The Daily Tar HeelMonday, February 12, 19901 1
As I have served the Residence Hall
Association (RHA) for three consecu
tive years first as a Spencer Hall
Representative, then as Spencer Dorm
President and currently as STOW Area
Governor I have gathered the neces
sary information, knowledge and expe
rience to be the president that the Resi
dent I lall Association now needs. 1 lence
our slogan: "Committment Through
E.jerience." 1 am committed to repre
senting and serving the residents on the
numerous issues that face those of us
who live on campus.
-The first issue that must be addressed
is safety and security. My goal to incor
porate SAFE Escort into RHA would
allow residents to feel safe within their
homes. SAFEi Escort's inclusion in
RHA would guarantee consistent and
effective service for each area on cam
pus, including Granville Towers. Each
aiva w ill have its own coordinator, who
wnll sit on an Escort committee, and be
responsible for recruitment, publicity
and serving their area's unique needs.
This committee will also investigate
w ays to incorporate the L Shuttle into
the Escort service.
A second issue is to expand existing
recycling programs w ithin all dorms to
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Most candidates for student body
president have a lot of trouble thinking
up catchy slogans. Mine was no trouble:
A Commitment to Service. A commit
ment to service sums up how I feel
about student government. In the last
several weeks of the campaign, I've
talked to many of you about what you
want from Carolina. The issues that
I'm talking about are important be
cause they're important to you.
These are several areas that I'm
particularly concerned about:
Educational Services:
Create a better advising system.
Enhance minority student and
faculty recruitment and retention.
v Develop a 24-hour study and
computer center.
' Support academic minor option.
' Food Seniccs:
Develop a downtown meal card
option.
' Establish an open food court
(independent franchises) in Lenoir.
Financial Services:
, -j Secure more graduate teaching
assistant funds.
' ' Increase financial aid opportuni
ties. Boost Day care option for stu
dents with children.
Support tuition defense initiative.
Student Scn ices:
Reduce cashier's and Financial
Student government. Notice the first
word of this phrase: student. That word
should echo the reality that student
government is only student government
w hen students are involved. Yet, should
students get involved? Will it make a
difference? Will involvement help? One
.would hope the answer is "Yes" to all
these questions or the efforts of student
.government are in vain. I make the
Argument that there is a distinction in
making a difference and making an
effective difference. My '7 point plan'
pan make an effective difference.
t Community Outreach. We are
roughly 200 years old and so is this
community. We need to give strong
attention to our relationship with the
community. What better way of build
frig this relationship than setting up a
Community-Associated Work Study
"Program to supplement ourcurrent work
study program. Or extending the hours
of bus routes from 1 2 a.m. to 2 a.m. to
help students in apartments who want
to study longer on campus or relax
longer on Franklin Street.
Administrative Relations. Why not
focus more efforts on fortifying the
relationship with student government
and administrative members? Why not
. The top of every DTH says "serving
.the students and University commu
nity since 1893." That's not as true as it
used to be. The DTH's performance is
not meeting the needs and expectations
of this campus as w ell as it could. We
want a chance to change that.
Between the two of us, we have
worked as city editor. Omnibus editor,
design editor, assistant city editor, edi
torial page assistant and staff writer.
These positions have given us a unique,
chance to participate in every aspect of
the DTH, from calling sources to put
ting a finished story on the page and
.everything in between. With this be
hind us, we have the practical know
how as well as the tlexibility to make
these changes:
Eliminate board opinions except on
'trie rare issues crucial to the entire
University community.
';' .Create a forum editor to organize
fetters to the editor and to solicit opin
.ions from students and faculty, espe
cially from those who traditionally have
pot had a voice in the DTH.
' ''Create an ombudsman to deal objec
. Jtiyely with the concerns of readers
" through regular office hours and accu
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include glass and paper, as well as to
further current aluminum can recycling.
The need and desire to recycle is evi
dent among residents at this time. In
order to ensure a successful program
RHA will join in efforts to place a
recycling center on campus.
A third issue is energy conservation.
Due to increased utilities, the Housing
Department has found it necessary to
increase rent rates to cover its costs. In
attempts to prevent a permanent rate
increase a full scale conservation pro
gram will be launched to increase resi
dents' awareness. Residents need to
realize that they are spending their own
money when they waste energy.
