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Years have passed since "judicial
reform" has been a goal of Student
Government leaders an unreached
Coal. Out this year for the first time,
a reform bill will be up for student
approval in a referendum
Wednesday, along with the student
body elections.
The proposed reform must be
passed by the students before the
Faculty Council makes the final
approval.
The proposed reform is not
perfect by any means but it would
would be remarkably better than the
present court system. It would be
foolish of students not to pass the
reform in their only chance so far to
change the present inequitable
system.
The reform would eliminate the
"automatic Fs'" given students
convicted of academic violations
under the current system and it
would end the expelling of graduate
students convicted of academic
violations.
All penalties and punishments are
clearly defined in the reform
document, unlike the current court
set-up.
The reform has a statement on
student rights of privacy and
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Most of the eight candiates for eidtor have
advocated better editorials, "new blood" and
student input, improved distribution, and
broader coverage of blacks, women, grad
students. Greeks, athletes and other large
voting blocs on campus. How these
candidates are going to covert these goals
into action is unclear. My campaign has
centered on the following specific actions:
DISTRIBITION OF DTH Increased
circulation and coordination of effort with
the DTH business manager.
EDITORIAL POLICY Establishment
of an editorial pool composed of student
journalists and any interested student and .
the requirement of critical comment in all
editorials.
NEWS FEATURES POLICY Use of
investigative reporting teams for in-depth
reporting. Special training of reporters for
specialized beats to insure intelligible
coverage. Special ofj-campus
correspondents to cover actions in the state
legislature and on other campuses like Duke
and NCCU.
QUALITY CONTROL OF
REPORTING AND WRITING Use of
special journalism seminars conducted by
professionals to revitalize staff concern for
high standards of journalism. Extensive
rewriting and review of material.
Solicitation of outside contributions from
students to prompt staff self-improvement.
Hiring of an ombudsman to respond to
student grievances and increase accessibility
to the editor.
SERVICE TO STUDENTS Utilization
of the DTH forum to expose abuses and
prompt reforms in all areas of university life,
particularly abuses against students as
currently perpetrated by administration
policy-makers and by "student services"
(food service, housing office, infirmary,
etc.).
ENTERTAINMENT Rotation of
entertainment features and of reviews (and
reviewers) on cinema, theatre, books, music,
and other forms of artisitc expression.
As a part-time journalism student, former
high school editor, editorial staff member of
a Chapel Hill publishing company, and
current editor of The DTH Alternative. I
have the requisite background and
knowledge to make the DTH a worthwhile
publication. The DTH should be a vital and
creative force in the UNC community. It is
not now. I hope to make it so.
The editorship of The Daily Tar Heel is a
tough job. It is a job that requires training
and background, coupled with positive ideas
for innovation and improvement.
All candidates for editor want to improve
the paper. Here are some of my ideas for
doing just that:
Improving delivery of the paper.
Distribution is not a simple problem, but 1
am prepared to work with the business
manager to do anything necessary to get the
paper delivered properly.
Improving the editorial page. The
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expression,unlike the present system.
The districts for Honor Court
seats are altered so that they are the
same as the districts of the Campus
Governing Council. This change will
make election of Honor Court
justices much easier and will make it
much easier for students to know
who is representing them.
Probably the most important
changes made in this reform
document is the inclusion of
students on the appeals board. The
present board is composed of three
faculty members, which means there
are now no students to represent
those facing penalties of automatic
Fs and other punishments that affect
students lives directly and
adversely.
The proposed reform would give
students 50 per cent representation
on this board.
The document would also protect
the rights of minorities on campus in
prescribing representation on courts
of minorities and women on trial.
Reform of the judicial system here
has been too long in the making.
Students should do their part to
change the courts that judge them
into fairer and more manageable
groups. Vote for reform
Wednesday.
