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?AC? TWO fHE DAILY TAR HEEL TUESDAY, MACRH 10, 19S Honor System In a Iciier niiiculicic rise on this .it;c. i nie-inher of the- Wniiicn's Honor Council h is r.mnl iiw with iht celum's views on the- honor olc. Within this Unci a very imfxnuut .uul worthwhile 'jiicstion is r.iiscd. one that hotill he dealt with. The question i "wliy uiitc altout the honor .system il it U one of the symbols of Carolina's icatnessr' I he ui( r is hy no means simple, hut in it simplest lnnmil.it ion it tan he stated 'ihe ulitot does not heliexe i t the Honor Mstrm. Code, or Coutu ils." II the Honor Sstcm is r smbol ef Caro hu.i's Clearness, thin the editor would ic.illv hate to see what is a sunbol of Carolina's u calness. an cdiu.ition.il cNpeiinuut in sclf-ov eminent, the system is a fail me. for the vast lllljotiix ill hnllol (Olliuil ollcUsCS a.l" 1 C" poit(d b l.ieiiliv membeis. As a substitute lot a proctor sstem. the honoi system docs no moic than set up a sWcm o liom ten to too pioctors in each t i l. As a uuiliod ol keeping dishonesty at a minimum, the system has met with no not able sum ess. and indeed violations of the honoi sstem ate .ill too piealent. As a system ol law. it makes little sense, foi ollctw s and punishments are not outliu rd in detail and pioccduics arc outlined only in the most sketchy form. A an idea, it could be much better, since .it an idea it is supposed to place the student on his own honor not to lie, cheat, or ste;.l. Indeed, if this wrie the letter of the code as we ll as the spit it. it miht be its saving iiarr. but this is not so in that it incorporates its checking mechanism and sets up its own sp system. II it were the same in letter and opiiit. it would be similar to the system at Stanford in which each student is placed on his honor and the: e are no ti ials or com is ol enfouemcnt. This is an honor system, and its only itnprac tic ality is that professors olieti irade on the curve, and a (heating stu dent oltcn can upset the curve. II it wete not the cae. then it would be possible lor a leal honor system to exist, for the lack, ot knowledge on the put ol the cheater would be his own punishment in later life. Without delving into particular rases, it is safe to say that the pioblem of honor as handled bv students has resulted in severer Kna!iics than would have been probable tin elei a pun ten system, where usually a student vsoulel jtist flunk the exam he cheated on. However, this editorial is not written to aimte the mi l its of proctor system over an honoi system. It is vviitten in lavor of a third alternative a system of codified law in whiih t. h dclcnd.mt is tried under the same eouit system foi each olfense and has icrtaiti lights -411. anteeel to ljim. It is a sys tem whereby the eleleiidant v;ill be tried tin der the same coutt lor the same ollense whether the delendint is mile or lemale. It is a system with a built in series of ptecedents in its le-al e odilie atiou. It is a system that is tiulv educational in that it puts students sciiouslv to the t. ,k of lawmaking, and deal in; with actual legal trial situations. Incor oT.iud into this would be an executive air thoiiiv that would be resonsible lor en lor cement, lor the picscnt system of enforce ment is a travesty on justice and good gov ernment. It is not necessary to elaborate here the details ol such :, system, bu) it is necessary to Hiint out that when faced with a choice ( the Carolina honor system and no system, the tilitor would choose no system. Mine the Carolina system is not an honor system. When faced with a choice of the honor sys tem versus the (inn lor system, the editor would have to abstain, for the worth o either is negligible. lor the sake of the letter wtiier who feels thai critain subjects should not be touched, it might be xinted out thx the editor ran on the presumption that there is no subject sac insane! fiom the scrutiny of the pen. In an iconoclastic year, he h;N come to grips with such idols as country, conventional in lerpietations of Cod, faith, hope, and charity, and other writers on the page have dealt with such loibidden tlinncr table topics as sex and olities. One thing should be m.'le clear, and this ts that is not oft iconoc lasm's sake, that the editor is iconoclastic, for in the liist place it should be leaelily apparent that the editor has a set of Indiefs that .Vic allirmative ami not negative. Indeed, each editoiial is written with the idea in mind of netting students to question their basic rnv iionmeiit to doubt their vciy existence, until they are able to come up with a fiim set of beliefs that will sl;iid the acid test of time, seiiitiny. and woikability. F.ach editori al is wiiiten with the belief in mind that any thing is subject to improvement and this, of (ouise, includes the editor, j Travellers Cv " Whoa There, Horsie I Say, Whoa!" mthia Bivins HOW WIVES BEHAVE OVERSEAS Ky Harlan Cleveland Ti.s best that some female re view this article, which appears in the