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Tuesday, April 4, 2000
Dees: Editorship Longtime Goal,
Wants Paper to Go Back to Basics
Matt Dees, candidate for
DTH editor, uses comic relief
to handle the daily stresses
of working in the media.
Bv Stuart Crampton
Staff Writer
Some students choose to attend UNC
because of the oft-cited quality of edu
cation and the worth of a UNC degree.
Others can’t resist the rich Carolina tra
dition.
Matt Dees, on the other hand,
became a Tar Heel so he could land a
thankless job -one requiring long hours,
thick skin and an appetite for stress.
The Daily Tar Heel’s State &
National editor, Dees said he wanted to
be the DTH editor since he was a senior
in high school. “It’s a lot of work, and
the pay’s crappy, but the DTH is the
reason I’m here,” said Dees. “I want to
give back to the paper and get back to
more objectivity and balance in every
thing we do.
“We see ourselves too often as a stu
dent paper, but we need to be a paper
for the whole University.”
A junior from Fayetteville, Dees
understands the value of comic relief
under merciless deadlines. One
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DTH State & National
Editor
Matt Dees
seeks to make the
paper's coverage
more objective.
moment he might
argue the semantic
accuracy of a
front-page head
line. Give him a
minute though,
and he’ll sing
South Park songs
off-key while spin
ning full tilt
around the news
room.
A journalism
and political sci
ence double major,
Dees said he owes
his precision as a
writer and editor to his mother, Beth, a
middle school English teacher. But it was
Dees’ father that nurtured an interest in
politics and the media.
“My dad and 1 are basically political
junkies - that’s how we bond,” Dees
said. "And he makes a lot of criticisms of
the media that I’ve picked up, and so
whenever I’m doing something for the
paper, I ask myself if my dad would
think this was fair.”
Dees plans on a career in newspapers
and will join the editorial board at the
St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times this summer.
“I’ve always been opinionated so 1
might as well get paid for it,” Dees said.
“My dream job would be to write
Editor Selection Profiles
columns in nn boxer shorts from home
by age 30.”
Friendly and driven, Dees has one
friend at the DT H who can relate to
more than just his love of die news.
Managing Editor Cate Doty and
Dees were born just 12 hours apart in
Fayetteville - friends since the seventh
grade, when their lockers were only feet
apart. A decade later, the two friends are
the candidates for the helm of the DTH
and prove that opposites attract.
“We have our political differences -
she is more of a free spirit, and I’m
more conservative,” Dees said.
"1 can remember giving her a Rush
Limbaugh book as a joke before she
gave me a book bv (British feminist)
Mary Wollstonecraft. Neither one of us
read the other’s book, but it’s funny
because we’ve always kind of chal
lenged each other.”
Challenging his fellow staffers and
writers is something for which he has a
knack, knowing when to push for
improvements arid when to push harder.
“It really does pain me to hear peo
ple criticize the DTH,” he said. “1 can
understand where it conies from, and
that’s why 1 want to improve conimuni
ty perceptions and take us to anew
level.”
The Features Editor can be reached
at features@unc.edu.
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Doty: Staffers Need More Training;
Continue Outreach to Community
Cate Doty, candidate for
DTH editor, de-stresses by
attending local jazz concerts
and heading to the beach.
By Shari Crampton
Staff Writer
Adhering to an accepted tribal lingo
in the office, she sometimes punctuates
her sentences with a charismatic “yo.”
She has also been known to dance
shamelessly to the Sanford and Son
theme song in front of fellow students.
But behind the laid-back demeanor,
Managing Editor Cate Doty is a driven
sophomore who’s eager to take the helm
of The Daily Tar Heel.
A native of Fayetteville, Doty’s posi
tion has afforded her an overarching
insight into the daily grind of the DTH,
Although she’ll openly joke about why
she would want “less of a life and more
stress,” Doty's decision to apply for edi
tor of the DTH is one that’s fueled by a
sense of accomplishment each time she
helps put the paper to bed.
“1 get to see UNC history while it's
happening, and that's the incredible part
of working for the paper,” Doty said.
A natural people-person with a dis
arming smile, Doty said her work at the
DTH this year has taught her how to
edit with each staff
writer and adjust
how she gives crit
icism.
Doty recog
nizes that the
DTH is one of the
best college dailies
in the country, but
she knows there’s
room for
improvement.
Some areas she
aims to work with
are the quality of
writing, the depth
of reporting and
DTH Managing Editor
Cate Doty
said she believed
the DTH could be
a 24-hour news
source online.
the up-to-the-minute capabilities of the
online edition.
“One of our weaknesses is that we
know we’re a good news source, but we
could be a 24-hour news source online,”
Doty said.
A jealous mistress for Doty, the DTH
consumes a large part of her day and
deprives her of several hours of sleep
each week. She doesn’t mind though.
Nor does she fail to keep a life outside
the DTH.
Majoring in history and journalism
and fluent in French, Doty takes refuge
from school pressures and the newspa
per by catching live jazz shows at
Weaver Street Market in Carrboro and
heading to the beach when she can.
Campus Calendar
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7 p.m. - The Peer Mentoring
Program will hold an interest meeting
in 111 Murphey Hall for all students
who would like to serve as mentors to
incoming freshmen.
7 p.m. - Lee Sustar, member of the
International Socialist Organization’s
National Steering Committee, will give
a talk on “Why You Should Bea
Socialist,” in 431 Greenlaw Hall. The
event is open to the public.
Wednesday
3 p.m. to 6 p.m. - There will be a
last-chance tax seminar for all interna
tional students and scholars in 104
Howell Hall.
3:30 p.m. - Dr. Ned Block from New
York University will deliver a lecture on
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“I also try to make sure I keep good
friends outside the DTH,” Doty said. “I
love my friends at the paper, but outside
friends help keep me sane.”
Doing everything from reporting to
designing ads, Doty interned as a jack of
all trades at a community newspaper in
Spring Hope last summer. After all that
she learned there, Doty is more sure
than ever that she wants to be a journal
ism professor and possibly a publisher.
Doty took a year off from school
before transferring to UNC from
Barnard College in New York City. She
made the move because she liked the
feel of the campus and knew friends
who were enrolled at UNC.
Doty continues to look for a job for
this summer, but said if she was selected
editor she would get to work immedi
ately to prepare the DTH for next year.
Citing the 22 seniors who will leave
vacancies at the paper after graduation,
Doty said next year would be particu
larly challenging, but it’s an adventure
that she’s ready to take up.
“It’s intriguing to me how you can
pull the less-experienced people up to
another level,” Doty said. “It’s reward
ing to help them see what they do
because the DTH is a learning experi
ence about working with people.”
The Features Editor can be reached at
features@unc.edu.
by Department of Philosophy in 112
Davie Hall. Admission is free.
5 p.m. to 6 p.m. - Donate Life:
Marrow Typing Organization, will
hold an informational meeting for
minority campus groups in Union
208-209.
For more information, please contact
donatelife@listserv.oit.unc.edu.
6 p.m. - The Management and
Society Association will hold its meet
ing in Union 212 to elect officers for
next year. T he meeting will also feature
Chanda Douglas, director for human
resources at Piedmont Health Services,
as a speaker. Refreshments will be
provided.
For the Record
In Monday’s article titled “Game
Crowd Floods Downtown," the restau
rant 23 received a citation for Over-
Crowding, not 23 Steps.
The Daily Tar Heel regrets the error.