EDITORIAL OPINION
A dubious honor
The beauty__ . , queen glides
gracefully down the runway; turns
and smiles demurely at her public
who marvels at her radiance and
beauty.
A touching scene? To an in
creasing number of Americans, the
concept of the beauty queen has
crystalized as a slightly horrifying
example of the debasement of
women.
Homecoming weekend at Penn
State this year may witness just
such an example of degradation. In
their efforts to recapture the past,
the members of the Homecoming
Queen Committee have restored
the "traditional" queen and court.
Granted, some things need not
change with the times.:
Homecoming is a perfect occasion
to forget the present and continue
old traditions.
But the Homecoming Queen
should not be viewed as one such
treasured tradition. By continuing
this sexist contest, the committee
Student participation-
By DION C. STEWART
Giaauate geochemistry
I believe that your Sept. 17 front page story, entitled
Student leaders want changes in SAB, misrepresented
the attitudes and goals of the students present at the
reported meetiags. Although the discussion of events
was for the most part correct, several of the statements
Collegian forum
written in the story were out of context and thus created
the wrong impression. Let me first summarize the
ptirposes and achievements of the meetings and how
the SAB was involved, and then attempt a clarification
of several statements printed.
MEETING I. Friday, Sept. 7. Approximately, 10
students who were attending Encampment '73
expressed their frustration at a late night meeting over
thEAr inability to bring problems of major concern to
students before the decision-making bodies of the
University for a solution acceptable to all involved.
The student leaders present agreed that they should
coordinate their efforts so as to introduce proposals for
change into all' the legislative bodies possible. This
would require that student leaders would get together
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Wednesday, September 19, 1973
SPECIAL EVENTS
Philip Dettra, piano recital, 8:30 p.m., Music Bldg. recital hall.
"Ham's' Wide World," film, Penn State Amateur Radio Club, 7:30 p.m., HUB
assembly room.
SEMINARS
Ceramic Science, 3:55 p.m., Room 244 Deike. Dr. R. A. Queeney, engineering
mechanics.
• LECTURES
Professor Colin M. Kraay, Keeper-of the Heberden Coin Room, Ashmolean Museum,
Oxford, on "Timoleon and Corinthian Coins in the West." 2:20 p.M., Room 230 Arts.
MEETINGS -
Graduate Council, 3 p.m., Room 101 Kern.
A.W.S., 7 p.m., Room 203 HUB.,
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INTEREST GROUPS '
• •
Chess Club, 6:30 p.m., HUB card room.
Focus on Sweden, 7 p.m., Room 312 Boucke. •
Young Socialists, 7:30 p.m., Room 62 Willard.
Gymnastics clinic (women), 7 p.m., White.
PSOC Ski division, 7:30 p.m. Room 121 Sparks.
OFFICIAL . •
Add period ends, 5 p.m. ,
FILMS
Commonplace Theatre, 8 and 10 p.m., Room 112 Kern. "A Midsummer Night's
Dream," James Cagney, Mickey Rooney, Olivia DeHaVilland.
•
EXHIBITS
Kern Gallery Shirley Sturtz, jewelry, prints, paintings. Paul Jay, pottery.
Pattee Library, Circulation Lobby "Retrospect," multi-media drawings and
paintings by Janet I. Dougherty.
Sackett Gallery, third floor Architectural models.
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has debased the larger tradition of
Homecoming.
Though- the committee has in
cluded such criteria as a woman
student's contributions to the
University and cumulative average,
Chairperson Richard Schroeder
admits they mainly wish to stick td ,
the 1940. standards. The old
criteria remain: poise, personality,
grace and overall appearance.
Schroeder said the decision was
based on a general concensus
across campus and from alumni.
However, he admits that he knows
of no University-wide poll. In ad
dition, the Alumni Association has
assured the Association of Women
Students it would take no stand.on
the issue. The only concensus ap
pears to be within the
Homecoming Queen Committee it
self.
Dorene Robotti, AWS president,
said' the committee informed her
they would open the competition
to work out solutions to problems and then introduce
these into their organizations (as - someone said:
"communicate-cooperate and coordinate).
MEETING 11, Tuesday, Sept. 11. To fulfill the purpose
agreed upon in Meeting I, i.e. cooperate for solutions to
student problems, required that a group be formed. This
meeting opened with my quoting Lee Uperaft. Since
tfiat quote was attributed to me and was incorrectly
stated in the paper, let me state it here correctly:•
"Student participation in University decision-making
comes about in two ways, first when students are
allowed to sit and vote om the dicision-making body,
and. second when students form an outside group which
represents their viewpoint and exerts force on the
decision-making body much as a lobby does."
This gave our group two possible ways to function. If
its membership included students who sat on the
legislative and • advisory bodies of the University, It
could introduce solutions to problems right to the
decision-making bodies. If its membership was outside
of the University hierarchy, it would act as a lobby on
the decision-making body, for the solutions determined
by the group. It was then pointed out that the SAB, on
the basis of its membership, could function as the
"inside"-body and could propose solutions directly to
President Oswald and to the organizations which they
represented.
MEETING 111. Thursday, Sept. 13. The purpose of this
meeting was`to determine what changes were needed in
to men if she wished. They added,
she said, that although the com
petition, would be open, a man, (4
course, would not win.
University funds may not' be
used for activities which
discriminate on the basis of race,
color, creed, sex or religion.
Although the competion may be
opened to men to quell AWS ob
jections, the contest remains
blatantly discriminatqry.
