TO THE EDITOR:
In response to Mr. Peter McClelland’s letter published Wednesday, I offer two observations.
First, gerrymandering and unfair, over-weighted representation are not rights on campus and in student government in UNC. Thus, you are not in a position, even morally, to demand the same level of participation for your self-admittedly small-in-numbers organization versus larger-populated organizations at any UNC function, including, but far from limited to, a Chancellor’s by-invitation-only function.
Further, I am confident that many fair and balanced students, faculty, employees and state residents would concur that your conservative governor and legislature have already made clever enough use of gerrymandering to the point where they have perhaps undue influence over the Board of Governors. Would not you even agree that the conservative-leaning BOG has already done enough to affect life at UNC?
James Creal Waters, ’76
Chapel Hill
