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atlp tar In its sixty-ninth year of editorial freedom, unhampered by restrictions from either the administration or the Student body. J The Daily Tar Heel is the official student publication of I the Vublications Board of the University of North Carolina. I All editorials appearing in The Daily Tar Heel are the personal expressions of the editor, unless otherwise credited; they are not necessarily representative of feeling on the staff. I I March 2, 1962 Tel. 942-2356 Vol. LXIX, No. 104 A First Step A bill to codify procedures in the Men's and Women's Honor Coun cils was scheduled to be introduced 'in Student Legislature last night. Although the bill incorporates only a few changes in the already existing procedures used by the Councils, it is nonetheless an im portant piece of legislation. Prior to this bill, no complete codification of procedures existed, making it at times difficult for defendants to know what procedural guarantees they have. Central to the bill is an article defining grounds upon which a student may move, postpone or terminate a hearings This not omy assures uniform procedure, but also provides the defendant with a writ ten guarantee of his rights. If any of these right can be shown to have been violated, a move for postpone ment must be granted until such time as errors can be corrected. The article also provides for termination of a hearing if the defendant is un der jeopardy of conviction, or has been acquitted in another student government judiciary. Also, if the council hearing the case has no jurisdiction, the defend a n t may terminate proceedings. This is a particularly important sec tion in the new codification. Last year, a law student was suspended by a court which was forbidden by the Student Constitution to try his case. The section should eliminate future recurrences of such slip shod practices. Also important is a section call ing for an increase in the number of members required to hear a case from six to seven. This will elimi nate the possibility of having a stu dent suspended on the strength of only four votes. Since a two-third vote is required to suspend, the new procedure will require five out of seven votes, instead of four out of six, which is currently the' case. The bill also carries a recommendation that the number required to hear a case be raised to nine as soon as the number of council members is raised to allow for it. In either case, the danger of er ror is lessened. All the changes included' in the new codification are for the best. However, there are others that could be added and, we hope, will be added-to improve the quality of the student judiciary. Some of these can be included in the new codification before it is rat ified by the Student Legislature. In cluded in these needed changes is a provision to insure that all hearings are open, with the possible stipula tion that no defendant's name be used without his permission. A nother is a stipulation that no stu dent can be disciplined by any part of the student judiciary unless it can be clearly shown that his alleg ed infraction is in some way con nected with his capacity as a UNC student. This would eliminate Coun cil action on cases which are in no way connected with life in the aca demic community. The student ju diciary should not act on cases in volving civil infractions and which are not connected with the Univer sity. Re-evaluation of the judiciaries with consideration for their true purpose which is to act only in the academic area is needed. Re stricting their area of jurisdiction would be a valuable first step to ward such a re-evaluation. The new procedures bill will be a valuable aid providing firmer bas is for the student judiciary. It might also be a first step in strengthening it. Liquor Logic Senator Olin Johnson (D., S.C.) wants a law against serving free drinks on airliners. He says it's wrong for non-drinkers to have to EDITORIAL STAFF t II Wayne King Editor Harry Lloyd, Harve Harris -T 1 Managing Editors ; Lloyd Little l Executive News Editor - Jim Clotfelter, Bill Wuamett News Editors 't Jim Wallace- l Photography Editor U Chuck Mooney Feature Editor - II Ed Dxtfree - .Sports Editor '; II Curry Kirkpatrick 1 , Asst. Sports Editor 'A Garry Blanchard i Contributing Editor BUSINESS STAFF J i II Tim BtJRNETT..Business Manager II Mike Matpers Advertising Manager If Jim EvANS-JSitbscription Manager it Jem Eskridge p Circulation Manager ? Tna Daily Ta Esse Is putfHshed daily exdfept Monday, examination periods M' and vacations, jt Is entered as second ly class matter In the post office in Chapel Hill. K. C, pursuant with the act of i? March 8, 1870. Subscription rates: $4-10 p per-semester, t3 per year. M Dajj-y Ta Hrtt is a subscriber to !SH ihe United Press International and M utilizes the services of the News Bu ll reau of the University of North Caro B published by the Publications Board P of the University of