j TUESDAY, MOVEM3SS 16, 1954
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
PACE TWO
Vof e YES For
Justice In The
Honor System
Carolina Front.
The Daily Tar Heel hopes you'll vote
"YES" on the Leniency Bill today. In so
doing, you will be voting to strengthen the
honor system immeasurably.
If you vote "YES", here's what you will
be voting for:
i. Suspension from school for flagrant
and premeditated cheating offenses.
' 2. Probation to faculty counselors few
first offenses which are judged by the Coun
cil hot to be flagrant and premeditated-
This would be a change from the present
system -which can be fairly stated this way:
If you cheat, you leave schoo. Extenuating
circumstances rarely affect that dictum. If
you cheat, and admit that you cheated) you
leave school, whether yours Avas a momen
tary mistrke, like glancing to the next desk
and copying a multiple-choice answer, or a
premeditated crime, like stealing an ans
wer sheet and bringing it to class. If you
cheat, no matter why or how or to what
decree, you leave school.
Th;t is unjust, and that is what the Len
iency Bill would change. If you are able to
see the difference between momentary mis
take and premeditated cheating, you owe it
to the campus to -vote "YES".
A number of respected and though fill
student leaders have opposed the Leniency
Bill. We submit that they are bound by a
senseless and irrational bond with "tradi
tion," a feeling that any change in as old
a thing as the honor system must, just be
cause it is a change, be wrong. Catchy
phrases like "one free cheat" have been
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bandied about and have colored sober con
sideration of what the Leniency Bill will
do, if it is passed.
".What it WILL do is establish a measure
of justice in an unfair system by different
iating between flagrant and minor viola
tions; it will take a firm step toward an ey
' tensive system of rehabilitation; it -will rec
ognize the fact that suspension from school
for any cheating offense, without regard for
extenuating circumstances, is in no way
rehabilitation, but revengeful punishment;
and far from weakening the honor system,
the Leniency Bill will strengthen it, by mak"
ink it obligatory for the courts to judge
cases on their merits rather than under the
"cheating equals suspension" equation.
.We urge you to read the bill with care
before you vote. If you do, we are convinced
you will sec its equity; we are convinced
you will vote to put consideration of the
errors of first offenders in the University on
a. higher plane, by voting "YES".
Mty Baity Sat: Heel
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Suspension Or
Probation Is
r's Issue
Todav
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Louis Kraar
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NEWS STAFF Dick Creed, Charles Childs, Babbie
Dilorio, Lloyd Shaw, Richard Thiele, Neil Bass, Hal
Henderson, Bobbie Zwahlcn, Mitchell Borden, Eddie
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THE CAMPUS will decide to
day whether it feels that a stu
dent who has
cheated the
vflirst time
should" go home
tfor rehabilita
tion or stay
here under pro
bation. " This is what
the debate over
ly'ai&t&i leniency 'bill
boils down to despite debating
and boiling on both sides about
tradition, honor, and systems.
And while this reporter has
great faith in honor and tradi
tion, one remembers that even
here these things mean different
things to different persons.
David Reid and other propon
ents of the leniency bill feel
that a first-offender can be help
ed more by a system of proba
tion than by suspension. Proba
tion is an educational experience,
while suspension is mere pun
ishment, ; leniency supporters ar
gue. On the other hand, opponents
of the measure iwhich include
Men's Honor Council Chairman
Herb Browne contend that the
leniency bill ' would wreck the
Honor System. Suspension is an
educational experience, and it is
the only way to teach cheaters
the seriousness of their offense,
argue leniency opponents.
This reporter has supported
the lqniency bill because it seems
seems that in this college com
munity exile for forgetting one's
honor, is too stern a measure for
first offenders. If education is
the University's purpose) then it
should begin to educate its
cheaters here instead of send
ing them home.
It has become an axiom here
that if you cheat, you'll be kicked
out of school. It is sometimes
called suspension, which means
you may come back. Other times,
it is called indefinite suspension,
which, means you may not re
turn. Either way,, it is stern pun.
ishment. And it lacks the mercy
inherent in any American jus
tice. Faculty counselors can help in
still a sense of honor in students
who have forgotten or never
mastered it. The faculty made
up of men like Dr. Alfred Brauer
and Dr. J: R. Caldwell and others
who know both honor and stu
dents well an make probation
work.
; If , it's tradition that you want
when you vote today) look back
to the year 1875. The Di and Phi
societies were Carolina's only
student government then. A stu
dent was suspended by the fac
ulty, and the Phi asked that he
be turned over to the society for
discipline. The faculty agreed,
and the Phi decided to give the
Student another chance. That's
how student government began
with leniency.
