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For CAA, Pavao
There are two candidates this year for
president of the Carolina Athletic
Association, which means two people
are calling for better ticket distribution
and a better Homecoming if there
were 15 candidates there would be 15
calling for the same thing. These two
campaign cries have become synonym
ous with the CAA race, and thus the
trick for candidates is to have the best
and most realistic proposals for achiev
ing these goals. This year that candidate
is Mark Pavao, and he deserves the Feb.
5 vote.
Pavao has done his homework on the
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exciting issue and has come up with
some ideas that sound like real possi
bilities, rather than just promises. He
wants a traditional Homecoming Queen
and a Mr. UNC, two separate contests
limited to the corresponding sex in each
category, and he wants to get students
more involved in the selection of the
winner by holding a preliminary event
in Great Hall.
Seven campus celebrities would pick
four semi-finalists to go on to the
campuswide election. To keep students
involved in the weeding-out process,
crowd reaction at Great Hall would be
worth two votes. The winner would get
a spring semester scholarship to mot
ivate some real competition, and thus
some real contestants.
Gene Krcelic, the other candidate, has
some similar ideas on Homecoming, like
eliminating joke candidates, but they
lack the specificity of Pavao 's, especially
on the subject of drumming up alumni
support for Homecoming. Here Pavao
wants to bring a popular celebrity, such
Fer RHA, Deimler
Attribute it to dissatisfaction with the
present operations, increased student
interest in housing, a void in campus-,
wide activities or something else entirely,
but the race for Residence Hall Asso
ciation president sports the largest field
of candidates in years. All stress
increased social interaction between
North and South campus thanks in
part to an additional $20,000 in RHA's
coffers but we feel that Mike Deimler
has the best ideas for implementing this
and other changes in an organization in
need of restructuring.
Deimler has sound proposals which,
if enacted, would likely improve RHA's
efficiency as an information and enter
tainment tool for students on campus.
He advocates eliminating the program
ming board (described by one board
member as "the biggest waste of time
all week") and consolidating its respon
sibilities with the governing board.
Lieutenant governors, who make up the
programming board, would thereby be
freed to concentrate on their respective
areas, where most of their work is done
anyway. The governing board would
subsequently divide its time between
policy making and programming. It
makes sense.
Deimler seems well prepared, too, to
face the creative challenge of implement
ing programs on South Campus, an area
The Bottom Line
Many a marriage was strained recently
with the release of the results of Ann
Landers' infamous survey, where the
majority of the women polled said they
would rather be cuddled than . . . well, you
get the idea. Now, yet another syndicated
columnist has tried his hand at filling up
the divorce courts even more. In his desire
to give equal time to the men Ann Landers
neglected in her poll, Mike Royko posed
the question "sex or bowling."
Of the 10,000 plus men who responded
to Royko's question, only 22 percent said
they'd rather score at the bowling alley with
the guys.
Some bugs in the research
The U.S. Department of Agriculture sent
the call throughout the land. They wanted
to find the Super Roach the breed that
would not be deterred hy Raid, Rid-A-Bug
or any of mankind's nastiest insect poisons.
No, they weren't engaging in a ghoulish
hobby or training them for use against the
Russians. It turns out that the folks at the
Agriculture Department were trying to
develop badder pesticides for use on the
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ear of editorial freedom
as Andy Griffith, to give a speech (i.e.,
his famous football game description)
and be Grand Marshal in the parade.
Pavao has talked about this with the
Rams Club, which has agreed to pay
Griffith's expenses if Pavao gets him.
Maybe we can finally see some alumni
get excited about something other than
good seats.
The other major reason we favor
Pavao over Krcelic concerns everybody's
favorite ticket distribution. Pavao
wants to distribute student seats ran
domly in the lower section of the Student
Activities Center and give out upper
section seats on a first-come-first-serve
basis. That allows students not willing
to campout for three months the chance
to get good seats; it also means Joe Blow
won't be able to walk in and get the
last ticket and still have better seats than
somebody who has been waiting a lot
longer. We're wary of Krcelic's plan for
sign-up sheets in the Pit, where 350
people (seven sheets) would be picked
to receive behind-the-bench seats each
week. Despite Krcelic's assurances, his
plan cannot guarantee that every student
would get to sit in the best seats at least
once.
Also, Pavao's idea of allowing stu
dents to get two tickets with proper IDs
and athletic passes would be a welcome
change if he could get it implemented.
