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Pi te Stc the dot aci er mi the dn his pa tin on th I sec bie qu. Stc fac uat bai lar Ba pui 13. 1 Wc uis Sts bai yaj wa Ta Ta Do the ( too poi se in en the qu; ing thr sec 1 for pu; 1 tin sai sni do 1 the the lik thf the Ch By po1 sec an wil St to, fir I ! t 1 i : : IS at. M m m Qttn' Hailp (Hai Heel In its sixty-ninth year vf editorial freedom, unhampered fry restrictions from either the administration or the student body. The Daily Tar Heel is the official student publication of tbt Publications Board of the University of North Carolina. All -editorials appearing in The Daily Tar Heel vre the peisonat expressions of the editor, unless otherwise credited; they are not atejeessarily representative of feeling on the staff. iff- October- 2, 1962 Tel. 942-2356 Vol. XLX, No. 11 Honesty Honesty . . . It means that you are leveling with people, telling the truth, not hiding anything. It means that you are open and above board. Consequently, people do not think of honesty in hiding, or honesty behind closed doors. Honesty-an&-openness" it's a simultaneous impli cation, a simultaneous expression. But that has not always Jbeen the case with .honesty at this Univerr sity. The student honor system, which is supposedly based on Hon esty, has long conducted its trials in secret, -.behind closed doors. TThe "openness" has long been missing. Today, finally, someone from the Honor vCouncil has ihad the insight to see this and the courage to say so and the gumption to try to change it. IVleri's Council Chairman Walter pellinger's statement in fav or .of open trials is a refreshing xle velopment in light of traditional antagonism surrounding past rec ommendations of this nature, recom fcnendations -which have previously had to come from outside the Coun cil itself. Yet even now, many will oppose all efforts to open the trials to re porters from the TAR HEEL. Host of these persons will be sincere in their belief that the present "clos ed" svstem best protects student defendants. But in spite of their sincerity, -we feel that they will be wrong. But their arguments are wrong in their promise and harm ful in their present execution. It is soften argued that if trials are opened, rumors about the de fendants would spread rapidly. On the contrary, the best protection from rumor in every instance and for .all time is Truth. Truth about a defendant, about his case, .and about the actions of the .Council members. The reporters would report the case fully, with the exception of the names of the defendants, which would be used only when the de fendants gave permission. The re porters would be on their honor (as are members of the Attorney Gen eral's staff) not to reveal defend ants names. The proposed opening, then, is very much in keeping with one of the basic concerns of the Honor Council trials protection of the de fendant in every way possible, The tradition of protection will be nur- JIM CLOTFELTER CHUCK WRYE Editors Bill Hobbs Wayne King Associate Editor Harry Lloyd Managing Editors Bill Wamnett News Editor Ed Dupree . Sports Editor Curry Kirkpatrick - Asst. Spts. Ed. Chris Farran Matt Weisman Feature Editors Harry DeLung Night Editor Jim Wallace Photography Editor Slike Robinson Gary Blanchard Contributing Editors DAVE MORGAN Business Manager Gary Daltos Advertising Mgr. John Evans - ,' ', . Circulation Mgr. Dave Wysong Subscription Mgr. ' fx. i Dailt Ta Urn. is published dally acce tt Monday, examination periods and vacations. It Is entered a second - class matter In the post office In Chapel i Mill, a. C pursuant with the act of Man a 8. 1STO. Subscription rates i $4JW I per . ernes ter. $8 per year. Th i Dailt Tab Hrn. Is a subscriber to ,.& United Press International and i utUlies the services of the News Bu- 1 -reau oi thm University of North Caro- I: Fu unshed by the Publications Board p at tlxm University of North r-.iir.- ; Chapel FUU. N C. tured imd strengthened if this .pro posal is adopted. And there is yet another .concern, the concern for the protection of the ,rights of all students, whether they are defendants or not. This concern this tradition too, will be made more healthy by the open ing: of trials. For them every student would have access to full and accurate in .formation about the trials. He would be able to see that Honor Council offences do occur, to see how the Council deals with them, and to see how the "judges" he elected are performing ;their .duties. This information, like all informa tion, is protection protection from rumor that springs from the .un known. TVith this information, students can more honestly and intelligently evaluate their system. Students will know that a person tried lor a particular offense received "such-and-such" a sentence. They will know if the Council is administering one brand of justice to some stu dents and a varying brand to .others. These are but a few of the ad vantages. Chairman Dellinger's statement goes further. It is jel well stated document, one which will he of importance to every student, .one which should become familiar to every student. For open trials "will not be just a matter of course. The benefits of open trials will not automatically fall into place just because it is said that they should. The student body will decide. You will decide if there will be open trials. You will decide on the value of open trials. Chairman Dellinger hopes to get the student legislature to adopt the proposal as a constitutional amend ment to be placed before the stu dents