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UNC NEWS
Thursday, June 16, 1960
Fallacies In Honor System
The Honor and Campus Codes are al
ways good material for comment on cam
pus. Most of you know by now what these
two codes are supposed to mean and what
they represent.
You'll see signs up in classrooms all
over campus. Whether or not you be
lieve in andor adhere to these codes is
up to you. We think you should.
But it is only fair to you the stu
dents to point out that the codes are
not infallible. And, too, it is only fair to
point out that inconsistencies exist,
The codes are not infallible because
there is no real means for seeing that all
violations are reported. For how can you
force a student to turn his buddy in? How
can you force him to turn himself in
when he violates one of the codes?
To our knowledge, no feasible solu
tion to this problem has yet been devised.
The above points also serve to illus
trate that the Campus and Honor Codes
are inconsistent for the simple reason
that for some people they are non
existent. Furthermore, there is at least one
place on campus where the two Codes are,
in fact, virtually if not completely non
existent. This place i3 the Reserve Reading
room at the Library.
The reason is all too obvious. For,
upon leaving this room, the attendant
checks or at least is supposed to check
your books to see if you have checked
them all out, or if you are leaving either
knowingly or unknowingly with books
belonging to the library without check
ing them out.
And the reason for this is also ob
vious. For too many students leave or
at least have tried with books that they
have not checked out and some of these
are never returned.
Thus the fact that the library must
not leave students to adhere to the Cam
pus and Honor Codes on their own is
understandable. But, at the same time, it
leaves a great gap of inconsistency in the
two codes which supposedly mean so
much to the campus and those that com
prise it.
Something should be done about this,
for how can students be truly expected
to behave as "Carolina gentlemen and
ladies" if such an inconsistency exists?
How can professors be sure that cheating
is not going on when they leave the room
during a quiz?
It seems to be an unending, vicious
circle. We do not kno the answer, the
solution. Do you?
UNC Gets More Honors
Announcement of the Nieman Fel
lowships for study at Harvard Univer
sity last week added more names to the
long list of people who have been honored
after graduating from UNC.
The awards were doubly gratifying,
for they also added more laurels to the
University's School of Journalism.
For two of the 17 journalists receiv
ing the awards are former UNC journal
ism students, bringing to 10 the total
who have received Nieman Fellowships
after departing the hallowed halls of By
num Hall.
The two were Andrew M. Secrest,
editor and publisher of the Cheraw Croni
cle, in Cheraw, S. C, and Robert C. Smith,
associate editor of the Norfolk Virginian
Pilot. Smith's award abo brought more
honor to hi3 paper, for editor Lenoir
Chambers only recently won a Pulitzer
Prize ior editorial writing.
The Nieman Awards date back many
years, to Lucius W. Nieman, who found
ed the Milwaukee Journal in 1882. When
he died in 1935 he left most of his for
tune to his widow. .
Mrs. Nieman died a year later, and
left $1,000,000 "to elevate the standards
of journalism." The funds were used by
the executors of the estate in founding the
graduate fellowships for practicing journ
alists. The University is always proud to
know that it turns out students of such
caliber.
Some have scoffed at the journalism
school here because of its smallness. But
10 Nieman Fellows, several Sigma Delta
Chi award winners and a Pulitzer Prize
winner here and there just point out that
it's quality, not quantity, that counts.
The U.N.C. NEWS
Editor RON SHUMATE
Associate Editor JOE MEDLIN
Business Manager DAVIS B. YOUNG
Staff DEE DANIELS. HARVE HARRIS. HENRY MIXON.
PHIL GRAHAM. DAVE JONES
Photographer RON CUNNLNGHAM
Publications Board WILLIAM G. LONG,
PROF. KENNETH BYERLY. PETE IVEY
Director of Summer School DR. A. K. KING
Office Telephone 22356 & 22138
Editor's Telephony '. '. 22152
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Help Wanted
Though the staff is growing, we
still could use some more students
from graduate, law and other areas
of the campus.
The smallness of the staff does
not permit us to cover each and
every aspect of the campus as
closely and as completely as we
would like.
So if you have some spare mo
ments that you'd like to spend in
a newspaper office, we'd be glad
to have you up here.
Just call 22152 if you have any
news, or if you want to go to
work.
Perspectives
By Yardley
If life has been treating you Neither John Kennedy nor Rich
kinda nice, and everything has ard Nixon qualify as great men.
been just the way you like it to They are reasonably competent
be, then maybe ' you're beginning and able, but they are not of the
to miss the hustle and bustle and same mold that went to fabricate
confusion of the day-to-day world. Stevenson and Rockefeller.
