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Page Two THE TAR" HEEL Saturday, March it, 1927 tEtyc tEar ?lictl Leading Southern Coixecb Tri weekly Newspaper Member of North Carolina Collegiate - fress Association Published three times every week of the college year, and is the omcial newspaper of the Publications Un ion of the University of North Car olina. Chapel Hill, N. C Subscript tion price, $2.00 local and $3.00 out . of town, for the college year. , Offices in the basement of Alumni Building. Telephone 403. J. T. Madry .....Editor F. P. Simon .......Business Mgr. Editorial Department Managing Editors J. F. AsIiby. .........Tuesday Issue Byeon WHrrB;;.,:,;:.:.;,:..'.:Thnr8day Issue L. H. McPHE8S0N...l.Saturday Issue D. D. CarrolL ..Assistant Editor J. R. Bobbitt, Jr....... Assignment Editor Staff J. H. Anderson J. M. Block Walter Creech J. R. DeJournette E. J. Evans - . D. S. Gardner Glen P. Holder John Marshall H. L. Merritt T. W. Johnson W. P. Perry J. P. Pretlow T. M. Reece D. T. Seiwell S. B. Shephard, Jr. J. Shohan . F. L. Smith W. S. Spearman Wm. H. Windley Henry Lay Business Department W. W. Neal, JrAs8f, to Bus. Mgr. rirlmi Rmwn Collection Mar. G. W. Ray. .Accountant Managers of Issues Tuesday Issnei , . W. R. Hill Thursday Issue Saturday Issua. . James Styles -Edward Smith ; Advertising Department Kenneth R. 3oxie Advertising Mgr. Young M. Smith. Asst. Adv. Mgr. M. W. Breman Local Adv. Mgr. William K. Wiley , Ben Schwartz G. W. Bradham C. J. Shannon Oates McCullen , Edwin V. Dnrhua J. H. Mebane ' M. Yj Feimster Walter McConnell A. J. McNeill Circulation Department v Henry C. Harper..CtrettZation Mgr. R. C Mulder Filer of Issues C. W. Colwell ' Tom Raney Douglas Boyce W. W. Turner You can purchase any article adver tised in the Tar Heel with, perfect safety because everything it adver tises is guaranteed tobe as repre sented. The Tar Heel solicits ad vertising from reputable, concerns only- Entered as second-class mail matter at the Post Office, Chapel Hill, N, C. , -Saturday, March 12, 1927 Must Student Government Die? The existence of student govern ment at the University of North Car olina is at stake.' On next 'Monday morning the student body will be faced with the question of saving whether it is ready to admit to the people pf the state that it is incapable of gov erning itself through its properly con stituted representatives. Are University men willing to go back to the old system of faculty su pervision and censure? : We don't think so not for one minute. The University catalogue expressly states that gambling, drunkenness and cheating - are offenses punishable' by expulsion, under our form of student government. If we have reached the time when we think that we ought to do away with that -code of conduct and adopt , a new one, possibly one that holds that gambling is not wrong and ought to be tolerated on this cam pus, as Mr. Breard suggested in his letter to the Tar Heel in Thursday's issue, then there will be plenty of opportunity to say so when the con- j stitutional eonvention called by "the student body convenes this ' spring. Meanwhile, in the name of a tradition of which we have a right to be proud and in the name of an honor system which we have built up here over a period of long years.let us stand by our present form of government. This student body acted with rare judgment in chapel Friday morning when by a 2 to 1 decision refused to be stampeded into deciding the is sues of a case without first being given the Opportunity to study and Under stand those issues. The method of procedure that has been adopted is one that ought to appeal to the keen est sense of fair play on the part of everybody concerned. There is reas on to believe that the committee to be chosn from the undergraduate classes and graduate schools will make a careful investigation into all the facts and render a report that will be ac ceptable to the student body. It must be admitted that the Stur dent Council was acting ' within its jurisdiction in suspending the thir teen men. As to" the' justification of the methods used that is a matter that is yet to be settled, and the in veetigation by the committee should 4.0 much to throw light on the ques tionl' ' '' ., The student body has failed to take any cognizance of the fact that there are two separate issues to be settled; namely, the question of endorsing or condemning gambling, ' and the ques tion of endorsing or condemning the methods pursued by the council. The issues must be sequestered and hand led separately. If the students plead ed guilty of gambling, the Council had no alternative, regardless of how the matter was handled. - The only question tobe settled now is, was the" Council justified in using the methods that are alleged to have been used? To answer this would require true knowledge of the methods, pur sued, of which , we know nothing ex cept that obtained from loose talk on the campus. The investigation by the committee should reveal the real truth of the whole affair at the