on the fall ballot. The fate of the proposal will be decided with a campus-wide referendum. The de cision is yours. If the campaign for this propos al is handled -like so many student government and student political campaigns have previously been run, it will fail. And it should not fail. But if petty student politicians treat this matter as they treat too many other matters, it will inevit ably fail. Only a concerned, inform ed, and questioning student body can prevent this failure. This is a proposal which could and should raise the level of debate in the coming fall elections. This is an issue which could alter the nature of this campus; it is an is sue which has been with us for years, an issue which none should take lightly. We must consider this proposal seriously, we must ask serious ques tions and demand serious answers. If wre jdo this, then all stand to benefit, even if the proposal is de feated. However, an enlightened and con cerned student body will not defeat this proposal, but rather, will de mand and dictate that "Honesty-and-Openness" be a simultaneous and continuous state of affairs. Bifl Hobbs Chuck Wrye But dneer ISj&tfre HopeSdon. To Develop The Bomb Winch Will Enable Us To Starl A. Nuclear War" ill iwi j Jim Reston nor System Failure Lies ith Faculty Quiz Practices (Editors' Note: The author of this column, Jim Reston, is a senior who has just returned to UNC after a year's study abroad.) It's somewhat disheartening to re turn to Carolina to find that we are still at the same place as we always were with our honor system prob lems. The Tar Heel as in every year in the past is indulging in tiresome quipps ahout the Honor Council and its legitimacy as a qualified fcody. Likewise, during orientation, honor council members were engaging in their normal act ivity of pontificating to the incom ing freshmen on the "promise of Ca rolina" or more specifically, on their responsibility as a member of the Carolina community. Yes, these early signs seem to indicate that it will be a normal, unfruitful year in the discussion of the problem. And, yet it is easy to see why this debate takes place every year. The honor system simply does not work in the way that concerned students would like it to. It is grievously clear to any student with his eyes open that cheating rgoes on here, per haps in greater proportions than we realize, and that the honor code is in actuality no deterrent whatever, either in its positive or negative as pects. The code is a terribly ideal istic document, which one can ad mire for the grandness of its inten tion, but criticize for its assessment of the facts. The hope for its effectiveness real ly rests on its negative aspect: that a student is on his honor to report any student who he sees committing an honor code offense. It seems pretty well accepted that a student who is susceptible to cheating will do so, regardless of the system un der which he is taking the examina tion. Hence, at Carolina, the only hope of catching him rests on the shoulders of his fellow students who see him. But there can be no doubt that to turn a fellow student in, whether friend or unknown, requires an ab normal degree of character, a meas ure which even the finest at Caro lina rarely have. And if those who even come to bother about the mor als of their position vis-a-vis the honor system cannot comply 100, what about the majority who don't give a damn. After all, this is a state university whose standards for admission on an academic basis are low enough, much less on a moral basis. However, one can not help but sympathize with the arguments of the honor council, for all they real ly need ask is "What is the alterna tive." The opponents are forced in evitably to answer with some reluct ance and no large degree of convic tion: the proctor system, and as can be expected the honor council can dispense with this argument in short order. For the proctor system is even less of a plausible deterrent to cheating. As has often been said, it turns the whole business into a game of cops and robbers between the proctors and the would-be cheat ers, it removes the deterring thought that there might just be a sudent sitting in the vicinity, who is prin cipled enough to make the effort of reporting the offender, and what is most objectionable of all, it com pletely eliminates the element of personal honor from the examina tion scene. It is at this deadlocked point that discussion has stagnated. We have an idealistic, impractical honor sys tem under which cheating continues unchecked, and the only alternative that has been offered is indescrib ably worse. But this is not a problem without a solution, and it is time that we broke away from thinking that it is insoluble. The group that is responsible for this' impasse is not the students, but Reflections This may be difficult for those people who knew him to believe, but Frank Crowther (UNC grad of '60 and Tar Heel associate editor) has been named Special Asst. to the Governor of Maryland, a job which supposedly has mild-mannered, responsible-type duties. Much too much. From the Charlotte Observer: Note to Mississippi: The Univer sity of Georgia has just awarded the Erst degree in its history to a 'Ne gro a woman who got her master's diploma in music education. The sky did NOT fall down. It is unfortunate that Jim Clot felter was 900 miles away in Ox ford, Miss, last night, because his name was the roost used word in Student Legislature. Clotfelter, a frequent critic of the legislators' hesitance about off-campus