Another important issue is the need
to expand the position of executive
assistant for minority affairs. This will
allow RHA to develop programming
that appeals not only to minorities, but
to the residents as a whole, allowing
more interaction and education con
cerning other cultures.
Finally, I am committed to repre
senting the residents on issues that will
arise in the future, and those that have
been dealt with in the past and will
require continued input from RHA.
Some of these issues include parking.
aid lines.
Work with administration to pro
vide larger facilities and more resources
for the Black Cultural Center.
Develop more parking options.
Boost recycling and environ
mental planning.
Obtain more campus security and
lighting.
Establish Student Government
liaison with the Orange County Board
of Commissioners.
Just a quick note. Food Service is one
of the most important concerns of stu
dents, and one that I'm asked the most
about. All of us eat, many of us in
Lenoir or Chase. That is why I am
committed to providing UNC students
with high quality food at reasonable
prices. And this is also why we need a
wide variety of food choices. As a stu
dent congressman, I have been research
ing these problems, talking with ad
ministrators, but most importantly talk
ing with you. When Marriott's contract
expires next year, students will play a
major role in determining the future of
our campus food service. Join me in
advocating bringing independent food
franchises to UNC. But this is not
enough. Variety of food choices is just
as important. That's why I'm working
on a plan with the Downtown Commis
sion to establish a separate downtown
meal card that can be used at all local
set up an administrative liaison posi
tion in the executive branch of student
government like my role on Student
Congress? Effective government in
cludes good administrative relations.
Minority Concerns. Diversity is the
key to the success of a university. What
better way to diversify our campus than
bringing more Native American pro
fessors here and helping the Black
Cultural Center bring the campus to
gether through programs that are of
fered. What better way to stay diversi
fied than student government having a
role in minority concerns.
Inter-student Government. We are
inevitably linked to 15 other schools in
our 16-university system. First, our
relationship with those other universi
ties has to be strong to enable us to
battle tuition raises and low teacher
pay. State legislators stand up and lis
ten more so to a whole system than to a
part of the system. We need to make
sure we are a strong part of that 16
university system.
Financial Education Support. Stu
dent government should continue strong
advocation for more financial support
of students. Yet, also student govern
racy checks. The ombudsman would
also recruit new writers including mi
norities and non-joumalism majors.
Expand sports coverage to include a
Sports Friday featuring graphics and
previews for non-revenue events as well
as basketball and football. In addition,
publish intramural championship re
sults and club sports' standings and
schedules.
Place national news briefs on the
front page in a small column on the left
side. This would not detract from Uni
versity news, but would ensure more
complete coverage of national events in
a consistent and easy-to-read format.
Abolish the managing and business
editors. The managing editor's tasks
would transfer easily to the ombuds
man, who would focus on the needs of
the community as well as the internal
needs of the DTH. Business stories
would be handled in a more timely
fashion through day-to-day coverage
by the city and other news desks.
Break up the arts and features desk,
since coverage of the theater, arts events.
Focus page and general features are
extremely difficult for one editor to
the installation of cable in the dorms
and guaranteed sophomore housing.
Residents deserve parking spaces on
campus, near their dorms, and RHA is
in a position to aid residents in obtain
ing these, through efforts such as rep
resentation on the Transportation and
Parking Advisory Committee. The
question of cable installation in the
dorms has been brought to the fore
front, as the Housing Department con
siders the numerous bids that have been
submitted. The Housing Department
has said that no final decision will be
made without a student mandate. The
means for gathering residents opin
ions on this issue is through RHA.
RHA will ensure that the residents
desires are met, and that Housing fol
lows through on these commitments.
Finally, RHA will examine the results
of guaranteed sophomore housing
closely to secure the best lottery sys
tem for all residents. The knowledge
and commitment necessary to provide
the service and representation that you,
the residents, demand and deserve is
my promise.
Gretchan Diffendal is a junior po
litical science and speech communica
tions major from Charlotte.
restaurants.
I'm really excited about these pro
posals. I wish I had the time (or the
space!) to discuss all of them with each
of you. I've designed my platform so it
can be accomplished within the space
of one year.