Maybe what you need is a return We suggest that Stevenson and
to normal. Rockefeller, for all their ability
If that's what you need, we've and conscience, are shirking their '
got the solution. duty t tne nation, and that the
Just take a look at the big-time nation will suffer as a result. Per
politicians. They have managed aPs . t!iere. ar1e Political reasons
to present a picture so totally for slttinS m winSs. but there
confusing and dismaying in its are not moral reasons for skip,
implications as to be beyond 0ur PS out m times of trouble,
limited comprehension. And lf either "party fails to
Perhaps the best way to sum it I1U ""die u"e,u' '. ".
all up is to say that these days
will have failed in its inalienable
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pimnptpnpp sppitk fn pnnal npfli- uuv .
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ge"u6' . . While Rockefeller and Steven-
There are two competent men gon av)id tne central issue 0uf
who are under consideration for favorite liyi American sees no
the presidential nominations of the reason fm not whatever
wo parties, and neither one of he feds like saying
them shows the slightest public When Harry Truman doesn't
inclination to seek the office. like something he usuaUy lets the
They of course, are New entire nation know and the past
orks Governor Nelson A Rocke- few days have seen no exceptioa
feller the man who makes the to this pr(;formed conclusion.
Republican Party seem human H Xruman does not like sit.
again, and Illinois former Gover- down strjkes
nor Adlai E. Stevenson who is Furthermoi:e, Harry Trumaa
the only Democrat really worth thinks the Communists started the
the nation s consideration. whde mess in the first lace
And so these two men men who H Truman f nt Mc.
are extremely mindful of their Carthyism from its inception, and
duty to their nation and its
fought it in a manner which.
people, last Sunday both reaf- ht credit to him his natioa
firmed their refusal to seek, at anH hic rtv Fnr him tn tlim
least openly, either party's nomi- tail SQ unattractively is not of suctt
nation.
magnitude.
We do not believe that the The United States is not made
presidency has become such an 0f bigots we hope and Harry
odious office these last seven Truman most certainly is not a
years that the nation's most com- bigot. For him to turn to the
petent men would refuse to at- party line of bigotry is for him to
tempt to gain it. Surely it has turn against everything he ha3
been reduced to the ineffectuality st00d for in a life that has beeii
of a Grover Cleveland or Ruther- dedicated to public service and to
ford B. Hayes, but the office and greedom of speech,
its prestige and influence have not We doia particularly care
vanished. whether or not he likes sit-
When the nation needs great downs; we do care, however,
men as it does right now the about the lack of discrimination
great men of the nation should he employs when he accusse3
rise to meet the challenge. their originators.
He Doesn't Sing, But . ...
By RON SHUMATE
Students attending Dr. E. E.
Pfaff's European History class
es really get their money's
worth. For not only does the
good Dr. Pfaff impart knowledge
to his sleepy-eyed students, but
he also give them a fair repli
ca of a Thursday night TV pro
gramnamely, Tennessee Ernie
Ford.
About the only thing that is
missing are Ernie's expressions
such as "pca-pickin'," and
"lollygagging." The Southern
accent is there. The expressions
are not. But one is kept alert
with expectation.
Dr. Pfaff hardly stops mov
ing for a minute, except to oc
casionally sit back, lock his
hands on top of his head and
wait for his "silent generation"
class to answer one of the
questions he has asked. "After
all. it's your education we're
here for, not mine," he slyly re
minds the class.
His early-morning (7:30) wit
ticismstinged with a touch of
light cynicism are as refresh
ing as that first scorching sip
of Y-Court coffee to those stu
dents athirst for a post-dawn
knowledge of what happened
in Europe from the Renais
sance to Waterloo.
After much coaxing and
gentle persuasion Dr. Pfaff
usually manages to get a lew
answers out of the class. ,
Once the first day of classes
after waiting painfully for
some moments on an answer to
a particular question, he said:
"Well, I guess this really is the
'silent, passive generation.
But I don't blame you for not
wanting to stick your necks out.
You've got your eyes set on .that
junior executive job, and you
certainly don't want to do any
thing to upset the apple cart."
So one brave, hardy soul ven
tured forth with an answer
one that turned out to be par
tially wrong.
Dr. Pfaff gently corrected the
student, who replied: "Well, sir,
I stuck my neck out and you
chopped it off." Silence.
But this is not to say that all
that goes on in Dr. Pfaff's
classes is humor. For he does,
impart some of this knowledge
that the students thirst so for.
The refreshing part of it all U
the manner in which he does it.
He doesn't try to cram it down
the students' throats. They
might choke. He just gently
pours it out and lets them soals
it up at their leisure.
And if they don't get it, it'9
no faulth of his unless they're
all Tennessee Ernie Ford fans.