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THE DAITV tar heel "" " mmmmmm rrr Ti 1;, ' ' 11 T otters To The Editor "IT-? '' 7D Viem- l&emer 77177 1 1 ' )ro(m(p! h JJ i At I ! , A. h 777) O o Aire H7 75 Ycsrj o Ldiiaricl Freedom . EH1 Anions Editor Ben Walton, Busfae Zfcncger ome Changes Needed In Councils' (An, editorial prelude to today's Attitudinal Survey on the Honor System began Wednesday with an examination and criticism of the substance of the system. Today's editorial deals with its procedure.) Should you be charged with an Honor or Campus Code violation, what method of trial would most certainly insure that justice would be done? There are many persons who say that the present procedure for Honor System trials fails to guarantee a defendant his rights. Others, however, claim it is struc tured for his best interests. Perhaps the most controversial facet of the present student judicial system is the existence of separate Men's and Women's Honor Coun cils the members of each who come equipped with separate sets of mores, and hand down sentences of differing severity. IN MANY cases, the sentence for a coed convicted of a charge is harsher than for her male ac complice, simply because she is the one who has broken more rules in committing the same act. For example, a woman student who stays out overnight with a man may be charged not only with that, but also with the violation of jmyriad dormitory regulations, j This, then,-Is also a problem of a substantive, as well as procedural, nature. In general, however, the Women's Honor Council is still harsher on its defendants than is the Men's Honor Council, even when the charge is the same. THE DIFFERENCE between the two is, in its distilled form, merely the difference between the sexes : women are generally more prudish and Victorian than are men. But why should this socio- biological factor enter into the pro cesses of justice? It shouldn't. A coed who is charged with a specific violation should be given the same rights, the same hearing as if she were a male student. To do otherwise in an attempt to perpetuate the South's tradi tional sexual caste system is to do injustice to any coed defendant. : For the courts, if they are to be fair, must brush aside being sub jective and traditional, in favor of dealing objectively with defen-' dants. TO FURTHER insure that the defendant is given e v 6 r y chance to defend himself, he should be allowed both a public trial and the choice of any defense counsel he pleases. As it is now, the only defense counsel a person may have is a stu dent who comes under the jurisdic- tioa of the same court which is , trying him (e.g.) only an un dergraduated coed may defend another undergraduate coed Also, the trials are conducted in such privacy that they almost take on the appearance of being Star Chamber hearings., Wednesday - was, in fact, the first time this year that an Honor Council trial has been open to The Daily Tar Heel at the defendant's request. Were the system changed, a stu ; dent defendant would v have his : rights more closely guarded by a counsel of his own choosing be it ;' another student or an attorney than he presently does by a defense counsel picked at random from the Pamela Hawkins, Associate Editor Wayne Hurder, Managing Editor Rebel Good, News Editor Kermit Buckner, Advertising Manager Procedure Attorney General's staff. Under the present structure, a defendant is denied this protect- tion. . ' ALSO, "BECAUSE the trials are all held privately, the Student Body at large never knows just what is happening with what is supposedly its Honor System. - Although most persons brought to trial before one of the Honor Councils would probably prefer privacy, allowing them such com plete privacy as now exists also shrouds the operations of the entire Honor System. How, therefore, can the Honor System claim to be enforcing the laws of the Student Body when most of that Student Body doesn't even know how they are being en forced? How also ' can students in telligently vote for Honor Council members when they are denied the chance to see how their elect ed representatives perform in of fice? The answers to both questions is that they can't. IF CAROLINA'S Honor System is going to be held in any sort of esteem by the students, it is going to have to be changed, 1; '!r It is going to have to be restc tured so that it more fully guarantees each student the right to a fair trial, a trial whose verdict . is independent of the sex of the, court. It is going to have to allow students freer access ' to com petent counsel or, rather, coun counsel when the defendant dems competent himself, rather than being told by the Attorney General that it is competent. And it is going to have to bt more open so students in general may see just how their Honor System is being administered. How can these changes be brought about? It will take, a lot of work. The first lick can be hit today, however, when you vote in the survey. If you vote, that is. College Football's PRObleik s From The Raleigh Times How many football players does it take to make up a really good college team today? , The number for the Southeastern Conference must be 125, for that conference voted recently to permit its members to have up to 125 boys on footballs scholarships at a time. Each cam pus may if it wishes, bring in 40 freshmen football players on scholrship each year. The increased number of scholarships allowed in the Southeastern Conference un doubtedly will bring more demands from ACC teams that they be permitted to have more than the present limit of 140 total for foot ball and basketball scholarships. If the ACC accedes to this de mand, it will only mean that the treadmill will spin a little faster. To The Editor: Unitl this past week, it might have been possible to beleive that however