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Thursday, February 24, 2000
Matthews Wastes No Time on Day 1
By Jessica Joye
Staff Writer
One day after he convincingly cap
turing the student body presidency.
Brad Matthews began fulfilling his elec-
tion night promise
to begin work
immediately.
Matthews said
Wednesday night
that he had
already received
preliminary
approval for a
central set of mail
boxes in the
Union for all campus groups.
The mailbox plan is a key compo
nent of Matthew’s goal to boost campus
communication.
Organization is crucial to getting
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started on the right
foot, Matthews
said. “The steps
have to be in the
right order if I
want to get every
thing done.”
Matthews said
his No. 1 priority
was to thank the
people who led
him to the presi
dency.
One of the first
things he did after
winning the elec
tion was make a
President-elect
Brad Matthews
said organization
and communication
were keys to starting
his administration.
list of the people he needed to call and
thank, he said.
After completing these calls,
iVlatthews said he would turn his atten
tion to the basics.
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“Right now, I’m focused on the logis
tics of the office, some of the nitty-grit
ty stuff,” Matthews said.
This includes setting up his Cabinet,
developing a timeline and easing his
way into the presidency.
In order to ensure a smooth transi
tion into office, Matthews plans to work
closely with Student Body President Nic
Heinke in the upcoming weeks.
“Nic and 1 plan to meet tomorrow or
Friday to discuss transition plans,”
Matthews said.
He said Heinke’s administration had
also offered its help and support in
working on the presidential transition.
Matthews said he planned to have
many conversations with Heinke about
the various issues facing the student gov
ernment, such as tuition.
He said he also would organize a
team that would help publicize Cabinet
positions and begin to write the appli
cations.
“Once I get my team together, we
will begin working on a timeline.”
Matthews said he vowed to uphold
his campaign promise of communicat
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ing with students. He said he would still
knock on doors and remain visible all
over campus.
“As soon as the applications (for the
Cabinet) are ready, I'll be personally
handing them out around campus,” he
said.
Matthews said he planned to incor
porate his opponent Erica Smiley’s idea
that government should be accessible to
all students.
He said his Cabinet would include
people from his campaign as well as stu
dents from a wide variety of groups.
This way the student body will be able
to identify with the government,
Matthews said.
Matthews encouraged anyone who
was interested in working for his admin
istration to contact him.
“I want to recruit people from as
large a group as possible,” he said.
“I want to hear from students who
haven’t spoken up. I want to know what
they want.”
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Smiley Stays Steadfast
In Activism, Optimism
By Harmony Johnson
Staff Writer
Despite her loss to Brad Matthews on
Tuesday, former student body president
candidate Erica Smiley said she would
remain a visible campus activist.
Smiley said she
stili planned to
fight for educa
tional access,
especially in the
fight against a pro
posed UNC
tuition increase.
Asa member
of the Campaign
for Educational
Access, Smiley
helped spearhead
a large-scale stu
dent activist
movement against
tuition increases.
“I’m still going
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Former candidate
Erica Smiley
said she might run
again in future
student elections
despite her defeat.
to be here,” Smiley said. “I’m still going
to promote positive change, whether it
be through student government or other
organizations.”
But Smiley said she probably would
not accept a position on the executive
branch if Matthews were to offer her
one.
“I wouldn’t want a position in that
office just because I wouldn’t want to be
a part of that system,” she said.
Although Smiley said this year’s elec
tion campaign was “really draining,” she
did not completely rule out the possibil-
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Smiley said she was pleased with this
year’s campaign. “We got a lot farther
than people thought we would,” she said.
Michal Osterweil, one of Smiley’s
campaign managers, echoed her senti
ments. “It’s amazing how far we came
and how much support we received,”
she said.
Smiley garnered many endorse
ments, including those from The Daily
Tar Heel and the Black Student
Movement, along with 1,338 of the run
off election votes.
Osterweil attributed Smiley’s loss to
the fact that many students were not
ready for the change agenda set forth in
her platform. “It’s hard to take the vic
tory when things have been a certain
way for so long,” she said.
One of Smiley’s core platform goals
was to diversify the makeup of student
government.
Osterweil said the campaign inspired
many students to re-evaluate their ideas
about campus politics.
“People made connections between a
student government that would repre
sent them and a student government
that would take strong stances against
issues that affect them,” she said.
Negative campaign tactics also con
tributed to the loss, Smiley said.
“1 think when they realized how close
we had gotten (to winning), resistance
came out in full effect.”
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