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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1757 AG1 TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEV The Wesley Wee! (end: It Could Turn Gut Helpful Students arc pretty universally disturbed about religion. Ask any ol the Philosophy Dept. processors who teach courses in the priests, rabbis and anyone you meet on the streetmost ol them will ; ree that religion and God comprise a very touchy, ajul very contro philosophy ol religion. Ask anvtme in the Religion Dept. Ask ministers, versial, subject. The discussion that came up on this page several weeks ago is one example ol the unsteadiness ol college-age people about God. Therefore, wc are A ery 'happy to see the coming of Wesley Week end. The weekend opens next Sat urday at the University . Methodist Church. We expccied a run-of-the-mill "retreat" that included various talks and speeches by people who are sine of their God. Wry litt'e comes ol such meetings. But the weekend oilers far more than that. According to its sponsors, there will be coffee-type bull sessions all over the campus. The meeting will be open to all students not just Methodists. We hope the meeting will con sist more of students' airing their problems than anything else, sup plemented by short intervals of advice from more learned people who understand' students' prob lems and have dealt with them before. The problem of understanding God personally is a huge prob'em. It is almost too huge for an aver age colJege student to take on. We hope the Wesley Weekend will help lighten the load. Miracles Happen, Even Here l-.very miracle front. One when a once in a while a sort-of-happens on the academic uippened the other day, research scientist's dream came true. Dr. Charles X. Reilley, .' :alytical chemist, received $7,500 from the Research Corp., a na tional foundation. There was only one catch: The grant had no string attached. Dr. Reilley can spend the money In any way' he wants, so long as it promotes research. The University and Dr. Reilley were very fortunate to receive such an honor. The grant should give an idea to someone who wants to help the University anil the state, too: Why not set up a foundation, or a revolving trust of some sort, to do the same thing on ;i wider basis? Lenoir Workers Need Raise The Student Legislature this week will receive three resolutions and one bill that deserve passing. The measures are: 1. A bill to establish a commit tee to effect negotiations between l.enoir Hall officials and self-help students "on the matter of .wy ment of waes and working con ditions." . 2. "A resolution asking the dean of --women to give --freshman- and sophomore nursing students the same curlew hours as the other coeds. ,. A resolution notilying the State General Assemblv that the Student Legislature favors the sell-licpudathjg housing plan lor' married students. .1. A resolution telling campus organia'tions that they can't go running to the Student Legisla ture when they run into debt. Of the batch, the resolution about married students' housing and the bill about Lenoir Hall workers are, in our opinion, the most important. .The importance of nnriied stu dents' housing in Chapel Hill is obvious. It would be good to see the Student Legislature vote unanimously to back the self liquidation project. Such action, coupled with a (raft ot petitions The Daily Tar Heel The official itudent publication of tbt Publications Board ol the Urmersitv ol North Carolina, where it is published daily except Monday and examinatior and vacation periods and summer terms Entered as second class mattei in tht post office in Chapel Hill. N. C, undei the Act of March 8, 1871) v Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per year. S2.5u h senie ter; delivered, $6 a year. $: 50 - -m' ter. Editor FRED POtti.EPCl Managing Editor CHARLIE SLOAN" News Editor NANCY HILL Business Manager BILL BOB PLE! Sports Editor LARRY CHEEh EDITORIAL' STAFF - Woody Sear, Frank Crowther, David Mundy, Cort land Edwards. BUSINESS -STAFF Rosa Muore, Johnny Whitaker, Dick Leavitt. . SPORTS STAFF: Dave Wible, Stewart Bird, Ron Milliagn. Subscription Manager Dale Staley Advertising Manager . Fred Katzin Circulation Manager Charlie Holt Assistant Sports Editor Bill King Staff Photographer-Librarian Norman Kantor Sue Gishner Proof Reader 'J. Guy Ellis Night News Editor Wally Kuralt Night Editor Manley Springs signed by both married and single students. ma help convince the General Assembly of the crying need for "housing right now. l.enoir Hall workers have had a meaner existence for many years. They