North Carolina. f Chapel SilL N. C. "bear the expense of distribution of free cocktails and champagne to others." Superficially this has a logical sound, and it's bound to be applaud ed by drys. But there is a flaw nev ertheless. The same thing, for instance, would under the rules of consistency apply to free meals. We have seen passengers turn them down too particularly during what the loud speaker sometimes mentions as a slight turbulence. There's even a weight question. How about the thin man who car ries one shirt in a linoleum brief case and the fat passenger who uses a cowhide two-suiter? Except when you get into overweight, or anyhow a we've been given to understand it, airlines figure weight factors on the average rather than the individ ual. Mind now, we are not holding that there aren't persuasive argu ments for doing away with the free drinks. All we're saying is that when you're selling service the cost ac counting isnt as simple as it might look to a Senator who's never had to .sharpen a pencil and sit down- to- it. Detroit Free Press .Bigarmameimfts wjkail EDITOR'S NOTE: Within the next week diplomats from 18 na tions will begin gathering, at Ge neva in search of a less fearful formula for peace than the ex isting "balance of terror" between East and West. United Press Inter national assigned a three-man team to report on the outlook for the Geneva disarmament meeting. It consisted of Stewart Hensley, chief UPI diplomatic correspondent in Washington; Henry Shapiro, UPI (Moscow manager and dean of A merican correspondents in Russia, and K. C. Thaler, chief diplomatic correspondent in Europe. Their find ings are presented in the following dispatch written by UPI's foreign editor. United Press International One after another the long black limousines will roll up to the white marble building called the Palais Des Nations in Geneva. As the passengers of these rent ed cars enter that building on March 14 the world once again will em bark on the quest for peace at the conference table. The diplomats will arrive from 18 nations for the disarmament meeting that was arranged at the United Nations General Assembly last fall. They will represent the United States and four NATO allies, the Soviet Union and four Commun ist bloc countries, and eight of the so-called neutral nations. The setting for their meeting is one of dignity and grandeur, on the shores of Lake Geneva with a view of the snow-capped Alps beyond. In this huge building the League of Nations floundered in the days be fore World War II, and here many another peace effort has broken up in failure. Three months of four power negotiations on Berlin in 1959 produced no agreement except the final one to go home. Three years of nuclear test ban talks collapsed last month. And now the question is: Will it be any different this time? The dip 1 o m a t i c reporters of UPI have sought the answer in the major capitals where they have addressed themselves to these other broad questions: Why has Premier Nikita Khrush chev repeatedly demanded that the Geneva sessions be turned into a summit meeting Of world leaders'? " Does Khrushchev really want disarmament? What is the barrier that pre vents the scrapping of all arms? Is any agreement possible at Geneva? To two of these questions there are fairly firm answers. On the oth ers there can be only educated guesses based on past performance and, as all horseplayers know, past performance is not necessarily a re liable guide to the future. This is especially true when the future hinges on the mercurial tempera ment of Nikita Khrushchev and the devious paths of Soviet diplomacy. sfffiisarr It is the view of officials in- Wash ington that Khrushchev's call for a summit meeting of the-18 nations at Geneva is tied in closely With his efforts to prevent the United States from resuming nuclear testing in the atmosphere. There is real, fear in the Soviet Union that the- United States may get some nuclear weapons advant age, according! to Thaler's report from London. In Washington the view is that Khrushchev hopes for a summit ses sion to put pressure on President Kennedy to dissuade him from re newed U. S. testing, but at the same time the Americans assume Khrush- ' Shapiro, who has known Khrush chev longer than any other Amer ican correspondent, says the So viet chief feels foreign ministers' meetings are a waste of time. "F o r practical purposes, he is his- own foreign minister and! he doubtless considers Kennedy' and Macmillan as the effective- foreign secretaries of their countries" Sha piro1 reports. "In private; and; some times in public conversations, he has expressed impatience- even witfo summitry on a broad levetf and! has ' ' - - t - ; " s " - . ' i h : v; Y ' 1 KENNEDY ... no summit yet chev knows Kennedy is sincere when he says he will base his decision solely on the nation's security needs. This brings up another likely Khrushchev motive Propaganda. "It is likely that Khrushchev is