To Our Readers,
The DTH, the first acronym every incoming UNC student learns, is so engrained into our way of life here at Carolina that its bias, poor quality and sheer annoyance are too often overlooked. For some of us, it is simply a survival tactic; I am not sure we could survive confronting the liberal idiocy that thousands of our students willingly digest every day. For others of us, our resignation takes the form of worn down complaints that once came from an anger like Lear on the heath, but now, having been uttered some many times, cease to signify anything other than our resignation to this campus’s insanity. (And for those readers who would object to our criticizing the DTH’s bias by pointing out our own, the distinct difference between the two papers is that the staff of Carolina Review openly admits our political philosophy of conservatism and economic philosophy of free markets. To bill ourselves as impartial while printing content to the contrary, as we claim the DTH does, would be intellectually dishonest.)
In this issue, we wish to enkindle the old flame of passion against our “award winning paper.” As students of this fine campus, we ought not to accept poor journalism and far less ought we to accept a blatant bias against not only conservatism but simple rational dialogue. To this end, Chase McDonough writes an article criticizing the DHT’s blatantly biased and unprofessional coverage of the abortion issue; Brendan Madigan responds to the personal attacks against him that the DTH’s editorial board absurdly claimed were representative of the student body; and David Ortiz addresses the blatant immorality and aggressive advocacy from the DTH’s sex columnist. Away from the topic of the DTH, David Ortiz and Matt Oakes both write articles covering two campus events. David defends a conservative view of marriage, covering a speech given by a sociologist Dr. Mark Regnerus and Matt deals with the topic of campus dialogue as he narrates the New Testament debate between Bart Ehrman and Daniel Wallace. Regarding student politics, Mark Seelinger continues his discussion of the Association of Student Governors (ASG), this time to propose reforms the now legitimized organization must enact to better serve its member universities. In the midst of UNC tuition hikes, Anthony Dent addresses the oft-used claim of protesters that there is a “right” to a publically funded university education. Additionally, Anthony discusses the implications of proposed changes to UNC’s non-discrimination policy for campus administrators and student groups.
Finally we are pleased to welcome two guest writers, Sarah H. Bowman Sean O’Donnell. These guest writers are actually readers of Carolina Review, and both offer a solid conservative intellectual approach to supporting NC Amendment One, countering Peter McClelland’s article from our January issue. As editors, we are pleased when an article moves our readers enough to write and submit a response and we encourage all our readers to do so, thus contributing to the intellectual debate across the Conservative-Libertarian spectrum on our campus.
Hope you enjoy the issue!
-Chase McDonough and Kelsey Rupp, Co-Editors-in-Chief