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editorial page should be a forum for all
campus opinion, not just those of the)77
staff. I will work to give balanced and fair
representation to opinions held by
organizations and students of UNC. By
allowing more voices to be heard, the edit
page will become much more enlightening
and interesting."
Formation of an investigative reporting
staff. There are people on the staff who can
do much more in-depth, news analysis
reporting than is being done now. We will
work to get below the surface and give a
behind-the-scenes look at the news.
Establishment of a news co-op between
newspapers at the Big Four schools and East
Carolina. Carolina students can benefit
greatly from finding out what's going on at
these campuses.
Financial independence for the DTH.
Whoever is elected editor should work
toward this goal. Great strides have been
made toward independence this year, and
we must continue to push for this.
. H aving worked for the D TH at every level
over the past three years (as newswriter,
sports editor, columnist and managing
editor). I Teel 1 have the necessary tools for
the job. In order to improve the paper, the
editor cannot be hindered by a lack of
experience.
The DTH can always stand improvement,
and the paper has potential to be better next
year. But a program for innovation can be
best carried out by someone who has the
knowledge and background to make such a
program work.
Vote for a change
Wednesday . . . change for the better.
Cooper, Turosak
We. Jim Cooper and Greg Turosak, are
running for co-editors of the Tar Heel for
two reasons: one is to improve the paper, and
the other is because of practicality.
Improvement means broadening the
content of the paper and opening it up to
more of the writers on campus. Many people
would like to write, but they feel the Tar Heel
is a closed shop, insensitive to anyone
outside a small group of journalism students.
The idea of a co-cditorship is a change in
itself. Cooper and Turosak provide,
respectively, a non-journalism major who is
not a DTH staff member, and a journalism
major who has been a long-time DTH
staffer. Cooper, a history-economics major,
was co-founder and fiction editor of Cellar
Door. Turosak knows the DTH staff and is
familiar with the technical aspects of the Tar
Heel. As a combination, they provide both
an outside and an inside perspective.
Areas of improvement must include: the
use of varied, intelligent editorials; the
maintaining of a backlog of columns, from
which the best may be chosen;the providing
of more interpretation and explanation; the'
expansion of the Campus Calendar to
accurately reflect what is going on about
campus; having more people distribute the
Tar Heel so it will be out earlier; a change in
application procedure allowing applicants to
choose their own story idea when applying;
and an openness to broader coverage of
ignored areas and groups, in line with our
policy of broadening the backgrounds of
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It's incredible, but true, that freshmen at
UNC are required to live in University
Housing. As legal adults, the students in
residence halls are, across the board,
deprived of rights. Our visitation and co
ed ing policies do not reflect student desires
for living arrangements. Working with the
R HA Housing Alternative Committee
survey, 1 have studied students priorities
and propose a system of alternative lifestyles
to meet student needs. Students at NC State
have informed us that their Administration
is using the recent publicity on room by
room co-eding at Carolina to deny them
progress in this area. One concrete solution
to this is the formation of a Consolidated
University Action Group to educate the
public and develop a pressure group for
implementing change.
The creation of a Program Board,
involving social activities officers, will
provide a means for the exchange of ideas
about social events. Coordination with the
Union could mean that dormitories would
hold receptions for national personalities.
Overcrowding is an issue that must no
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those who work for the paper.
On the practical side, the editorship is a
big job for one person to do well. Two co
editors would have twice the time to manage
the paper, to talk to people, and to read and
do research. With two co-editors, . the
editorials will be more varied since two
writers will be alternating, and the back page
will not be one-sided in its editorial
comment. Pro- and con- opposing editorials
will be written during times of disagreement.
The last time the co-editorship was done
was in 1964-1965. It was also done once
during the fifties. According to one longtime-journalism
professor, it has worked out
very well in the past. There is no reason it
would not work well now.
Day
I'm tired of this campaign and I know the
rest of the student body is. Enough has long
since been said. 1 have a realistic platform
readily available to anyone who hasn't
already seen it and an adequate list of
qualifications. AH that's needed now is a
majority of the votes the first time around
and I'll save us all the trouble of a run-off.
