Latrep5;cant'dgfromgp.jh_ _ totally untrue ( what you say‘ " about Dr. Ozmon, for example) i or so badly misinterpreted as

to be woFse than falsehood; * ' 15‘

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Some of what you say is accurate- ,A‘

~we did look, finally, at only three candidates-* but none of the “they thought this of him" stuff is sound.

-,The failure to sign this article Was either an act of cowardice, a show of poor form, or wisdom. l include wisdom‘ because anyone from Dean Ozmon to Dr. Symons to the Committee members could sue the author

K for libel. Unfortunately the University, not the author orr‘ the paper: would wind up paying.

I suggest you cease such adolescent rumour-mongering. Do some healthy research, then print it. This does Qg£_apply '

—to the Search Committee's ruminations 0n the various candidates (34 people were considered, not IOO), because those discussions were quite rightly private and will remain so. Certainly Your article is sound evidence that they have remained (largely) private to date.The Search Committee members are fairly well “stuck” in all this-rumour- mongering. We can't, in decency, reveal what we did say without breaking

confidences of member to mem-, ber, member to candidate. (Perhaps you will do some research on this subject of passing out infOrmation people can't respond to. The Realist, whence yod cribbed last year's IO year old porny Disney, had a good article once on Lvndon. Johnson's recipe for successful campaigning-- spread rumours that your opponent “fucks pigs.“ 9 Then see if he gets up on the podium.to deny it.) A

It is no breach of confidence to tell you that all six 'finalists in.the Presidential Search were the subject of basically positive comment within the committee. The commentary on Dr. Meincke was more superlative than all the rest and he emerged clearlys number one. Focusing. on neg- ative reasons fo/ eliminating . other candidates (wrong ones),' as you have done, is both petty and "underdeveloped".

Shape up, Cadre, we need

a newspaper on the Island. ~ ‘ln_solidarity lif you're Solid) ~- . Gary Webster , Presidential Search ' Committee

I'do owe an apology to the readers Inf The Sun and especially the search for the President committee for the

May in which.that-article was written \

| apologiie.i’iw

.When'l wrotethe article, lfdid

not mean for/it to be taken to be the

Opinions of the search committee. There were actually only two of all the opinions that Were_expressed by the committee: 'one concerned iDr.”Symons's health and the otherf was the remark on Dr; Miller.s

All other opinions were either

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Vin this job was the cause of that.

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my own (although I only used one of mine, that which concerned Dr. Thibeault, which was reinforced by Others) on those of people who' know or had talked to the other candidates. _n r

I may have been wrong in printing the article in the first place but I don't think I was. It should have been realized that any candidate who made it to the last Six had to The point of the article was not to show how except-

the paper, so he is the one to be blamed and only he. In this case it makes no difference since the editor and the writer are one and the same.

in conclusion, I would like to thank you for writing and express- ing your opinion. I would like people to\be critical but, please do not be destructive.

- .Larr G , Dear Editor; y reen

We want to commend you on the first edition of the new »student newspaper. It has al- ready established a new stan- dard of excellence for the publication, in both preSent- ation and content, and we con- sider that it will recover some of the readership lost to the University press over the years. We wish you continuing success in subsequent issues, and would ask that you not let your work on the newspaper cause you to neglect your stu- dies.

their position showed that) but to show why they weren't the ones for the job..

'One of the worse mistakes committed was not putting the article on the editorial page. My inexperience'

As for signing the article, it makes no difference who wrote it; the editor was the one responsible for printing it. The complaint is not so much that the comments were said (and every one of them was said) but that they were printed. ~ v The editor is the one responsibiei Yours verY tFUlY for everything that is printed in ' Your Mother and Father

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