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The D77 editor's campaign of past weeks is perhaps the best
example of mudslinging this campus has seen in recent years. There has
been an overabundance of publicity gimmicks, rhetoric and slurs
against other candidates, and very little educated criticism.
To begin with, we are not going to "endorse any candidates because
endorsement has the connotation of approval. Instead we wish to
inform the student body so it can make an intelligent choice.
Neither of the candidates provide students witha choice when it
comes to electing a good editor.
Moreover, it is apparent that one of the candidates has run what we
consider to be an unethical campaign, where gimmicks replaced
information and negativism replaced ideas, not to mention ideals. Cole
Campbell has held up know-nothingness as a virtue by openly
admitting his lack of journalistic background, not with humility, but
with pride.
What exactly has Cambell done? Two days before last week's
election he produced an alternative newspaper but said it was not a
campaign expenditure. The DTH Alternative was about what you
would expect from someone who doesn't know how to put out a
newspaper. His latest leaflet is a series of blatant untruths and could
land him in court for libelous statements against DTH News Editor
Bill Welch. Campbell also staged a Tar Heel burning in the Pit vaguely
reminiscent of Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.
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82 Years Of Editorial Freedom
Opinions of The Daily Tar Heel are expressed on its editorial page. All
unsigned editorials are the opinion of the editor. Letters and columns
represent only the opinions of the individual contributors.
Susan Miller, Editor
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The race for Residence Hall
Association this year has seen two
candidates with opposite styles of
approach to the solution of
problems in housing on this campus.
Mike O'Neal, a graduate student
running for head of an organization
that is for the most part
undergraduate, favors a hard
hitting, aggressive approach to the
housing department. He has
characterized what RHA should be
as students versus the
administration. The key word here is
versus, for he believes students, and
the RHA as a protagonist for the
students in University housing,
should fight the administration at all
costs for students' rights. The
underlying assumption is that the
housing administration is not
working for students' rights.
We do not believe that an
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Susan Miller
Editor
Cathy Farrell, Managing Editor
Cill Welch, flaws Editor
David Eskridge, Associate Editor
Ksncy Pat, Associate Editor
Kevin r.'.sCcrthy, Features Editor
Elliott Varnock, Sports Editor
Tom Randolph, Photo Editor
Ernls Fitt, Night Editor
Bunky Flagler
Whatever teaoeeimedl to ewhiiics?
With newsprint ink smeared on my
elbows and knees from reading Dick
Tracy, I quietly listened, as a child, to
my journalist parents' long
conversations after the other five kids
cleared out from dinner. Newspapering
was the usual subject.
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Today dormitory students
found The Daily Tar Heel
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antagonistic leader can have the best
input into housing department
decisions. Betsey Jones' approach is
that of working with , instead of
versus the administration to
improve student life on campus. The
administration, we believe, will be
more willing to work with
cooperative leadership than with
antagonistic leadership. We also
believe this is important because it is
the administration that has the
power to make housing decisions.
Students have the opportunity now
to have or not to have input into
housing decisions, but neither
students as a whole nor the RHA has
the power to make those decisions.
RHA should cooperate not fight
with the housing administration to
best represent student interests.
Late Tuesday night O'Neal
produced an editorial endorsing
himself and insinuating that it was
censored by the Tar Heel. Earlier
Tuesday he told the DTH he was not
basing his campaign on negativism
against Jones or the DTH. This flyer
is an unfair and misleading
campaign tactic.
Jones has been one of the hardest
workers of RHA this year and she
has built a strong basis for working
with the housing department for the
students' benefit. We believe she will
best represent student interests as
president of the Residence Hall
Association.
From the way they talked about
reporting and writing the news I learned
certain things. One of those is that a
newsman and his paper have a moral
responsibility of ethical leadership to
the community.
Perhaps objectivity, fairness and
disappearing over the past
couple of da vs. For instance,
Tuesday's Daily Tar Heel
apparently was received by
students in only a little more
than half of the dorms on
campus.
For these reasons, we have
delivered the papers door to
door to make sure that students
will have the opportunity to
read today's issue.
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We have no doubt that Campbell is a clever and intelligent
individual. We had once believed that with training and a good staff he
would have been able to put out a decent paper. However, he has
resorted to mudslinging tacts and cheap publicity tricks.
He has stated that he would like for the majority of the present DTH
staff to stay on but we wonder how he expects to put out a "different"
paper (as he has emphasized) with the same staff. Moreover,
Campbell has gone out of his way to antagonize staff members and
thus has alienated the very people who could help him most as editor.
Jim Cooper and GregTurosak are running as co-editors, an idea in
which we still do not place our full confidence. We orginally objected
to their stand on a financial independence but modified their stand to a
more positive degree. They do have journalistic experience. They have
staff support. Above all, they have run a straightforward and honest
campaign.
Cole Campbell has questioned the loyalty of staff members to the
Jar Heel. We have questioned his ethics' in this election. Our loyalty to
the Tar Heel means loyalty to the high ideals and principles of
journalism practiced by the paper in the past. Because of this we feel
that we cannot in any way approve of Cole Campbell for editor.
What's left? Cooper and Turosak. In this case, they are the
only alternative.
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THERE WILL BE NO RECESSION. THERE WILL
Ford Runge
DTH editor e&iii
Despite the attraction that many
erstwhile do-gooders have shown for the
Student Body presidency, the editorship
of the Daily Tar Heel remains the most
influential and powerful position on
campus. In many ways, it carries greater
responsibility than any other job. The
editor must inform students day-to-day
on a wide variety of subjects, not the
least of which are the activities of other
elected student offices.