March issue of Harper's, bo tore an embittered male sees it as a possible defease for his Ions founded suspicions. Mr. Cleveland, in his sex teivsive effort, sees fit to publicize the influence of Ameri can wives abroad, and influence was never in more dangerous hands, says he. Cleveland points out in detail what many have known to be a general truth: women (again cn erally speaking have a limited idea of adventure, experience, and culture. Cleveland's intent is to show the attitudes ot women whae husbands have chosen (persuaded by their wives, rather, to work in foreign countries. How do those women feel as they approach a new life in a new country? Their main malady, upon reach ins foreign shores. Ls "culture .vhock." to use Cleveland's phrase. No wonder these traveling spouses experience "culture shock." More than likely, they have barely heard of their adopted country, much less of its culture. There is no need for the trans planted wife to embark on a search for the facts and figures concern ing her new state, however. It is not even necessary for her to learn "yes" or "okay" in a foreign tongue. If she is patient, all the comforts of home, an American home, will be provided for her: a .super market, movie theater, an American restaurant. This happens, that is. if she is "fortunate" enough to be placed in an "Army Suburb." If not, she may have to "rough it" with the natives. Cleveland points out that the American wife, eager to leave the rut of American housewifery and enjoy the financial rewards of her 'husband's foreign employment, Ls not so eager upon reaching foreign sail. She prefers not to leave her "Little America." even it it means renewing her life of daily drudgery in such limited quarters. One of these migrating wives was asked if she had ever ventered out into her new country in the year of her resident there. Her reply: "I went down to Ginza once, but it was too crowded with Japanese." Still, rewards are gained, and husband, wife and children return to the U.S.A. much enriched by their foreign adventures. The hus band has a healthier-looking bank account, and the wife is radiant in the knowledge thta she has shown her foreign neighbors the customs and traditions of the New World. Her role has been an important one she has been a "good-will am bassador." She is stimulated by the experiences and challenges of her travels, and khe revels in the knowledge that her children are so well-traveled at such an early age. Actually, they are out of it. for they know nothing of baseball, Charlie Brown, or Mr. Dillon Still, we women love to travel . . . New horizons are always ex citing. Japan would be nice so oriental. Lette rs Jonathan Yardley: I was heartily pleased with your articles which roundly criticized the business people. I am a student of the Classics myself and, as such, go for culture like a cracker goes for coca-cola or an undergrad for white socks. I am in total agree ment with your thesis that the Business Administration schools ere turning out a horde of the mast uncouth barbarians, although I must say that I thought it a bit pedestrian of you to go down into the agora and harangue so bitter ly against them. Poor taste, don't you think? But the upshot of it all is that I must confess to being little more cultured than these peo ple when it comes to those things which you constantly refer to as forming a basic part of the cul tured man'skn owledge. What I propose would, I think, be of great profit and advantage to all: that is, Instead of merely telling the unwashed what they lack, that you make haste to remedy this deplor able situation by running a series of illuminating and penetrating art icles informing us as to why Na poleon lived, who Plato was, etc. I am certain that you and your fel lows will be able to handle this in a most satisfactory manner and I am looking forward to this series ef articles. If you lack a title for them I am sure this will be simple to remedy, perhaps something like, A Compendium of Undergraduate Knowledge would do. Jack Catlin Fear 'ft. ..7. Letters On Many Topics Editor: Apparently you have again run short of adequate material for your editorials. I base this judgment on the article tilled "Honor Code" in the March G issue of the DTH. Please, Mr. (Jars, use a little com mon sense! I quote ". . . if a person really cheated, he would have no hesita tion in signing any pledge." That undoubtedly applies to some peo ple but I would hate to think that your editorial has influenced any (jne on this campus to feel that it applies to most people. Inquire around, Mr. Gans, ask the average student if he cheated in his high school (providing the high school did not have an honor system). Chances are he'll admit that he did the typical answer Is "Yes, I did, but so did everyone else" then ask him if he cheats at Carolina. The chances are just as good that he'll say, no. he does not. As to your other assertion, "... it is another thing to consider that a person's honor extends to a mass enforcement system