issues, was used, much as the Bible. His writings were quoted in support of nearly evTy stand tak en on the controversial James Mere dith resolution- One member even felt compelld to defend the "intelli gence" of the body before the co editor's mighty pen. the faculty. The only solution to this problem is the elimination of. its source. It is the faculty that is responsible for providing the temp tation to cheat in the first place. It is they who make up the standard ized quizzes (multiple choice, true false, fill in the blanks, etc.) and then make the whole grade in the course dependent on these quizzes. What do they expect the reaction of the less intelligent, less diligent, and less moral of our fellow students to be? The faculty should come to real ize that any question which has one pat answer is immediate bait for a possible cheater. The answer to this problem of cheating at Carolina is to revert wherever posible to the essay form answer. This is probably the best form of examination question any way. It tests far better whether a student has acquired a grasp of the material and the techniques, that ideally the professor has taught. Fur thermore, it provides more oppor tunity for the student to write something that is not nearly enough encouraged here. Obviously, some courses are not of a nature which would permit this type of questioning. In most of the beginning science courses where there are as many as one or two hundred students, such exams would be unwieldy (although there is no reason why a few short essay ques tions could not he used). In elemen tary language courses, where the quizzes consist of questions on vo cabulary and syntax, essay questions are not possible. In these situations, solution is also possible, although it would require a little more effort on the part of the professor. In large classes where the professor feels it necessary to use true-false or multiple choice questions, let him make out two or three different answer sheets, and then shuffle them up, and then let him announce the situation to the class. From an exasperated, sweat ing student is not liable to copy the answer of his neighbor at length, if he knows the chances of his neigh bor having the same answer sheet are 1 to 3 (to say nothing of what the chances are of his neighbor even having the right answer anyway). Moreover, the cheater would also be aware that if the neighbor did have a different answer sheet, the chances of him being caught would be about 90. That would be enough to make even the most hardened of cheaters stop and think. And there must be other such methods, which doubtless the PhD's can think up. In the future let us not hear cries of exasperation from the faculty about the amount of cheating going on at Carolina. Let us not hear threats from the faculty to disband the honor council and eliminate the honor system. Let's take the heat off the body and the system which has done the best with the problem given to it, and put the heat on the group that is responsible for the problem initially. FROM $TUDENT PAPERS Comments JHoin 6Ole Miss9 Crisis (Editor's ,Note: .Follswing are excerpts from the views of two student .newspapers on the integra tion crisis at the University of Mississippi. The papers were chosen to represent varying points cf view.) (From the 'Missippian,' student newspaper of the University of Miss issippi, editorials by Sidna Brower, Editor:) The Jackson (Miss.) Daily News printed an editorial on the front page of thje Wednesday afternoon edition giving "a notice of special import ance to the people of Mississippi at this time." The editorial reminded the citizens of the state that although some newspapermen are extremely fair in reporting facts, there are some out of state correspondents who deal in presenting slanderous stories to the public. "Unfortunately, some of them have never read the truth of Mississippi but have taken those radical 'reign of terror' propaganda releases is sued by questionable organizations to embarrass the nation in the eyes of the world and to use Mississippi as the guinea pig symbol of racism for propaganda purposes." The editorial went on to say, "If they are here to report factual in formation, they are entitled to do so." We, at this time, would inquire if the editors of the Jackson Daily News have been reading their own paper this week. And if so, where did they acquire their "factual" in formation? It seems that the majority of newspapers in the area, many of these out of state, have been some what more conservative in reporting the facts and views on the campus situation than some of the state's now newspapers. The Daily News has truly followed the final words of the editorial "let the verbs and adjectives flow" in their screaming headlines and sen sationalized stories. Although approximately 50 report ers from various newspapers and magazines over the nation have registered at the press room set up in the Lyceum, the Daily News has no registered representative on campus nor do its stories carry by lines. Again we ask, where are they getting their facts? Perhaps the Jackson Daily News shou'.d reread their editorial and stories and "practice what they preach." (from the Thursday, Sept. 29 Mis sissippian) (Another editorial, from the Mis sissippian of September 21, read:) We want to commend the students of the University of Mississippi for the mature behavior displayed dur ing the past few weeks. The state and the University were at a point of crisis, and with the exception of a few "rabble rousing" students, .there were no demonstrations ui : outbursts of adverse opinion:-;. Thursday afternoon whr-n a f-.. students attempted to t:it:,' tr American flag down and repl-vf ; with a Confederate flat:, the .!., ;: ness and leadt-rship of M. students immediately bee::!;:.' i n dent. The students of Olc Mi.