It is not unusual that the press should
find fault with elected officials. The
check of the press on these officials
exercises a constructive restraint which
keeps people like the , student body
president accountable to the people he
or she serves. This is true when two
conditions exist: l. )when people who
read the newspaper believe what it has
to say is rational and fair, and 2.) when
the elected officials who are called to
account respect the newspaper enough
to respond to its criticism.
Neither of these conditions exist
moral duty to the community are a lot of
rigmarole to most students.
But don't kid yourself. These are
more than words. There is a definite
ethical stance from which every
newsman or woman must work.
As an ethical newspaperwoman, I
attempt to make every story, every
headline, every editing change as fair
and as accurate as possible.
The race for quality professional
leadership for the Daily Tar Heel in
recent weeks has been a blight upon the
integrity of student elections. Quality
and professional leadership are greatly
needed but a true professional is one
with a definite moral stance.
Cole Campbell has proved himself
lacking in moral stance. By publishing a
newspaper he claims to be in no way
advocating his candidacy, Campbell
took, as he called it, "a great risk."
He risked, by publishing his four
pages of weak writing style, wandering
and irrelevant columns and poor layout,
more than just showing that he cannot
direct a newspaper.
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under the present editorship of the Daily
Tar Heel. The number of people who
ran for editor of the DTH this spring
indicates the level of dissatisfaction with
the newspaper. Despite the purported
evidence to the contrary, its readership
has declined. Many of those who do
read it find it neither rational or fair. I
have little or no respect for the opinions
of its editor.
There have been a great many issues
on which student government has
deserved criticism. What it has received
from the DTH, while certainly
qualifying as criticism, has lacked
cogency, intelligence and perspective.
Much of what the DTH editorials say is
the concern of no more than a handful
of politicos. One person referred to it as
the "most, expensive interoffice
memorandum" they had ever seen.
The question becomes what can be
done? How can the DTH restore its
credibility and influence so that the
student body president and others may
He risked violating the spirit of a
campaign rule that was created to make
campaigns more fair the limitation on
spending.
"1 don't see any ethical problem at
all," he said in an interview yesterday.
"The DTH Alternative in no way
advocated my candidacy."
Try to tell that to any one who saw
one of the 5,000 copies. Strange
coincidence that it arrived two days
before the election.
Furthermore, Campbell said, it did
not cost over the spending law limit of
$200. Try to tell that to any printer in the
Triangle area, who estimate its cost
from $300 to $1,600.
Cole Campbell is either stupid or
tricky. We know he's not the former. A
tricky editor we don't need.
We cannot in this year or any year
stand for anything less than
professionalism through excellence and
integrity.
In Dick Tracy 1 read as a kid the bad
guy lost. The good guys, two-headed or
not, always won.
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To the editor:
1 was interested in Mr. Bob Hupman's
opinions in his letter (i.e. amnesty) printed
Feb 27, 1974. I am equally interested in the
frame of reference from which he forms his
opinions. Was his "miserable skin involved
in the conflict (Vietnam) at issue? If it was, he
must have somehow survived with his eyes
shut not to have better understood the
pressures involved in trying to equate what
one might suppose to be American ideals
with obviously contrary evidence.
I believe Mr. Hupman will find, if he cares
to look, that many war zone desertions were
a direct result of this ideological conflict
men no longer wished to be blown away for
upholding a non-benevolant dictator and
fighting a nationalist hero (particularly when
they were often not allowed to properly
defend themselves).
Those who refused to serve at all were the
most foresighted. They realized that real
patriotism has nothing to do with trying to
quash a nationalist revolution against an
exploitative dictatorship in another country.
BE NO RECESSION.
BE NO RECESSION . . .'
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better respond to student needs? The job
begins with an editor who is rational,
fair and forceful. Cole Campbell would
make such an editor.
I endorsed no one for president of the
student body. No one candidate
demonstrated qualities remarkable by
comparison with the other candidates,
though the outcome has been extremely
positive. The Daily Tar Heel race is
important enough, and Cole Campbell
is competent enough, to merit a strong
endorsement. The change in direction
will be well worth it.
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War zone deserters awakened to this fact
late, but left under circumstances infinitely
more difficult than simply driving to
Gar ad a, in the process of endangering no
one as much ts themselves.
The Constitution Mr. Hupman waves so
grandly is fairly clear about the principle of
self-determination. Is refusal to participate
in denial of this principle to an entire
nation for our own business reasons
unpatriotic? I think not, although there is
plenty of precedent in the subordinations of
Cuba, Hawaii, the Phillipines, in Dollar
Diplomacy. This country's policies are self
serving, not peacemaking or even peace
loving. Henry Kissinger makes deals, not
peace. Perhaps those forced to remain
abroad would like to return and try once
more to change that. A society truly
dedicated to free democracy should welcome
them unconditionally.
Edwin Stoddard (SP5-USAVN)
Box 185, Rt. 4
Chapel Hill, N.C.
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To the editor:
It's all a joke.
Running naked from the Bell Tower to
South Building.
That's a joke.
Student Power to students who have no
REAL control over where they live and what
they study.
That's a joke.
Student government those puppets who
pretend to stand up for and represent the
student body, who has no REAL control
has no REAL power.
That's a joke.
King Boulton and his reasoning power.
' That's a joke.
Requirements. Grades. Forcing us to
swallow and regurgitate crap and then
slapping a grade on it. That's not education.
That's a joke.
Saving second floor Winston with protest
shirts and letters to the editor and columns
and editorials and Residence Hall
Association's support and the sympathy of
all students.
That's a joke.
Impotence.
That's a joke. It's all a joke. And I'm not
even a jokester.
Charlie Lehman
616 Ehringhaus
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