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Thursday Marrh 9, 1967 THE DAILY TAR HEEL Pae3 In The Mail .Honor Code Survey Is Attacke To the Editor I am writing with regard to yesterday's lead article by Joe Coltrane about a poll of stu dents on the Honor Code. The results of his twenty - four per cent of the students interviewed had vio lated the Code at one time or another. I do not wish to ar gue with Mr. Coltrane about whether his percentages seem too high or too low, but rath er what he means by "a sur vey taken at random." The Communications Com mittee of Student Government has taken several polls this year on a variety of subjects from campus politics to coed visiting agreements. We take a random sample of under graduates by using a table of random numbers and a list of the entire student body. Then, we look up the address of the respondent and one of the Committee members goes to interview him. By choosing names in a scientifically ran dom fashion, we hope to elim inate all bias in our sample. In that way, the results of the survey may be extended to the entire undergraduate student body with a knowledge of the amount of probably error. Mr. Coltrane's article gives no indication as to how his sample was chosen, and he may have caused a bias in his survey without knowing it. Nevertheless, I question his use of the headline, "Poll Shows 24 Per Cent Violate Code," which seems to apply to the entire student body. He has no justification for writ ing this misleading headline until he states specifically how his sample was chosen. I look forward to the re mainder of Mr. Coltrane's se ries on the Honor Code, but I wish he would clear up this matter about his survey tech- niques. Bill Bowman Chairman, Communications Committee To the Editor: In the DTH of March 3 an article on the Honor Code re ports the following: "One re form (Bill) Miller would like to inaugurate is a 'closed study' rule for students on pro bation. Under this plan . the student would be required to report to the library at a cer tain time on Monday through" ' Thursday nihts. The plan is designed to 'bridge the gap' between the extreme punish- : ment of suspension, and the . relatively ineffective punish- . ment of probation." I would urge that the chair- ' man of the Men's Honor Coun cil think again. This is no re form; it is a retrogressive step which confuses dishones ty, an ethical problem, with insufficient study, a problem of motivation, of self - disci pline, of simple maturity. Closed study halls for Honor Code violations are unlikely to reduce the number of offenders or to rehabilitate them. The punishment does not fit the crime. More disturbing, the proposal adds a new ele ment of opprobrium, of dis grace, to the already discoun tenanced concept of study. Even now there is far too much of the idea of punish ment in the image of studying: many fraternities im p 0 s e study halls on their academic ally weak members; fresh men women are restricted and implicitly pushed toward the books on weekday nights. I would submit that equal to the privilege of attending col lege is the privilege of flunk ing out for the student who fails to appreciate the former. We are not contributing to his appreciation of the value in college if we load the neces sary but inevitably distasteful duty of studying with the pe jorative value of an Honor Code violation and punish ment just because an inter mediate degree of sentence be tween suspension and proba tion seems required. Surely more appropriate instruments can be found. Herbert L. Bodxnan, Jr. Associate Professor of History To the Editor: I ask the author of "Obsce nity, No!" (March 4; the Tar Heel omitted his signature) to reassess his opinions of the Peace Vigil. I applaud his dis like for public obscenity, but when he generalizes from an alleged isolated incident dur ing the Humphrey visit, to the quiet group of citizens in the Vigil, his letter degenerates into mere emotional display and name-calling. The Peace Vigilers are, he. says, "un reasonable, irraftional": has he ever talked with any of them (after the hour of si-, lence)? Obviously not, or he would have discovered that this group is quite alert and thoughtful about world affairs. He protests the Vigil's "mono syllabic -.- sloganed posters" (benignly overlooking the sim : plistic,.: purely : . negative: "I: hate Communism" stance of many of the hawks): would he have the Vigil display len gthy detailed arguments that no one would take the time to read? A protest such as the Vigil is contemptible only if it is nothing but a front, with no arguments anywhere to back it up: read Drew Pearson, read Bernard Fall, read Schlesineer, Fulbright, Morganthau, Emmet Hughes, Lippmann, or Howard Zinn, to mention only a few, to see whether such arguments exist. The Vigil posters must be con cise precisely because the Vi gilers are independent think ers: each comes individually to the Vigil, each for reasons uniquely his own. The Vigil serves as a rallying point for many people of diverse back grounds and philosophies to express solidarity on one very important issue: the Bombing. The Vigil presents no specific arguments for its stand, and therefore will never, by itself, convince anyone of the light ness or wrongness of its posi tion: that is not its purpose. 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