'Official Statement Politics Is Not interfering With Our Work'
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U. $ Reneges On Loans
.WASHINGTON While the
USA is worrying about Joe McCarthy-
and While Washington is
more deluged with pro-McCarthy
church lobbyists than at any time
in years, an all-important back
stage debate is going on regard
ing Latin America which could
advance the cause of Communism
'greatly.
In brief, Ambassador Merwin L.
Bohan has resigned as U:S. Am
bassador to the Rio De Janeiro
Economic Conference because
that conference will be run by
Wall Street, not for the good of
Pan American Cooperation.
The Rio De Janeiro Economic
Conference, scheduled to open
next week, was the bait held,
out by 'John Foster Dulles' at the
Caracas Conference when he got
our Latin friends to support the
USA regarding Guatemala.' '
Great things would be accom
plished at Rio, Dulles told the
Latinos as an alibi for little hap
pening at Caracas. Especially he
held out the promise of Big U. S.
loan and economic aid.
But now Ambassador Bohan has
resigned for the specific reason
that no real economic aid or loans
will be forthcoming.
, What has happened, briefly, is
this. For some -time, Secretary of
Election Day!
Night Editor for this Issue
..Frank Wilsor
"Forty-eight gum wrappers, 12 cigarette butts, 8 orange peelings and
3 votes in this one if you ask me there hasn't been enough student
interest in campus politics this year."
the Treasury Humphrey has argu
ed that the United States should
not advance money " to Latin
Americans but that they should
borrow from the International
Bank. This was one of the issues
between Humphrey and Dr. Mil
ton Eisenhower, Ike's brother,
when the latter visited Latin
America. And at that time Milton
won. He kept the export-import
bank alive as a means of loaning
money to Latin America.
However, Brother Milton has
gone back to Penn State College,
While Secretary Humphrey re
mains on the job in Washington.
In fact, he remains about the
most powerful cabinet member in
Ike's ! official family. Further
more Humphrey will be the top
U.S. delegate to the Rio Economic
Conference." Dulles, who was plan
ning to go, is now worn out arid
will" not go.
Hardboiled Humphrey
So Humphrey has put across
the policy that loans will not be
made by the Ex-Im Bank unless
Wall Street, operating through
the International bank, . turns
them down. ' "
State Department advisers don't
entirely like "the Humphrey poli
ty":" "But they are very discreet in
f Heir opposition. After all,"
Humphrey is the most powerful
member of the Cabinet.
What they point out is that
loaning money to Latin America
Is not a financial matter' but' a
political one. In krief, we should
not bs" loaning money to a semi'
C,bmmunfst country Wen' it , itvs
souitd' financially. On ' the 'other
band,' we may want to loan money
to a friendly country which needs'
help to throw off Communism. .
The State Department, not Wall
Street ' bankers is qualified "to
make this decision, the diplomats
argue. 'And they ''are vigorously
against turning this vital instru
ment of national policy" over" to
the bankers, either "Walt" Street or
any other group of, baiikers.' '
Washington Pipeline.
While the Senate hubbub con
tinu'e "pver Senator ' llcCarthy,
who has done little more " than
shout s"bout the Communist con-'
spiracy the government's Subver
sive' Activities' Control Board
quietly1" begins hearings today
that should lead to the perman
ent crippling of a key Red front,
The Civil Rights Congress or.
years has blown the propaganda
horn "for the Communist Party!
It is operated as the Red rescue
Drew Pearson
squad but has never identified
itself with the party . . . ITheo
phile Kammholz, Ike's appointee
to the key post of general counsel
of the National Labor Relations
Board, is an old buddy of Sinclair
Weeks, the Commerce Secretary,
who always has his big business
finger in the President's Labor
decisions. Weeks picked Kamm
holz as the Commerce Depart
ment delegate to last year's In
ternational Labor Organization
meeting. The fact that Weeks
picked him for the NLRB isn't
going to help Secretary Mitchell's
resentment that Weeks meddles
too . much in Labor Department
affairs . . . Albert Beeson, the
Eisenhower appointee to the Na
tional Labor Relations Board last
year, whose evasiveness before
the Senate Labor Committee led
to a full-scale floor fight over his
nomination, has written Eisen
hower stating that he does not
want, to b3 reappointed. He cites
his wife's health as the reason.