work about two and one I; '! hours a day at mealtimes, and thev get Si. 90 worth of Lenoir Hall food as payment. Student Aid Office people fig ure this amounts to about 75 cents an hour. , "(If the state rould be 'brought under interstate commerce regu lations, the University would have to .pay a dollar an hour.) This is a ridiculous figure to be paying student workers who must work such fnvcturtd hours. Vet . the University has student workers caught in a bind. Jf they want employment on the campus in the Library, in the eating places and in the offices they must work for the pittance the University pays. We hope the bill passes, but we wish there would be one amend ment to it. The bill, as it now roads, calls for ;v report from the proposed commit tee three weeks from passage date. Whv not make the date two weeks hence? The issue should be woikcd on, worked on hard, and it should reuKvin in the students' minds. To wait three weeks w.-iuld be to invite putting off, and we all know what happens when such things are allowed tc gather dust. Television: On Slate For Today Anthony Wolff At p.m. on Channel 1 1 there's" another presentation-which should apcd to the JShakespearians on the rannus. It's -the second half of Sir 1 aurence Olivier's fimous mj8 film production of "Hrr'lrt."' s -For thos.? who line 1 :ist a vague knowledge of the plot, com ing in .the middle should provq only mildly and temporarily dis concerting. This film was widely acclaimed when it first appeared and is now considered by many to be something of a landmark in movie production. It should be a lifesaver for those who find read ing the play a chore. For those.Mvho like him, Phil Silvers continues his -weekly shan nanigans on Channel 2 at 8 p.m. This week's episode concerns a speed-up at the recruiting center. In the process, .a chimpanzee comes close to joining the ranks. Sounds a -wee bit raucous to me. W hat mmmmmmm J Oak PTEES EH "t (T ! Writes On , a ar m it 11 t Am t 1 L. JIM EXUM . . . tlie rules Editor Can Go To Hell Jim Exum , . - Chairman, Men's Council I received a letter the other day signed "an admirer," which I greatly appreciated because of its lincerety of interest in our honor system. Then, too, it gives me the opportunity to say some things about tne system which evidently need saying. The core of the letter consisted of a series of Questions: "'What L; the h:nor system, and (what) is its value? . . . Does every case have to be brought before the council -by someone else or can the council act 01 its own when it has evidence to merit such?, Does the dule against plagiarism only apply in the classroom cr does it apply throughout the student life on campus? Doe.; the rule against lying and gambling, not at all enforced, only apply when an instructor is the witness and reports the vio lation?" ' - Probably the most important aspect of any de finition of the- henor system is that it is a self imposed system of student control. The students way back in 1875 were granted the authority to faculty the responsibility for making and enforcing their own rules ot conduct. No other university sys tem of cuiurol exists in areas where the honor sys tem applies except that perpetrated by the students themselves. The honor system, therefore, can nev er work well until students of the modern genera-' tion are willing to accept the responsibilities for which our progenitors so successfully fought. VALUE OF THE SYSTEM Much cculd be said about the value of the honor system. The mos saliet value, though, is that the system is in line with this University's unique educa tional phioloshipy that all students (including the freshmaji) should be treated as men capable of di iplining themselves, and that students learn by doing. Ernest Thompson Seton once said, "Manhood, not scholarship, is the first aim of education." Cer tainly manhood is impossible in the broad and true sense without a deep sense of honor and integrity. It is the purpose, therefore, of education to incul cate these principles into every s-tudent. Unless a student is given the opportunity to be honest and 'Man, You Must Be Out Of Your Mind' Editor: In your anti-Tatum campaign do you have any facts or are you as previously basing it on un founded rumors? If you have any information of wrong doings by the UNC Athletic Dept. send your facts to the NCAA, and if you don't, just shut up. In your latest editorial you speak of our coaches and say "They have been known to invite prospective athletes to liquor-and-women parties, to slip an occa sional hundred under the table, to miscalculate on the number of training days