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Sunday, February 11, I9g3 Page 2 mmm (Mr im 77 ' 75 Years of Editorial Freedom DAILY TAR HETL Poll Keeonsiders Bill Amlong, Editor Don Walton, Business Manager pJIAfx Pamela Hawkins, Associate Editor (fii Wayne Hurder, Managing Editor m3yiI Rebel Good, News Editor n Kermit Buckner, Advertising Manager What's The Ob A Coed's Life? Women's dorms on this campus are generally about as secure as sardine tins. Some have French doors open easily when a good, solid shoulder is put to them. Some have first floor windows which can be easily broken or, in some cases, even quietly opened. . At least one sorority house has a very convenient fire escape which leads from the ground to the second story, where the girls sleep. And all have one thing in com mon:the lack of a night wat chman. And why don't the University dorms have night w a t c h m e n , especially since they're so easy to ; break into? The. answer is very simple, night watchmen cost money. And the University, which is very tight with its dollars, ap parently doesn't want to spend this money, which really seems rather strange when one considers what the . University does spend money for in women's dorms ; For one, the University spends' money making the parlors of girls' dorms look pretty. Carpeting must be laid, furniture must be bought, and so on. : Another thing the University spends money: pn is housemothers; who are admittedly more im portant than nice carpets and pret ty furniture but who still don't do that much to make the dorms safe, since housemothers are also sub ject to prowlers attacks. Then there are the girls who Going through rush this Spring? You are, huh. Sure is nice being white, isn't it? Speech: Two - From the Raleigh Times It's hard to understand why a group which demands its freedom to protest should insist that another roup not have its freedom to recruit students for jobs. Yet, that's just what has been happening on the Duke campus in recent days. Between 40 and 80 protestors some Duke students, some Carolina students and some non students have sought to keep Dow Chemical Company represen tatives from talking to Duke students about jobs. The protestors cite the fact that Dow , makes napalm for use in Vietnam. Dow does make napalm. But, if the protestors are. going to protest napalm, they also ought to protest makers of bullets, shells, bombs, Price Tag work at the desk every night, sign ing people in and out and doing a. host of other things. But neither do they make the dorm safer. The same goes for graduate counselor. And maids. Now, perhaps none of these things short of the pretty carpets, which men's residence halls seem' to get by without is e a s i 1 y , dispensed with. : ' ' ,. And it will certainly . cost the University some money to get night watchmen for the dorms,., (Or would it just. .:cost the ;coedsvs through another hike in dorm rent rates?) ; v It has been amply illustrated this past week, however, that ther are some un-nice men around Chapel Hill. One sneaked into a coeds room on the - first floor of . Joyner; Tuesday;" Another tried to pull a coed into his car as she walk ed across old Emerson Field on her way back to Connor. And who knows what will hap pen next. Perhaps a repeat of the murder that occurred in the Arboretum three summers ago, on ly this time in a dorm room? There's no telling. The only thing for sure is that if someone was really intent on breaking into a women's dorm here and com ' mitting some crime,- he wouldn't : have, that much trouble! - ' Why?:.-.' "'V- Because the University thinks it's . too expensive to put night watchmen in the dorms. By the way, South Building, what price tag does a girl's life have? Way Freed rifles, machineguns, artillery pieces, etc. Napalm does kill in a horrible fashion, and does maim in horrible fashion, but so do all the other instruments of death and destruction being used in .Viet nam. But, that isn't the point. The point is the fact that Dow's people have just as much right to speak as do the protestors. Fortunately,. Duke President Douglas Knight is defending the right of the Dow people to speak, and the right of the interested Duke Students to hear them speak. At the same time, he is defending the right of the protestors to protest in reasonable ways. Freedom of speech must always be a twoway street. By BILL FINDLAY Special to The Daily Tar Heel The Attitudinal Survey on the Honor System to be held on Thursday, Feb. 15 will give UNC students a chance to ex press their opinions about the present Honor System and its various alternatives. Since the attitudinal survey consists of four parts, dealing with dif ferent aspects of the problem, a series of four articles has been prepared in the hope that it can acquaint students with the questions that the survey hopes to clarify and in particular with the way the honor system currently goes about its job. The first part of the survey deals with philosophical questions concerning the maintenance of a code of academic discipline at the university. The specific questions are: DO YOU think a code of academic discipline should be maintained in the University community of UNC-CH? - name: ,5 1 W'M A pa I Kusf, Ak -S ft J f ' , . v r ''. CjtT ott here I Letter To The Editor Id 1L IL To The Editor: Do aiway with the C onf erence basketball Atlantic Coast tournnament? Nonsense! Oh sue, Fd love to think that Carolina could go directly to the Eastern1 Regiooals after they win1" the regular season conference .title.'; But what about the future years when Carolina may have ! a good team and not win the conference title? Or what should we do when the conference sports two really good teams as has been the case in the past few. years with Carolina and Duke. Press Maravich, former Clemson and - State coach who 5s now at-USU, laments the fact that the SEC does not have such a conference tournament. He points out the lack of excitement in the SEC be cause of this. He feels the ACC's con ference tournament is that conference's greatest asset. Maravich even went as far as to say this was America's great est college bas'ke'thall tournament. After following tiie Tar Heels, to Greensboro, ; College, Park, and Louisville last year, I found that Maravich vwas right. The finals and the regionals offered neither the excitement nor color of the ACC tournament. V I wuld like to comment directly on Wednesday's letter calling the tourna ment an outdated farce. The authors stated the tournament does not help the performance of ACC teams in higher con tests. Considering the fact that the con ference representative has made its way to the finals in five of the last six years this statement seems ialse. The authors also claim the tournament leaves the players fatigued. If the players cannot get rested up in the five days between the ACC finals and the regionals I doubt they'll ever be rested. One measure that would .assure the regular season champion of further play would be to give the NIT bid to the regular season conference champion if it failed to win the tournament, otherwise do as presently and award the bid to the Sse Daily Tar Heel is published by the University f North Carolina Student Publication's Board, daily except Mondays, examinations periods and vacations. Offices are on the second floor of Graham -Memorial Telephone numbers : editorial" sports, n ews 933-1011' business, circulation ad veusing 933-1163. Address' Box I08t). Chapei Hill, wp' 27514. ' ' Second class postage paid at U.S. Post Office in Chapel Hill sunscripu'jn rates: $9 . year; $5 per semester. per a Yes No Undecided ASSUMING there is a cade of academic discipline, do you prefer a code based on: 1) , the idea of individual student responsibility and student enforcement. 2) the idea of a proctor system in which the responsibility of enforcement is placed on the faculty 3) Undecided WHAT OBLIGATIONS of enforcement should be placed on the student if the stu dent witnesses a violation of the present Honor Code: 1) he must talk to the offender and see that the offense is reported, failure to do so being itself an Honor Code viola tion! 2) he must talk to the offender and he may turn him in 3) ' , he has no responsibility under the Honor Code talk to the offender or -to turn him in. 4) undecided ACC tournament nmnerup. I say keep the ACC touroanment as it is and assure Carolina some hope in leaner years. Jay Fleishman 707 Prichard Avenue Questioned. To The Editor: I would like to thank the distinguished Attorney General tfor taking the time to clarify what he calls blatant distor tions" in my article "Abolish the Honor Code." v ' , j Mr. LaBarre contends that I have fail ed to back up my opinions with facts. Obviously, Mr. DaEarre is more qualified to support his opinions concerning the Honor System than L - : , However, with' respect to the legality of the Honor Court, Mr. LaBarre states that high courts have upheld the right of universities "to impose and enforce disciplinary action against students." What examples does Mr. LaBarre give to suport this argument? Nothing, in fact, is given to support it. - " I would suggest that if Mr. LaBarre intends to criticize someone's reasoning, that he seriously consider his own. Raymond Stin P.O. Box 1104 Syntax Basis Of New Attack To the Editor: , Thank you, Mr. Gerdine, for the Latin lesson. Actually, you've got a point I know of examples, however, by reputatle Roman authors where conferrre is used trt mean "apply something with reference to;" therefore consecutively "to take as an example of." . , :Sir you must not write a letter out of anger your syntax suffers. The direction of your second paragraph quite eludes L 1' welcome criticism; but if you m 2nd a defense of Mr. Lipsitz, I mean Dr. nnsitz I suggest that you get to the S and delete excited mention of Mr. Kh, Mr. Hofstadter, f ' nA congressional candidates. Mr Gdine I am the target of your attack! Your third parraph beings very weU with quotes from sne of my argument. R IN WHICH manner do you prefer defining the Honor Code of the Uiversity : 1) to apply to lying, cheating, and stealing of any nature (the present defini tion of the Honor Code) 2) to apply to lying, cheating, and steling of an academic nature only (all non-academic honor code violations, such as car theft, wuld come under the Cam pus Code) 3) undecided The question of whether or not a code of academic discipline is necessary is not really one which is left to students at UNC. The trustees of the Consolidated University demand certain standards of academic behavior of its member in stitutions, as is. true at all colleges and universities. At UNC, the administration and faculty has turned the maintenance of this cods of academic discipline over to the student judiciary at its own re - r. -I- iL oMFiaameiiL" But alas, you soon run amuck again. No, my letter was not a 'latter day pro clamation of Manifest Destiny." Nor do I presume to enumerate "God-given" rights. ' - - . : , iWfay is it, Mr. Gerddne, that you find my hopes for healthy conclusion and an end to misery ridiculous? I submit that not my camp but yours is hostile to free expression. You accuse