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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
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EDITOR'S NOTE: During
his first week at Carolina, ev
ery freshman will almost
certainly encounter some form
of literature from one or both
of the University's student po"
litical parties the Student Par
ty and the University Party,
usually referred to as -the SP
and the UP. In order to help
new students better understand
the function of student politi
cal parties on campus, UP
chairman David Kiel and SP
chairman Bob Wilson, have
prepared the following infor
mation on the campus party
system.)
With the founding of the Uni
versity Party in 1933 and the
rise of the Student Party three
years later, the Carolina cam
pus witnessed the beginning of
what was to become the oldest
and strongest student political
party system in tne nation.
Since then the two political par
ties have dominated the cam
pus political scene.
In the beginning, the only
basic difference separating the
two political parties was that
the University Party drew its
strength primarily from the
fraternities and the Student
Party had its strongest basis of
support in the dormitories.
With some modification, this
situation has existed down to
the present day, although
each party has made major
inroads into the traditional
territory of the other.
World War II had a tremen
dous effect on the party sys
tem. The end of the war saw
a large influx of veterans into
the University. Because most
of them lived in dormitories,
they naturally gravitated to the
Student Party, bringing with
them the activist's conviction
that every problem has its so
lution. The dormitories' need of Stu
dent Government action to
solve many of their problems
and the fraternities' basic con
servative orientation, tended
to reinforce the tendency to
ward an ideological diverg
ence between the two parties.
SP MORE
ACTIVIST-ORIENTED
Consequently, the Student
Party has, generally speaking,
been more activist - oriented
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and outspoken on such issues
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SP Student Government ad
ministrations have generally
tended to be more militant in
their relations with the Uni
versity administration. As a re
sult, SP administrations have
often seen bitter confrontations
develop between the Universi
ty administration and Student
Government over such , issues
as the student judiciary and
student autonomy.
Over the years the Univer
sity Party has adopted a po
sition of, as one person term
ed it, "progressive conserva
tism." Both parties are broad-based
and each has its liberal and
conservative wings. Each par
ty actively seeks new members
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pus and of every political per
suasion. National politics doesn't
seem to play an important
role in the individual's choice
of one of the parties, and both
parties have Democrats and
Republicans alike in leader
ship positions.
UP REPRESENTATIVELY
COMPOSED
The University Party is or
ganized on a representative
system much as are the two
national parties, with each res
idence unit having a certain
number of delegates in the con
vention based on the number
of UP members living in the
residence.
The UP is the larger of the
two parties due partly to the
practice of most fraternities
and sororities actively encour
aging all their members ' to be
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ly to a vigorous campus-wide
membership campaign con
ducted by the party in recent
years.
In the past, party meetings
have been infrequent and par
ty policy has been generally
left up to an Executive Com
mittee elected by the party
membership.
Membarship in the Student
Party is on an individual basis
with each member having one
vote in convention and party
meetings. Meetings are held
.about once every three weeks.
Party policy is largely deter
mined by the party members
in open meeting with the party
leadership exercising consider
able influence.
SMOKE AND STRATEGY
In both parties, the necessity
and secrecy dictates that cam
paign strategy be determined
in the traditional smoke-filled
room among a small group of
party leaders and campaign
workers.
These inner groups are by no
means as elitist- as one might
imagine. It is not at all un
usual for an incoming fresh
man who shows promise as a
party leader, candidate, or
campaign worker to be accept
ed almost immediately into the
innermost leadership circle of
either party.
Competition between the two
parties can be bitter, especial
ly during elections. Neverthe
lss, both parties are sincerely
interested in advancing the wel
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fare of the student body, and the
University, and though their
approaches may be dfiferent,
this mutality of goals makes
for a friendly, if heated, op
position. The parties nominate can
didates for all elective posi
tions established by Student
Government statute, with the
exception of the judiciary
which is made non-partisan by
law. Each party is about
equally effective in putting its
candidates into office.
THE BATTLEGROUND
The main battlefield of the
parties between elections is the
Student Legislature. Although
dominated in recent years by
the Student Party, this year
the 30-man body is split exact
ly even between the two par
ties with a UP Vice President
sitting in the chair.
SP and UP legislators meet
in their respective party cau
cuses before each session of
the body to discuss pending
legislation and the strategy and
position they will take. Though
partv conflict rarely erupts on
the floor, when it does the at
mosphere can be electric as
each side of the aisle votes in
opposition to the other side to
the last man.
WHY HAVE PARTIES
There are those who scorn
the political parties and speak
of "petty partisan politics."
Others concede that the par
ties "are a necessary evil. But
to perspns who have worked
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in Student Government, the
parties are a necessary good.
Without them the conflict of
issues and programs would al
most disappear from campus
political campaigns and elec
tions would be relegated to lit
tle more than glorified popular
ity contests.
It is the parties which the
students hold responsible for
the actions of their elected of
ficials who rarely seek re
election to the same office.
And it is the parties that pro
vide continuity to a govern
mental system that each year
sees a new generation of stu
dents arrive to receive the
mantle of campus citizenship
left by the student generation
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