paving the way to blame the United States, and incidentally Britain, for failure of the Geneva talks to make any progress," says Hensley. "It is assumed that such propaganda, combined with attempts to stir up world reaction against resumed U.S. tests, fits into Khrushchev's plan to discredit the West." Well in advance of the Geneva meeting Khrushchev has accused Kennedy of dooming the talks be fore they could get started by op posing a summit meeting. Having completed its own set of nuclear tests, the Soviet Union now appears anxious to impress the world with proclamations of peace ful designs. Why is it that Khrushchev is not content with a foreign ministers' meeting at Geneva? Summary Summit The Western al lies see Khrushchev's proposal for a summit meeting at Ge neva as a grand stand play which might make it possible for him to turn the disarma ment sessions into a, propagan da circus or to blame the West for blocking disarmament by refusing to talk to him. That is why they have held out the hope for a summit session lat er, if the Geneva talks show a genuine Soviet willingness to negotiate.- Sincerity Kft ru ; s-fr-chev would1 like dlsar mamient if he could get it at his own price - meaning no interna tional controls. The reason is that he needs to spend the money at home to reach Sov iet production goals and raise the Russian living standard. Barrier The West dis trusts Soviet intentions. Khrushchev refuses to accept international disarmament con trols which he calls "es pionage." And any real agree ment on disarmament would have to include Communist China, which Will not be rep resented at Geneva. Agreement Because of mutual distrust t h e r e's not much chance of a break through on a broad front. There's always a chance of some give and take on side is sues and a possibility of pro gress on some East-West issue outside of the disarmament question. Failure The world will continue to live under the "balance of t e r r o r" between East and West that is created by the terrorizing prospect of nuclear retaliation. suggested that the United States and the Soviet Union alone should solve the problems of peace. 'Who will ob ject,' he asked me in an interview in 1957, 'if these tw great countries agree on world peace?' " - Sincerity Does Khrushchev really want dis armament? Shapiro' believes- Hie- answer is yes if he can. get it on his own terms.. The' . Russian premier's interest in- arms' cut is- tie in closely with; Soviet) problems- at home and' decis ions' taken; at the 22nd! Communist Party Congress last October. The' party congress; adopted1 a grandbise 20-year economic plan to catch' up and1 surpass the- United; States. On this plafr Khrushchev-" ha3; staked; his claim to the ideological leadership of world , communism. : The continued arms race would retard fulfillment of the Soviet program. :--:iit.jfi-.--' 7 v KHRUSHCHEV . . . uncertain "Although Khushchev has boast ed that the Soviet Union can afford both guns and butter, disarmament alone will enable him to achieve a standard o f living approximately that of the United States," Shapiro says. The Barrier If Khrushchev actually would like to see general disarmament, then what is holding it up? Basically the answer is this: The NATO allies don't trust Khrushchev. The West wants international in spection teams which can confirm that disarmament agreements are being carried out. Khrushchev wants each nation" to do its own policing. J One reason the Western powers are wary of trusting Khrushchev is that he broke the voluntary moratorium on nuclear tests last fall-. On other fronts the communist record since World War II has not been one to inspire trust. There have been the communization of Eastern European nations by the Red Army, the ag gression in Korea, the Berlin block- Stick rrn 1(0) C Can the votes of 18 representatives terpreted as representing the opinion on a national issue? If it can be, of the Student Legislature be in- of the entire student body of UNC then the Student Legislature has "Isii't rniKre I Some i Way -To Blow The Hatch On These Things?'' f embarked' on a- new form of gov ernment that is a- far cry fromt democracy. There has been? ai amazin-r amount of warped logic and' absolute: bunk used: to justify the legislature's pas sage of a nuclear test ban; resoluv tion which is t be sent to1 irtesident Kennedy. There were 15 representa tives wha had enoughi respect for true democratic actio to vote against the resoIutionv but unfortu nately there wer 18 who lacked this respect. Where or from- whom did these 18 representatives receive the authority to vote on a non-campus issue? Maybe they got it from the T'v Phi debating society. .; After all' the Student' Legislature evolved" from the Di-Plu and- th Di-Phi is al ways debating on non-campus is sues, so naturally the cusrent legis lature should be able to pass reso lutions on non-campus issues. In. other words- the Student Legislature equals the Di-Phi. So why don't we