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PAGE TWO J 1 I Edi tors Managing Editor News Editor Business Manager Associate Editor : Sports Editor Advertising Manager , Assistant Business Manager Coed Editor ; Circulation Manager Dry Rot At The Heart Of The Honor System Like 1 1 1 c Socraii.c; ethic, the Hono,r (lode stands on the assumption that doini the right is a natural consequent e oi knou in the right. Recent reports from several quarters indicate a decay in the . practice of honor on the cam pus whith, if it continues, might be enough to throw tlia'l basic assumption into question. The honor system problems which Dcnn Fred Weaver , oiitlined in his speetlt to stu dent government leaders just before the Thanksgiving ret es were mostly mechanical problems, problems of enforcement, prob lems of judicial process. They have claimed the headlines, most of the current discussion, -and have led to plans for an Honor System emphasis week. , Hut are mechanical problems really the most pressing problems right now? There are documentary reports of others which seem to us to-go deeper toward the core of the matter. 1 Thev fall into at least three distinct areas: i. The librarv: Library officials report that in the' General College reading room, where doens of books flow across the t heck i i,i.r -in,i it ii :.'!! librarv heln i t -. ------- can tlo to keep them flowing. Honor System violators in alarming numbers are forging names, even entering fictitious names- to get books. Sometimes the books slip back into the librarv. Often they vanish without trace. Other traitors to the community of honor overtly steal books out of the hands of read ers. In one .instance, a. reader who left the reding "room lor a short break returned to find h?s book gone aid replaced. by a note addressing him as a "sucker." 2. Dormitorv telephone booths: One of the larger dorms came up some $70 short on long-distance telephone calls last semester. "Here the violators, b report, use an ingen ious coinon-astring device to deceit e the operators. . Honor System newspaper stands. Sev eral state newspaper companies complain that they constantly t heck up shn t on coin re ceipts for newspapers. They threaten to dis continue servit e if the violations continue. In these ""'area!, we have .unquestionable evidence of the decay. In others, the evidence is more nebulous, but in some cases backed by testimony. A eology professor, Avorking through nerf his students, purchased for S a! quiz he planned to give the next day. We don't think we arc wrong in seeing a general pattern in this potpourri of violations a pattern si Cowing that if there is decay, it ..it 1 ilW-ri tv v The librarv is an onen. puoiK ounuiiig. 1 cit iJiiujit; imruiis tmi paper si mtls are onen. btisv. public builtl-i-igs. N' n- 'f this is happening clandestinely, fr souv; of students awake, we hope mill by - the sites of the violations every day; re peated acts could hardly be taking placerday after day. -."without being seen. If these violations are occurring with col laboration and open conniving, the dry-rot at the heart of the system is too obvious and too crucial Jto ignore. 'Going unchecked, the black spots will spread and eventually bring ns to the stage if they haven't already at which we must question-the assumption up on which the system is founded. The worth while individuals who live under this com munity of honor supposedly follow its code because there is virtue in honor, not because they fear the reprisals' which will follow an offense, and assuredly not because as it was suggested in a -quiz given to the, incoming freshmen they stand to lose out on grade curves. . . ' The .problem of evil has, . in the eyes of many contemporary philosophers and theol ogians blown to smitherenes the Socratic ethic, we' mentioned above. In the matter of the Honor System, we are faced, in a sense which vulgarity and .embarrassment can't er ase, with the same problem: Is a community, of honor possible? ()s is personal nature such that the system will break down in spite of ail we can do to enforce it? atlp tar Heel The official student publication of the Publi .ations Rnrd of the University of North Carolina. fX where it is published 'ana examination and j vacation periods and J summer terms. Enter i ed as second class matter in the post of fice in Chapel Hill, N. C, under the Act of March 8, 1879. Sub scription rates: mail ed, $4 per year, $2.50 1 ocniKsier; aenverea, -A-56 3 year. $3.50 LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER FRED POWLEDGE JACKIE GOODMAN BILL EOB PEEL J. A. C. DUNN WAYNE BISHOP Dick Sirkin Carolyn Nelson Peg Humphrey Jim Kiley Night Editor For This Issue . pveuben Leonard Carolina Front, Nothing More Unpredictable Than WC Gals .Louis Kraar NOTHING IS more unpredict able than a group of girls ex cept a group of girls turned loose on a campus newspaper. I say this, not beacuse I don't like girls (or girls running news papeis), but because the recent writings from our sister school in Greensboro are disturbing. The Woman's College gals have a weekly newspaper, The Caro linian, and usually it has been lively, controversial, and inde pendent. But this year, the girls have taken what seems to me the most remarkable position for any newspaper to take. It was set forth in a recent