The Cavalier daily :: Tuesday, March 27, 1973 :: University of Virginia Library

College presidential
candidates Richard Berkeley
and Mike Miller and vice
presidential candidates Gordon
Morris and Mark Friedman
debated campaign platform
issues in a special WTJU radio
broadcast last night to clarify
final positions before the
runoff election to be held
today and tomorrow.

Mr. Berkeley said that in
the past two weeks "there has
been a very concerted effort to
refocus the election on things
other than the issues."

'Back To The Issues'

He said he felt it was time
to get back to the issues and
look for "someone most
qualified and competent."

"We feel the issue is at this
time to project the system to
the students," Mr. Berkeley
said.

"We propose personal
contact to expand the
informational sources
available," he said.

Commenting on why he
feels he and Mr. Morris are the
most qualified candidates, Mr.
Berkeley spoke of their
experience with honor trials.

Their involvement with the
resident staff program and the
University Union has given
them "a keen understanding on
how students feel on the
various issues," he said.

Mr. Miller said that he and
Mr. Friedman "believed the
Honor System should be
administered with a new
attitude–an attitude which is
positive and affirmative."

Their platform is an effort
to increase interaction between
students and the Honor
Committee and "to enhance
the viability of the system" he
said.

"It is the responsibility of
the Honor Committee to insure
that privileges extended to the
students are accorded," he
said.

Their proposed innovations
such as a hot line, increased
knowledge of the Honor
System for students and
faculty, a mock honor trial,
and a University-wide
referendum "have in mind a
more effective Honor System
and a more concerned Honor
Committee," Mr. Miller said.

Spirit Defeated

Mr. Friedman said that he
thought "the spirit of the
Honor System has slowly been
defeated in the past few years.
The Honor Committee itself
has added to this defeat by not
expanding to meet the
problems caused by expansion
of the University" which
makes proper functioning
the system more difficult.

Evidence of bureaucratic
solutions for the purpose of
efficiency that abuse students
rights under the Honor System
are the erection of a wall
between Open Square cafeteria
and Contract, the present
vouching system, and the
Newcomb Hall Bookstore
policy of not accepting books
returned without a receipt,
Mr. Friedman charged.

He advocated a position of
"abusing some of this
efficiency" and providing
"workable alternatives" which
honor student privileges
accorded under the system.

'More Active Role'

"The growth of the
University is forcing the Honor
Committee to take a much
more active role in maintaining
the personal contact so
prevalent in our system," Mr.
Morris commented.

He said the basis of his and
Mr. Berkeley's platform
conformed to this personal
contact. He spoke on the
expanding of Honor
committee advisors, initiating
bi-annual meetings between
members of the Honor
Committee and students,
expansion of information that
appears in the black box of
The Cavalier Daily, and
revision of the plagiarism
booklet to make it more
readable and precise to the
students.

Explaining how he would
increase knowledge of the
Honor System, Mr. Miller said
that both the idea of a hot line
and a mock Honor trial would
help in educating students.

The hot line idea would be

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