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views of their contributors.
ERNIE McCRARY. EDITOR
Proposed Judicial Changes
FOURTH IN A SERIES
Concern with judicial reform has had its ups and
downs this year, but enough interest has been gener
ated to get some proposals for constitutional changes
on paper at last.
Lengthy suggestions for changes in the powers of
Student Legislature, especially in the area of reorgan
izing the student court system, were introduced at last
week's SL meeting. The bill is now in Committee and
is not expected to be acted on before the just-elected
legislators take office.
New regulations concerning the judicial system are
included in the proposals.
Before these constitutional amendments are ap
proved by SL and the student body (in a referendum),
the proposals must be openly and thoroughly discuss
ed. As the groundwork for such discussion, the pro
posed amendment concerning the judiciary is reprint
ed below.
JUDICIARY
Section I. Student Responsibility. It shall be the responsibility
of every student at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill while within the university community or while
present at an organized student function:
a. To obey the Honor Code prohibiting lying, stealing, and
cheating, and to report any possible violation of the Honor
Code of which he has knowledge;
b. To obey the Campus Code by conducting himself or
herself as a gentleman or lady, and, insofar as it may
be appropriate, to see that his fellow students do likewise,
and
c. To obey such other duly enacted codes and rules as
may be established by the ' constitutionally established
legislative bodies.
Section 2. Judicial Power. The judicial power of the student
body shall be vested in one Supreme Court and such in
ferior courts as the Student Legislature may establish from
time to time.
Section 3. Supreme Court.
a. The Supreme Court shall be composed of a Chief Justice
and four associate justices appointed by the President
'. of the Student Body and confirmed by the Student Leg
islature. No person shall be a member of the Supreme
Court while an officer, or while a member of an agency
or organization, whose actions might be subject to review
by the court. The member of the Supreme Court shall
serve during good behavior for the duration of their
enrollment at the University.
b. The Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction in
v Tr c6hIroversl6sconcerning5 executive and legislative action
! 'v''-i Raising questions of ; lawarismgunjler this Constitution
'Lm mm . ..or aws enacted under its authority. x
- c jjjg sUpreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction from
all inferior courts in cases where error of law, under
this Constitution or laws enacted under its authority, is
alleged to have occurred.
Section 4. Rights Guaranteed Defendant. A defendant before
an inferior court exercising original jurisdiction shall be
guaranteed:
a. The right to seventy-two hours notice, prior to the trial,
of the charges against him, the composition of the court,
and his rights under this Constitution and the laws en
acted in pursuance thereof;
1 b. The right to summon material student witnesses and
; evidence in the possession of students; v
c. The right to summon a reasonable number of character
; witnesses;
; d. The right to disqualify members of the court on the
; showing of possible prejudice;
e. The right to a closed trial upon request;
1 f. The right to a public trial upon request, under such
; exceptions and regulations as may be established by
I law;
j g. The right to a separate trial upon request;
h. The right to an active defense;
i. The right to the assistance of defense counsel selected
from the student body under such exceptions as may be
established by law;
j j. The right to be present during the presentation of material
! evidence and witnesses and to question and impeach said
evidence and witnesses;
1 k. The right to be presumed innocent and to be acquitted
unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt;
1. The right to be convicted only upon a two-thirds vote
of the court;
. m. The right to be suspended only upon a two-thirds vote
of the court; and
; n. The right, upon acquital, to be free from retrial by a
student court for the same offense."
Section 2. Directions to Elections Board. The Elections Board
shall present to the student body for its ratification, on
March 22, 1966, the aforesaid constitution amendment as
proposed by Section I of this resolution, and said amend
ment shall be ratified or rejected in its entirety.
Section 3. Legislative Intent. The student Legislature takes
legislative notice of Article VII, Section 2 of the Student
Constitution in proposing this amendment. All courts now
operative shall continue in existence and shall operate under
existing law until the Student Legislature enacts such laws
as it shall deem necessary and proper for the execution
and institution of the aforesaid constitutional amendment.
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Thai Draft Board Quiz Is One I Don't
Want To Get An 'A' On!"
Barry Jacob?
Remember The Newspapers
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The Student Speaks
Anyone connected with a newspaper, ev
en a college newspaper, had to stop and
think for a little while when the news came
this week of the planned merger of three
New York newspapers. The announcement
spotlighted the "continuing contraction of
daily papers, especially in the major cities.
.The three newspapers involved have all
been around for a long time. The New
York Herald Tribune was created by a mer
ger in 1924. The World - Telegram was the
product of a merger in 1931. The Sun was
picked up in 1950. The Journal - American
came rom a merger of two Hearst papers
in 19.
The names that the
papers carry, of course,
go back much further.