Fawcett
Elections is a time when so many people
"come forth from the woodowrk" to declare
their candidacy for some odd-job. We all
know the constant "promises" campaign of
candidates and the parallelism of their
platforms. Once again we the people of the
Blue Sky Party (BSP) come forth to assure
that promises will be kept. We can promise
anything that other candidates for editor
throw out plus more. A vote for Blue Sky is a
vote for change. What do we mean by
change? Just this: more pictures, more
comics, more "letters." more writers, more
entertainment, more fun, more etc. . . .Using
the theme of "student input," we the people
of Blue Sky can see why voters should go
with BSP for 74-75 and maybe beyond.
Both C.B. Gaines and 1, candidates for
DTH editor on the BSP ticket, can create a
nr,w, more widely wanted paper. A vote for
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longer be tolerated. RHA should plan now
to take legal action against the University if
this situation continues. We know from
previous court cases that there is sufficient
legal justification to stop this atrocity now.
Students do not have power. We only have
our numbers to affect change. It is for this
reason that 1 believe the massive upheaval in
residence halls my opposition proposes is
naive.
We must work for trust-building with the
Housing Department to strike at the one
factor that inhibits our growth. Whether it's
mismanagement of funds or fear of a budget
cut from State Legislature, the crucial reason
for our failures in the past have been
financial. Generally, more can be
accomplished when there's a feeling of trust
than when there's a sense of antagonism.
In my work with the Budget Advisory
Committee, we have built the foundation for
students to set priorities for physical
improvements, and to determine if. when,
and why there is to be a room rent incerase.
The efforts of this committee represents the
first time on this campus a student group has
aided in drawing up the $2.5 million Housing
budget. 1 plan to further RHA's input in
budgetary decisions to insure careful
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one Blue Sky Candidate will insure that the
other will be present for the positive revision
of the DTH. Students must get out and vote
this year to insure' that the DTH will have the
goal of student input. Students should
indeed vote Blue Sky this year in order to
bring the "change machine" into operation.
The previous two years have been good
ones for BSP. In 1972 and 1973, the Blue Sky
candidate for student body president has
won in the primaries. Only because of our
defeat in the runoffs, has the BSP not been
allowed to prove its merits. The BSP has
been widely criticized in the past because of
platforms, annual Town Hall Convention,
and more than anything, because of its anti
politico stand. -
The BSP is truly a unique but outstanding
party of Carolina natives. It has its friends in
Washington and New York, as well as right
here in Blue Heaven. We have tried to
institute a platform that insures that students
will have a voice 'in DTH opinions, thus
preventing another DTH lawsuit. So when
we have our ballots in hand, there are two
things we as citizens of the UNC population
can do: ( I) vote for a BSP candidate or (2)
tear up the ballot, to insure change.
Gaines
Wait a minute! Don't start here. Read
those other guys first. They will tell you what
is wrong with the Tar Heel as it is. Some of
them will even tell you what's wrong with the
other candidates. You know what's wrong
with the paper. And you can draw your own
conclusions about the other candidates. As
for myself. . .
You might be interested in knowing that I
was the editor of a national newsletter. La
Telarana, concerning Chilean affairs. And
I've written. Of course I've written. For the
N.C. Anvil, The Hickory Daily Record, The
Mercersburg (Penn.) Journal, and of course
my high school newspaper and alumni
bulletin. I've also delivered the Greensboro
Daily News on campus, so I know the
mechnaics of good distribution.