editorial. "THE POSITION of The. Caro liniaa," declared the WC paper, "in relation to the reporting and perpetuating and any 'situation' that exists on this campus between faculty and administration, and what ofifcial source would give such facts,?) "We will not have any part of that which is of no concern to students." (What could be of more, concern to students than any so-called situation between faculty and administration?) "Our responsibility to the stu dents is that of reporting news in an accurate fashion ." (Al so, I might add, to interpret that news, explain what it means even news of a faculty-administration squabble.) "When any information con-, cerning the affairs of the Wo man's College is released from official channels, or any other official sources for that matter, we will be the first to want to report this to our readers. Un til that time we must be concern ed with matters of substantial substance,' concluded The Caro linian. (Again, I ask, what could be of more "substantial substance" that a "situation" between facul ty and administration, and what official source would give such facts?) Perhaps some day the WC edi- . tors will learn that news has to be dug out no matter where it exi. t", and that any happen ing on a campus is of interest to students. Maybe the WC gals ate still suf fering from shock after last fall's publication of that male nude in Coraddi, the WC literary mag. ALMOST AS unpredictable, as girls and girls on newspapers are campus humor, mags, particularly our own Tarnation. Operating on the assumption (a correct one, too) that campus humor magazine cartoonists "have not been conditioned to the re strictions and the taboos of the mass circulation magazine or newspaper," Bantam Books ftas published a collection of 130 car toons by campus humorists. The one below is from Tarna tion and pretty funny, I think. , NO LIMITS A young Smithfield matron wanted her new maid to be pleas ed with her position. "You'll ha,ve an easy time of it here," she said, "since we have no chil dren to annoy you." "Oh, I like children," said the maid. "Dont go restricting your- . self on my account." Smithfield Herald. 1 'No, Mr. Lawson, None Of Our Marriage Courses Have Labs' (fLClSiRA!l 1- . IS it t ' It . - - I, . .-.-.V.-. - : T-- v f.,f-;,c, ;?.i.!'J .-V.. ?V;. "V" -"'f " v - . . Vi - -j:- . , . i? :,t? , - r v 4 - - ' - . : - k if s yj GOP (Needing An Egghead Badly) Must Do Something Intelligent Or Throw In The 56 Towel - Gerald Johnson The New Republic THE IMPORTANCE to the egg heads ot Adlai Stevenson's formal announcement of his candidacy is not the certainty that he- will win, for there is no such certain ty; it is, rather, the certainty that the opposition can't whip him without doing something in telligent. It is the firm faith of the eggheads that if intelligence is forced into the campaign the public will get something out of it, no matter who wins the elec tion. The grave danger of 1956 was the danger that the election would be decided on some such issue as "Tippecanoe and Tyler too." That danger is still pres ent, but it is appreciably reduc ed with Stevenson in the race. Even in 1952, when 10 million sentimentalists who had never voted before and probably never will vote again, rushed to the polls to vo;e, not for a man, but for Five Stars on a shoulder strap, Stevenson injected into the campaign so much discussion of genuine issues that he held the entire Democratic vote. Jt must not be forgotten that the 27 mil lion ballots cast for Stevenson .-CVV-V . Sti THI DAILY TAR HPBL 'Ouch! Hey It's Me' t were more than had. ever before been cast for ny mani Democrat or Republican, except Franklin D. Roosevelt; and even he topped Stevenson's vote only onqe out of his four campaigns. FIVE STARS Against anything less than the Five Stars the Democratic cam paign of 1952 would have been successfuL As it was, the Republi can Party barely scraped through, for a few of the 10 million senti ' mentalists bothered to vote for its Congressional candidates, and as soon as the Five Stars dis appeared the party lost Congress Against Nixon, Dixon and Yates, the campaign of 1952 would have been a massacre; so Republican hopes rest either upon the defeat of Stevenson in the Democratic convention, or the discovery of a better candfdate than any now in sight. , . ' '" There is, indeed, an Aztec ele ment in the party aspiring to in troduce the rite of human sacri fice into American politics by persuading a man known to have a coronary occlusion to run for President. But this grisly project is likely to run into an insur mountable obstacle in the honor of a soldier. In 1944 as he was preparing to land on the Nor mandy beaches, Dwight D. Eisen hower would have considered it disgraceful to intrust "command of an army, corps to a General with a bad heart; it Is hard to ' bell e that the same man in 1956 will countenance turning over the country to a comman der who can't pass the army phy sical tests. s . A HARDING OUT So if the Democrats nominate5 Stevenson, as 'they seem likely to do, the Republicans will have to meet him with a candidate who has something like the Egghead's tremendous vote-getting power, or let the election go by default. This automatically rules o'ut the more stupid as.t -rants, it is use less to put up a Harding in