of a code of laws.", 1 believe you are being rather illogical in view of the other statements contained in the article. You first state that people are not going to be honest just because they sign a pledge, then you say there should be no system of checks whatsoever. You have attacked the honor sys tem and the councils, now it is the honor code. Just what Ls your purpose? Carolina is known for its honor system and the few people I have met who don't believe it really works have changed their minds after the first round of quizzes. There are too many places on this campus where criticism is needed and would be justified. Why not work on them, leave one of the finer aspects of the "Carolina Way" alone. Jan C'ol.hs Editor: About Frank Crowther's article on Paris the other day I'd like to inquire Do you think Frank was being frank in not acknowledging that His ideas came from Esquire? We, the public are unread there's no doubt of it, But to write just to be IN the Daily Tar Heel Is definitely OUT of it. Yours for more original playboys, Nancy Combes 4 W 1 ' ' j, 4 I vkY, Views & Previews Anthony Wolff Alec Guiness is generally known in this country for his comic performances in such movies as 'The Lavender Hill Mob," "Kind Hearts and Coronets," and many others. In his native England, how ever, he is best known for his achievements in a more serious vein, for which he was virtually unknown here until "Bridge On The River Kwai," In fact, Mr. Guiness has to his credit a portrayal of Hamlet albeit an unsuccessful one at the Old Vic. In THE HORSE'S MOUTH, now on view at the Varsitv Theatre. Mr. Guiness demonstrates his virtuosity in both the comic and the the tragic art; ancf it should be added here tnat in this moviCi 'as irt the -best ostensible comedy, the line between, the comic and the tragic is often blurred, sometimes non-existent. 'In this movie, Mr. Guiness plays a picaresque hero par excellence by the name of Gulley Jim son. Jimson is, to say the least, a- man of the spirit, and an artist by temperament; but such an artist and spiritual creature that he cares little for greatness, or comfort, or even for fin ishing a Daintinff. To such an imnwinatinn no Gulley Jimson's, everything is in the becomin: the completion of a painting brings frustration rather than relief, and Jimson must continually analyze his failure and begin again. It is only in be ginnings that he finds any real joy; alter that comes the struggle, and then the disappointment at the inadequate conclusion. Jimson is so much a creature of the spirit that he is reluctant to commit the social act of painting a saleable painting: not necesarily one which the public will like, but at least one which might be bought if someone did happen to like it. Instead, Gulley Jimson prefers nothing so much as painting on walls any old wall, no matter whether it be the wall of someone's apartment, the one remaining wall of a church awaiting demolition, or the wall-like side of a great ship: Mr. Jimson will paint them all; and he will paint their surface with creatures of his own imagination, creatures of such intensity and individuality that they are bound to shock us. Mr. Jimson himself, in fact, is bound to shock us, for as a creature of the spirit he not only paints strange and wondrous paintings: he also does strange and wondrous things. At the age of sixty-seven, he flirts with his mistress of twenty years before, and gives her rear end a pinch; he does not hesitate to bluff his way into the temporary possession of a millionaire's apartment while the owner is away, and then to destroy the place completely. Mr. Jimson attempts blackmail and robbery, is a frequent guest at the local prison, lives in a squalid hulk of a houseboat, and certainly never changes his underwear, much less the rest of his habit. And yet Gulley Jimson, for all his picaresque idiosyncrasies, his delinquincy, his downright immorality, is nevertheless a most loveable individual. Certainly he is not loveable in the sense that he is someone with whom we would want to spend much, time. Need less to say, he would not care much for our company, either. Obviously, this character is calculated to. offend our sense of propriety, our dignity, our every civilized instinct, our very materiali ty. How, then, can we account for Jimson's undeniable appeal? How can we love in a very essential sense of that word -. a smelly old man who rants at us steals from us, and all in violates every moral and ethical value known to civilized man? The answer must be there being little else in his favor simply that we all yearn to be such creatures of the spirit as Gulley Jimsori: we'd all (we men) like to pinch the nearest attractive rear ivhen the spirit moved us, and no amount of knowing the reason why we can't is going to stop our desire. Likewise, we would all like to come and go aswe please, make free with other people's wives, money and property as we please, and son on ad infinitum. In short, civilization holds a tight rein on our freedom-seeking