meeting in chapel Monday, and until that is known, decisions should be held in abeyance.",,. r ' :'.Vv; Let us' not become blinded to the real issues in the case. Are you will ing to see student government at this University die? Will you hold a dag ger before the heart that beats and yet dare it to beat? :r'r V ' OPEN FORUM j The Tar Heel is "in receipt of sev eral other Open Forum letters which cannot be published on account of lack of space. Contributors to the Open Forum colums are reauested to boil down their writing in order that as many people as possible will be given an opportunity to express an Opinion. It is also required that the writer must sign his name to his work Detore it can be published, this does not mean that it is necessary that the i 1. 1 t i . name uts puDiisnea. . - Editor of Tar Heel: I Ss PROCLAMATION ' TO THE STUDENT BODY: Be it resolved: That in considers. tion of the present confused state of student government at the University of North Carolina and the lack of unity of opinion as to the honor sva. tem, we, the members of the commit tee, duly appointed to hear an ap peal from a recent decision: of the Student Council, do heartilv fl it 11 - taere is a pnase ot the honor system, mainly as to cheating, in regard to wmcn me opinion oi Carolina stu dents is not confused, however lethar gic its present state may be. And in pursuance of that idea we wish to present to the student body as stu dents, firmly believing in the spirit vi me jionor system, tnat individual responsibility and coonpraHnn a keynotes of such system, vital con sciousness of which on the part of iuts inuiviauai student is essential to lis proper iunctioniner. In it nnnli. cation to classwork and PYSITningTinno the Honor System is a self imposced obligation upon every student to rely entirely opon his own information and VI v , umi. uu ux,ner smiaents do the same. -There is r.Wrlw n rion for cheating on this campus. Our honor system is a cnAe, which ia its application to cheating is clear to all. Student government nus reacnea a real crisis at Carolina. Let, us not fail in this unpleasnat period to realize that the same obli gation to live up to the HONOR SYS TEM in our classwork rest upon us as in the past Therefore if you see a student vio late the HONOR SYSTEM in any of the coming examinations act upon your obligation to see to it that he does not get credit for his dishonest work. It means not only that he 'is injuring our curricula standards, but the high integrity and sense of honor of our student body. THE COMMITTEE FOR THE IN VESTIGATION OF THE STU DENT COUNCIL'S RECENT AC- Editor of Tar Heel: ' For , the past few days I've been hearing a lot of whining and squeal ing going on around the campus be cause of the student cdunsil coerc ing three students in order to obtain some desired information. It seems that our student representatives on the council are ungentlemanly and are brutes, and in order to obtain a confession which wac really giveh without much persuasion from the three quaking and unprotected mis fortunates, the council employed dras tic measures. Officials of the mighty and efficient police force of our great nation have special means by which they 'obtain information from, suspects.- Why not the council of our student body, which is in reality a , unit of police power, have the same privilege. Let them employ the third degree, if need be, to deprive information that will not be given voluntarily. . .. S. HARPER , ing his year.. Many have1 been sum moned on this charge and have admit ted their guilt In all but the single case they have been let off easily with strict, class probation and the drink ing prdbation given to a first offend er. If this treatment is accorded to drinkers why should it not be so with those who play poker? Is gambling so much greater a crime than getting drunk? Obviously not Gambling is wrong, but it is usually carried on privately and quietly. Men who drink give a school the worst possible of reputations,- Gambling is by far the more tolerable offense. Yet the drunks sret off with the probation and the gamblers- get expelled. This is mani festly unfair. The men deserved no more .that strict probation and gam bling probation for a first mistake. Instead, the fact that they were first offenders and they were simply given 48 hours to" get out It is hard to see how the Council can justify such harsh and unusual punishment . This is discrimination of the rotten est sort All the men needed was an other chance the same chance that has been given freely to numerous drinkers and the chance was not forthcoming. " The Student Council is supposed to hand out justice. If this is justice, all' definitions of the word are at fault Mr. Chappell has stated that if his action is. not approv ed he will resign his position. This i3 by all means to be desired. . The sooner his influence is removed, the better it will be for this University. ' ; , R- K. FOWLER Editor of the Tar Heel: . The attitude' of the student body toward the