The Carolinian [April 13, 1977]

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The Carolinian
April 13, 1977 The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Volume LVl Number 40
New honor policy question
BY DIANE NORMAN
N»wi Editor
The students of this University will
be asked to express their opinions on
the Puterbaugh Committee Report on
Academic Integrity in a referendum on
April 20 and 21. Represented below
are the two schools of opinion
concerning the Puterbaugh Report as
expressed by Dave den Boer, out-going
Attorney General, who supports the
proposed new honor policy, and by
Kevin Jarvis. Attorney General-elect,
who opposed the committee's
recommendations.
Kevin Jarvis
Jarvis is not in favor of a
continuation of the interim honor
policy but would like to see a new
policy contained in the Student
Judiciary and supported by the
faculty. He does not support
Puterbaugh for two major reasons: the
fact that the deciding body will be a
student/faculty panel as opposed to an
all-student process, and the lack of a
means of appeal except through the
Chancellor.
Speaking to his first objection,
Jarvis said that he did not feel that a
student/faculty panel could be
impartial, due to the fact that a
faculty member accuses and tries the
student. He stated that "violations
occur in the faculty realm, but
students suffer the consequences of
these violations."
Concerning the second objection,
Jarvis pointed out that, under the
Student Judiciary's present policy, a
student tried in University Court may
appeal to Superior Court, to the
Administration, and lastly to the
Chancellor. "I feel that that many
steps are necessary in appellate
procedure to insure justice for the
students," said Jarvis. Appeals may
only be made to the Chancellor under
the Puterbaugh proposal.
Jarvis expressed his belief that the
new honor policy does not insure basic
student rights due to insufficient
student representation. He stated that
the Attorney General would be the
only elected student official on the
Executive Committee in the new
policy and that the other students
would be appointed to the panel by
the Chancellor. These positions would
not simply be open to all students
through application as is presently the
case with the Student Judiciary. He
felt that this system would not allow
for adequate representation from the
student body because the students on
the panels would neither be elected
nor selected by application.
"The purpose of Student
Government is to give a student an
educational experience in becoming an
active member in American society,"
uid Jarvis. If the faculty assumes the
duties of the students, then they are
interferring with the educational
experience and taking away the whole
purpose of Student Government."
according to Jarvis.
He stated that "one sector of this
community, the faculty, should not be
able to dictate policy to the other two,
the students and the administration."
He also indicated that he did not
believe that an all-student system was
devoid of faculty support and cited
the Student Judiciary's faculty
advisers as examples of support. Jarvis
also pointed out that other
universities, such as Wake Forest,
function well with all-student systems.
Both den Boer and Jarvis
exphasized the necessity of students
turning out to vote in the referendum
to express whatever opinions they may
have. Jarvis said, "T be their
last chance to have a say so (on this
policy)."
Dave den Boer
Den Boer sees the Puterbaugh
Report as a vast improvement over the
present interim policy and a viable
compromise between student and
faculty interests. He expressed the fear
that, under the present interim policy,
student honor violations are being
handled by the individual professors
whose penalties cannot be appealed.
Under the interim policy, a teacher
could fail a student for cheating, and
the student would have no legal
recourse except to accept the penalty.
According to den Boer, the new
honor policy should stop instructors
from levying unchecked penalties. The
Puterbaugh Report provides for
negotiations between instructors and
students concerning honor violations,
with a review by an Executive
Committee. Den Boer stated that
Puterbaugh offers a "choice between a
chaotic 'no policy' and a policy (that)
at least everybody understands."
The major advantage of
Puterbaugh, in his opinion, is that it is
a set procedure, unlike the interim
policy, and that it is the best
compromise of all interests—student,
faculty and administration. He pointed
out that there is partial student
control in the new system, with the
Attorney General serving on the
Executive Committee. Also, one half
of the membership of the hearing
panels would be undergraduates. Den
Boer said that the new policy is not
devoid of student interest and that it
contains a number of procedural
checks to insure that student rights are
protected.
Den Boer emphasized that the
faculty would not support an
all-student policy and that in this
referendum the students will not be
choosing between an all-student and a
student/faculty policy. "We lost that
choice a year and a half ago (when the
faculty withdrew support of the old
honor policy). The danger is if this
(Puterbaugh) is rejected, we may end
up with an all-faculty committee and
no student representation at all."
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you. .. Almost ready ...
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FREE yearbooks . . . Pine
Needles for you. The 1976-
77 Pine Needles will be here
soon. The yearbook along
with (are you ready for this)
you personal 'I lost it...'
bumper sticker will be
distributed on Wednesday
April, 20 and Thursday
April,21 in the new Ad.
