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Several student groups plan
to stand by their original
endorsements in the race
for student body president.
By John Maberry
Staff Writer
Only two names are left on today’s
student body president ballot, and
endorsements are once again a coveted
commodity for Brad Matthews and
Erica Smiley.
With the exception of Josh Ray, all
former student body president candi
dates plan to endorse Smiley.
Matt Martin, who finished fourth in
the election with 439 votes, is endorsing
Smiley but does not plan to participate
in her campaign. “After looking over the
platforms and ideas, I felt like Erica was
who we needed in office,” Martin said.
Bars Pour Namesake Drinks for SBP Candidates
"Vote for Brad Matthews"
and "The Smiley" are the
newest additions to two
Franklin Street bars' menus,
By Jason Owens
Assistant City Editor
Bottoms up.
Local bars are offering a unique way
to support student body president can
didates Brad Matthews and Erica Smiley
with drinks named after today’s runoff
finalists.
Matthews said a bartender at The
Blue Marlin, located at 201 E. Franklin
St., concocted “Vote for Brad
Matthews,” a mix of coconut rum, cran
berry juice and Crown Royal.
“We wanted to have fun and give the
campaign a lighter side,” Matthews said.
Michal Osterweil, a campaign man
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“Although I will be supporting her, I
will not be working for her. My campaign
has taken so much of my time that I’m
almost two months behind academically.”
Preston Smith, who finished fifth in
the election with 173 votes, gave an
emphatic endorsement of Smiley as well.
“My campaign was actually
split. My personal endorsement
and not my campaign (staff’s)
is Erica Smiley. ”
Michael Harris
Former Student Body President Candidate
“To anyone who
is voting on
Tuesday, please go
vote for Smiley,”
Smith said. “She
has a vision. She’s
not an ingrained
politician - she’s
quality.”
Michael Harris,
who finished sixth
in the student body
president race, is offering more than just
his endorsement. He plans to aid Smiley
directly in her campaigning if she asks
him to do so.
“My campaign was actually split. My
ager for Smiley, said “The Smiley,”
offered at W.B. Yeats at 306-G W.
Franklin St., was not an official cam
paign strategy, but the idea of a Smiley
supporter who wanted to reach out to
the bar scene in Chapel Hill.
“We know about it,” she said. “A sup
porter decided it would be something
cute.”
Osterweil was quick to point out that
nondrinkers could also take part in sup
porting Smiley at W.B. Yeats. “There’s a
nonalcoholic ‘Smiley’ as well,” she said.
Larry Wetterer, general manager of
W.B. Yeats, would not disclose the ingre
dients of “The Smiley,” claiming it was
his own recipe, only for use at the bar.
“It’s the house secret,” he said.
Normally 1 would pour the drink at the
bar, but... I’m hiding it.”
The drink is a single shot of mixed
spirits and has a sweet, creamy taste.
Wetterer confessed that Irish Cream
was one of the ingredients, but would
Guisewite and other fans of Charles
Schulz remembered the “Peanuts” cre
ator Monday as a humble genius who
never realized until his dying days how
much the world loved him.
The timing of Schulz’s death from
colon cancer nine days ago, just as his
final strip was being published, was no
coincidence, said Amy Johnson, one of
his five children.
“He was taken from this world to the
next at the most sacred of moments for
him because he earned it,” she told the
audience of more than 2,000, which
filled an arts center in the town where
Schulz lived for more than half of his 77
years.
Schulz’s widow, Jeanne, said the
world’s most widely syndicated car
toonist was a humble artist who never
realized how beloved his creations were
until after he decided in November that
personal endorsement and not my cam
paign (staff’s) is Erica Smiley,” Harris
said. “I don’t know what capacity I’ll
help her in, but if she asks for my assis
tance and it’s something I can fit into my
schedule, I would say yes.”
Josh Ray, who placed seventh in last
Tuesday’s election,
chose not to
endorse either of
the candidates in
the runoff.
“If there were
any student body
president candi
dates, I would
endorse them, but
since they are all
politicians I
choose to endorse no one,” he said.
Many organizations plan to stand by
their original endorsements, including
the Black Student Movement, which
continues to support Smiley.
not give any more of the secret away to
the public.
Wetterer said the drink did not repre
sent any type of political support for
Smiley, but was more for fun.
“(Smiley’s
friends) asked us to
make up a shot for
her,” he said. “We
have no political
affiliations to
UNC.”
He said he had
never even seen
Smiley at the bar
and did not know
what she looked
like.
“It’s the house secret.
Normally I would pour
the drink at the bar, but...
I’m hiding it. ”
Larry Wetterer
W.B. Yeats General Manager
Michael Shepard, owner of
Goodfellows, located at 149-1/2 E.
Franklin St., said the bar had considered
creating a drink for the student body
president race, but decided against it to
avoid getting involved in the election.
he was too ill to continue the strip.
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Blue & White, Sangam - the South
Asian awareness organization and
Young Democrats maintain their
endorsements of Brad Matthews.