and similar practic es." We invite you to state the facts on just one such infraction like this at the (University of North Carolina. T Don't complain so much about football players receiving scholar ships. Football is hard work; they earn those scholarships. So do the basketball players. You get paid (not much, but still m&re than you are worth) for your work on The Daily Tar Heel, so why shouldn't the athletes get an education for those long hours of practice? We like to watch college foot ball whether we win or losz, we like basketball, we like Coach Ta tum, we like Coach McGuire. And if you continue your rumor-spreading factless editorials you can go to hell. Charles K. Capps Jimmy Harwell Richard H. Smith Robert J. Price James B. Wells Since a lot of people thought The Daily Tar Heel was accus ing UNC athletic officials of en gaging in corrupt practices, while The Daily Tar Heel does, not feel that way, we have cla rified our position on the sub ject. See editorial last Friday morning. This letter was dated Thursday. mMif 0 titer ixTZ: -5T TT TT control classroom behavior '6n quizzes and exams and to try and punish violators of their own cheat ing regulations. They had pleaded for this authority for many years before the Civil War; it was finally granted in 1875. It was not until around 1915, though, that the students' began to take responsibility for con duct outside the class, namely a vague idea of what constituted gentlemanly conduct. In 1926-27, Student Body President -S. C. Chap pell said, "The honor system simply means that every man is upon "his honor to conduct himself in a mabner to be expected of a man and to report violations of others."- Around 1930 the students fin ally stated in definite form the honor and campus codes as we know them today. Thus the honor system is that system under which' the students asked for and received from the rely on his' own integrity, the most important aspect of his education is likely to wither and die" from lack of use. The honor system, then, gives this opportunity to every student. Not only does it allow one to exercise his own honesty and thereby strengthen it, but the honor system also helps develop within a man a sense of responsibility for the actions of others, a sense of responsibility to the group of which he is a part. This last, of courts is the most difficult type of responsibility to realize and accept. Once it be comes a part of the character, however, one can be sure he is well on his way toward manhood. In these considerations, then, lies the value of the honor system. The answer to the third question becomes evi dent when we consider that the responsibility for L'il Abner By A Capp HONEST ABC V- VviP A SMOK1 N ' GUN .r- W-W MAR'S TH' CHAP YORE. DEAR MAMMY'S GONJN1A MARRY, ON ACCOUNT HE. MAlN"T-6u'-P:''-FAT? j cw.".'wt;i ...:..!?:.'':;; jtvore dear iammv " J THR.. VpAl D FO'- IN ADVANCE .' J Wfg-ssssf) ) mm m mm s r .- - . .mm.-v J m u fc. 1 . -w ' 'p I-JSNv Pogo ' ' . -- ' , C, ' .... Y FO&O, ?GST I PUT6 OH f NOW YOU GO &T ) r ; re'iMM' rS VScrJ a Lia. ?v V THS VHIFORAS . J j POWN AN WAIT" tN NO 0'JTTZ?LY 1T I MAQAliH J V .Mat" & W. 1 ) V NCl- v r w 1 AN' MARV!N' ' DON'T GIVE fsO REFUrJU'.V OH.WHUT'LLYORE. PQFt MAMMY DO NOW? - By Walt Kelly tat's Ail es&r. qm-9v mo AT ViVVhfik WHICH I CAN VANG UPAU3M3- Airccm ih i9o3 , -5 is, y 1 1 fri ' 1 enforcing the honor system lies with every student who lives under it. This means every student at the University, not merely the president of the stu dent body, or the honor councils, but every singh student from the most exalted graduating senior t.i the humblest freshman (if any sjch animal exists nowadays). The councils, being composed of ordin ary students certainly, have an inherent right t initiate action where honor code violations seem ap parent. Thei rule gainst plagiarism is mainly concerned with papers handed in for classroom assignments and a grade, in other words its purpose primarily is to insure academic honesty. Since, however this question was probably aimed at a specific instance of seeming plagiarism which occured in The Daily Tar Heel vvcral weeks ago. I will add that to plagiarize publicly before all tin students in the official student publication is cer tainly not in the best spirit of the honor system, especially since it puts before the younger students quite a bad example of good journalism. The .stu dent in question will be properly investigate'd and dealt with according to the disposition of the honor council. GAMBLING A VIOLATION Aj for the last inquiry, let me say that gambling in itself, is not now considered a