O Thursday, February 20, 1969 tmericun culture is liriilfl a la¬ in its attitude hi sex: it /noclninis one set of rallies; il lives by another." "I'renim itnl Italian Behavior." II inslon h.hrmunn II e hare attempted a sensitire ap¬ proach In the realistic questions con¬ fronting il'*' college slmlenl today in rations areas concerned with sex¬ uality. II e hare tried lo corer u hal seems lo lis the most pertinent areas. Ilopefnlly I his special issue will open the I'anrlora\ box for many who hare heretofore been afraid to consider llieir own mines anil those of llieir parents ami peers. This issue is not intended to force anyone lit change liis ciews, bat rather the issue is intended lo present lo the (pieslifminfi student pttssible mod¬ ern-day riewpoinls on sexuality. Co-directors Phyllis Zimbler David Gilbert George Bullard, Barb Parness, Jim Yousling, Sharon Templeton, Marion Nowak, Denise Fortner. ARTWORK Cover photo, Gordon Moore Title, Sandy Moffat Photos, pp. 2,5, 8 by Gordon Moore Photo, pp. 3,7 by Bob Ivins Art, p. 2, by Sandy Moffat Art. D. 5. bv Dnnp Huston Modern contraceptive devices shown on page 4 from left to right are: (top) a dia¬ Art, p. 12 by Jim Yousling phragm, two brands of sequential and one brand of combined birth control pills; Art, p. 9, by Shelley Sutton (center) a variety of condoms; (bottom) Photo, pp. 6-7, by Gordon Moore vaginal foam, vaginal jelly, vaginal cream and vaginal suppositories with an applicator and two types of intrauterine devices with an insertive instrument used by physicians. Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan 3 I Phony he said i lore il she suit/ iiihI taking her plastic smile and pln< hing her up b\ her reality. her eyes—like pencilled poems— smearing with sweat. he (lashed all riolent lyaga i n s it he ica lis of his onii fears ami a lien tliey madelore he was iclnde again and 2 climbing down from where he had hang himself up he remembered the wetness of her eyes andl o ii g le<>s staring one day back girl at one tlay him oh i'll catch you wandering i lore it he said without a wont Phony she said shedding convention like a bedroom bra and your thighs will talk to me not of high style Replay but in their artless way will re play hike up my imagination rep lay replay past your fabric smile (stretching like work'.' a menstrual cycle when further A. They speed up the action of the •ovulation is inhibited by the body's egg through the tube. If the egg is own processes fertilized, they tend to separate the The sequential technique involves egg from the lining of the uterus. using a tablet containing only estro¬ All of IUCD's effects are not fully gen for around 15 days followed by understood. a combination of estrogen-progestin Ancient used by women included fumigation Other contraceptives, less effective prescriptions have been for the next five or six days. found for mechanical, chemical and with vapors and douching. than the pill, but on the market include The sequential technique relies oral Ancient mechanical barriers to be mechanical devices, aerosol vaginal contraception. upon estrogen to suppress production A common prescription for me¬ inserted before coitus were made foam, vaginal suppositories and sper- of hormones sufficiently to prevent chanical control in ancient times from wool tampons, chopped grass maticidal jellies and creams. egg cells from maturing. Because called for females to use crocodile and a pomegranate halved and cleaned Rhythm ahd withdrawal i coitus "escape'' ovulation is possible under or elephant fat mixed with pasty out inside. certain conditions, the interruptusi are also used for birth sequential control with varying degrees of effect¬ substances. Beeswax was also used to form a method may not inhibit ovulation with A Chinese crude diaphram. iveness. prescription dating from the same degree of certainty as the 2700 B.C. recommended: "Take some Ancient Romans used condom-like Forms of contraception, in ranking combination method. order of effectiveness, are oral pills, quicksilver. Fry it for a whole day in devices made from animal bladders. Judgment on the type of pill a woman mechanical devices, oil. take a piece about the size of The condom itself was developed in should use depends on the individual. aerosol vaginal a lozenge and swallow it on an empty the 17th century by an English phy¬ foam, jellies and creams, rhythm, Mannausa said Generally, sequential stomach. The taker will become withdrawal, never sician. suppositories and pills cause less weight gain and this douches. pregnant." Arsenic, iodine and seeds have becomes a factor in choosing which A 10th century Persian manuscript also been unsuccessfully taken orally pill to prescribe, he added. Modern contraceptives evolved advises mixing salt with oily mater¬ Mannausa to prevent births. In some instances, said that