Men like Greeley,
Hearst and Pulitzer
are bound up in their
history. In fact, th
great irony of the mer
ger is that it will bring together the papers
of William Randolph Hearst ?nd Joseph Pu
litzer, the archenemies of the yellow jour
nalism days of the 1890's.
It was Horace Greeley's Tribune that is
sued the cry. "On To Richmond!" in the
early days of the Civil War. Charles A.
Dana's Sun published the still - reprinted
editorial, "Yes, Virginia, There Is a San
ta Claus." Pulitzer, and, especially, Hearst
have been given much of the credit or
blame for triggering the Spanish - Ameri
can War.
These reveries may not mean much to
the average person. Nevertheless, the mer
ger . has significance for him, too. The
newspaper indstry, like, say, the automo
bile industry, is a part of the American
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Maupin Presents Mislead!
Picture Of Faculty Members
By THOMAS ROBBINS
Armistead Maupin's "Reddi - righteous
resignation form" is clever and funny,
however, it embodies a misleading stereo
type -6TtR6adiCat "faculty member; The t.
stereotype goes something like this: These
faculty members do little for the Univer
sity (they're assistant 'graders), yet they
demand that the administration cater to
their every leftist whim.
The resignation talk is a big bluff. (The
only alternative to U.N.C. being a job at
Joan Baez's School of Non - Violence),
and is significant merely as a way of ex
pectorating on the hand that feeds them.
Possibly Mr. Maupin's article arose
partially in connection with a letter pub
lished in the Tar Heel by a certain fa
culty member, wherein he stated that he
might resign if the administration censor
ed another Speaker. Taking this particular
faculty member (whom I'm not naming) as
an example, let's check the accuracy of
the stereotype.
Professor X is not an assistant grader,
he teaches four courses a year (six count
ing the summer terms). He does not re
search Medicare among the M'Bwatzes, but
the effects of a college education on occu
pational mobility. (The job market for col
lege grads and similar trivial, irrelevant
and esoteric subjects.)
I do not know what Mr. Maupin has
against "commentators" but Professor X
does not deliver himself of a periodic bom
bast in the Tar Heel or any other paper,
nor, to my knowledge, has he ever been
involved in picketing or any other demon
strative trouble - making. He does, however,
have offers from institutions as excellent
if not more so than this one.
One does not have to have a yen for
martyrdom to figure that, all other things
being nearly equal, a free atmosphere is
pleasanter than a less - than free one.
It is my theseis that the real message
of Mr. Maupin's satire is not only that the
faculty cease being pseudo-martyrs for free
speech, but tint they should become real
martyrs to fundamentalist education. Aca
demics tend to like freedom because they
don't get very much money. If a potential
academic goes into business or advertis
ing he will receive a higher S3lary, but he
will not be able to choose his own research
topics and in general to call his own shots.
Moreover, his freedom of expression
may be considerably more circumscribed
and his life - style and socializing pre
scribed by company mores. On the other
hand, as an academic he gets paid less but
enjoys more personal, professional and in
tellectual freedom. This freedom becomes a
sort of substitute for a big salary, attract
in? to academic life persons willing to sa
crifice money for diminished restraints.
Those who criticize the concept of aca
demic freedom on the grounds that it de
notes some sort of special privielge granted
exclusively for academics are missing the
point. Academ'c freedom is only for aca
demics and operates as a sort of implicit
supplement to their meagre salaries.
Consequently if we continue on our pre
sent road to becoming the last outpost of
educational bigotry we will be allowing oth
er places to outbid us in all - important
salary suDplements. The best minds will
then go elsewhere, and we'll be left with
an "also - ran" faculty. All of which gets
to the big point, if an equally prestigous
institution offers one an equal salary, why
stay in Redneckville?
"Redneckville?" Mr. Maupin may have
felt tjpt he .was ridiculing paranoid exag
geration when he; had his Yeddi - resigner
denounce "Vile', Ignorant; fabe baiting Sou
therners." In point of ; fact, there are too
many vile, ignorant rednecks around.
When, at the Aptheker outing, Paul
Dickson ?nnounced tint the authoritarian
atmosphere has hastened the departure of
the Chairman of the Slavic Department,
the announcement was greeted with hoots
?nd comments such as "HAH, HAH, TOO
BAD FOR THE SLAVS," and "SLAV
IC? ?" AIN'T THAT ONE 0 THEM FUR-
RIN LANGUAGES?"
What kind of intellectual atmosphere is
this? Mr. Maupin is asking the faculty to
, st"y here and mrtyr themselves in behalf
of the puthoritarian "educators" who ban
! ned Aptheker and Wilkinson and the Mau
i a pinesque "students," most of whom lie
under a tree all day swigging white light
in? and spitting tobacco and occasionally
besrrine themselves to lynch an atheist.
With th? possible exception of an anthro
pologist, why would any faculty member
oot to stay in Redneckville if he can teach
at ? re?l university?