My official qualifications for stu
dent body president are simple: in
volvement with student advocacy here
on campus at Carolina, in the Town of
Chapel Hill and across the state. But I
am qualified to be student body presi
dent because I eat in the same cafeteria
as you do, stand in the same lines that
you do, sleep in the dorms just like you.
I see first hand the problems that you
face each day. My experience has given
me the skills to help you overcome the
obstacles that occur at a large public
university. In my opinion, the job of
student body president should be to
bring people together from all parts of
campus, graduate and undergraduate.
Over the next year, I am committed to
serving you and your needs. It's time to
give the student government back to
the students. It's time to return to a
Commitment to Sen'ice.
I would appreciate your vote on Feb.
20.
Mark Bibbs is a sopfwmore political
science and speech communications
major from Kings Mountain.
ment should play a role in the educa
tional support mechanism. T.A.A.B.,
my idea for an advisory board for teach
ing assistants, would do this by helping
students and teaching assistants.
Security. Student government can
play a role in helping funding efforts of
Student Patrol and other security ef
forts. Health. Student government can play
a role in funding efforts of our Student
Health Services program.
The Total Package. A student body
president should be complete in every
aspect. Platform issues are very impor
tant. Yet, a student body president will
represent the students in a variety of
situations that go beyond his or her
platform issues. A student body presi
dent should have the innate ability to
relate well with students and adminis
trators. All of us need each other a
very realistic concept that a student
body president has to have. Without it,
we will only make a difference, not an
effective difference. I have this concept
and I am complete. Allow me to make
a effective difference. Thank you.
Jonathan Martin is a sophomore
economics major from Greensboro.
organize. Previews of theater and art
shows would be covered in Omnibus,
while reviews would run in the DTH.
The features desk could then expand to
cover more news-feature subjects in
cluding health and science issues, reli
gion, recreation and other aspects of
student life.
Improve dialogue with student or
ganizations including the BSM, Cam
pus Y and Greeks through increased
coverage, meetings with the ombuds
man on a regular basis and the forum
editor's efforts to include theirviews in
the DTH.
Working with the news-editorial,
entertainment and advertising aspects
of the DTH has given us the back
ground necessary to make The Daily
Tar Heel more representative of the
University community. We have the
skills to do the job and the experience
to do it well.
Jessica Lanning is a sophomore
journalism major from Raleigh. Kelly
Thompson is a sophomore journalism
and international studies major from
Jefferson, Ore.
Campus Election Platforms '90
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Our student body president plays a
vital role in the system of student self
governance. The responsibilities of the
person holding this job are wide and
varied. Similarly, the needs of this stu
dent body are quite diverse. Given these
facts, the student body president must
be a dynamic leader capable of work
ing with different ideas and people. I
believe that I am the person for this job.
My experience in Student Congress
along with my work with the executive
branch uniquely qualifies me to imple
ment the policies set forth in this plat
form. In order to best serve the students
and represent their needs, I will make
accessibility one of my priorities. I will
accomplish this by extended office
hours, frequent visits to dorm and club
meetings and informal discussions with
student leaders from all organizations.
My platform includes many short-
range, highly feasible projects which
will be carried out within the time frame
of my administration. I will not, how
ever, limit my vision to the 12-month
term, but rather pursue a number of
longer range goals which will serve
students for years to come.
My three-pronged platform of class
room, campus and community inter
ests addresses important concerns.
The two issues regarding class
room and academics that I would most
like to attack are financial aid and teach
ing. Students must fight to maintain the
low cost of education while finding
Broadening educational opportuni
ties inside and outside of the classroom
is the overriding theme of my cam
paign. Surprisingly, this has not been a
popular platform in past years, but I
believe that the single most important
aspect of our college careers is the level
of our academic challenge and achieve
ment. The following are five of my
concrete plans to provide new educa
tional outlets and tools for all UNC
students.
My first goal is the creation of a book
entitled "The Indispensable Guide to
Classes."This book will consist of prose
evaluations of each class. It will in
clude descriptions of the expected work
load, the prerequisites and the teaching
style. Without raising student fees at
all, the guide will allow students to
make informed course selections.