Both candidates are calling for better
communication between the students
and CAA, a worthy goal but one rarely
realized. And both candidates carry the
experience and apparent desire to get
the job done. But Pavao stands out as
the one with the better plan and that's
why the DTH endorses him.
lacking in activity compared with its
neighbor to the north. Co-founder and
co-chairman of the popular Rockin
Autumn fall concert, Deimler's pro
gramming talents were recognized last
spring with the Chancellor's award for
the most creative and effective officer
in the freshman and sophomore classes.
Deimler's opponents are not without
merit. Shannon Friend, executive assist
ant to RHA President Mark Stafford,
would bring experience to the position,
but her proposals lack focus - most
notably her promise to provide all
campus programming every month,
rather than the twice-a-year norm. Tim
Cobb, a victim of the housing squeeze
on Olde Campus, has strong interests
perhaps the strongest of all candidates
in linking North and South campus
socially, but is otherwise outclassed by
the caliber of his competition.
Deimler's foresight in anticipating
campus problems such as implement
ing non-alcoholic activities when the
inevitable happens, and the drinking age
becomes 21 is perhaps the qualifi
cation that makes him most worthy of
our endorsement. Communication
lapses between RHA and students, as
evidenced by this year's referendum and
housing flip-flops, should become a
thing of the past as well. Deimler is
worthy of your vote Feb. 5.
reviled creatures.
What the department got was a ,group
of roaches resistant to the two major groups
of chemicals used to fight the repulsive
roaches. The bugs weren't even fazed by
long-term exposure to industrial-strength
diazinon, the active ingredient in most toach
sprays.
Apparently the scientists didn't think the
bugs were quite disgusting and resilient
enough. TheyVe now bred the bugs so
they're unharmed by a third major group
of poisons and have cut by half the time
it takes the roaches to breed.
Now you're thinking, "Let the gross things
escape and well have a good plot for a B
grade horror movie." But Phillip Koehler,
an entomologist involved in the project, said
extreme care to ensure the roaches dont get
free (that's what they say in all the movies).
Even if they do get away, Koeler insists,
they're so inbred they couldn't survive in
the real world because they lack the basic
skills roaches need to survive.
So where did they find these super roaches
in the first place? They were infesting the
halls of Congress. It certainly makes sense.
If the bugs can stand the rhetoric of Tip
O'Neill and Ted Kennedy, a little Raid isnt
going to hurt them.
And that's the bottom line.
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Parker owes no
To the editor:
I write in reply to Sabine French
("Say you're sorry, Paul," Jan. 30)
and those who have criticized Paul
Parker's actions Monday at the
James forum. French and other
critics are making wrongful accu
sations based on ignorance and their
own prejudgments.
The Wallace poster, which
French is talking about, first came
to my attention Monday evening at
about 9 p.m. Shortly thereafter I
showed it to Parker and former
Student Body President Kevin
Monroe. We discussed the issue,
and how best to handle it and release
the poster, and then conferred with
DTH Editor Jeff Hiday. Our per
sonal emotions were very high,
because we were outraged at the
personal slander against Patricia
Wallace and the damage such a
poster could do to the racial rela
For president, Marshall
To the editor:
This year candidates are telling
us what they will do to end the
mandatory meal plan. A couple
have mentioned boycotts, which
will still give ARA Food Services
its money but deny the students a
chance to get anything for their
money. A couple are talking of legal
action; they aren't talking about
how to pay for legal costs. Others
are just praying that the University
will negotiate, when the University
officials have indicated they have no
intention of doing so.
Dirk Marshall is not promising
what he can't deliver. But he does
promise that students will be
informed next year when negotia
For president, Wallace
To the editor:
I support Patricia Wallace for
student body president because I
know that she cares, for this campus
and for this university. This dedi
6
DT
rackett: 'I know
By ED BRACKETT
I dont like a lot of things. Chief among these
is the idea of endorsements. To get one, you
have to prostitute yourself to some degree; that
is, you must stand before a certain group, make
your pitch and get them to buy your stock of
goods.
I prefer being myself, telling it like it is. This
is how it is: I'm Ed Brackett, a junior journalism
major from Hendersonville, and I'm running for
Daily Tar Heel editor. I've got journalism
experience, but I don't care about that I'd
run even if I had none at all.
The point is, I know what I need to know
to run the paper. What I dont know I tried
to find out, but my efforts met with some
resistance, much to my dismay though, in
truth, I expected such resistance.