Thomas Robbins
225 Connor
Mike Jennings
Contribute To Wawer Effort
Ladies and gentlemen, the President of
the United States.
Mah fellow Americans.
The time has come for every able-bodied
person in this cawntry to contribute his
share to our wawer effort.
We must all be pre
pared to engage 4n a
er la awng period of
dedication. Gener
al Westmoreland, in
whom I have great
confidence, has inform
ed me that the wawer
in Viet Nam will nev
er end, and that our
wisest policy is to fight forever and keep
casualties as low as possible.
It is for us at hawm, mah fellow Amer
icans, to support our military effort in
ways I shall enyumerate.
First, let me make clear that the very
thing we must not do is to deprive our
selves of commawdities. Sacrifices had their
place in previous wawers, such as Woreld
Wawer Two. But intoday's world we can-
not afford to ration our national product.
Glut yourselves, mah fellow Americans.
A second way in which you can spur on
our eternal fight for freedom is by buy
ing United States Savings Bonds. This will
prevent inflation, and will give you back
five for four after six years.
How's that for a bargain?
You can help by writing sawngs about
our special forces and making a million in
lawng green.
You can help by drawping out of school
and going about tnis great nation of ours
singing sawngs of your own choice and
awthersip.
You can help in little ways and in big
'uns too.
An' as you lay your heads down on your
pillows tonight, mah fellow Americans, let
one noble fact be foremost in your minds.
Let it sustain you in the days ahead, and
let it see you through travails and temp
tations. That fact is simply this, mah fellow
Americans.
Odds are you'll come out ahead, if you
play it smart and avawid the draft:
scene. What happens to any part of this
scene affects the whole. Like the automo
tive industry, the newspaper industry is
contracting. Like the Kaiser, the Packard
and the Edsel, many newspapers have van
ished. Now one more New York paper is
gone.
The contraction is far from complete.
The trend is unmistakably toward single -ownership
cities or, at best, one morning
and one afternoon paper under separate
ownerships. The day of direct competition,
except in a few instances, is over. New
York, which had 12 papers in 1930, now has
five; and it remains to be seen whether'
the merger can save the Herald Tribune,
caught in a losing fight between the Times
and the Daily News.
The reduction in the number of papers
puts added resonsibility on both the read
ers and the publishers who remain. The
readers now have fewer versions of the
news and fewer editorial viewpoints to
choose from. They must be more critical
of what they have. If there is only one edi
torial stand to read, the reader must exa
mine that stand closely. He will no long
er have opposing opinions to compare with
it. He will have to rely more on radio, tele
vision and magazines to supplement his
newspapers.
The newspaper publishers gain added
wealth and power from the elimination of
competition. In return, they must strive har
der to be fair. They cannot slant their news
coverage; there will be no competitor to
slant it in the other direction. They should
continue to present a strong editorial pol
icy, but they should allow opposing view
points a forum through columns and let
ters. A monopoly newspaper can be pretty
much what its publisher wants it to be.
Starting a new paper In competition to an
established one is such an expensive pro
position that it is generally not feasible.
A monopoly publisher should accept this
responsibility and make his paper a good
one. If he is too lazy to keep up his pa
per's standards, the readers should voice
their displeasure. Perhaps prolonged criti
cism can force a change. If not, the read
er will have to rely on other sources for
information. The other newspapers are al
most all gone.
Letters
Respect Candidates
Editors, The Daily Tar Heel:
This letter is being written in reference
to the comments in Tuesday's Tar Heel
concerning the "rather dark subject" of
campus elections. Being a freshman, I can
not judge the present election to any pre
vious one. However, in your evaluation of
the candidates seeking the more important
positions on campus, the editorial present
ed, on the whole, a pessimistic attitude whol
ly unwarranted.
Perhaps the candidates this year are not
as glamorous or exciting as in previous
elections, but nevertheless their qualifica
tions are valid. After the energy, expense,
and time required for campaigning, the
candidates deserve the respect, not the de
gradation, of the present Tar Heel editor.
This writer does not question the valid
ity or truthfulness of your statements, but
the tactfuless with which you have pre
sented them to the student body of Caro
lina. Larry Transou
301 Manly
Be Wary, Skeptical
Editor, The Daily Tar Heel:
Those who attended the patriotic reviv
al in Carmichael Monday night glimpsed a
glaring contradiction. "Sing - Out's" par
ody on the beatnik freedom singers reveal
ed more than a trace of the prejudice and
bigotry they sing so enthusiastically against.
My inference was that MRA thinks it
knows the one true way to save society,
and feels a moral obligation to discredit
anyone who sings in another key. Let us be
wary of this kind of self assurance and
skeptical of this brand of morality.
R. David Ekstrom
5W North St.
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