The Carolina Hispanic Association,
which originally endorsed candidate
Michael Harris, is not planning an
endorsement for the runoff.
Smiley expressed appreciation for the
endorsements of her former opponents.
“I’m thrilled that they share our
vision to make student government
inclusive. I’m ecstatic,” she said.
Matthews said he did not feel that
Smiley’s newfound support will harm
his campaign.
“It won’t hurt my campaign at all,” he
said. “We’re in the runoff, which signifies
that 32 percent of the people supported
my campaign, and we’re hoping for bet
ter numbers on Tuesday.”
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
“We’re not participating in anything
political at the University,” he said.
Matthews said his campaign
came up with the idea to have a special
drink and that “The Smiley” was not
original.
“I heard they
copied the drink,”
he said. “Imitation
is the sincerest
form of flattery.”
Matthews said
he would be on
Franklin Street
tonight, no matter
what happened at
the polls.
“1 will be uptown regardless of the
outcome,” he said.
Smiley could not be reached for com
ment.
The City Editor can be reached
at citydesk@unc.edu.
Catholic and Methodist churches, the
“Peace for Vieques” march repudiated
an agreement between Gov. Pedro
Rossello and President Clinton to
resume limited training on Vieques, the
Navy’s prize Atlantic fleet bombing
range. Police Chief Pedro Toledo esti
mated the crowd at 8,5,000.
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swept down Alpine slopes at the height
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In Italy, back-to-back avalanches in
the northern Venosta Valley trapped a
group of seven Germans and one Italian
skiing on an unauthorized route, alpine
rescue official Luigi Weger said.
Searchers recovered the bodies of
USSA to Maintain
UNC Connections
USSA members intend to
keep close contact with
UNC students in spite of the
school's decision not to join.
By Jason Arthurs
Staff Writer
Although hopes of UNC obtaining
full membership to the United States
Student Association this year might have
died with last week’s referendum vote,
national and local supporters still plan to
involve UNC in future lobbying efforts.
USSA President Kendra Fox-Davis
said that while the referendum did not
pass, the student lobbying group would
continue to work on UNC’s campus
and develop relationships with students.
“Of course, we were very disappoint-
ed,” she said.
“When we lose a
referendum, it tells
us that there is
more work to do.
We just refocus.”
In an uncom
mon defeat Feb.
15, the USSA ref
erendum was
voted down by a
count of 1,883 to
1,255. Sandi
Chapman, a pro
ponent of USSA,
said it usually
passed on cam
puses by 70 per-
USSA supporter
Sandi Chapman
said controversy and
misunderstanding
led to the
referendum's failure.
cent to 80 percent.
Alana Glaser, a UNC sophomore
who worked on the campaign for the
USSA referendum, said it was uncertain
as to whether the referendum would be
on the ballot again next year.
The USSA has tackled issues such as
increasing financial aid grants, addressing
affirmative action and implementing on
campus training programs called GROW.
two women and one man and account
ed for the remaining five skiers, Weger
said. At least one was hospitalized with
severe hypothermia. The valley is about
90 miles from the northern Italian city of
Bolzano.
In Switzerland, police blamed an
avalanche near the popular Davos ski
resort on a German man and his son
who skied into an area of deep snow
despite avalanche warnings.
The two set off a snowslide that cov
ered the father and two Swiss men skiing
farther down the mountain on a pre
pared course, police said.
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Fox-Davis said the USSA represent
ed 300 of the most politically active
schools in the country. The USSA
Board of Directors had included UNC
as a school with which it hoped to
improve relations this year, she said.
The referendum was allowed on the
Feb. 15 ballot only after a petition drive
collected about 2,800 signatures.
After Student Congress Speaker
Mark Kleinschmidt removed the USSA
from the ballot because it did not meet
the required two-thirds vote, the petition
circulated to put the referendum back.
Chapman, a plaintiff in a suit challeng
ing Kleinschmidt’s action, said the USSA
had not had representation from Southern
states since the Civil Rights Movement
She credited the referendum’s failure to
the circumstances which surrounded the
vote. “The voters here had a lot more mis
interpretation and controversy than really
exists,” she said. “I’m disappointed that it
didn’t pass, but it’s certainly not a disaster."
Fox-Davis said USSA wanted to keep
in close contact with UNC students and
have campus representatives attend
USSA conferences.
“We didn’t receive much negative
feedback from the student (USSA repre
sentatives) that were at UNC,” she said.
“The students they talked to agreed very
much with the issues we are working on.”
Glaser said obstacles faced by the ref
erendum prevented its widespread stu
dent approval. “Most students didn’t see
the direct correlation to how these issues
(the USSA supports) affect us all. The
USSA is the only way students can have
a national voice in Congress.”
Glaser said joining die USSA was a
complex issue and proponents had their
hands tied by time constraints after
struggling to get the item on the ballot.
Glaser said, “I was disappointed
because it could have been a good step
in the right direction.”
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
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