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By Marty Mlnchin
Staff Writer
The Society of Professional Journal
ists endorsed Daily Tar Heel editor can
didate Matthew Eisley, and the Caro
lina Association of Black Journalists
endorsed Peter Wallsten after an editor
candidate forum Monday night.
The forum was sponsored by the
DTH. SPJ and CABJ. The DTH will
announce its endorsement Monday.
: ' Lynette Blair, CABJ president, said
the group endorsed Wallsten because
his concrete plans for increased accu
racy in the paper and his overall attitude
would best improve minority coverage
at the DTH.
' "We liked his honesty," Blair said.
"There is an aspect of caring in Peter
that we have seen now and in the past."
; Emilie Van Poucke, SBJ president,
said SPJ chose Eisley because of his
professional experience, his plans to
reach out to graduate students and fac
ulty, and his dedication to the DTH.
"The most important quality is his
professional experience," Van Poucke
said. "Matthew seems to be the type of
person that is open to suggestion."
A panel comprising Cullen Ferguson,
DTH editorial page editor, Cheryl Allen,
SPJ vice president; and John McCann,
CABJ vice president, questioned the
candidates before the floor was opened
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morning wading through a pile of books on the fourth floor of
Softball team
Editor's note: This is the second ar
ticle of a two-part series.
By Bryan Strickland
Assistant Sports Editor
The numbers just don't seem to add
up.
North Carolina head Softball coach
Donna Papa must divide the team's
three scholarships between 16 players.
People who live in glass houses need a cleaning lady who does windows.
candidates garner forum endorsements
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to the audience.
McCann asked candidate Wendy
Bounds about her motives for planning
to appoint Angle Gantt to the DTH
editorial board. Gantt, campaign man
ager for Bounds and Dacia Toll, is a
black woman who has never worked for
the DTH.
"What we want to do is get intelligent
people in there who have intelligent
opinions," Bounds said. "Angie is a
very bright girl. She has a lot of good
ideas. Regardless of the fact that she is
our campaign manager we still feel she
could serve as a vital voice and also give
us a perspective from the point of view
of a black female."
Ferguson asked Eisley how he would
recruit students with diverse viewpoints
for the newspaper, when past efforts
had not been successful.
"I want to go to their meetings and
say, 'Look, I'm Matthew Eisley, and
you guys have been complaining all the
time that there's not enough conserva
tive voice on the editorial page,'" Eisley
said. "Here's your chance I want you
to come write.'"
Wallsten said he planned to diversify
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Davis Library. McCinnis gave up the unseasonably warm Febru
ary weather to pursue the ongoing process of studying.
struggles to
With numbers like that, it's not at all
surprising that recruiting is often more
difficult for Papa than devising a game
plan.
"I may lose some people because
finances come into play in the recruit
ing process," Papa said. "They look at
the school and the program, but they
also have to look at the finances."
Papa said nine members of thisyear's
the editorial board by opening applica
tions to the entire student body, bypass
ing the present prerequisite requiring a
board member to have served one year
on the DTH staff before joining the
editorial board.
"You don't develop opinions on cam
pus issues based on being a member of
the DTH," Wallsten said. "When you
talk about diversifying the staff, this is
a way of opening the door for that. I
think that by opening it up you take
away a little bit of the clique-ishness."
Candidate Stephanie Johnston said
she would strive to humanize the ar
ticles. "I would make sure they're well
researched and balanced with different
types of people writing the stories,"
Johnston said. "I would get a lot of
people in there with quotes that don't
sound like they're from a press release."
Kevin Schwartz, DTH general man
ager, asked the candidates how they
would deal with serving the 15-month
term the next editor would serve if the
referendum designed tochange the DTH
editor selection process were approved.
Wallsten said because he had served
as city desk editor for 1 12 years he felt
prepared to handle the added stress of
the extended term.
Bounds said because she and Toll
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spread limited scholarship wealth among players
squad received at least some scholar
ship compensation. Theresa B uscemi, a
senior outfielder from Ronkonkoma,
N. Y., said that one player received a full
scholarship and that another got ap
proximately three-fourths of a scholar
ship. Success at the national level has been
hard to come by with just three scholar
ships to offer, Papa said.
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Daily Tar Heel editor candidates
BP hopefuls field
about their ethical
By Soyla Ellison
Staff Writer
Ethical questions targeted at student
body president candidates dominated
the Residence Hall Association's fo
rum in Morrison Residence Hall Tues
day night.