bad things were in Vietam, they could hardly get wcrse. this illusion, like so manz others in Vietnam, has been shat tered. I do not refer to the sudden attacks of the Vet Cong all over the country, but to the incident at Ben Tre, reported on the front page of Thursday'e Greens boro Daily News. It appears that in the previous week .j : w " " -n - .. - Vvvvi, L. r . Letters To The Editor 'Nice To The Editor: I fadl to appreciate either the sarcasm1 or "pood intention"- put forth in the quarter column aiinouncemertt on th editorial page February 11: "Going Ithroiiieh rush t.hi lSrvmmff. Yon ar !,'huh.v -Sure is nice beine white, isnt t?; Jf It left me iwonderuig, ndering. as this quip was not signed, if this 'was a short but sweet com ment by Ball Amlong or some other member of the Tar Heel staff. If so, I pi ty this, campus -for supporting such a pathetic newspaper. I cannot comprehend this crass attitude. 'N o Negro comes to this University ig noramt of the .difficulties he will find. Negro students are aware of such obvious concerns. To state them so bluntly is simply poor taste. v Moreover, Negroes can now rush or pledge many fraternities. In the North tihe tDKE's at Trinity, the DKE's at ' Rutgers, the Kappa Sigs at Dartmouth, Phi Sigma at St. Lawrence, St. A's at Yale all have - Negro brothers. At Princeton! and Harvard, they are club members. At Rensselaer . Polytechnic Institute, ZBT has a Negro brother from South Carolina. In the South, Sigma Chi at Davidson has accepted Negro brothers, and I understand that all four Negroes on the Basketball team there last year pledged fraternities. The same is reported true for Duke. At this University, Charlie Scott pledged St. A's, but chose to depledge after three weeks when he found basketball took up too much time. Whare, reason is there for this mes sage offset by too much.blank space not to attract immediate attention? Is this a threat, or merely a sick joke? Either' way, it fells. As a matter of fact, attends to make the Negro look good, for I ima ine he would neithe rsa'y "huh," .nor re duce him'self to such crude tactice. Lee W. Purser 526 Granville Towers Eaet ACC Ton rney Is Political To The Editor: I would like to raise a familiar issue concerning the ACC basketball tourna hient at the end of the regular season Does anyone have a. say as to wheth-r there should or should not be such a money-making venture, except the art uuuwviawia Ui Hie AKJU SChOOls and the oiners not directly involved with basketball programs of each conferencp member? It seems to me that fourteen games is an adequate enough test of team's mettle, especially when half f them are played at the opposition's honl court. The Duke loss at South CaS should point up the obvious advantage the home court as well as the defeats f fered by Carolina and Duke at Vanderbilt .Being Viet Cong attacks were at their peas, uis guerillas overran the city cf Ben Tre, 45 miles southwest of Saigon. The Allies found " themselves unable to recapture the city except at heavy cost, and so they decided to call in artillery and air strikes regardless of Chilian casualties. This was done, and the town was 85 per cent .destroyed. The enemy, waedriven out, but somewhere between 500 and 1,000 civilians were killed. One VS. commander acknowledged that "we the earlier 'in the-season. . If I am not mistaken, such coaches as Vic Bubas , and Dean Smith have ex pressed at least qualified diaspproval of the ACC Tournament, for the reasons aibove. Isn't the object to have the best U1016 am repse ACCr. ' - " r v ,- .r - team " that struggles through a tough; 14- game schedule with the best record? Or do we opt instead for' extra dollars, neglecting the interest of the players (at Heast those on the top team) and the students, who have little chance of seeing anyway. , Isn't the existence of the ACC Tourna ment largely a result of politics and not; as some claim, to sustain public interest in the ACC? Is there anything that can be done to aboiish this money-mafcing show? Or at least can people directly concerned with the basketball programs at each ACCschiool, i.e. coaches and players, vote to decide whether a tournament should be held? I am a great fan of basketball and our great Carolina team, but I fail to see how this tournament pro- ereV To By GENE WANG Credibility Gap: The Johnson family's TV station in Austin, Texas, ran a regularly scheduled football game instead of Lynda Bird Johnson Robb's wedding on the same day. Drop Back 15" And Punt: The Seattle Times of January 1, 1968, ran a picture of the first two babies born in the new year under the heading of "Night Sports Pinal." Are You For Real?: The National College Queen Pageant, which feels that publicity for their pageant comes under the category of "Information wihich will benefit the readers in their college careers." Go Kick A Dead Horse: To the next episode in the never-ending saga of of -Chapel Hill's own Arab-Israeli con flict. . ; Listerine Also Stops Bad Breath: Allard KXowenstein, UNC '49 author of the Student Government Code, who says that the credibility gap is a "gale of .political halitosis blowing through the White House." Authority Is Habit-Forming: Dean of iMea James O. Cansler seems to be ad dicted to the University's proposed durg Dolicy ' Carolina Is The Fashion Plate of the South: during Rush Week when the population of three piece suits and socks . , j Screecn oi rrais.t uu a 1.. rfass: Chapel Hill's new crosswalk i?ns may protest' pedestrians, but their theraputic value k r" .fic is swmewnat aumoub. Hoof In Mouth Disease: Davidson when White' H will never know for sure" the number of civilians who died; and he added that "many families are buried permanently under the rubble." In other words, as one U.S. major put it, "It became necessary to destroy the town to save it." Destroy