My second plan is to develop a co
op. Students at State, Clemson and U Va
have an educational opportunity that
we do not: they are able to spend a
semester working as interns with na
tional companies gaining hands-on
experience, and receiving, in many
cases, academic credit. Companies such
as IBM and Southern Bell have already
expressed interest in having paid in
terns from UNC. These co-op jobs can
and do lead to offers after graduation,
and they tend to put academics in per
spective by showing students what
subjects they need to focus on.
Who cares? In recent years, voting
turnout at student elections has been
nothing short of pathetic.
In the last national election, only 50
percent of the voters in the United States
even bothered to vote.
Campuses should serve as a role
model for the nation, not as a mirror
image. The reason I entered this cam
paign was because simply didn't care.
But as I became more involved with
my campaign, I realized that we need to
In the 97 years that The Daily Tar
Heel has been serving the University
community, it has grown to be an inte
gral part of the campus and town. With
this growth has come increased respon
sibility for the DTH editor. Recogniz
ing that this responsibility calls for
experience, leadership ability, matur
ity and intimate knowledge of the
paper's day-to-day operations, we think
we are the people most qualified to run
the paper for the next year.
The most fundamental components
of the DTH are the news desks and the
editorial page. As such, experience in
these two areas is crucial to success
fully maintaining the quality of the
paper. Bill, having served as state and
national editor, managing editor and
University editor, has experience or
ganizing a news staff, writing and edit
ing news stories and developing story
ideas. Mary Jo, having served as edito
rial page editor for a year, has experi
ence working with an editorial board,
writing and editing signed and board
editorials and determining the compo
sition of the back page.
Given our broad experience in many
different areas of the DTH, we have the
insight to direct the paper's growth and
improvement. We plan to focus on
improving news coverage, specifically
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new sources of financial aid revenue.
The Financial Aid Task Force identi
fied problems and proposed solutions
concerning student aid. The Lomax
administration will work to implement
these programs and secure 100 percent
of trademark licensing revenues for
student aid. My administration will fight
for increased salaries and benefits for
our instructors professors and teach
ing assistants. Working with the Center
for Teaching and Learning, the Lomax
administration will involve students in
orientation and evaluation programs for
international teaching assistants.
The continued physical growth of
our campus is inevitable. Throughout
this process, my administration will
protect student interests including trans
portation, parking and greenspace. In
short, I will do everything I can to
prevent future problems such as those
associated with the Alumni Center.
While the physical development of
our campus is an important matter,
improving the social atmosphere on our
campus will be an even higher priority
for the Lomax administration. I seek to
broaden the cultural horizons of all
students by securing funding for the
Black Cultural Center. I am committed
to finding a permanent home for the
Black Cultural Center. Perhaps with
the completion of a new business school,
the Black Cultural Center can move
into an existing vacated facility.
Project number three is the active
search for a permanent site for the BCC.
I have been studying the idea of placing
the BCC in Howell Hall and feel that
student government can rally a net
work of groups to facilitate this move.
I have also presented the ideas of
combining the BCC with the African
and Afro-American Curriculum. This
would give the BCC the educational
aspect that it desires. Since many stu
dents would take classes in the BCC, it
would not become the segregated build
ing that people fear. All students would
be comfortable wandering in the art
gallery and going to performances in
the auditorium. It would allow cultural
arts to serve as another medium of
education and serve to alleviate racial
tensions on campus.
Not only do I want to promote the
arts as cultural education in the BCC,
but I feel the arts in general should play
a larger role on our campus. I would
like to see a dinner theater evolve; I will
create an Arts Council consisting of
representatives from art oriented or
ganizations; I will support the Union's
Spring Student Fine Art Festival; and I
will go directly to the art, drama and
music departments to ask professors
how student government can best show
case the outstanding work of their stu
dent. Groups like the Pauper Players
prove that there is a very real student
interest in these activities and student
care.
My primary goal is to deal with this
student apathy. I am proposing, as a
first step, a phone-in voting system
933-VOTE. Call in, dial your social
security number, your voter code and
cast your vote. The tools we need for
this are already here.