(Actually, his appointment would
be turned down by a Democratic
Senate.) . . . Roger Kyes, the
former Assistant Secretary of De-
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T. 'CO LEX TAX ANDREWS
... what to do with
those davm tax forms?
fense now back at General
Motors, has employees at GM's
Home Appliance Division in Day
ton complaining that he's con
ducting a reign of terror. . . .
The public has raised such a
ruckos over the colored stripes
oh the new tax forms that the .
color scheme will be abandoned
next year. Tax Chief T. Coleman
Andrews has been defending the
system because he has already
printed up so many tax returns
that he is stuck with them. How
ever, the color gives, away the
approximate amount of taxes
your neighbor pays, and the plan
wall be junked.
The Case Against The Leniency bill
Summed Ud: Vote W Says Hauser
Legislature 'Abrogated Duty'
In Leniency Bill Matter
Editor:
The student Legislature has broughl
the Leniency Bill before the student body
for its decision in the coming elections.
It deserves us welMo consider it carefully
prior to our expression at the polls. I
would like to submit some points which
might well be taken into consideration
by the conscientious student voter.
The bill proposes to liberalize punish
ment for first offense cheating and states
in its preamble the reasons for its exist
ence. It asserts, and I believe, mistakenly,
that reporting of cheating cases would be
more frequent due to absence of auto
matic suspension it alleges greater flexi
bility, yet by its own words denies this
flexibility by charting a single course to
be taken against first offenders: "The
usual punishment . . . will be probation
. . ." The generalities of the first and
fourth parts of the preamble need not be
repeated here.
A reading of the bill showrs that, if ap
proved, 'it will be subject to th inter
pretation that the Honor Council will give
to its phrasing.
Article II designates that the dean of
students' office assign a violator who has
been put on probation to a faculty coun
selor. This, section of the bill is entirely
unenforceable as it purports to direct the
dean's office, which prerogative the Stu
dent Legislature naturally does not have.
The dean's office might find it very un
wise to expect faculty members' aid in the
administration of the honor system; in
fact, I would not be suprised if the fac
ulty members would declare in the same
- vein. , Placing supervision of probationers
in the faculty, too, might well be consider
ed a strange departure from our concepts
of freedom.
Yet, the student body has provided for
a balance of power between the two de
partments, and for expressly such oc
casions. To overcome this "defect," then,
the legislature has seen fit to abandon
the channels through which legislation
should flow. It has gone beyond the point
of mere abrogation of duty. Keeping their
fingers crossed, relying on the argument
of .'faith in the student body." the same
student body which charged them and its
President with a specific responsibility,
the legislators now hope that we, the
students, will act for them in a matter
that they would not decide themselves.
Peter H. Gerns
There Is Danger In The
'One Free Cheat' Idea
Editor: .
During the past weeks the campus as
a whole has become more aware of the
honor councils and their procedures. This
cognizance results from the efforts oi
David Reid to liberalize penalties in first
offense cheating cases.
The main cause for complaint is that
the councils are guilty of using only one
punishment, suspension, for persons con
victed of cheating. That suspension is more
often given as the penalty arises from
the fact that the councils, in reviewing
the case, attempt to answer three ques
tions: What is best for the student?
What is best for the university?
What best upholds the traditions of pre.
ceding councils?
The answer is a difficult one to find.
However, when suspension is decided up
on as the answer, it is because the coun
cils feel that the student may accquire
a better perspective if he is remover for
a time from the environment where his
cheating took place. His offense is a
serious one, and in order that another vio
lation may be prevented he must be made
to realize the full significance of what
he has done. He has proved unworthy of
the trust placed in him by the University
and by the other students.
In this bill probation is suggested as
the usual punishment for those cheating
violators wrho are on trial for the first
time. The fact that probation has a far
different meaning for girls than for boys
goes unnoticed in this bill. Although the
bill affects both councils in the same man
ner, probation for a girl includes the ad
ditional requirement that she remain in
her place of residence from 8 p.m. until
5 a. m. Therefore the girls receive' a more
strict penalthy for committing the same
offense.
. Several penalties exist that are exer
cised by the councils. These penalties
range irom expulsion to council reprim.
and and includes probation among the
alternatives. Thus, as you can see, the
bill offers no definite change in the pres
ent system.
One of the purposes of the bill is to en
courage reporting violators. Since the
possibility . of suspension still remains,
more widespread participation cannot be
accomplished in this manner.
A danger lies in the misconception of
"one free cheat." Although there is no
justification for this erroneous idea, there
is the possibility that the bill may be
misconstrued to mean just that in a
few years.