weight gain from crude attempts at birth control ials. Salt was used as a spermaticide. such solutions unexpectedly termin¬ appears in two types: a temporary antedating the birth of Christ. Other attempts at chemical control ated the life of the user. JUDGMENT AT OLIN Pill, pregnancy or The abortion? striction is that the By BARBARA PARNESS engaged applicant for birth con¬ patient must be 18 State News Staff Writer trol prescriptions must present some years old At MSU 3.3 coeds become pregnant kind of proof that she is in the im¬ "/t seems clear that One of the most recent schools pre¬ every day. Lawrence R Krupka. assoc¬ mediate pre-marital condition, such scribing birth control pills to unmar¬ iate professor of natural science, said. American society is as a blood test report or an announce¬ ried coeds is the University of Florida Krupka said his source was a taped ment. in Gainesville. Fla. interview between one of his students characterized by con¬ Determination of whether an indivi¬ and Dr. James S. Feurig.director of In part the policy states. The fusion. contradiction dual is actually engaged is left up to new Olin Health Center Krupka himself issuance of such a prescription is a and the individual ilnci/us. Feurig said. It estimated that this would be 900 coeds hypocrisy in the is all a matteiv^fedgement medical decision made by the indiv idual a year physician in full accord with the eth¬ "I would imagine that 800 of the 900 general area of sex . . . Olin. which is designed to meet the ics of the medical profession. medical needs ot MSI students, bases pregnancies result in abortions Krup¬ imerican values sug¬ its policy on birth control prescrip¬ The policy of the infirmary for dis¬ ka said. pensing the birth control pills is that tions the Feurig refuted Krupka s figures and gest that the imerican on assumption that if the coed the recipient of the prescription not be does not fit into either of the specified said that they were statistics which dat¬ a minor An exception to this can be- ed back from over a year and a half ago. girl can he sexually at¬ categories, it is her responsibility to made in the case of an emergency come to school already equipped with "The present situation is not truly tractive bat tut I sex¬ Feurig does not anticipate a change these "necessities " Feurig said that known because of the change in the I ni in the present Olin'policy in the im¬ versitv s pregnanes policy." Feurig ually (i( li ve. " these coeds should consult their fam¬ mediate future Even if the state law ily doctors and not a state agency to said. '*Premarital Sex in a obtain the did not exist, doctors are still gov¬ The previous pregnancy policy at contraceptives. erned by what Feurig terms the "law MSI' ( hanging N o c i e I v." of minority required that a pregnant coed The fact that a private physician may This law holds the doc¬ withdraw from the University following Hither t I\. Hell tor accountable to the parents for unv prescribe the birth control pills to the completion of the term. From thv any individual whom he feels is in action performed on a peison under 21 number of girls withdrawing for this need of them does not always resolve years of age reason statistical evidence could be tlx1 unmarried or unengaged coed s di , And where does this leave the MSI determined. lemma. One MSI coed said" that it coed? The present policy. Feurig said, al¬ tion. And the death rate from illegal sometimes takes perserverance to find By blocking an accessible legal prof¬ lows the pregnant coed to remain in abortions across the country is grow¬ a willing physician and many .coeds ess of procuring effective contracep¬ school provided that certain require ing as more and more aie being pei give up before they find one. tives. many university health centers ments are met This change in policy formed, he said Not every school follows the same force coeds who become pregnant to makes it difficult for health center of¬ Olin Health Center has not rushed policy as Olin. One of the first schools seek illegal abortions Thus the block ficials to determine the number*of to prevent these unwanted pregnancies to prescribe birth control to legal action leads to illegal action pills to un pregnancies. According to Feurig. Olin s" present married and unengaged coeds was the Feurig does not believe that this is However. Feurig estimated that one policy is consistent with the policv 101 University of Chicago U-C a valid argument in lavoi of altering MSC coed per day gets pregnant. He lowed by all state family planning cen The U-C has no specific univers'itv the present Olin policv He believes said that this supposition can be made •tors policy concerning the prescription of that it is the individual s own action and with "a fair degree of reason." Olin. which keeps no stock of pills these contraceptives. The decision to not Olin's policv which causes the coed Feurig noted that about 1.4 of these itself, prescribe the pills is left to the phy to get herself into this type of situation prescribes oral contraceptives pregnancies per week end up with abor- only to married and engaged coeds sician and his patient. The only re¬ The dilemma remains unsolved .! Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan 5 4. ^ Bared breasts and GMRX By JIM YOUSLING of swearing and nudity, but no child Authors note: For those of you who available as a Pelican paperback, as State News Reviewer should be exposed to its sneering, wish to explore this subject further. I well as Arthur Knight and Hollis Al- On March 29. 1965. a relatively ob¬ leering view of adolescent sexuality. strongly recommend Alexander Walker's pert's massive "Sex in the Cinema," scure actress named Thelma Oliver A film like "Ulysses," on the other series, which has appeared in Playboy excellent "Sex in the Movies" (ori¬ made cinema history by exposing her hand, with all its swearing and nudity, during the past four years and will breasts. The female bosom had been projects an honesty and sensitivity ginally published in hardcover as "the soon be published in book form by the glimpsed before on the silver screen which should be seen by people far Celluloid Sacrifice"), which is now Playboy Press. --a French girl named Bardot had been below its 18-year-old restriction. displaying hers for nearly a decade- But even though the GMRX system but this time the situation was quite will be mismanaged, it ironically of¬ different. This film was "The Pawn¬ fers a great freedom to film makers, broker.'' and for the first time, an if not to film goers under 18 (who American movie had challenged the might well consider the constitution¬ Production Code's ban on nudity and ality of the X rating, which will not walked off with a Seal of Approval. admit anyone under 18, accompanied The Motion Picture Assn. of Amer¬ by a parent or not). This freedom is ica's late found discovery that there indeed guaranteed by the rating sys¬ might be some distinction between tem because it provides a crutch for nudity and obscenity represents only the mothers of Topeka. one of a series of censorship break¬ The mass public, which does not downs which have suddenly and dras¬ bother to inform itself about movie con¬ tically altered the nature of sex in the tent. can no longer complain, "I don't movies. know what sort of trash my children The Production Code, which graph¬ are exposed to these days." because ically spelled out the portions of ana¬ the rating system assures them that tomy. the actions and themes and the their kids will not be admitted to films words (including "girlie, goose, homo¬ with a high sexual content. sexual and virgin") which were for¬ One can indeed argue this point of bidden to film makers, was replaced-in morality. But let me quickly point out 1966 by a new code which does little that the much more liberal cinema of more than suggest guidelines of taste. Europe, which has always been held up The Catholic Legion of Decency, which as the hallmark of artistic freedom, once could make or break a film, has has been under a modified GMRX sys¬ been reformed into the National Cath¬ tem for a great many years. This is olic Office of Motion Pictures, whose why Miss Bardot's breasts made their debut 10 years before Miss Oliver's. "edits" are mor^ like neighborly ad¬ vice. (The Europeans, I might add. have Film making has. then, been largely more realistically applied their rat¬ liberated from the censors. And sud¬ ings to violence, as well as sex. France, denly the rush is on. Producers now for example, you must be at least 16 find nude scenes a fashionable neces¬ to see "King Kong" and most Wes¬ terns. ). sity. "The Fox" brought on a veri¬ table rash of homosexuality films. But in the final analysis, less cen¬ And now that "I Am Curious. Yel¬ low" has won its censorship case, sorship simply means more honesty. Certainly, sex and violence will be the movie-going public can truly ex¬ flagrantly misused in the coming years pect the day when it will witness the Already we have witnessed the epide¬ first Hollywood copulation scene, ex¬ mic of "I. a Woman" exploitation films, plicit and in cinerama, technicolor and the unnecessary seduction scene tacked stereophonic sound. onto "Sister George" and the unmoti¬ So where is all this leading us? To vated nudity of "Here We Go Round the art or to stag movies'.' Those of us in¬ Mulberry Bush." volved with the arts, opposed to cen¬ sorship by nature, would surely defend But they will be properly used, too, this liberalization. The mothers of as in "Ulysses," "I Am Curious, Yel¬ Topeka. however, just might feel a low" and "The Fixer." Hollywood no bit differently. longer has to resort to the veiled in¬ This brings us to the new movie clas¬ nuendoes of "The Children's Hour" or sification system known as GMRX. the euphemisms of "Suddenly Last Summer." And perhaps when that cin¬ Anyone truly concerned with cinema erama fornication scene does arrive, will notice the inaccuracy, short¬ the audience will fall asleep unless sightedness and general stupidity with which these ratings are dished out: it is sensitive, artistic and well-moti¬ "The Impossible Years" may be free vated. Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan 7 LULLABY Sight's a shispered lullaby Come creeping with the tide Across the unsuspecting sand. The choir's all in crepe And brushing soft across the beach It ith God and ghost and incense dancing Smoky through the psalm, They're reaching out to hold the waves Pulled kicking from the shore. And listen in the puffing wind, Or in the sand grown warm Between their toes, for whispers From your silk and touching thighs. One last fall kite hangs dying On its cord; And where the licking Cat's-tongue tide comes Curling velvet round her feet, The child stands And holds it in her eyes. The blue and yellow pendulum Swings in and out of sight Among the puffs of night andgog Above the beach. But still she watches; still As darkness wraps and ties In whispered silk and satin bows Her day beside the sea. Still like paper-kited clouds Hung soft and windless Doldrumed in the night. Or curled around a driftwood stick And pocket tucked to carry from the shore. The shaking of her turned cuff jeans Is all the lullaby she'll carry home. — Tom Samet Tonight I feel sad, > ' . my friends joke ; * and without their knowledge, I understand but to me. is serious more than they can comprehend not having had ingrained into themselves, the values of my, my own. my own personal way of life. -Kellv 8 Thursday, February 20, 1969 Colloquy: sex in perspective By SHARON TEMPLETON State News Staff Writer ual havior of human beings influence the be¬ youth today'.' These are questions the sexuality colloquy is attempting to answer- through i study and discussion of phys¬ " interim litis t ome alive again, tint with the social revolution litis iology. cultural perspectives, sexual come ti sexual retain lion as well. roles, sexuality and the law. Pre_ (jtitle is ninth of the fiiiritrin prtttl- marital behavior, marriage and the isliness anil liy/ntcrisy of the past. family and values for decision making Hut Jar from Iteit ig representatives about sex. nt a in ora I tleelitie. ns some >tt Itl We are not attempting or expecting like its to believe, we are i the oral to change anyone s value system process of acquiring, a new through the sexuality colloquy We maturity ami honesty in which set no standards and can therefore Itotly, mintI anil soul are in ha rather than in conflict." expect no real change. tfoe Rev Donald J. Ward, director of United Hugh \l. Hefner. I lie I'layhox I'll li¬ Ministries in Higher Education at osophy. Installment -i. MSU and corchairman of the colloauv. Everyone, from the college stu¬ dent to the professional psycholog¬ ist. is aware of the social and sexual We wnat to provide a climate revolution which we are now exper¬ for learning through a free atmos¬ iencing. phere of ideas and information, so Faster than ever, technology is ad¬ that each person can choose from all vancing. educational standards are options of behavior open to him to rising, the pace of life is quicken¬ achieve his life style.'' Rev. Ward ing. No longer is a high school dip¬ said. loma or even a bachelor's degree in some areas adequate training for the "Most collegians are sincerely- technological employment offered to¬ searching for a life style which will day. give meaning to their actions, and This quickened pace of life and concern with sexuality is necessarily change is social structure has caused an integral part of this search." the an even greater effect on the sexual sexuality colloquy program states. codes and ethics of our society to¬ "Intentional behavior change is not day. Just as our academic education a goal of the colloquy We hope to has adapted to new technology, so stimulate thought by providing the must our sex education. No longer is necessary information, which may- an unstructured, behind-closed doors lead to behavioral change.'' Rev. sex education sufficient for achieving Ward said. "The real influences of the sex¬ meaningful male-female understand¬ ing and relationships. uality colloquy and the open discuss¬ To the ions of sex will be seen 10 years meet challenges of our from now on the attitudinal influences changing society, this winter term MSU is sponsoring the sexuality col¬ from parent to child." he said. loquy entitled. "Sexuality, a Search The idea for a colloquy on human for Perspective.'' The colloquy was sexuality began two years ago when Rev. Ward, who has