The ideas IVe formulated for the paper are
realistic and concrete. The changes I advocate
are mostly minor i.e., I don't plan to fire
anyone, layout will remain basically the same
and the paper's hierarchy, structurally speaking,
will be changed minutely at best.
Rickert, Schmidt:
Dave Schmidt, Arne Rickert
Tonkinson: 'A readership survey
By STUART TONKINSON
For the past several weeks, I've been campaign
ing to be Daily Tar Heel editor. I've talked to
many of the students who read the paper and
who are required by the University to pay for
part of the cost of producing the student
newspaper. Many of those students I've talked
to share a common concern.
The Daily Tar Heel is out of touch with its
.student readers.
Students complain that they are not effectively
served by the DTH. They say that other area
newspapers often cover University and state news
with greater timeliness, with more accuracy and
with more detail than the DTH. They say that
the DTH often treats important issues superfi
cially. They say that often only one side of a
story is presented by the DTH and that others
are ignored.
As Daily Tar Heel editor, I would work to
eliminate these perceptions. I believe I have the
experience, ideas and enthusiasm that are
necessary to make the DTH, in every sense, a
student newspaper your newspaper.
ERS TO THE EDITOR
apologies; actions were sound
tions on this campus.
After more than an hour of
discussion among the four of us, we
realized that the first thing to do
was to confront Wallace with the
poster, so at least she would not be
caught unaware later on. Knowing
that the James forum was still in
progress, we decided to go to James,
meet with Wallace privately, and
then make the poster's existence
known to the public and the other
eight candidates (none of whom
were directly connected to the issue)
at the same time, and also to secure
the candidates' assistance in getting
to the root of the problem.
This was not a rash decision,
although it was indeed made in an
emotionally charged atmosphere.
Viewing the decision with the luxury
of both hindsight and the knowl
edge that we have now, perhaps
perhaps the decision was not the
best to be made. But I will not accept
that it was a bad decision, and I
defy anyone to find three clearer
heads than Parker, Monroe and
Hiday.
Parker entered the James forum
accompanied by Monroe, Hiday
and myself. Given our positions, it
is quite evident that we were not
"a group of excited supporters of
one of the candidates." The plan of
action was thrown a bit askew by
the fact that the forum ended before
we had anticipated. Yet Paul did
first meet with Wallace privately,
and then handled the situation as
best he could under the
circumstances.
Wallace and the Black Student
To the editor:
More than 2000 years ago, Aris
totle said, "They should rule who
are able to rule best." Although
campus elections might not seem
important, the need to elect qual
ified officials is essential. The person
we elect as student body president
will not only represent our campus
at all levels, but will also make daily
decisions that affect students.
Because of his qualifications for
office, One candidate stands apart
from the rest: Reggie Holley.
Holley has continually stressed
being responsive to students' needs.
His present SBP platform also
shows his awareness of the concerns
of students. 1) Holley says no to
further fee increases. He feels
"enough is enough" until Student
Government becomes more produc
tive. 2) Holley wants textbook prices
reduced and has proposed solu
tions. 3) Holley is opposed to the
mandatory meal plan and is deter
tions begin. He is promising an
active search for alternatives to
ARA, to the meal plan. Only
Marshall seems to understand that
the key is not devising a plan that
only students support. The key is
devising a plan that the University
will support. He has seen the failure
of Student Government to affect
University policy in the past and he
is concentrating in this campaign on
how he will be an effective student
body president.
Don't vote for candidates who
make promises they can't deliver.
Vote for the realistic candidate:
Dirk Marshall.
Steven Schieffelin
Ehringhaus
cation, along with innovative ideas,
makes her the clear choice.
Rebecca Radish
Chapel Hill
editor's
what I need to know
Here follows a quick rundown of my ideas,
in case you're interested:
Front page: More national news; better, more
interesting, less awkward headlines. No more
"Dog bites UNC student." And is minority
faculty hiring up or down? Get it straight in the
headline. Jesse Jackson also spoke "today," not
"tomorrow." The daily quotes at the bottom
should be compressed into a box and used only
when space allows.
Inside pages: Give Campus Calendar a more
appealing format e.g., place it in a box with
rounded corners with the words "Campus
Calendar" in 36-pt., Roman boldface italics. The
same goes for the sports section's Scoreboard.
Arts writers: loosen up, you're not writing for
The Spectator.