Building. If you want it,
here it Is, come and get it.
The warm spring weather has been drawing students out of classrooms and dorms to warm
up the beach skills for another year. Some of us still need a lot ofppractke, as Carolinian
Advertising Manager Rick Ferebee so aptly demonstrates.
Photo by Pmv Reynold*
Fees hiked; base expanded
Student activities fees will be
raised, according to the proposals of
the Jellicorse committee, which held
open hearings last Wednesday and
Thursday. The current proposals are
still pending the approval of the
Chancellor.
A major outcome of the proposal is
the mandatory payment of fees by all
students at UNC-G, including graduate
students. Students enrolled in courses
up to 4 hours will pay $35.00 per year
Experts discuss security
BY RANDOLPH SIDES
BdBsY
The greatest potential enemy of the
United States is a "misinformed or
uninformed President of the United
States", according to Dr. Harry Howe
Ranson, a participant in Friday's
conference at the Hilton Inn.
The conference, entitled the
National Security Education Seminar
Conference on the Organization and
Management of National Security, was
sponsored in part by UNC-G and
coordinated by Drs. B. David Meyers
and James Clay Thompson.
The speakers' credentials were
impressive: Dr. Harry Howe RAnson,
Vanderbilt political science professoo
and consultant to the Senate Select
Committee on Intelligence; Dr. Gerald
Stelbel. Director of Foreign Affairs
Research for the Research Insititue of
America; Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt
of naval
candidate
Students get sentence
BY ELIZABETH HOUSE
Staff Writer
Two students were sentenced to
three-semester's probation Monday
when University Court convened in
Elliott Center.
Michael Drutman, a freshman from
Spring Valley. NY., and Michael
Elledge, a junior transfer from North
Wilkesboro, pleaded guilty to a charge
of illegally displaying "B" parking
Business $ dumped
BYRICHINNES
Mayor Jim Melvtn said in an
interview Friday that if the Board of
Trustees adopts the recommendation
of the Lutz Committee he will advise
the business community to withdraw
their offer of $60,000 to subsidize an
intensified athletic program at UNC-G
"With the lack of enthusiastic
endorsement from the faculty and
administration I would certainly not
recommend, both aa an instigator and
aa a member of the Board of Trustees,
that we proceed," he said.
The Mayor added, "To commit a
quarter of a rniluon dollars over a four
year period M not an inssgjflrint
thing." He referred to the offer as "a
sincere, positive gesture on the part of
to help the
University begin a program of
subsidized athletics.
Vice Chancellor in charge of
development, Charles Patterson,called
the offer of $60,000 "extremely
generous." He cited the progress of
UNC Charlotte which raited their
largest amount yet from the business
community of $50.000
The Lutz Committee, appointed by
the Chancellor to study the possibility
of pulling a team from UNC-G into
division one of the NCAA, recently
recommended that the University not
intensify their sports program to this
level. Vice Chancellor Patterson said.
"In light of the fact that three major
constituencies of the University, being
the students, the faculty and the
community. ... are in support, I am
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permits on their cart.
The improper use of the stickers
constituted a violation of N.C. General
Statute 14-100, "Obtaining property
by false tokens and other false
pretenses." It it classified as a felony,
punishable by imprisonment from four
months to ten years.
Probation, the punishment given to
Drutman and Elledge, is, according to
the UNC-G Student Handbook, a
period of time set by the court
(minimum of one semester), during
which "the student is to consider the
seriousness of what he/she has done
and his responsibility to
himself/herself and to the University
Community."
If while on probation, the student
commits another violation, the Court
imposes a "more serious decisionon the
student for the second offense." Also
transcripts of the court proceedings
are tent to the Academic Deem and to
all Chancellors.
Justice Martha Holbrook presided
at the trial, which began at 7 pro in
Conference Room "A" of Elliott
University Center. Other Justices
titling were Natarlin Beat. Sean
0*Kaae. Phlip Swink and Richard
Marshall.
Prosecuting attorney was Steve
Lambert; Jay Butler represented the
defendants. Terry Weaver wet the
faculty adviaor for the hearing, and
Kevin Jarvis. newly electad Attorney
General for Student
at the
Jr. (ret.), former chief
operations and Senatorial
from Virginia last year..
The conference was designed as a
learning seminar for those in the
profession of teaching material dealing
with foreign affairs and particularly
national security.
Dr. Steibel was the first speaker,
talking on the organization and
management of national security. He
said the system of security we have
now "is a good one on paper, the
problem lies with the American
people." He continued, "Public
opinion has to decide if we are in this
business or not."