In the RHA president portion of the
forum, write-in candidate Jennifer
Davis, in an emotional speech, con
demned student government's ineffi
ciency and charged the Black Student
Movement acted with racist motives at
last week's forum.
All Ave SBP candidates were asked
if they considered ethics to be important
and if they considered themselves etlii-
Aldermen
By Grant Holland
Staff Writer
The Carrboro Board of Aldermen on
Tuesday night defeated a proposal to
annex property outside town limits af
ter hearing complaints from people who
own land in the unincorporated areas.
Carrboro Mayor Eleanor Kinnaird
said the town should have annexed un
incorporated property to preserve the
integrity of town borders.
"We are not considering annexation
for taxation needs," Kinnaird said. "It
makes sense for boundaries to encom
pass the entire town."
Five unincorporated parcels of land
lie within town limits. These "holes" in
SEAC hopes to flood chancellor's box
with letters opposing South Loop Road
Byjon Whlsenant
Staff Writer
Chancellor Paul Hardin will be
swamped again with letters protesting
the South Loop Road if the Student
Environmental Action Coalition has
anything to do with it.
The road project is designed to de
crease the flow of traffic near UNC
Hospitals, but Ruby Sinreich and Chris
"In order for me to reach my goals of
reaching a higher level, I feel like I need
six or more," she said.
Beth Miller, UNC's associate ath
letic director for non-revenue sports,
said she did not expect the scholarship
situation to change anytime soon. "It
would certainly be better if we were
able to allot more scholarships to soft
ball," Miller said. "We don't have a
discuss how they plan to improve the student newspaper at a forum Tuesday
RHA
Forum
cal. All five answered "yes" to both
questions.
SBP candidate Rashmi Airan re
ceived the most pointed questions re
garding ethics.
An audience member claimed she
had misrepresented her campus leader
ship experience and had been impeached
from her post in residence hall govern
ment. Airan denied the accusations and
defended her campus leadership posi
reject annexation plan
the town limits were created when pre
vious annexations failed to incorporate
the land.
The aldermen's vote was 3-3. Ac
cording to board regulations, proposals
that receive tie votes are not approved.
Kinnaird voted with aldermen Tom
Gurganus and Randy Marshall in favor
of annexation.
Aldermen Jay Bryan, Jacquelyn Gist
and Hilliard Caldwell voted against the
plan.
Clara Merritt, who owns land outside
the town limits, said she opposed town
annexation of her land.
"You pay taxes for services ren
dered," Merritt said. "Why do they want
to put taxes on (undeveloped) land that
Baumann, SEAC chairwoman and
chairman, claim that the plan would
cause more harm than good.
Hardin asked for continued support
of the multimillion-dollar road project
at the Jan. 1 7 Faculty Council meeting.
SEAC members have responded with a
letter-writing campaign and plan to send
protest letters to Hardin, the UNC Board
of Governors and the hometown news
papers of University students.
sport that thinks they have enough schol
arships." To compound the challenge. Papa
must look outside North Carolina for
pitching prospects. N.C. high schools
only field slow-pitch Softball teams.
"You can't get a pitcher in-state,"
Papa said. "That's where you are send
ing most of your scholarship dollars."
Buscemi agreed. 'To get a good
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behavior
tions. She said she had not been im
peached from dormitory government,
although the woman against whom she
had run had tried to impeach her.
Another audience member ques
tioned her position as vice president of
The Daily Tar Heel Board of Directors,
saying it gave her an advantage over
other candidates in coverage and en
dorsements. Airan denied that any conflict ex
isted. "I really personally don't feel it's a
conflict of interest because the board
deals only with finances," she said.
Airan asked the other candidates if
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doesn't require any services?"
Robert Anderson, who also owns
unincorporated land, said he worried
that annexation would make real estate
and homes more expensive.
"It would not be fair to tax those
properties before they are developed,"
Anderson said. "It makes it less pos
sible for the public to buy homes in
Carrboro. If it is annexed and the taxes
go up, then I cannot personally afford to
keep the house."
Roy Williford, Carrboro planning
director, said additional taxes did factor
into the town's attempt to annex the
land. "If you're part of the town, you've
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Hardin could not be reached for com
ment on several occasions.
Members have written Hardin 150
letters, but they are not stopping there,
Baumann said. SEAC plans to send
letters to UNC students' hometown
newspapers in an attempt to get cover
age of the controversy across the state.
"We want UNC parents and alumni
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pitcher to come in, you really have to
give them a good scholarship," she said.
Papa said her low scholarship allot
ment made it difficult to compete with
area schools that could offer more
money.
"You don't want to sit around and
compare yourself to other people, but if
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