-s m.uu,-.'. intelligent logic and re.i: most of their actions. We are f-i- 1 to be a part of this group. (From an editorial by C. r ';. Winter and Martha MacNeal in "Ti . Michigan Daily," the student p:i; t of the University of Mit hi '. .i :i September 2fi:) ... It must not be forgotten ti:.! Barnett and the school board :.;v ' going against the will cf their cu-!i-tuency, but are the personiiicai; -of the people they represent. IS ll:,v nett and the school board ueiv j ed, the people who would be h , ;. to replace them would hold i!" same views. This does not eradicate the blanv'. but spreads it. The problem of blame is moral, legal and sociolot.iea!. Morally, guilt lies with all Ameri cans who believe that the culm- ! n man's skin is sufficient c'iu.-e t.i deny him the right to public ed;ma tion. It lies with every mcmbi-r the jeering croud and (.qually with every integratior.ist who would kt ; silent. Sociologically, the guilt .., -: back hundreds of years, cmbrac in economics, religion, politics, mi 1 psychology. Legality enters the pic ture when it becomes necessar y 'i -.c a symbol be chosen to identify ti vague, misty, ugly human coiim-i ;. so that something may h d Justice requires that fh. !,: .;:. -symbol must not be chosen m ! , iiy- There are undoubtedly tivm : of Southerners who heartily f . ; , Mississippi Governor Ross P.an, vicious innuendo against M. r. : The real problem lies with each a: : every one of them, for they m ; guilty of Barnett's vow "Then- i no case in history where the- (' . i casian rase has survived soma; in tegration. We will not drink from the cup of genocide." But Cover n. r Barnett has furnished the court f Federal law with an ideal, m !; proclaimed symbol of a socieiy'.s mass guilt himself. Law cannot immediately deal v. the blatant guilt of thousands of people. Hie legal system rmr f punish all in one man, and let lam stand as a symbol of outraged ja tice, to proclaim to all who f ,;:.,., him the irrevocable end of a i. ! . way of life. We cannot jail the ma'!. into their list of social ideals. Governor Barnett has volunteered to go to jail to defend the so-ea!' , principles of white supremacy. ! him stand by his word. May o. r segregationists watch and be v-m- ed. Letters To The Editors The Daily Tar Heel solicits and is happy to print any Ietters-to-the-editor written by a member of the University community, as long as it is free of slanderous and libelous remarks. No letters will be edited in any way, unless they are un reasonably long. Letters should be typewritten, if possible, and triple spaced. DTH editorial offices are on second floor, Graham Memorial. Edit page material should be turned in two-to-three days before publi cation is desired. Debate Purpose Not Training To the Editors: If Dr. Springden's interpretation jfcf the purpose of debate is repre- . sentative of the campus, then debat ing at Carolina is indeed dead. From Dr. Springden's letter understand that he believes the debate is use ful training for future public speak ing. To be sure it is very nice to be able to present a carefully pre pared speech favoring either side of a given issue. It is nice to travel about and engage in contests with other schools. It is also nice to invite well-known debate squads from other schools to our campus. But nice is all it is Debate is not a training aid for learning to give orderly, and care fully prepared speeches. Debate is argument in a civilized fashion. Tne Di-Phi has as its main function the exchange of ideas. It is nice to be able to give a good speech for the side of a question you are personally against. But the train ing is worthless. The purpose of talk ting about an issue is to convince others of our own views. Debate should be (and is in the Di-Phi) a vehicle for learning to c!a ' v.vh other ideas in an orderly m:-i cm -zed fashion. Yor'iio Te.-hmm 1 year's N.S.A. Foreign Kxch.'irm Student, said that the I..VC. 1 ' Squad was very impre-sh e, becaim it was more interested in the fm m and procedure than in the ac'md ideas, the topic under discussion. W. ROBERT BULLARD North Carolina 3raking History To the Editors: With reference to your editorial of September 27 ("Ignorance"). Yes, ignorance totally provedh in such states as mississippi and m . bama etc. (omission of capita, l a ter intended . No intelligent e ! aca' ed person will willingly live in im parts of the South. I have but one example in my own experience of this. i.e. T: ; Chemstrand Research Corp. m m- 1 its labs from Decatur, Ala. to Xm a Carolina. The main reason Lea: that people, of the calmer :..-(.,-.. fcary to do research, could r. I -convinced to live in the South. Let me here point out tim : N Carolina stands as the smrmm . temple of progres.sivenes m South, to the whole lan 1. In m The Durham, Ralemh, Chap,; H I triangle is now one of the fa.-;, i growing centers of intelligent i pie in the world. I mm'.: m m : that this is partly due to the . : that people like to be where .l - ; is being made, and that they i . v,h that in North Carolina m;s a.--being taken that need to be mh: fall over the nation, and n .t j . the South. This Is htory ;.::! are making it. THOMAS II. LINDEN ML Yi 1 1 1
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