We could use this same system for a
phone-in drop-add. No lines, no more
Woollen Gym. N.C. State University
has successfully implemented a similar
of city issues. Strengthening this area is
particularly important, because while
the DTH has the largest circulation of
any newspaper in Chapel Hill, city is
sues have too often been overlooked as
a source of news. At the same time.
University issues will remain the
paper's focus, and we will strive for
more thorough and accurate coverage
of campus events.
We would also like to draw more
varied opinions for the editorial page.
By posing weekly questions or issues
to our readers, we hope to solicit a
wider range of opinions and comments
from both sides of an issue.
Facilitating better communication
among staff members is another key
goal we have for the next year. This
includes making it easier for new staff
members to adjust to the working envi
ronment of the DTH, as well as encour
aging open and constructive criticism
among staff members and editors. Al
though this is not something readers
will be directly aware of, it should be
reflected positively in the quality of the
paper.
Deadlines are an important aspect of
a daily newspaper, and the DTH editors
must always focus on meeting them
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I also have a concrete plan to bring
cultural diversity into the classroom by .
hiring top minority scholars. The plan
is quite complex, but in short it will
create an incentive for departments to
hire minority scholars to fill vacated
tenured or tenure-track positions. The
implementation of this program will be
a positive step in creating true institu
tional diversity.
Many areas of student concerns
are best addressed through community
governments. I will therefore create
strong ties to the Board of Governors
and state government. The time has .
come for a student ex-officio member .
of the Board of Governors. My admini- ;
stration will advocate student concerns .
including tuition and higher faculty .
pay to the state legislature.
A concern which all communities
must address is energy conservation.
The Lomax administration will work
with other student groups to maximize
our campus' energy efficiency. In
addition to the conservation benefits,
this effort will alleviate some of the
burden on the university's budget.
On Feb. 20, vote for a dedicated
leader with the energy and vision to
protect students' interests and imple-
ment solutions to the students' prob
lems. On Feb. 20, vote John Lomax.
John Lomax is a junior political
science major from Hickory.
government can help in promotion and
organization.
Finally, this campus is in need of
environmental education. I plan to work
closely with housing and dorm govern
ments to install energy efficient de
vices which will keep dorm rents as low
as possible. Fluorescent lighting, heat
ers which can be turned on and off in
the rooms, weather stripping and more
insulation are some of the options which
should be explored, along with educat
ing students about energy efficiency.
Also in the environmental realm is my
plan to work with SEAC to get all 16
UNC schools to use recycled paper. I
will use recycled paper in the student
government office if elected. , ,
The beauty of these ideas is their
feasibility. Two years of executive
branch work has taught me that know
ing the issues is simply not enough.
Instead, to be an effective student body
president one must have clear, specific
goals. There are, of course, other plans
not included in the above five, which I
have for next year's student govern
ment, but, unfortunately, I do not have
room to describe those in detail here. I
do encourage you to attend a forum to
hear the ideas first hand and to have the
opportunity to question me about them.
Bill Hildebolt is a junior economics
major from Winston-Salem.
system. I see no reason for us not to be
doing the same.
These are not my only concerns. I
strongly support the use of meal cards
at downtown restaurants. I want to
examine the possibilities for improv
ing the situation at the cashier's office.
And I encourage everyone to be nice to
trees.
Mike Strickland is a sophomore
applied sciences major from Fayette
ville. for the paper. But long-range planning
can significantly add quality to the
content and design of the pages. There
fore, we see the position of managing
editor as a source of such long-term
vision. This editor, being free from
day-to-day concerns, will provide a
fresh perspective to the staff in matters
such as design, series ideas and story
development.
Finally, at the top of our agenda will
be the DTH's continued pursuit of
complete and open records from the
UNC police department. It is high time
the public had access to these records in
the same way it has access to municipal
police records. We will continue to
press the University until it ceases to
claim the right to hide criminal acts
about which the public deserves to
know.
We realize that the DTH is one of the
best student newspapers in the country,
but we're not willing to settle for that.
We are seeking the editorship because
we have the qualifications and vision
necessary to keep the DTH at the top of
its field while still moving it forward.
Mary Jo Dunnington is a junior
geography major from Winston-Salem.
William Taggart is a junior journalism
major from Chatham Township, NJ.
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