present administration of the student council should bring to our minds the fact that we have no way of forcing the council, in its ac tions, to conform to the will of the students. The "reign of Chappell" has been one in which the council, when given an inch, has taken a yard. Men have been shipped for throwing water and "dumping" beds, and yet we, the student body of this university, must sit back and calmly look upon these outrages. As a remedy to such evils, I sug gest that we adopt a form of gov ernment in which the council shall De responsible to ; the students as a whole. - Let it be incorporated in the new constitution, that, when five per cent of the students (at present 120 men), by a written petition, request a meeting of " the said student body, it shall be granted. And further that,' should 'a resolution of "no con fidence" be passed upon at this meet ing, the council would be forced to resign and a new council electeed by the student body. The office of President of Student Body should be separated from that of President of the Student Council, so that, regard less ot tne resignation of the coun cil, the same man would lead the students throughout one . continuous year. , ,,.'" In this way, and in this way only, can the student council be tnade to conform to the will of the student body. i . ' - -!:"' a. s. c. Editor of Tar Heel: v The matter of the shipping of thir teen men for gambling by the Stu dent Council as presented to the stu dent' body in mass meeting Friday morning was considerably clouded. In truth there are two separate and . dis tinct issues involved which were pre sented as one. As the question now stands the stu dent body is asked either . to endorse gambling or to endorse the action of the Council. The question must be separated and taken up in two steps. First, does the student body and the honor code hold gambling an offense for which a man should be expelled. Second, does the student- body con demn the methods used by the Coun cil.'' r-.." If, as the Council claims, the evi dence is conclusive no matter how gained that the men were gambling, the student body has no line of action under the honor code except to stand back of the Council in suspending the men. xo xan to ao mis wouia oe to throw a challenge to the faculty. The trustees have directed that the fac ulty shall take cognizance of such of fenses, and the faculty has delegated this authority , to the students. If the students cast it aside, the faculty must take it up. This issue must be settled on . the basis of the evidence against the men as it , now stands. The guilt of the men does not depend upon the methods used by the Council in securing evidence. i However, with this issue settled the second issue that of misuse of their office by Council members must arise. Our system of government here de pends for success on the character of the men who' compose the Council. It is based on the trust of the student body that the men will act fairly and justly. If there is evidence that they have not so acted, that they do not deserve this trust, the student body should ask for their resignation.' Un der a code which .recognizes friend ship no man in trouble will "squeal" on a companion. If the Student Coun cil has attempted to force men to do this they have violated a code of com mon decency and should be ousted from office. ' ''''' But in the mass meeting called to settle the matter the two issues must be kept separate. Endorsement of the Council's action in suspending the men .must not carry endorsement of their methods of obtaining the evi dence, nor should condemnation of gambling carry endorsement of the Council's entire action in the matter. W. T. PEACOCK Read the Tar Heel ads. . Jar Heel Editorial . Staff Meets Sunday : The editorial staff of the Tar Heel will meet Sunday after noon at five o'clock at the Pub lications offices in the basement of Alumni building. The elec tion of the staff nominee for editor-in-chief for next year will be held. , . Like begets like. How the Ford piled up the tin. Wichita Eagle. ORPDEDM Welcomes You Always. The Home of Musical Com edy and Vaudeville 3 Shows Daily 5 Shows Saturday KODAK PI "take an exlravjhrol Editor of Tar Heel: . ' I have thoroughly gone over the minutes of the Student Council and the investigation has placed their act of shipping 14 men convicted of play ing poker in a very unfavorable light It was the first offense for all the men concerned, the evidence, against them was either circumstantial or secured by coercion yet they were expelled from the University for periods vary ing' from 3 to 18 months. Why should such harsh treatment b-s meted out to those found guilty ' playing poker? The' records of the Student Council Bhow that only one man has been shipped for drinki DR. D, T. CARR Dentist -Tankersley Building Chapel Hill, N. C. And then. tfeur ' sure cf results.. KodoX Film ts the dependable film, in the Yellow Bcoc We have 14 our 6ixe in stock few 3 . 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