for Jon Reckford; and Randy Walker,
"minister to the people" for Hugh Reckshun.
"Last year I used to think it was silly to have all these
people out working (for the candidates) and the candi
dates going out and trying to meet everyone, but I've
, realized that campaigning is a really important part in
having Student Government work well once the presi
dent is chosen," Fass said. "The people who have met
and supported the candidate will have more confidence
in him once he's elected into office," she said.
Both Mitchell and Fass said that their candidates
began laying the foundation of their campaigns in
December before Christmas break.
"We began talking about policy ideas a long time
ago," Mitchell said. "The actual network of campaign
workers began to form before Christmas, but it's really
just pulling together now."
Reckford's campaign story reads much the same.
"We began planning late last semester when Jon
(Reckford) decided what he wanted to emphasize, and
. we began getting organized before we went home for
break," Fass said. "It's hard even now to say how many
people are working for Jon the network keeps',
building, growing, as he's more exposed."
Reckshun, on the other hand, did not decide to run
for student body president until after returning from
Christmas break, Walker said. "We just decided we
needed a joke candidate for a joke office," he said.
Though Walker is not recruiting a large network of
people to work for Reckshun, support for Reckshun has
increased since the formal announcement of his candi
dacy, Walker said. "There's been a ground swell of grass
root enthusiasm since Hugh (Reckshun) declared his
candidacy," he said.
Each of the campaign managers agreed that budgeting
time was important, yet the amount of time spent work
ing per week on each campaign varied greatly.
Walker, for example, said he and the two others work
ing on Reckshun's campaign had spent two-and-a-half
to three hours a day over the last week campaigning.
Mitchell said he expects to spend all of his time when
he is not in class over the next two weeks campaigning in
some form: phoning people, attending the forums, and
working personally with Monroe.
Fass, however, said that campaigning took much less
time than she expected, 'if everything works well, it
(campaigning) doesn't take too much of my time
there's a lot of planning for Jon to go around person to
person in the dorms and a lot of phoning around,
though," she said, adding that she planned to go to all
the forums to provide constructive criticism for Reck
ford. "It's awfully nice, even so, to know it only lasts a
month," she said.
Other workers recruited for campaigning usually
spend less time actively campaigning than the campaign
managers, but are still an integral part of the campaign
network.
Recruits generally are the ones to do the legwork of
the campaign, including putting up posters, handing out
pamphlets at forums, and going door-to-door trying to
sell their candidates.
Recruiting workers has been more difficult this year
than in the past, said Mitchell.
"It seems this year people haven't been as interested
or excited in campaigning," he said. "It's been hard to
find people to work compared to when I worked on
(Scott) Norberg's campaign."
Fass disagreed.
"It's not that difficult (to find campaign workers),"
she said. "It's become a tradition to have fun cam
paigning everyone just gets gung ho for a couple of
weeks."
Workers are recruited for various reasons, usually
because they feel strongly about their candidate.
"It's not a social thing," Fass said. "Once they (those
working for Reckford) hear him talk and hear his ideas,
they want to get him elected."
Mitchell agreed that the campaign workers for
Monroe, also, were not just friends of the candidate.
"Everyone working for him is convinced he'd do a
tremendous job as student body president they have
confidence in him," Mitchell said.
The campaign managers agreed that the issues sur
rounding this,year's race have kept the usual tension of
the student body presidential race down.
"Sometimes you almost want one big issue to get
things going that's been the hard part of getting peo
ple motivated due to the lack of issues," Fass said.
Even much of the Campus Governing Council is re
maining neutral because of the lack of big issues, Mit
chell said.
"A lot of people are staying out of the election,
especially from the CGC. Few (of the CGC members)
are committed to one candidate," he said.
"It's just not a very intense campaign - not a lot has
gone on," Mitchell said. "Both campaigns have to pick
up. Most people haven't heard a lot about either candi
date." Even Reckshun's campaign crew feels the election
lacks the usual intense issues.
"In this particular election he (Reckshun) has a chance
of getting a lot of votes because it's a dull election he
especially has a chance to get a lot of bagger votes,"
Walker said.
Other than motivating people to work when the issues
of the race are not very moving, none of the campaign
managers has encountered any major organizational
problems.
Mitchell, who has worked on several campus cam
paigns in the past, said that organizing the campaign was
much easier than any other he had worked on.
"The biggest problem we've faced is dealing with the
huge masses of Hugh's supporters," agreed Walker.
And Fass, who has never worked on any campus cam
paign until now, said she had expected much more work.
"It has even been easier than I thought it would be to get
people to commit themselves to work for Jon early in the
campaign."
Liz Lucas, a sophomore journalism major from
Whitakers, N.C., is assistant University editor for The
Daily Tar Heel. M r. .
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icking a candidate: think about it
By JOHN DRESCHER
Now that the candidate forums have started and the
rhetoric is flying from one end of campus to another, it's
time to get serious about evaluating candidates. As a
two-time veteran of campus campaigns, I have been
blessed with the opportunity to hear more than my fan
share of speeches and door-to-door sales pitches.
. I also have heard some interesting reasons why
students vote the way they do. Some vote primarily on
the basis of thoughtful opinions; some vote based on
remarkably astute character and personality judgments;
some vote based on purely personal whims.
There obviously are many methods to evaluate a can
didate and each person does it a bit differently. I always
have looked for some nebulous mixture between a can
didate's stand on the issues and his personal
characteristics. If you are debating for whom to vote in
this year's races, here are a few informal guidelines that
you may want to consider.
