Agency organizes new activities based on campus survey results
The New Activity and Serv ices Agency, a recently formed committee that plans campus events, has tabulated the responses it received in a Daily Trojan advertisement, and planned some future activities.
The questionnaire, which was placed as an advertisement in the Daily Trojan (March 11), was not expected to generate a great response, Montgomery said. “We were told after it went out that we shouldn’t expect more than 20 responses.”
Mark Foster, agency member, said the ad served a dual purpose. “It was to let people know that we re in existence and to find out whatthestudents want."
Realistically, Montgomery conceded, a survey of that type is not representative ofthe student body. “Usually only the more outgoing people will fill these things out.”
The survey results indicated that an on-campus swap meet, a student works outlet (student-run store selling student produced merchandise) and an on-campus ice cream parlor are popular ideas with students.
Montgomery saia projects like these, which have wide appeal, will be acted upon in the future. The seven member agency is di-
vided into two groups and actively works on only two projects at once.
A picnic in Alumni Park featuring food and live entertainment will be the first activity sponsored by the New Activity and Services Agency.
The picnic is scheduled for Tuesday from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and will coincide with the commuter students Games Day to be held in Founder’s Park.
“The picnic is our kick-off event,” said Paul Montgomery, an agency member. “We want the students to get to know us and to associate us with new and fun activities” a cabaret-type of arrangement to the agency.
Another of the group’s new ideas is a coffee-house theatre, currently in the planning stages. The possibility of opening before the end of the year is “looking good now," Montgomery said.
The coffee house would be open two nights a week and would feature coffee, pastry and entertainment. It would be located in the dining room of the student union.
“This idea has failed in the past so we’re trying to get whatever we 11 need to keep it,” Montgomery said. “Our main
concern is to keep the students from being bored.”
James A. Gross, assistant director of student activities, suggested a carbaret-type of arrangement to the agency.
Montgomery said the coffee house was supported by 35 ofthe 50 students that responded to an agency questionnaire.
The agency, created in September 1975, began operating three weeks ago. Its purpose is to find, form and fund new activities and services. It cannot allocate money to existing groups or activities that are not under agency sponsorship.
The agency has a working budget of$13,500. It normally receives $7,500 per semester but received $15,000 (fall and spring semesters allocation) this spring, since the agency was not in operation in the fall.
A $4,000 allocation of agency funds to KSCR by the Student Senate brought its budget to $11,000. However an accounting error of $2,500 boosted agency funds to its current budget.
Members’ terms expire in June and the Student Senate will make a strong appeal to next year’s senate that agency members be allowed to continue, said Montgomery.
Group formed to study student services
By Dorothy Reinhold
\ssistant Cit> Editor
A list of ten prospective members who will serve on the President's Advisory Council task force to investigate the working of Student Administrative Services was compiled Tuesday.
The PAC executive committee met in a special session March 17 and chose five people from within the PAC committee structure, who in turn selected the prospective task force members and outlined the areas the task force will investigate.
The task force will continue the current Student Senate investigation about the events surrounding the recent resignation of Michael J. Scarpelli, former
director of financial aid. They will also consider the broad general problems connected with the financial aid office, as well as with the entire Student Administrative Services offices, said Dave Blackmar, chairman ofthe Student Senate and one of the five chosen to select the committee members.
Student Administrative Services includes financial aid, admissions, and registration.
Blackmar said the task force will divide its investigation into both short-term and long-range problems.
“Short-term questions that the task force will investigate will include the immediate charges and allegations that were brought to light by the Student
Senate’s investigation of Scarpelli’s resignation,” Blackmar said.
“There are a lot of allegations and charges that need to be proved or disproved. Hopefully the task force will have final findings and recommendations about these problems during the week of April 19,” he said.
The long range problems to be investigated involve finding out what the Student Administrative Services channels of administrative authority are, what the limits of authority in those offices are, and to what extent those limits have been observed or violated, he said.
“The task force will try to find
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Jorgensen still can’t believe sex change
By Dorothy Reinhold and Denis Wolcott
REMINISCING—Christine Jorgensen, a transsexual, discussed her sex change operation in a lecture at Bovard Auditorium on Tuesday. In a well received speech, Jorgensen stated that people are not totally
male or female. She said that according to hormone levels, the most a person can be is 80% one way or the other.
University of Southern California
Volume LXVIII, No. 100	Los Angeles, Californio Wednesday March 24, 1976
“I can’t believe I did the whole thing, ’ Christine Jorgensen said in
opening her speech to a capacity crowd in Bovard Auditorium Tuesday.
Jorgensen, who probably had the most celebrated sex transformation in history (she used to be George Jorgensen), spoke to about 1,200 persons about her life and identity as both a man and woman, Tuesday.
In a hospital in Copenhagen, Denmark, between 1951 and 1953, Jorgensen was transformed from a man to a woman. Her case drew worldwide attention when the story was splashed across the front pages of newspapers around the world.
“I was dating a man in the Air Force from England at tne time of my early operations (December 1951),” Jorgensen said. “I hadgivenhima picture of me similar to ones that were published in the papers. You can guess what he went through when the story broke.”
She said, “My childhood was frightening. I couldn’t recall when I didn’t have a problem. There was much confusion of my identity.”
She said that during her early life there was no unisex concept in America, but instead there were specific items associated with men and women, such as a man smoking a cigar or pipe and a woman smoking a cigarette.
Then, towards the end of the war, Jorgensen, then George, was inducted into the United States Army.
“The military was extremely good for me,” Jorgensen said. “I was close to other people and learned that everyone had problems. Mine was different, but still it was a problem.”
Jorgensen said two important events happened to her after the war that changed her life. The first was that she read a book on male hormones, which prompted her to think about gender identity. The second was that she had talked with a research scientist who told her about research on sex change operations in Sweden.
She ultimately became a patient of a Denmark doctor, who performed the series of six operations that transformed her biologically from a man to a woman.
Jorgensen, who will be 50years old May 30 (“This will be my Bicentennial year”), said the world was shocked by her operation and what it meant.
“The world found out that no one is 100% male or 100% female,” Jorgensen said. She said a person’s hormonal makeup can consist of up to 80% of either male or female hormones, with the remaining 20% being the hormones of the opposite sex.
“Men would look into the mirror and flex their muscles and say ‘Of course I’m a man’. Men went slightly bananas at the thought (of losing their masculinity),” she said.
She said her operation had an impact on society because something new had occurred—the age of sexual enlightenment. “It was a sexual revolution and I was part of it. It was a shocking moment for many people,” she said.
“In my youth, people never talked about their sexuality or venereal disease, but there was always an Uncle Louie in every family who was a little strange,” Jorgensen said.
After describing her life, Jorgensen spoke about others who went through gender identity problems. “In Australia, there is a fish that changes sex, so I’m not alone,” she said.
She said female athletes in the Olympics have been in the recent spotlight because of questions about sex identity. Presently, female athletes have to take tests to determine if they have any male chromosones, which would give them an unfair advantage over other female competitors.
‘‘We’re coming into a genetic era and it will be very exciting,” Jorgensen said.
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DOG DAY AFTERNOON—Students are wasting no time in taking odvan tage of the spring weather which has surrounded Southern California lately. Alumni Park seems to be a favorite spot for between-class nappers, but any place with a little shade seems to work nicely for those who need a break from hectic class schedules. DT photo by Paula Daniels.