me of hyperbolic overstatement, and write "strains of Sitars and Stripes forever and blinding flashes of red, white, and blue." While af fecting indignation at my omission of "Dr.," you mock at my written support and respect for federal authority. You pick at my grammar, and yet squeeze out "I presume he means by this assum ing he means anyiiiing. ... " Yes, Mr. Gerdine, you are presumptuous, to be sure! I won't be redundant. Re-read my let ter. Perhaps if you disentangle yourself" you'll understand at. A quotation for the Latinist: "Ira furor brevis est." Geroge A. Sheets, Intercollegiate Center for Classicial Studies, Rome, Italy What The Heck The Bottom By LOU HECKLER POT LUCK DEPARTMENT: School spirit always reaches a high point around here during the basketballs season. And why not? With the basketball team riding sky high, everything else seems to fade into the background. It's always great to be a winner. This spirit is manifested in many ways. I saw a new out-of-state license the other day with a big "UNC" as part of the number. But, how about this: at least one . group of students off campus has this special adornment for the bathroom: the UNC seal embossed on their toilet seat. SIC SEMPER TYR ANNUS DEPARTMENT: Did you ever get into one of those courses in which the prof spouts such Victorian language that you're never really sure what he's saying? You know the type. Something is cot a war of opposing forces, it is 44a cataclismic clash." One is not reduced by disgrace, but by "a benighted ig- nominity." x. A friend complained to me the other day: The Faculty Committee oa Student Discipline and the Faculty Review Board have the authority to overrule any decision of the student judiciary, although such instances have been rare. In turn, the ultimate responsibility for student academic conduct goes aH the way to the President of the Consolidated University. The most probable aUerca tive to tliis system with its student-administered code of academic discipline would be one administered by the faculty in the form of a proctor system. The Honor System explicitly defines the type of behavior which is prohibited specifically, lying, cheating and stealing' The purpose of this code is twofold; firsT, it protects the university, other students and society from those actions which are unacceptable in an academic community Second, it should have as great a cor! rective effect on the violator as possi ble. The Honor System, to which each stu dent must agree to comply as a part of admission requirements, demands that the student fallow this code of academic discipline himself and also that the report any violation that he might witness. In actuality, this second part of the Honor Code is seldom enforced and most viola tions of the code are reported by the faculty and other university officials. This is unfortunate in the sense that the system would function much mere ef fectively if students were more willing to accept the responsibility of enforcement Whether this responsibility should or should not be mandatory is an important question which should be , seriously con sidered, or the key to a stronger judicial system lies in more effective en forcement of the code of discipline on the level of normal day to day activities. As lying, cheating and stealing are defined by the Honor Code, they apply not only to academic offences but also to . those of a non-academic nature with local townspeople, and businessmen. Under the system it is possible that a student may be brought to trail both by civil authorities and by the student judiciary authorities and by the student judiciary for a single offense, although the charge is different an each case. On the other hand, a is also true mat numerous, businessmen and local citizens prefer not to press charges against students for violations of the law with the . knowledge that the student judiciary will' handle the case Students are asked on the survey whether or not the Honor Code should concern itself with only academic violations or non-academic violations -as is currently the situation. Part Two of the Attitudinal Study survey will be analized in Tuesday's edition of The Daily Tar Heel. Bill Findlay, chairman of the Honor System Com mission will discuss the section of the survey which deals with social discipline and the campus code. . . . . . . The Daily Tar Heel accepts all letters for publication provided they are typed, double - spaced and signed. Letters should be no longer than 200 words in. length. We reserve the right to edit for libelous statements. Birii 1 was taking this history course, and for tht first three days of classes, I though I'd signed up for another Latin course!" WORDS OF WISDOM DE PARTMENT: Next time you hear so meone berating our generation you might recount for him the words of one of the greatest men ever connected with this University. Former University President Prank Porter Graham expressed hsi faith in the younger set years ago, words which still apply today: "We take our stand with youth as, in tht midst of a shattered world, they look beyond the confusion of the hour and dream of the common wealth that is to come." TELL IT LIKE IT IS DEPARTMENT: Now that you've gotten all your grades back, and you're trying desperately to explain to your folks why you got that D' in Botany or T' in Modern Civ, you might try this gem from ' the pen of Oliver Wendell Holmes : "The world's great men have cot com monly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men." So-vhatthe heck? Of
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