The issues. Elections often aren't that different from
barside conversations: be wary of the sweet-talking type
who promises too much. Remember, candidates are only
in office for eight months, a large part of which is spent
in becoming familiar with the job. The candidate who
promises the world is going to be a big disappointment if
elected.
Instead, pick out what you feel to be the two or three
most important issues of the race. Do some research on
the issues, talk to an insider and see how the candidates
stack up against your opinions. In the forums and in
door-to-door campaigning, check out how much time
the candidate spends on the important issues. Check to
see if the candidate has done his homework. Does he talk
in specifics, addressing issues and proposing solutions,
or does he offer a series of vague, circular arguments
that leave one wondering what he said?
Answering questions. It is especially illuminating to
observe how a candidate answers questions. Concise,
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
straightforward answers show a mental sharpness that
will be important to the candidate when elected. I also
always have given points to the candidate who was willing
to offer unpopular opinions at forums, especially to
special interest groups (Residence Hall Association, Pan
Hellenic Council, Black Student Movement,' etc.) that
want candidates to promise them the world in trade for
their endorsement. Taking a true stand on the issues
shows a strength of conviction and realistic view of of
fice. If a candidate can't stand up to a campus organiza
tion, how can he stand up to the chancellor or the
athletic director?
Endorsements. While we're on the topic of en
dorsements, I humbly recommend that one not pay too
much attention to 'them (except, of course, the Daily
TarHeers, which are sent from heaven). Endorsements
are based far more on politicking and personal contacts
than issues and ability to motivate. Instead, look for the
reasons why a candidate was endorsed: they may not
have anything to do with what you are looking for in a
candidate. In all honesty, the same goes for the DTH en
dorsements: the reasoning is more important than the
endorsements
The intangibles. Issues certainly are important. But a
winning candidate must be able to implement his policies
or else he will have little success in office. That's why the
ability to motivate or the personality factor also is im
. portant.
In campus politics more than state or national politics,
the personality factor becomes more important.
Remember, campus politicos that win an election must
then work with people that, unlike big-time politics, are
usually volunteering their services. If they don't enjoy
their jobs, they'll just leave. The office holder can deter
mine whether his workers will enjoy their jobs or not.
Ask yourself: Would you like to work for that can
didate? Of course, that does not mean you have to like a can
didate to vote for him, or that you should vote for the
one you like best. There are other aspects to the per
sonality factor than likability. For one, check out how
the candidate handles pressure. This is especially impor
tant in the student body president and Daily Tar Heel
editor races, because the candidates elected are going to
be getting a lot of it over the next year. Is the candidate
cool, calm and thoughtful under the duress that comes
with a hot and crowded forum? Or is he an emotional,
rude jerk that cuts off questions and argues over petty
points with his competitor? In my first major forum at
Connor dormitory last year, I was overwhelmed by the
size of the crowd and the intenseness of the environ
ment. I was the emotional, rude jerk that cut off ques
tions and argued over petty points with my competitor.
Competitiveness is an admirable quality, but not when it
interferes with rational thought. To this day, everyone in
Henderson Residence College thinks I'm an immature
jerk. I lost that polling site; I wouldn't have voted for me
either.
The last part of the personality factor involves integri
ty and respect. No one wants to work for a conniving
office-holder who's willing to underhandedly twist arms
to get things done. Sometimes it's best to judge a can
didate for what he doesn't say: check to see if the can
didate uses negative campaigning. If a candidate and his
workers really believe in the candidate, there's no need
to even discuss his opponent. And that includes his
workers, because a candidate usually sets the tone for
how his campaign will be conducted.
Of course, it's easy for me to say all these things now.
A year ago I was promising that, if elected, the DTH
would become the best paper south of The Washington
Post. Despite the unavoidable overstatements, I do think
that campus elections are worth having and that there
are good reasons for judging one candidate over
another.
John Drescher, a senior journalism and history major
from Raleigh, is editor of The Daily Tar Heel.
Control Data helps keep apartheid policy alive
To the editor:
Thursday the Control Data corporation
was recruiting on UNC's campus. This
computer firm is one of the 300 U.S. cor
porations operating in the Republic of
South frica, and it is also one of the 1 1
corporations in South Africa that UNC
owns stock in. I feel the students here
should know how Control Data is helping
maintain the apartheid form of govern
ment there.
' In October 1977, Control Data said
that "no U.S. company would advance
its activities to lend support to the
abridgement of human rights anywhere."
In September 1981, Roger Wheeler of
Control Data said that they are selective
in choosing their customers as to prevent
Control Data products from being ujed
for repressive purposes.
These statements are hard to believe,
for in 1979, in defiance of U.S. Depart
ment of Commerce regulations, they sold
a sophisticated computer system to the
South African police which enables the
police to implement the notorious pass
laws the cornerstone of the apartheid
system. Another Control Data computer
is being used in the Randburg munici
pality, located on a "homeland," to solve
problems of control. If Control Data was
truly concerned about their products be
ing used for repressive purposes, they
would stop selling supplies to the South
African government and would pull out
of South Africa.
But this will not happen soon. Control
Data Chairman William Norris said they
would not even consider withdrawing
from South Africa. At a corporate' an
nual meeting last April only 2.7 percent
of those present voted to discontinue
sales to South Africa.
Outside pressure must be used to get
Control Data and other U.S. corpora
tions to leave South Africa. If UNC stu
dents support the divestment referendum
that will come up for a vote soon, the first
step toward the sale of all UNC stock in
corporations in South Africa will be
taken.
Erica J. Caldwell
Chapel Hill
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