change the Student Legislature in to a huge Di-Phi society and have it debate on such imperative issues as the superiority of men over wo men and send that- along with the nuclear test ban resolution for President Kennedy's close inspection. No, these 18 representatives will have to. look farther than the Di Phi society for authority to speak out on non-campus issues. Well, then, maybe they received their authority from the student body. After all . the Student Legisla ture is the "one group elected to be truTy representative of the stu dent body." But representative on what issues? Is; there ene represen tative in the- Legislature who honest ly feels that he has been given a mandate by his- voters to represent them on non-campus issues? If so, it would be interesting to hear just how such- a mandate was obtained", since in the last election of representatives- there was no mention of non-campus issues.. If these 18 representatives did ade and the interventions in Hun gary and Tibet. "Russian tactics still are seen here as designed to deprive the west of nuclear deterrent, which is con sidered by Britain still to be the fundamental basis of the West's de fense," reports Thaler from London. "This would give Russia, with her overwhelming conventional forces, dangerous advantage over the West." The Russia position, as outlined by Shapiro, is this: 'Disarmament first and then con. trols." Inspection without disarmament is espionage, the Russian contend. Af ter disarmament is achieved on pure faith All countries will be open to inspection, Khrushchev has said, because then "there will be nothing to conceal." It is obvious the West never will trust Khrushchev that far and, even if it were to do so, there still would be another barrier to disarmament. That is Communist China. Any agreement between East and West would be useless without in cluding Red China. And it is un likely Red China could be persuad ed, even by Khrushchev, to agree to a major disarmament plan. Agreement At Geneva Against this background of mu tual distrust, is any agreement at all possible at the Geneva confer ence? The answer: Not much but maybe a little. The three UPI reporters, after adding up their findings, see it this way: Hensley Neither side can ser iously expect a breakthrough on a broad front when the disagreement is complete on the heart of the issue inspection. But there might be agreement on some fringe issues. Shapiro Since the Western pow ers have not irrevocably rejected Khrushchev's offer for a summit meeting it is reasonable to expect that the Russians will accept a limit ed agreement at Geneva to pave the way to a summit meeting later. Dip lomatic opinion in Moscow holds there is better than a 50-50 chance of a summit meeting later this year. Thaler Prospects for success of the Geneva disarmament conference are rated low in the light of past experience and present indications. The consensus is that very little will "come out of the Geneva conference In concrete terms, unless there is a reversal of the Soviet position. And that is unlikely. One reason Kennedy and Macmil lan have held out some hope of a summit meeting, later this spring is that they hope this will induce some concessions from the Soviets at Ge neva in order to win a top-1 e v e 1 meeting later. mmmm not receive their' authority from Di-Phii or the- student body, where didt it come from?' God? Yes, of course;, that is- where it came from ! They received a divine message from' heaven, and were ordained prophets ttv lead' the poor, ignorant, blind" student body over the rough sea4 of national issues into the prom ised land where "outstanding lead ers and thinkers" can pass resolu tions on- any issue that happens to bug them. These prophets do not need the student body's consent. They do not need democracy. They are the chosen few, picked by a benevolent God to- speak out and represent the masses. They are Nietzsche's superrnenv towering above the ignorant herd in their intel lectual superiority. If the student body has a voice, let it be heard now. Do not allow yourself to be led like blind shet o by these self appointed prophets. Do not roll over and play dead. Rumors of your death have been heard far too often lately. A peti tion condemning the student legis lature's assumed authority in repre senting the student body on national issues is being, circulated. Those who care in the slightest about having a democratic form of government should sign this petition. Not to sin it would be to condone oligarchy and the murder of democracy at UNC. 'A About Letters The Dally Tar Ileel invites readers to nse it for expres sions of pinion on current topics regardless of viewpoint. Letters most be signed, con tain a verifiable address, and fee free of IZbeloKS material. Brerity and legibility in crease the chance of publica tion. Lengthy letters may te edfted or milted. Absolutely none trET be returttcL
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