The DTH did not continue Young Democrats coverage

TO THE EDITOR:

This week Young Democrats endorsed Thomas Edwards for student body president and 12 candidates for Student Congress.

We endorsed Thomas Edwards because we believe his accessible leadership style will make student government more open and inclusive. It will also serve him well on the Board of Trustees where he can seek input from a diverse network of contacts across Carolina's student body as the University grapples with some of the toughest budget decisions in decades.

The Daily Tar Heel covered our endorsement process closely at first when it saw it as a political power play.

Yet when it became clear that our endorsements were based on who would make the most effective student leaders regardless of political affiliation the DTH simply became less interested in the story.

The biggest problem of student elections is many people aren't aware of how the elections work or what the candidates stand for.

But once elected these candidates have a significant impact on our lives as students. So the story is important even if it can't be reduced to a catchy lede.

Student government isn't — and shouldn't be — about partisan politics. It's about electing peers to represent our shared interests as students. That's something we should all be able to believe in.



Charlie Sellew

Co-President

UNC Young Democrats



Justin Rosenthal

Co-President

UNC Young Democrats



Editor's note: The Daily Tar Heel did not change its strategy for the forum halfway through. We planned all along to send a reporter to the forum and to write a brief for page 3. We have covered all forums in this manner with the exception of the first forum — which was meant to be a story about the advent of open campaigning not about the forum itself.