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Room reservation process DTH frustrate BoUNCe

TO THE EDITOR:

Forums are an important part of the election season and each year BoUNCe takes pride in being one that the candidates enjoy.

Unfortunately groups have a difficult time securing spaces and times for their debates.

Classrooms cannot even begin to be reserved until Feb. 2 about a week before the election. Knowing this BoUNCe contacted all the candidates and let them know when our forum would be and if they could hold that time for us until we legally reserved a room.

The Board of Elections should have general control over the debates and hold sign-ups for dates and times. However the BOE does not have the power to do this at this time.

Despite this The Daily Tar Heel decided to host their public forum on the same date and time in the Student Union. BoUNCe could have reserved a room in the Union but it would not have been conducive to our style of debate.

We are being shoved around and forced to change our plans which were made prior to the DTH's. But we shall take the high road and work out a peaceful solution to this problem. I just wanted to our frustration be known.

Sam Morgan

Editor in Chief

BoUNCe Magazine


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