violation of the honor system. In the early days of the honor system it was considered distinctly ungentlemanly to do y and was dealt with accordingly by the early coun cils. Who today, however, would consider a small friendly poker game in opposition to the code of a gentleman? Few, I would guess. If, however, gamh ling grows- all out of proportion to its proper place, if it becomes a dishonest, cutthroat type of thing, and if it actually begins to threaten the 'existence cf some students at the University, certainly gamb ling then would fall under the realm of ungentle manly conduct. It is really, you see a matter of degree. Where the line should be drawn is, of course, decided by the proper student court in a specific situation. Gambling in a general sense cannot be considered a violation of any code. In a specific case, certain sorts of gambling may be a violation. Again the word "lying" covers a broad, sweep ing concept. To be realistic, we must realize thai lying can be of many different sorts. There is the little "white" lie, or better termed, the social lr.' in which use everyone should be well-versed. Certainly in the best interest of all, one would ,not tell a blind date how "stuck" one felt he was, although this, indeed, is often the ease. Nor would you remark to your hostess how horribly greasy were her French fried potatoes, although ytv know you'll get indigestion from eating thsm. At the other extreme there are those lies told with intended malice and forethought which do real harm to the people involved. Such types are lyin about your real name when checking out library books. This causes endless worry and fret to libr arians a.? well as encouraging the theft of many books. Such lies are obviously violations of the honor code. Again, however, the line must be drawn by the student judiciary acting in a specific case. No cer. eralization about lying, as such, can be made. Beyond these considerations, any student may report any action which to him seems a violation of the honor system. The deck-ion, of course, rests with the councils. An instructor doesn't- have to witness anything. In fact, the responsibility for reporting violations doesn't rest with the faculty at all, al though in cases where they may be suspicions m cheating, it is their duty to let the honor council decide the case. They should not dock grades or take any actm;i until their suspicion has been confirmed or denied by the student court. It cannot be emphasized enough that the responsibility for reporting violat.-r of the honor system lies with the students, them selves; not with officers of the student body or eve.i the student courts, but with every single member ot the student body. I hop this answers 'the questions of "an ad mirer." If you would like to talk at length with me about these matters, please let me know. ONE EXCEPTION TO LETTER I wquld like to take exception, however, l -nu statement made in the letter. It reads "The hon -r code' can and will only be what you the chairman of the Honor Council make it while you are iu W capitan.' " t The truth is that each of us here at Carolina el capitan' of our honor system. It can be no that what we make of it. I, as chairman of the -Mn Conucil, together with the council, all elected n P resentatives of the student body, must try and pun ish violators of the system. It is also the council duty to-promote the general worth of the svsten in the minds of the students. I, as a student, have the responsibility not to e, cheat, nor steal; to act as a gentleman, and to report those who in my eyes are not so doing. The primary purpose of the honor sysem, more over, is not to try and punish violators but to in culcate a sense of honor, to educate students in me value of honesty, by giving them the ty to be honest. Not the work of the councils in punishing violators, therefore, but the work of the student.- in Hying up to the demands of the hon,r system is the important consideration The honor system, then, will forever be not what I or the councils make of it, but rather no more or less that we, the students, can make it mean. Ban Dictionaries The Communist government in Hungarv h found a new way of striking back at Hungarian rciu geesby cutting off their dictionaries A Budape-t newspaper reports that the regime's national bank has decided that Hungarian-English, Hungarian French, and Hungarian-German dictionaries badlv needed by refugees learning a new language, 'will no longer be sold for shipment abroad UN'C's li brary Notes, published by the Wilson Library Mal't.
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