And there are lots of things I'm going to
do. You may have heard of some of them. 1)
Free Unclassifieds for personal messages by
students, 2) opinion from professors on
current events topics in their speciality, 3) an
exchange program with college dailies across
the nation, 4) more comics, with a good
serial to follow, 5) plastic papers when it
rains, 6) score box for national league sports
scores. 7) more puzzles including some
drawn by students, 8) sponsor the return of
Jubilee, 9) Boone's Quote of the Day, 10)
much less national news you can get that
from the radio or your own favorite
hometown paper, and 11) more campus
coverage, like residence college parties. Deep
Jonah, concerts and impromptu
happenings, 12) the establishment of a drug
testing clinic.
That's a lot to do. And there's more. There
will be no salary for editor, and a smaller
paid staff. The style will be changed to invite
much more contributions from the student
body. And if I'm elected these other guys
won't go to waste. They will be part cf the
paper, as all students will be. Freewheelin
Franklin will be managing editor.
Due to the interesting and unusual style of
nanacerrent of student room rent monies
and to cjakftJU I A.t.viaJtle.forjsistinj in ail"
residence hall students .complaints.
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Room rents tp 259o in tw o years. Parking
permits set to rise to $45 a semester. Room
by room coed in g in Winston ended without
even a single consultation with students.
Where was the Residence Hall
Association when residence hall students
needed it and more importantly w here will it
be in the year ahead?
The new Residence Hall Association
President must face an awesome
responsibility in helping manage 8,000
dormitory students, 30 residence halls and
within his first week in office help direct and
prepare the nearly $2 million dollar annual
housing budget.
Having worked three times longer in UNC
residence hall affairs than the current
Director of Housing, I feel that the often,
missing knowledgeability and agressiveness
in RHA in the past can be done away with.
With that knowledge we no longer should
have to accept room rent hikes that result in
decreased services, unexplained inefficiency
and dwindling student input.
Furthermore, we can substitute action for
inaction w ith a daily RHA telephone action
line to help students combat endless red tape,
run around and poor housekeeping and
maintenance.
But above all, students must be willing to
work and fight for their rights. As long as the
current administration is content to move
outside the system like in the Winston
controversy then RHA and students
should be prepared to carry the fight there
also.
Student's collective financial muscle has
always been stronger than their political
muscle but has of yet gone unflexed. We
-should not be afraid to use that financial pull
when we need it.
There are many other issues this year such
as a revitalized Program Board to bring
better social and academic events to
residence halls.
But the main issue remains unclouded.
The Residence Association needs
knowledgeable and agressive leadership. We
can all take a stand together in that direction
on Wednesday.
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the paper, outside subscriptions will
increase. We'll make the Media section of
Time within a year. We'll be able to draw
much more national . advertisers, "thus
assuring financial independance and even
incoming revenue to finance the production
of Jubilee. The paper won't just be a better
paper, it will be the best paper; one you'll
want.
unt
First of all, 1 would like to thank the DTH
for permitting to outline my proposals for
making the DTH a better paper.
As my slogan says: Hunt wants to make
the DTH a people's paper. This means
simply that 1 want to incorporate and
encompass all segments of University life
into the paper. 1 would also like to see better
co-operation between the DTH and Student
government, BSM. Carolina Union, GSPF,
fraternities, and sororities, so that their
views can be adequately expressed in the
paper.
Basically my ideas for improving the
paper are as follows:
t. To completely re-vamp the editorial page:
a. have more input from all major groups
on campus
b. try to inject and incorporate in addition
to "The Letters to the Editor" column a
"Sound Off column whereby peole can give
the members of the DTH staff an idea on
what directions the paper should take
c. on controversial issues, have a "Point
Counterpoint" editorial, so that a person
may see both sides of an issue at the same
time
2. Re-vamp the feature page
a. have more timely and interesting
articles
b. bertter coverage of all concerts
c. more movie, and book reviews
d. improve the reviews in both style and
content
3. Improve the style of DTH
a. better headlines to fit the stories make
the heads fit story content
b. more diverse selection of photographs
c. make sure that stories don't begin or end
on the fold for convenience of reader
4. Miscellaneous
a. try to implement a "Hotline" column
whereby people can air and receive actions to
complaints
b. increase ad revenue
c. begin process of making the DTH
independent though the process will take
more than a year to complete.