this , kind of race. But if the Repub-' licans are compelled to name an intelligent man, then no, matter what' the outcome the prospect for the country will not be ut terly hopeless. - Even if the party sophists should succeed in blinding Eisen--bower's eyes to the duty of a soldier, there will remain the problem of selecting the other half of .the ticket which in that case would mean the other half of the Presidency. The country i 'XV - Sin1"'1 . fi - W ' ' IT- . . . '-vv-. T : firr-rH wvstiiproA Post c' still shudders at- the .narrowness of its escape from Nixon. If the American voters are to be as ked to accept Eisenhower as a half-time President, the other half must be selected with great care, for one reason because the other half must do most of the battling against the Democratic candidate. If that candidate is Stevenson, then no .22-calibre candidate can be considered as the secondary President. PRETTY PROBLEM It isa preUy problem that the Republican Elder Statesmen are facing, and it is small wonder that they are doing all they can to delay Eisenhower's withdraw al until they have reached some kind of solution. They know that intelligence alone will give them even a fighting chance; and they know that to introduce intelli gence into the party councils may disrupt the organization as disastrously as that dynamite bomb disrupted the airplane near Denver. They oared not take the risk in the Eighty-third Congress, establishing the record on which when the party should have been to run. in 1956, Instead, they let the McCarthyites disgust the country so completely that the party lost Congress, and with it lost the opportunity to make a record. Perhaps, that error would not have been fatal if des tiny had not intervened to de prive them of their one great asset, Eisenhower. But destiny did intervene. NO CHOICE So now they have no choice. The alternatives are to do some thing intelligent or to throw in the towel. It is a bitter choice for men long accustomed to' rely ing on luck and muddling through, but as of the moment there is no apparent way out. Of course Stevenson might be run over by a truck, or break his neck diving after a tennis ball, but you can't figure on such long chances fin politics. Cer tainly the public will not. The public is cheerfully sure that now the Republicans will have to show some sense, like it or not. HIGHWAY MISSILE He who travels over 60 miles an hour is not driving his car he's aiming it. Dallas Morning News, Just Plain Prejudice, Throw Away The Thesaurus; Use Cliches - Dave Pardirigton Listen all ye. goodly sects as sembled! Mount the benches, scale the walls, and flee to the hill tops! For I the mighty jumbo am about to draw your attention to the facts of life as promul gated . in Pardington's Bible of Familiar Quotations, Corrupted and Ramified. Ye tortured English major, throw away your Thesaurus! Why be original, Comfort your selves in cliches. Do you not know that "There is nothing new under the sun?" The difference betwen the so-called original and the quotation user is merely the fact that one man knows where he has gotten his ideas, and the other one has forgotten! Do not listen to the heretical sayings of E. E. Cummings, and be sure to write his name with capital let ters. He and his klhd are t,he authors of such statements as, "Knowledge is a polite word for dead, but unburied imagination". Never read authors, read the handbooks prepared by .scholars, read only choice quotations. . Above all, stay away from the distorting influence of contexts. . Trust yourselves, you can cor rupt your own! ' , There are quotations for every occasion, and every familiar quotation is respected, is revered, is sanctified. On one occasion you can say, "Look before you leap," on another, "He who hesi tates is lost." As. Tom Lehrer says in the song, the secret of suc cess in one word is, "Plagiarize!" Reader's Retort More Veterans' News, Please Editors: It is my humble understand ing which leads me to believe that the Daily Tar Heel is a newspaper published to give in formation and news to the stu dents about items which per tain to their daily lives. Where can I sign for the course, you have apparently taken, which will teach me that four (4) ar ticles in the Wednesday edition directly pertain to the students' lives on this campus7 I refer to these four articles: New TTation . al Review From Buckley, etc., Po litical Speech of The Month, How British Explain Football, and Pre-Dental Convention Set Here. Does the latter need so much space when it only refers to Dl ta Epsilon Delta fraternity and the Whitehead Medical Society? I have all due respect to both of thse organizations and their fun ctions. If I am wrong and these four do directly pertain to stu dent body, "why give 11 that space to them and not print the full content of the letter, on an in crease in the G.L Bill, from the Veterans' Committee in the Wd nesday edition? You completely rewrote the Veterans' letter and if anyone can tell me the full meaning of your rewrite, I will humbly apo logize for this letter. What good does the list of Senators and Representatives from North Ca , rolina do when you left out the explanation we gave in the letter to you? The entirety of our letter would have taken little space away from the above mentioned four articles or