Back page: Because no paper possesses The
Truth, I will spare you the sanctimony of such
editorials as, "Get a grip, Ann," and the frequent
"masterpieces" about N.C. State. A bi-weekly
humor column placed in a box and set in
unjustified type would improve the page
considerably.
I have other opinions on the paper as well,
but IVe run out of space. Don't forget to vote
on Feb. 5.
'Bring the paper back to the students'
By ARNE RICKERT
and DA VE SCHMID T
As candidates for Daily Tar Heel co-editors,
we've wanted to bring the paper back to the
students but not without improving its writing
and its coverage.
From the time of their writing tests (stories
that have been dictated to them), D TH reporters
get used to accepting what news is given to them.
We are dedicated to working with reporters
toward insightful stories that challenge sources
to confront issues and encourage students to form
their own opinions.
As co-editors, we'd be able to ask more from
reporters because we could offer them more:
more contact, more feedback, more help.
Non-journalism majors also will be welcomed
through a revised writing test. Our backgrounds
in both journalism and creative writing should
attract a wider spectrum of writers, who can
develop individual talents within traditional
journalistic structures.
The editor's column we've proposed since the
an
I've worked on the paper since my freshman
year. I've been a copy editor, a staff writer, an
assistant University editor and a news editor. I've
written columns for the editorial page and top
front-page stories. I've written for The Charlotte
Observer and 777- Charlotte News, receiving
experienced guidance. This background will
allow me to make those changes that are needed
to improve the DTH.
I am committed to producing an excellent
newspaper. This means that I will accept all
responsibility for what appears in the DTH. 1
will not try to avoid that responsibility by sharing
it with anyone else.
Essentially, I see the editor as being a
representative of the student body. To make sure
that the DTH meets student desires, I plan to
print a readership survey on the editorial page
of the DTH shortly after the election, asking
students what they want in their paper. That
open-door policy will continue with monthly
meetings around campus in which students can
ask DTH editors why they made the decisions
they did. This way, DTH staff members will be
kept accountable to the student body.
Movement are the only parties
directly affected by the poster; each
was presented with the situation as
carefully as possible. There was no
reason to meet with the candidates
privately before going public.
The allegations against Parker of
immature judgement, sensational
ism and irresponsibility are utterly
baseless; the statement that his
actions were "obnoxious" is bewil
dering. Parker owes an apology to
no one. Perhaps French and others
owe apologies to Parker, for they
are shouting when they don't know
a damned thing of what they're
shouting about.
Edwin L. Fountain
Elections Board Chairman
For president, Holley
mined to work toward its removal.
It is clear that Holley is working
to keep our costs as students down.
Holley's experience clearly distin
guishes him from the other candi
dates. He has represented Olde
Campus and Cobb excellently for
two years on the Campus Governing
Council, and this past year was
elected Speaker, CGC's highest
office, Speaker. Holley's other
involvements include: Chairman,
Rules and Judiciary Committee and
Student Legal Services; Member,
Union Board of Directors and STV
Advisory Board.
Holley's concern and experience
make him the perfect choice for the
highest elected campus official.
Speak to him, find out where he
stands, and then make a clear
statement on your ballot for better
Student Government "Reggie
Holley for student body president!"
Margaret Stewart, Jim Slaughter
Chapel Hill
Letters?
Letters and editorial columns should be triple-spaced
and typed on a 60-character line. Deadline is 2 p.m. the
working day before publication.
race
to run the paper'
Ed Brackett
start of the campaign ensures you get explana
tions of editorial decisions that affected the paper
or answers to concerns raised in your letters
every week. We are the bottom line.
Dave confronted editorial writers on their
sometimes snide and arrogant tone last semester,
and we still consider it part of the wall the DTH
has built between students.
Arne has been editor of The Phoenix since
last spring, and Dave worked as a full-time copy
editor on a professional paper during the
summer. Their experience and ability to go over
twice what a news editor already edits once will
help to avoid the DTH's mistakes of last semester.
Finally, this newspaper has failed to commun
icate with much of the campus. We pledge to
begin and maintain open dialogue among
members of the DTH, Black Ink, the Campus
Gay Association's Lambda and the Association
of Women Students. We already have the Black
Student Movement's endorsement.
Instead of making you come to us with
completed surveys, we've offered you ideas of
our own. Thanks for considering them.
open-door policy9
Stuart Tonkinson
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