spirits, andi we shall carry on a secret love affair with the Gulley Jirasons of. this world until we too, like him, throw off all; restrictions. As this' is impossible, we shall continue to vest our hopes and longing in the improbable rouges of fiction who live as we cannot in this world. Alec Guiness serves double duty in this film, receiving credit for the screen adaptation from Joyce Cary's novel as well as for a brilliant, perfect performance in the lead role. The adaptation is excellent: Mr. Guiness has dealt successfully with a long and far from easy novel, without doing much damage to the richness of Cary's characters. In doing away with mary episodes in the novel and cutting some of the characters down a bit. Mr. Guiness has done the minimum possible violence to the original. Except for the ending, which is rather arbitrarily altered in the film and which include? a terrible last line which has no right to. close "so excellent a film, we may safely say that Cary has been rendered faithfully, if not intact. -r ..:.. : , . Taken all in all, this is a beautiful movie (not beautiful like most movies)a great movie: great in theme, as Well as in execution IFC Report James Reston Tucker Yates 4 In this week's New Yorker mag azine there is a cartoon of an Part It angry bartender saying to a cus- i feel that this is a good opportunity to briefly tomer on the other side of the explain the general, overall organization of the bar: "Look, my friend, one more Interfraternity Council and also to list several of comparison between our civilization its functions. The IFC is composed of the president and Ancient Rome's and out you and one elected representative from each of the ao,.. 24 houses. From this body, the four officers are - vi v.fi 5., r0nt elected each February. Also elected within this This helps a little, for in recent f weeks we have been told by every body from Adlai Stevenson to form er Senator William Jenner of In diana that we are sick and soft and going merrily to hell. whom are elected in the spring and the three in the fall. Also at each of these times, the Court elects a chairman who becomes the fifth member of the executive committee. In essence, the IFC is the gov erning body of all the twenty-four fraternities, and What Oswald Spengler in Ger- the Court enforces the rules. There are various corn many, "The Gloomy Dean" Inge in mittees set up within the IFC, those being: Scholar England, Peter Drucker m Austria ship, Rules, Rush, Greek Week, Special Projects, and Nikolai Berdyaev in Russia Publicity, and Handbook. The IFC is financed by said of Europe in the Thirties, an annual dues of $25 from each fraternity and by odd mixed-bag of liberal intellec- fees of $3.00 from each Pledge. Most of this money is used to publish the Handbook and to finance the Rush program. Greek Week and the Bershak Scholarship are paid for by fraternity assessments. We request no money from the student budget. The IFC is a member of the National Interfraternity tuals, right-wing politicians and re tired generals is beginning to re peat about America. We are, they say, living in a de mented world, and ducking our Conference which includes 61 fraternities - with responsibilities. As Berdyaev put it rtetter than the modern Cassand ras: there is something shaken and over 3?250 undergraduate chapters with an ag gragate membership of more than 1,500,000 college men. We were represented at the annual December shattered in the soul of modern meeting in Atlanta this year by Ashe Exum, newly man. We are entering the realm eiected President of the IFC. Also, two members of the unknown and unlived, joy- attended the Southeastern Interfraternity Confer- lessly and without much hope. We ence last Spring at the University of Florida. Much are now in a time of spiritual de- has been learned from attending these conventions. Perhaps the two most important functions spon sored by the IFC are the Rush program and Greek Week. Last Fall, for the first time during an Orien tation Week, the IFC secured a position on the Ori entation calendar and held a meeting for all po- Moreover, they have something to lential rushecs in Memorial Auditorium. Sam Ma- gin, liou isenuer iwnu um a very ouisianaing jon , , f. , as Rush Chairman), and I spoke on all phases of of easy education, free, endless ' ..,,., . . . . ,. , , . 