you could have left out your "details were un known, but will be announced later," Beat Dook pep ra'ly item. The majority of veterans here receive only the G. I. Bill to support themselves and their families. The proposed increased would mean $35.00 to $45.00 in crease each month per veteran.' . I do not have to list the social and economic advantages this increase could bring each veter an. Yet, your rewrite has not ex plained to the veterans and stu dents what the proposed bill would "do for them. You have a duty to the student body (ve terans included) to present de tailed facts and news in regard to them. The full publication and expl anation of our article could pos sibly mean more to the 1500 ve terans here than anything you could print in the Daily Tar Heel. Wrhy not -give the veterans a break and print a few lines that give an explanation of the bill before Congress? Why not do the job the students pay you for? Co-Chairman of Vets. Comm. DARWIN L. BELL Friday, tl:i Roundabout Papers Wouldn't For Dear Oc ,;. NOW Til AT Jail has fPT1'1 the trees, and the campus s,,,'. " collecting nuts and other for,,,1 to be Diffn.. r j in; nw that r-"' fc'orged him.si.'f , turkey, first h , , i 1" and the remnan IS of -ul realise t'e t 'turkey' is en(h; nails growing b; Army and Navy have locked hj1 militaristically at one another 7 ,. up, that we are where we are, I this opportunity to talk about f think of. FIRST, LET us fling a jaundlt,; . ! erable Miss Dove. I saw 'GoodM -. while I was at home, and emerged with a sort of retchy feeling in Frances Gray Patton. After why to her she must be sitting mo:;--nibbling .the plaster off the walls' j. her book, but the first thing tVr, read it says after seeing the move wasn't' that way in the book." RoSa.V or not she was "that way in the i should never have been that way in . Miss Dove in the movie is noth.-.; than an ntolerable prig, and why a thousand should turn out to a man u 5 the front steps of the hospital wh;u prunes a tumor or two oft Jennifer i a mystery. As far as I can see, M.,r endearing her grammar school point where they will even break cr and see her when sheis ill, behave;, as would assure her, if she were E. included in the next purge list. I once had a third grade teachers of Medusa and a heart of the best $: steel who succeeded in teaching r -' the fact that my mentality wi equipped to successfully divide 13 ever smiled it was because someone; apart with a pair of sugar-tuna " sounded like the legal wording in a! tract. Her personality was so col ; invisible. Miss Dove was very much like b r it's all right for a lady to turn pr ill her old age my grandmother cm driver to a stammering jelly even s nez off. But girls of 20 just don't at Dove did at the age of 20. Girls of r as if they lay awake all night coibtn peccable syntax the sentence they ar; in the daytime. The result of all this is that os. sight-of- Jennifer Jones. One is not ; Dove be a small town teacher with; enjoying the reverence of all. Or.t Jennifer Jones try and age 40 years : It doesn't work. My sympathy to F Patton in her hour of bereavement.!: her royalties make up for the sadr her book unhorsed by Hollywood. I HEARD a comment on the s!a recently which, while the student k be interested in it, may will P'P of those less directly connected crew of child wonders. This remark: middle-aged gentleman with ar. in',-' a good education. "I think it's absolutely apalling." 11 1 1 4 4 U nr.nr.lil lltl tfttTt iaiieu, uidi muse jjtwiv "r ally be permitted to learn how ton:: tion before they're 21! Those are t are one day going to be running in here they are saying in their nice' have worded their campaign way that they can worm out of anyA ised if the need arises. Why doet them to shut up and be governtd months, and see how they like tha This is quite a telling reaction t generation. I wonder how the !v would like it if they were sudden and stop behaving like Gods 1 White House. I admit that this wj-r ally acts as if it were the bigS'' shield of the fourth estate; and sc myself up to my full journalistic four and look snootily down on ' Joseph Pulitzer or Ernie rylc below me. But I "went home handful of people who read th,s observed, and let someone else to for' a while. It was quite plean structive. Perhaps I should hau' WHILE I am on the subject o. r hot rock it is to handle, too), ma as the presidential election ca" fused. I wish someone wou resume of the background ynJtlJ V candidate and explain the wiw . know anything about Mr. Steven ran last time and lost and lhat Jr gone to a good school. I don't r';. Flqfps Kpfjiiivpr evreDt that he T's every so often, and that w place to hang your coonskin ca!7'M. a fair to middling, hook. I-'' ... and a thick-rinwncd smile, if ya. About Mr. Harriman I know not--that he's a. Governor. K Of course I admit quite frt'l'!';: ble forcing mv tiny mind to conct--paper for more than -seven - v and that-as far as I am concern.- ; living would be increased 20 Pr r r politics a federal offense, 1'ke c" . pie's children across a state ine.""e Tint T inf f -v rri a in this COIT11'--. mieht be interPKtinf to know nai -: And how about the Republics! '( got bored with the whole bl!SIJt"" ,'r; don't blame them) and decided J next four years? , -
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