the town to save it! One might well ask how anything is saved when it is destroyed, but there is something still deeper involvedhere. The incident at Ben Tre represents the final pervision" of the American enterprise in Vietnam. -g' J! Edit Defied ves anything, except how many extra dollars can be collected from largely non student spectators. Peter C. Gerdine 311 PurefOy Rd. ru , , T&e Daily Tar Heel is published by the University of 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 e ws 933-1011; business, circulation, advetislng 933-1163. Address: Box 1080. Chapel Hill, N.C., 27514. Second class postage paid at U.S. Post Office in Chapel Hill, . N.C --"'. Subscription, rates: $9 per year; $5 per semester. The Botched Coach Lefty Driesell says that UNC is vastly overrated. This week's UPI Poll only had the Tar Heels taking all but six of the 35 third-place votes in the coaches' poll, to remain "firmly entrenched" ia the number three spot. iiiirvev I By BILL FIND LAY Special to the DTH The first three sections of the At titudinal Survey on the Honor System are the Honor Code, the Campus Code and the Court Structure. It is hoped that the answers given in these three sections will provide some measure of the ef fectiveness of the existing system towards the achievement of its objectives and furthermore, will guide the thinking of the student judiciary towards the im llementatdon of reforms to create a more effertive judicial system. The fourth section of the survey deals with specific information and is to be considered optional. It is hoped that most persons will answer this section, however, as it will give a very valuable indication of how personally responsible persons feel under the existing system. Specifically, the following questions are asked: WHILE A student at UNC-CH: Have you ever committed a violation of the Honor Code of an academic nature: yes no- don't know - Have you ever committed a non academic violation of either the Honor R This is the laet step. Even the use of nuclear weapons will add crJy qiur.Hlies of death to the quality of death that we a time when most cf the world decided to let the Vietnamese cf bcth zones ehocs2 by ballot whether cr not they would be ru!?d by communists. The United States decided not to allow this' and so we supported Nga Dinh Diem in this attempt to make his zone into a country. "Later, there was. the question of whether or not we would allow the Viet namese to choose communism by force. We decided not to, and committed our soldiers. Then the question arose: are the Vietnamese in general better dead or red? We decided for them that they were better off dead. The result is that pilots have dropped a load of, fire bombs oa a wooded area of Vietnam, incinerating 50 square miles of jungle, without knowing who is down there. But Ben Tre represents the final mutilation of our ideal. Not only are particular Vietnamese civilians better dead than red, but we are going to kill them to "save them" from being red. Our original purpose is now twisted be yond recognition into seme thin hideous and xctesque. In the nightmare world of 1S84, Eig Brother tells us that war is peace. Now, an 1963, the final folly is already upon us, and all pretense of logic falls away: we must destroy to save. Michael Hollis, 104 Glendale Drive Old Classmates Cannot Hear? To The Editor: Freshman Orientation Week was truly a delight! T found it informative though hectic, enjoyable though tiring, but most of all it seemed that everybody was so friendly. ' It reminded me of the friendliness and concern I left back home. Now that week is forgotten by many! With the beginning of classes I made many "acquaintances". We shared ideas. How pc"itely wre spoke when we saw each ether during Ihe course of a day. We were classmates. IK'S funny how things change. I no Honger have classes "with some of my former "classmates" and when I con tinue to greet them (meeting them by chance), they do cot seem to hear me. They no longer seem as friendly, even ; though I am sure , they, would reconaze me:. . . if they' heard nie. It's a shame people do not really take more notice, while commuting across campus, to adhere an occasional greeting. I never knew a Negro's voice could be that soft! Lee V. Stiff, 551 Ehringhaus Lettei The Daily Tar Heel accepts all letters fear, publication provided they are typed, double - spaced and signed. Letters should be no longer than 300 words in . length. We reserve the right to edit lor libelous statements. - UB World Pretender to the Throne: In the DTH's want ads for Tuesday, February 13, there is a request for a "Tudor in Con versational Spanish.'' Cod is Not Dead: He is resurrected at East Gate Shopping Center. esiilts Critica. Code or the Campus Code: yes no .. don't know Have you ever seen or had concrete knowledge of an Honor Code violation committed by another student and then failed to report that offense: yes no don't know.. The term academic used here and elsewhere in the survey refers to the student's formal learning experience, especially coursework, and the term social refers to a student's non-academic activities. This essentially concludes this series of articles designed to explain and elaborate on the Attitudinal Survey. At this point, it should be stressed that this is a survey and is not a referendum. The results of tins survey will not determine policy but will be used in determining which course policy should take. Much work has gone into the prepara tion of this survey and much will follow in the compling of the results. It as hoped that everyone will give serious thought to the questions it asks and then answer sin cerely. An investigation of this sort is probably long overdo and can be of lasting value to the University if properly conlucted. '
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