been involved organized by the University in re¬ in sex education and counseling pro- sponse to the questions of youth today seeking clarification and in¬ formation on an important and time¬ grans for MSU students, noted the lack of information about sexuality ly subject. The among the students he counseled. "\/ori> and more young people are questioning the sexuality colloquy program states: He pointed out that national statistiscs 'The reveal a high pregnancy and abortion beliej that the social definition of marriage can and topic of sexuality is of ulti¬ mate importance and it is timely. rate among students. should provide the only social context for full sexual From the overall University stand¬ "Tragically, up to one third of the point. the questi ins being raised re¬ unmarried women who have abortions expression. Many of them are questioning whether be¬ are not pregnant at the time." Rev. ing married makes as much difference as has been tra¬ garding sexuality ndicate clearly the Ward said. The kind of abortionist importance of thib topic toall members of society. The University, as it should, an MSU student encounters ranges ditionally assumed." from the licensed doctor from Detroit, will respond to such persistent'ques¬ "Premarital Sex in a ( hanging Society,Robert R. who will perform the operation under tioning. for to abdicate this respons¬ Hell relatively antiseptic conditions, to the ibility would be to leave instruction and consideration to the commercial unqualified person whose victim may- die. he said. interests of our society.'' These observations prompted Rev. The sexu. ; c illoquv has one grams normally neid during any ac¬ April ■ Ward and his wife. Barbara Ward, From Jan. 1 to 1.1967. a ademic year. goal-a searc: r oerspective of a instructor in Justin Morrill College, steering committee of faculty, students The human sexuality course is being complex subj- . a subject that could to begin conducting sexuality lectures and other top administrators met on taught by 35 faculty members and 21 never have bet n so freely and openly in the individual residence halls. The a weekly basis to consider and de¬ discussed five years ago. guest lecturers and represents an¬ growing response to these lectures fine issues pertaining to the life of other first in offering classes in What has brough" o it this revol¬ and the persistent questioning of stu¬ the University. During this period, classrooms in residence halls for ution in attitudes and evolution in dents influenced Rev. Ward to propose the colloquy provided a common meet¬ behavior among the youth of Amer¬ credit as well as being offered in ica today? Has there really been such a symposium on sexualitvr ing ground between students and faculty classroom buildings such as Wells Hall. The idea caught on and several for the sharing of concerns and plan¬ The guest speakers, chosen from a a marked change in moral standards colleges of the University expressed ning strategy for innovative expres¬ list complied by deans of several or is the open dicussion of sex today interest. Soon a cross-section of the sions in higher education. just revealing what' has been happening colleges, include nationally-known the¬ in America for years0 campus was brought together . in a "The discussion of the colloquy ologians. physicians, scientists and committee chaired by Rev. Ward and helped create better communications Will an open discussion of so- writers, such as Albert Ellis, author William H. Knisely. director of MSU's between students and administration. called taboo subjects and additional of "The American Sexual Tragedy Institute of biology and medicine. Both saw themselves in conflict • with and "Sex Without Guilt." and Allen . information about ourselves as sex¬ cultural attitudes and worked together F. Guttmacher. president of Planned Parenthood-World Population and "While recognizing the importance of moral rules, to help solve these differences." Rev. author of "Birth Control." Ward said. parents and teachers must take into account the Jact Ward said it was necessary to de- that young people are increasingly unlikely to accept mvthologize sex and discover its in¬ Whether the colloquy will have any trinsic value to human experience. influence on the thoughts and behavior the old black-and-white distin ions between "moral* "Men can't really have a sure way of students remanins to be seen. of telling if a woman has had inter¬ Sping term will be devoted to sum¬ and immoral' behavior. Rigid a. <' absolute do not oj- course. masturbation really isn't marizing the colloquy by printed word, fer much appeal in today's comply world, particularly harmful and the residence halls don't television tape and making the sum¬ maries available to various really put saltpeter in the food to groups since thinking in absolute terms is tre and more cf>n- surpress sexual desires." he said. as a continuing education service. The colloquy on sexuality, if suc¬ tradicted by the results of research at ' experience." The colloquy is designed to rein¬ force and complement courses re¬ cessful. will serve as an organiz¬ "Sex in the Adolescent Vears/' I >e Rubin and lating to sex education as well as ational guide and model for other Le: r Kirkeudal! (eds.) colloquies on social problems such the student organzation discussion pro¬ as drugs. Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan 9 Toward By MARIONNOWAK with a several coeds, moral sexuality many apparent The children usually like it-arid reasons go back to parental atti¬ the parents definitely don't tudes. The spectrum of belief of students The more obvious justification of concerning premarital sex ranges not taking the pill is simply that from the highly conservative to the one's parents might find out. highly liberal. The degrees in between "My roommate would tell my par¬ include the cautions, the neurotic ents and they'd kill me," said a and the irresponsible. Perhaps most Grand Rapids sophomore. The importantly, popular youth attitudes threat of severe punishment and today are colored not by the paren¬ extreme disapproval ove rcomes tal pressure, but from peer group the rationality of avoiding pregnancy, influence. ils the degree of punishment any This peer group attitude continues different if ;i girl becomes preg¬ to grow increasingly liberal. Very nant?) "It may be a small chance, few students today are willing to but I just can't risk their finding openly condemn the idea of premari¬ out." concluded the same girl. tal sex. The majority of all self- A less apparent reason for avoid¬ declared conservatives will say ing such birth control \s guilt feel¬ nothing more limiting than one ings. A girl is not afraid of having sophomore man's statement that intercourse, yet she is deeply afraid I wouldn't get involved that way ot taking pills. Even if chances of myself, but I really can't condemn parental discovery are nonexistent, it in anyone else.'' the guilt is manifested here. There are a few. however, who can "It's probably mv good Christian condemn it. and they tend to-echo upbringing, but I feel so guilt- their parents in doing so. In spite ridden at the thought of pills. Prob¬ of its unfashionable nature, such stu¬ ably because they're a regular dents tend to follow this belief quite reminder." If you The most overwhelming reason to strictly. don't quite like the idea of accept responsibilities that one for such a relationship is, that in is "It's against my religion. It's not being mama's little innocent." not ready for seems self-con¬ offered a coed who began pills only the concurrent view of several against my ethics. It's against me," demnatory. On closer examination, commented a Brody coed, while her recently. "the once-a-day-every- couples, "it's the best way to have it reveals the development of a new roommate added. "Sex means »too day bit doesn't do a thing to soothe a mutually advantageous relation¬ and definite maturity. It is a new much to be thrown away in a lot of your conscience. Also, if your ship with all the advantages of concept of responsibility, of the in¬ sleazy affairs.'" friends just happen to be conserv¬ marriage and so few of the disad¬ dividual choosing which responsi¬ "It's so wrong if you're not married. ative, the social pressure is un- vantages." bilities he will take, and thus honor. believable-whether it's real "Love doesn't necessarily have to At the basis of this concept of re¬ My parents never did it before they or got married-it's just wrong to." a imaginary." figure in," stated one of the male sponsibility is a new ethic: not that The most liberal, students in the group. "It's more of of third girl added. most contro¬ "making the best of what you a security thing. But love can grow Such absolute conservatism is versial. and, among students the have", which breeds dishonesty and fashionable view of premarital out of it." Added his girlfriend, greatly in the minority. More often, most despair even in the best of us, but is the idea of cohabitation. "It easily has become a situation of being honest enough with the "it's there, but not for me" atti¬ sex, yourself Here, the similarity of where we're highly interdependent." to make realistic choices about life, tude figures in. Yet more and more student and "We've come to rely on each other love and marriage. The "realism" often, students are trying premari¬ parental beliefs is highly po¬ tal (sometimes larized. with notable exceptions. The a hell of a lot," added another is, of course, in terms of what each sex as though it is just such a marketed product) and parental view of "the whole sex couple present, "and very little individual feels is realistic for him¬ could interfere