Aside from legal considerns,
the competion should be scr aped
from a moral standpoint. Despite
the token criteria of contributions
and scholarship, the contestants
will still be scrutinized for "poise,
personality, grace and ap
pearance." It represents a serious
regression - from the modem con
cept of women as equals to the old
ideal of women as fragile objects
to be pampered and protected. As
Robotti observed, "It is a blatant
example of how we should not see
a woman in today's world."
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No proposition is more widely
believed with less solid evidence than
that we have been making a sexual
revolution for ourselves. The end of
marriage, the extinction of the, family
unit as we've known it in the West over
the last 5,000 or more years, has been
offhandedly predicted even by
Republicans and others who ought to
know better than to be caught up
unthinkingly in a fad.
So comes Playboy magazine (October
issue), of all unlikely institutions,-to tell
us that.the small group of skeptics were
right all along: there hap been no sexual
revolution in America. Changes, yes,
some very interesting ones; but
revolution, no sirree.
To come to these conclusions the
magazine paid for the first massive study
of American sexual behavior to be made
since the late Dr. Alfred Kinsey's work a
generation ago. All the study's findings
will be published in a series of *tides
and a book by Morton Hunt,, but the
overall picture is laid out in this issue of
Playboy, where we read, "... liberation
his not cut sex loose from significant
personal relationships or from the
institution of marriage ... for the great
new ideas
if it was to assume the purpose agreed upon In
ing I by the means agreed upon in Meeting 11, I.e.
ion to student problems by students proposing
ion directly to the decision-making bodies.
SAB
Meeti
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The decisions agreed upon were: .
1. SAB holding caucuses prior to meeting with
President Oswald to discuss the problems and possible
solutions;
2. Early distribution of the agenda allowing ample time
for thought and discussion;
3. Discontinuing the dinner meetings to allow more
time for discussion with President Oswald.
A major misrepresentation in The Daily Collegian's
story of these meetings was in regard to the statements
concerning "Osward's influence" over the SAB
members. To suggest that President Oswald controls or
manipulates the thinking of the students on SAB is a
disservice to both President Oswald and the students
who sit on SAB. The control that President Oswald does
have I.Tover the agenda and the timing of the meeting.
For example, it was noted that at previous SAB
meetings the majority of time was taken by President
Oswald either presenting a report or giving a talk,-
followed by dinner, leaving students with less than a
half hour to present problems and ideas. This Is the
type of influence and control that President Oswald has
over the SAB and this was what was discussed at the
meetings.
Nicholas Von Hoffman:
Sexual revolution?
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majority, sex remains intimately allied to but they still only sleep with three or
their deepest emotions and inextriaably possibly four different mates in the
interwoven with their conceptions of course of a year. Hardly reminiscent of
loyalty, love and marriage." the delicious excesses of the last days of
The Playboy study involving 2,026 Rome.
participants, even finds that most
married people or people living together,
regardless of their age, "ate not inclined
to grant their mates permission for overt
extramarital
, sex acts." Indeed, all that
wild stuff -mate swapping, open
marriage or tribal families is what we
like to read about others doing: "... the
much-publicized sexual practices that
greatly alter the relationship between
sex and marriage are far less common
than they are generally alleged to be ...
only 2 per cent of married males and
fewer than 2 per cent of married females
have ever participated in mate swapping
with their spouses."
The data from this involved and costly
study tend to reinforce the idea that the
American sexual revolution didn't take
place in the early 60's with the mass
distribution of the pill, bilt right after
World War I, at the start of the 20's when
the upper middle class renounced the
cult of female virginity and proclaimed
that sex was as good and valuable for
fun as it was for babies. Even so, the
flappers did their playing around within
the framework of 'marriage, albeit
sequential marriage, just as their
grandchildren now choose monogamous
relationships.
What seems to be happenihg is that
the revolutionary ideas of the "liberated"
portion of the upper middle class have
been spreading out and downward
through our class system. Thus ever
since Kinsey there has been a huge jump
in premarital sex, but the Playboy study
tells us we're still not very promiscuous.
The partners, women especially, have
marriage on their mind. Nor is there
nearly so much switiching around as
we've been led to think. Women under
the age of 25.. usually have but one bed
partner in the course of a year. The
median number for males in the same
age group is but 1.5. Single people aged
25 to 34 bounce around somewhat more,
=Collegian
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- Within the bounds of_ marriage or the
.Iquasi-marriage of living together, the
changes of a generation have been
impressive. People are making -love
more,' liking it more and doing it in many
more different ways, or, as Morton Hunt
writes, "there have been dramatic
increases in th,e frequency With which
most; Americans engage in various
sexual - activities and in the number of
persdns who included formerly rare or
forbidden techniques In their sexual
repertoires."
A generation ago the male-above
position in sex was the only way we did
it in America, and then we didn't talk
about it in the newspapers. Now
Americans are routinely using love
making positions that we once thought
only Hindu acrobats were capable of.
Oral sex, customarily called unnatural
acts in papers during Kinsey's time, is
now practiced by more than 75 per cent
of married couples between the ages of
18 and 34, and by more than 50 per cent
of married couples between 35 and 44,
the study shows.
There is no evidence to show any
increase in the practice of sadism,
masochism or homosexuality. The
incidence of bestiality apparently has
declined since the late 40's. Whatever
that proves, this truly valuable study
should reassure us that we're not losing
our marbles or becoming degenerates.
We're having more orgasms more
often women particularly and we
don't feel guilty about it any more. We
have become a lot more tolerant about
the strange things others may do In bed
as we have become more sensual,
playful and experimental ourselves,
although always within the confines of
received social institutions.
None of it may be progress,• but It
does read as if we are a little happier
than we were.
JOHN J. TODD
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