The Daily Tar Heel will be continuing a tradition for the third straight year of holding a student election forum before the campus’ big voting day Tuesday. This year it will be held on Monday at 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in Murphey 116.
The format is pretty simple. Candidates will have the chance to talk with an opening statement, and then DTH writers/editors will get to ask the candidates questions. This will be followed by a chance for the at-large student body to ask questions.
So far, all of the candidates have confirmed that they will be attending, minus Cindy Spurlock for the GPSF presidency position.
The DTH’s opinion page also has begun its endorsement process. The first endorsements were issued in Monday’s paper and will be followed by endorsements for senior class officers and student body president in Tuesday’s paper. To make the decision, we read each candidate’s platform and met with the candidates for between a half hour and an hour, depending on the position, to ask them further questions.
The endorsements all come after a lot of hard work and intense debate by the editorial board over who can serve the student body best.
We hope to see you at our candidate’s forum and hope you pick up the paper Tuesday for a two-page election guide as well.