If you too have lost faith in the honor
councils in general and in their discre
tion in particular, the responsibility rests
on you to correct the trouble. The len
iency bill is not the solution. You have
the opportunity today of exercising the
privilege of selecting for council mem
bers the candidates whom you have ob
served to be the most conscientious, the -most
capable, the most intelligent. In
your hands rests the decision.
Kendrick Townsend
By Chuck Hauser
(Chuck Hauser, the author of the fol
lowing article, wrote his daily "Tar Heei
at Large" column for this newspaper last
spring, but stopped when he went to work
for The Chapel -Hill. Weekly. He returns
today to comment on what he calls "the
most important thing cver to come up on
the Carolina campus." Ed.)
WHEN A FRESHMAN, arrives at Caro
lina for fall orientation, he'is immediately
struck with the emphasis which is placed
on the Honor System. He is convinced
that nothing at the University is held in
higher esteem' than the Honor System,
and he is told that this Honor System,
more than anything else, moulds what
we know as the Carolina Way of Life. He
later comes to realize that the Honor
System is not perfect, but at the same
time he discovers that those who violate
the Honor Code are dealt with severely.
He knows that sooner or later violaters
are caught, and he knows that if they are
found guilty in our courts, they will not
be let off with a' light punishment, be
cause we do not take our Honor System
lightly. .1 ' ' ' .
A BILL which is to be voted cn by the
student body in the election today would
change all this. It is a new policy which
would so fix punishments for honor vio
lations that a first-offense "cheater
WOULD be let off lightly. Specifically, it
calls for probation as the standard pun
ishment for first-offense cheating, rather
than suspension from school for one se
mester. Instead of telling a freshman dur
ing orientation week that we do not
tolerate cheating at" Carolina, ' we '"would
have to tell him that we do tolerate it.
Instead of telling him that we hold our
Honor System in such high regard that
we deal strictly with persons who violate
it, we would have to tell him that he
may violate it and nothing will happen
to him unless he violates it a second time.
In other words, we would have to an
nounce that the Honor System is now a
"Free-Cheat" System, where everyone ex
cept the "flagrant violator is permitted
to remain in school.
IT CANNOT be denied that when the
punishment for a specific crime is lower
ed, the temptation to commit that crime
is raised. Many more students will take a
rhnrico on violating the Honor System ij
they know that (1) the Honor System is
not really very important anymore, any
way, and (2) they will get off lightly even
if they get caught. '
THE BACKERS of this frtecheat bili
make, a number of claims which are mis
leading, distorted, and in some cases
false: They say the Honor Councils now
automatically suspend everyone who is
convicted of cheating. This is not true.
In cases of clear-cut violations of the
Honor System, suspension is the usual
punishment, but the Councils consider
each case separately, and if circumstance!
warrant, the offender is put on probation.
This new policy wrould tie the hands of
the Honor Councils in determining pun
ishments in individual cases The
backers of the bill say the new systerr
will provide "rehabilitation" and "coun
seling." It does this only on paper. The
bill calls for a "faculty counselor" to be
appointed for each probationer, and the
student is to report to him bi-weckly.
This is not very realistic. Faculty mem
bers are overworked with hundreds of
committees and "extracurricular assign
ments now,, and it will be impossible to
find enough faculty members with both
the interest and the time to serve as
counselors. Without a system of super
vision, probation does no effective good.
And the proposed supervision is purely
imaginary.
I DON'T KNOW the motives. "of the
people who are pushing for the passage
of this so-caljed leniency bill. I do know
what they will accomplish if the bil!
passes: They will succeed in weakening
an Honor System which' needs every bit
of strengthening we can 'give" it.'. Honor
cannot be compromised. The dishonorable
person has no place in society until he
has learned that society will not tolerate
dishonor I ask this: If you believe in
the Carolina Honor System, vote NO in
the leniency referendum today, because
the future of our Honor System depend;
on your vote.
The Ram Sees
The politicians who are supporting the
free-cheat leniency bill in the referendum
today say that the bill will help the
Honor Councils by giving them more free
dom in deciding punishments. This is sc
patently untrue that it is almost funny
If the whole business weren't so tragic.
I think I would laugh. Every Honor Coun.
cil member is opposed to this leniency
bill. They would hot be against it if it
really gave them "freedom in - fixing
punishment." All the bill does is 'to force
the Councils to slap a cheater's wrist and
ask him to be a good boy, instead oi
telling him to leave Carolina and not tc
return until he knows the meaning oi
honesty. '
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