with that." self. various attitudes have emerged thing," as one mother put it, is This brings in a newly prevalent In spite of the neuroticism, around this new freedom. generally forbidding. It is even pop¬ One of the most prevalent atti¬ more so for cohabitation. However, concept of premarital sex: the idea ularity, irresponsibility, then there there is an interesting sidelight to of marriage. Inevitable the traditional is appearing in the liberal tudes in this new freedom is a new sexuality this: it is such a great taboo in idea of the sanctity of the marriage neuroticism. Frequently coeds who a maturity of responsibility. Dis¬ some families that parents who know rite is affected by widespread in¬ are otherwise liberal concerning pensing with old rules of respon¬ premarital sex refuse to go the without doubt that their child is dulgence in premarital sex. Cohab¬ sibility of marriage as invalid, the itation has further affected the mar¬ ideas of premarital sex have shown ultimate step of securing the most living with someone cannot fully adquate method of birth control, the believe that they sleep together. riage ideal. This ideal has now been that they can indeed grow beyond made to conform to a more practical pill (or for that matter, any method Explains an off-campus couple. guilt. of birth control). Why? This inci¬ "It's like we're going to get just concept. "An act of premarital sex is no "It's foolish to get married unless dence of contradictory behavior on the so far. then withdraw to separate longer an act of promiscuity," con¬ corners. Sure, it's unrealistic you intend to have and rear child¬ cludes a now-married coed, "One part of many fairly sexually active - but they just ren." says one male grad student. can enjoy life without the needless coeds must be attributed to some¬ can't believe we'd do such a horrible On the surface, this unwillingness burdens." thing concrete. In discussing this thing. " Thursday, February 20, 1969 In terms and black of < )ne mi l dated me because Rejecting Blackness Color and the <)pposite Sex she was rebelling. It was sub¬ conscious. though She was alwavs talking about her par¬ ents mollycoddled tiei and I related it to me " I was in the Student Alli¬ ance but 1 quit. It was a cold "Although some ot my group that wasn't really do¬ friends want to date white ing anything I love human be¬ girls because they <"<■ white, ings more than I love black it never made me any differ¬ I might have been exploit- people I didn't feel that being ence I look at the person black was any better than be¬ first It mav sound ideal, but sexual prowess i ot the black ing white and they did " that's the way I believe Black male 1 but I didn't know it girls turn me on as much as white girls "One guy dated me be¬ They said. Let Whitey take cause he wanted to see what it care ot his own I think every¬ would be like to go to bed one should take care of every¬ with a black girl He had the one They are working up to wrong idea about me being proud of being black, whereas I was proud of being black when I was little, now I'm working toward being "Some white girls think I'm proud of being human. more exci t mg I )at mg a black guv is a new experience for a lot ot them. Some just date me so people won't say they are prejudiced They saw I'm in the I\ crowd- I dat e I a black guv Because I dat¬ Its just as easy for me to ed t his cat I'm < )K < )ne girl love a white guy as it is to love wanted to go out with me be a black guy 1 can't see asking cause she felt really bad that a white guy to love me as an the black race had been trent¬ equal and having me turn ed so bud " around and love blacks more. A lot ot black girls don't like me I hey think I m reject I don't tee! as accepted in mg my blackness by dating black company as I would like white gu\ s. They are resent to But it's because they feel till when thev see a black that you have to love blacks chick with a white guy Thev more and 1 can't teel I don't like being black A black pel son can date a was physically attracte white as long as thev remain He seemed so much more black and don't ti y to be white. masculine, so much more vir¬ But I have no desire1 to date ile than any white boy I'd a white boy because of my in¬ ever dated. Maybe even sexy volvement in the Black Pow¬ is the word. He reminded me er mo\ emc ' Blacks of an untamed animal . . . shouldn't trv to tm 1 white. They like a panther Maybe that should just be lilac!; Whites why the black militants a resent it when thev see a themselves the Panthers. mixed couple Mavbe it's not Sure. I'm still attracted to right but that's the wav it is." him. but it's more because we share the same feelings.'' Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan 11 What dmean? 12 Thursday, February 20, 1969 Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michig