Addressing the topic of
organization and management with the
U.S. Navy, Zumwalt concentrated on
the two areas of "reshaping" that had
taken place during his four year term:
"There were two pressing needs
when 1 arrived," he said, "the need to
modernize the weapons systems and
the need to modernize personnel."
Although he spoke mostly on his
experience as chief of naval
operations, Zumwalt did mention that
he believed the policies of unilateral
disarmament being discussed were the
"policies of hawks designed to get us
into war."
Commenting that the press as a
watchdog was something the Soviets
did not have to deal with, he said,
"The Soviets can tell their press what
lies to print, we allow ours to choose."
On hit topic of management and
organization of the intelligence
community. Ransom noted that the
basic problem was a. lack of both.
"There it more chaot than
community, and a complete lack of
central management .**
Among other problems. Ransom
mentioned the lack of any "high level;
policy gutden re" and "no continuing,
systematic evaluation of the product "
At part of bit mejiiiid solution.
Ransom advocated that we make an
it to swap with the Soviet
for information that we are
leehng at the preeem time, "h
would save us both time and
he mm.
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or 25% of the $140.00 total; 5-8
hours, $70.00 or 50% of the total;
over 9 hours will pay the full amount.
The Unversity Concert Lecture
Series and the student union received
marked increases. The committee
estimated UCLS would receive an
additional $27,000.00 and Elliott
University Center an additional
$69,000.00
A breakdown of the committee's
proposal is as follows:
Campus Organizations:
Student Government
Student Media
Student Union 38.50
Activities
Student Union 25.00
Building Fee
Piney Lake 2.00
Intrarhurals/ 7.50
Recreation Associations
Varsity Athletics 18.00
TOTAL $140.00
Performing Artists
Social Funds:
Dorm Students
Town Students
UniversityTheatre
Movies
Fine Arts- Music
Fine Arts-Art
Fine Arts—Dance
$12.00
12.00
11.50
4.00
4.00
4.25
1.75
1.75
.75
1.00
Student attendance was poor at the
two day hearings although there was
representation for the Intramural
Program. Because the Physical
Education Department has withdrawn
extra money it had been supplying to
the program, the students requested
supplements from the Fee's
Committee to keep the program in
operation. This increase was included
in the proposal by the committee.
News Briefs
Paul Warnke, U.S. arms negotiator,
said the United States is prepared to
do whatever may be necessary to
reach a nuclear arms limitation
agreement even if it means a summit
meeting between Soviet leader
Leonid Breshnev and President
Carter.
In an appearance on the CBS
television program, "Face the
Nation," Warnke said. "I think that
the interests of both countries so
much lie in having effective control
over strategic nuclear arms that we
will, in fact, find tome means of
achieving that."
The current US.-Soviet arms
limitation agreement expires on Oct.
3.1977.
Foreign Secretary David Owen left
Sunday for a five-day tour of
southern Africa in an attempt to
revive British-American efforts for a
peaceful transfer of power in
Rhodesia to the black majority.
British-sponsored talks in Geneva
between the four black nationalists
and Ian Smith'i white minority
government broke down last
December.
Owen said. "I am going to Africa
with a set of proposals worked out
jointly by the governments of Britain
and the United Slates "
Shimon Peres who won the ruimg
Labor party's eommellnq on
will lead hit party m the
17 elections and ttud there
would be "no subsuurilai change" in
ttraei't foreign policy.
Peres wee nnmtnettd by the
115 mimtii central cemmtliaa to
YtzJukktabM.
resign because of a financial scandal.
The Labor party has ruled Israel
since 1948 and the 53-year-old Peres
faces a hard struggle in winning the
election against a strong opposition
that has been pining strength
because of a series of scandals
involving the Labor party.
Palestinian guerrillas were fired
upon by Israeli-backed Christians
Sunday, but the Palestinians held
their fire, saying they were told to
halt their attack on the Christians.
The lull in the fighting was
apparently aimed at giving Syria time
to ask the Christians to end their
cooperation with Israel and leave
control of the guerrillas to the
Syrian■d o m inated Arab
peacekeeping force.
Alvin B. Lewis Jr . hat been
appointed acting chief counsel and
staff director of the House
Committee on Assassinaiioni.
Lewis, a lawyer who hat worked
with the committee since last
December replaces Richard A.
Spraguc. who resigned March 30.
A spokesman said Lewis will serve
at counsel for about one month to
the 12-member committee, or unit! a
permanent replacement is named
The 53rd annual OM
Fiddlers Convention ended Sunday
Nudlurm of Stuart. Vt.
4th "World Chatssfina
waa awarded a trophy
and $1 jOOO Bundey afternoon There
200 bends cuenpetstts,
Approajmeiery 130jOOO Mas greet
Mftr fane attended the evesn.
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