With a good budget, hardworking staff,
and concerned students, 1 hope to make
"Tarheel" a better paper. Remember for new
blood: Vote Michael "Doc" Hunt on
February 27.
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Most students may have fairly solid
grounds for not feeling crushed if their
candidate for student body president doesn't
win; but the editorship of the DTH is
another matter altogether; not only your
vote tomorrow but your contributions
throughout the year could make a big
difference in the quality of the DTH.
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I intend to work to prevent the
cortinuaticn of the triplirrg polity so that
students can escape the hardships of past
y;ars. Self-determination by dorms as to
visitation and coed living policy is another of
my priorities.
Too often students become aware of room
rent hikes after they occur, without being
forewarned It is necessary that students be
informed cf the reasons for these rate hikes.
It is also necessary for student input to be
utilized in these decisions. Only in these ways
can misunderstanding and resentment be
avoided.
It is necessary to get the residence
enhancement funds for dorms cither
transferred to the Student Activities Fund
office or streamlined so that dorms can use
their funds more easily. These funds are for
physical improvements in dorms, yet many
people know little or nothing about them.
In connection with this. I would clear up
the misunderstanding that currently
surrounds the $17,000 overdraft in social
fund allocations that the dorms must pay
back. The endless bickering and accusations
must be ended.
Stabilization of the Campus Escort
Service is another necessity. This could he
done by converting it to a work-study
program of some type or by funding it from
Student Governemtn. This is an important
service that must be be strengthened..
I would work for the creation of a full-time
University paid Academic Co-ordinator,
who would work with the residence halls to
set up University accredited courses and
seminars to be taught within the dorms.
Henderson Residence College has an
academic advisor now, and I feel that this
program can be expanded soon.
We need to work for the equalization of
room rent between that paid by men and
women, in order to make the physical
facilities comparable. This is a definite
possibility for the near future. '
The failure of having a quorum at RHA
meetings can be attributed to a lack of
deciation on the part of its members. When
elected 1 intend to have a committee oriented
leadership to insure interest and
responsibility. The students will be kept
informed of RHA actions and goals through
the DTH.
As president of Winston dorm, 1 am
painfully aware of how the administration
has worked with regard to students. Allow
me to work so that student inpHit can be
utilized.
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especially the editorial page.
Under my editorship, a five-fold process
to invigorate the editorial page would occur:
the DTH would "send "applications to all
majors in journalism, English and political
science, giving them the chance to apply for
positions of regular columnists: would give
all other students the chance to do the same;
would give the student body the opportunity
to submit columns; would give the entire
D TH staff the chance to write editorials; and
would run (Rowland) Evans' and (Robert)
Novak's syndicated Washington column.
These measures, 1 feel, would bring about
more variety and better quality on the
editorial page. At such a reputable
institution, there is no reason it shouldn't be
top-notch.
As editor, I would uphold what 1 feel is the
responsibility to seek out and report all the
facts and, with these facts, to be a leader of
studnt opinion. What, disturbs me most
about the Turosak-Cooper set-up is the
team's admission that if differences in
opinion existed, the DTH could not take a
particular stand; it would be talking, it seems
to me, out of both sides of its mouth.
Differences in viewpoints are fine and
necessary for columns and letters to the
editor, but not for what is supposed to be the
. voice and conscience of the paper.
My top priority is in-depth news coverage
to give students insight about what's going
on. This means long, well-researched articles
that would answer students questions about
the university, town, and state and wold give
them a broad perspective of the news.
My other proposals incude: an increase in
national and world news; more book
reviews: more student opinion polls; and
better publicity of concerts.
Just a little about myself to wind things
up: I have written for . six newspapers,
including the DTH; am a junior in
journalism and political science; and
thought about running for editor for more
than a year.
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