1 . i v the Rush program and fraternity life in general. I fppl th.nt mnrh .vnc .iirifrl fvnm iViic nnrl hnna Chit booze, high wages for sloppy work -t wm be continued in the future. Greek Week this ana eany casual marriage, is tQ be held duH tne sec(md k j M , was instituted on this campus about 1952 as a much needed and desired replacement, of "Hell cadence, of loneliness and derelic tion. The criers of havoc have always been interesting in every age, and they have often been right. Moreover, they have something to say to us today about the dangers idiot - box entertainment, cheap sloppj iage. this a fair indictment? A Noble Record from the people who want it to do more. This nation has not fled from Week". This lasts four days, Monday through Thurs- danger. It has not abused its pow- day. ad entails competition among the pledge class- er. It has not been indifferent to es for the Outstanding Pledge Class Award. In this the misery of mankind. It has not competition, scholarship from the Fall semester lost its capacity for daring or pity. counts 35' field da (which consists of various . , . , .t . , . . . ; athletic events), 25, carnival (each fraternity con It has broken its tradition of tdbutes a booth) and detajJ More isolation and taken commitments than 1(m man hours of abor are spent workins involving the possibility of war to on constructive tasks in various areas of Chapel forty-three different nations all ov- niu Trophies are given to the individual winners er the world. It has accepted peace- of these events and one large trophy is awarded time conscription and a high level to the overall winner. of taxation. At the end of each school year the IFC gives a These are not the actions of a trophy in the name of Dr. R B. House to the most decadent people. .On the contrary, outstanding fraternity on this campus. Criteria for no nation in the history of sover- tnis award is based on six factors: scholarship which eign states has ever responded to counts 30, campus representation and extra-cur-such a challenge with more cour- Ocular activities 22, IFC participation age or generosity in time of peace, intramural participation 15, social activities 10, And the surprising thing is that, and house aPPcarance 5. Last year the trophy after all the disappointed hopes of we"1 t0 Phi DeIta Theta- At the termination of the postwar generation, the main fach semeser' ? IFC also awards a trophy to that opposition to the Government ? ac,evefs "ship report. . , , . As the final grades for the Fall semester have not comes not from the people who ,K..in5 u e .u- V ... .. . ' T f , been tabulated, the winner of this is not yet known. want the nation to do less but . , . uuring me academic year of 1948-49, the IFC established a scholarship in memory of Andrew Bershak. class of '38. Bershak reoresentprl all thnt What have the Governments of is g00d in the Carolina student through his superior the nation asked the people to do exhibition as a football player and teammate, and since the war that they have not through his excellent scholastic record. Each year, consented to do? They cannot be every member of a social fraternity at UNC contri- expected to demand higher taxes butes to this scholarship which amounts to $2,000. and a longer military draft when The awarding of this is handled by the Student the President is telling them that Aid Office and is given to an entering freshman all is well at the Pentagon. Nor boy from North Carolina on the bases of : (1) Abili- are they likely to act like pioneers y as indicated by scholarship and participation in when Washington tells them that extra-curricular activities; (2) Character; and (3) all we have to fear is inflation it- Financial need, self. (To Be Continued) Tawdry r Golden Age? m Even if the people get the kind of government they deserve a dis turbing thought these days some body has to give a lead. This is especially true when the great is sues of government become in creasingly involved in the myster ies of science and economics and when the air waves are increasing ly full of noise and rubbish. Is it a period of decline, of deca dence and dereliction? The Ameri can Coalition of Patriotic Societies decided here this week that it was. But Caryl P. Haskins, president of the Carnegie Institution of Wash ington, raises a happier question. "What is a Golden Age?" he asks in his annual report. "All of them were times of fervent intellectual excitement .... of some physical security and at least some organi zational stability. But in all of them, too, stability and security were far from complete and there is a flavor of a partnership of dis order and hazard with vitality and creativeness. None of them, clear ly, were especially 'comfortable' times in which to live "Will such times come again? It is hard to imagine that they will not. Indeed, though we hear our own age criticized as static and as anti-intellectual often enough, per haps we ourselves are the restless, insecure, anxiousr vital participants in an era of intellectual develop ment that other men, sometime, somewhere, may well look back upon as golden too." The New York Times Wi)t mlp Ear ?ed The official studeai publication ot the Publication Board of the University of North Carolina, where It is published daily except Monday and examination periods and summer terms. Cnterea as second class matter in the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C, under ihe act of March 8. 1870. Subscription rates: $4.50 per e tnester, $8.50 per er The Daily Tar Heel is printed by the News Inc., Carrboro, N PI Editor CURTIS GANS Managing Editor CHUCK FLTNNER . 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