NEW MORALITY HERE
Survey says Troy’s fallen from sexual pedestal
BY CLARA GERMANI
SUIT Writer
Over the years, conservatism and USC have been synonymous. Even with the radicalism of the sixties, Tommy Trojan might as well have worn a business suit. Parents facing the sexual revolution of that era were anxious to send their children to USC, a school that must have seemed a pillar of morality.
The dust of that sexual battle has cleared and in light of recent statistics taken from a survey on sexual activity, the university has in fact proved itself a pillar of morality—the New Morality.
Steve Koenigsberg, a senior clinician at the Counseling Center, has called the bluff on the conservative image. Results of his sexuality research show the univer-
sity to be a product, not a casualty of the sexual revolution.
A survey he did shows the sexual activity of the men and women on campus approaching equality, with the elimination of the double standard. This means now more women can, ifthey wantto, and more men don’t.
Koenigsberg conducted the survey in the human sexuality classes he taught. Over the period of one year and one-half, he surveyed more than 600 students with what he feels is a fair cross section of socio-economic, racial and religious backgrounds. He said the statistics correlate fairly well to what is actually happening among students.
Koenigsberg explained that things may not seem to have changed, but more women than ever have had sexual inter-
course and perhaps a slight increase in male virginity has occurred.
Sixty-six percent of the women and 77% of the men surveyed had experienced sexual intercourse. Koenigsberg added that of the 34% of female virgins, only 15% believed they’d graduate intact, and only 8% believed they'd make it to the altar a virgin.
This reflects a greatly changed ratio from the past and indicates that women are becoming just as sexually active as men.
“I see the trend for women going much more toward independence,” Koenigsberg said. “The immediate goal of most women on campus is education and a career. Over 80% ofthe women didn’t see marriage for themselves in the next five years, and this is not so conservative for USC.”
The trend toward cohabitation has increased on campus and eight out of 10 women and nine out of 10 men saw it as an important preface to marriage. But when asked if a virgin was preferred as a marital partner, seven out of 10 men said they preferred an untouched woman.
“In view of the statistics,” Koenigsberg said. I don’t know where these men plan on getting virgins.”
He said that the survey was taken twice each semester, and men’s attitudes tended to change as they progressed in the sexuality class. Women were more realistic and only four in every 100 said they wanted a virgin husband.
No matter how sexually liberated students are, they still bear the burden of
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Student Senate split by committee choices
BY CATHY TAYLOR
City Editor
It was not your usual welcome back from summer.
Charges and countercharges were thrown back and forth concerning Student Senate leaders’ activities during the summer in the senate’s second meeting yesterday.
Glenn Sonnenberg, chairman, reprimanded the senate for raising issues he wasn’t warned about before the meeting. He said the senators involved could have requested to be put on the agenda.
“I’m going to say something once and I hope it’s for the last time. I’m not going to stand for outbursts like this and parliamentary infighting.
“Several of us spent hundreds and hundreds of man-hours over the summer working for the senate and I hope this negative be-
havior won’t continue, because we have many things to do,” Sonnenberg said.
“As long as we engage in political infighting, we’re not going to get anywhere,” he said.
Pressure from several senators ultimately resulted in the tabling of discussion on revised bylaws. A vote won’t be taken until the next meeting.
Dale Head, an executive-committee member, said he didn’t want to approve the bylaws until he had a chance to read through the document and ask questions about it.
Sonnenberg said that a motion to table the new bylaws would mean that appointments of directors to the Academic Affairs Unit, Student Affairs Unit and Financial Aid Unit of the senate would have to be made solely by the chairman, as the old bylaws dictate.
He said he’d rather pass the new bylaws, which allow the senate to approve committee appointments, instead of giving the chairman the unilateral decision-making power. He wanted to organize the commit-
tees as soon as possible.
Committee directors were appointed by Sonnenberg, and he had them approved by the senate. Anne Marie Crissali, representative from engineering, will be chairman of the Student Affairs Unit, Tom Verdegem will chair the Academic Affairs Unit and George DeUrioste will work with the Budget Commission.
Accusations and grievances, aired soon after the meeting opened, stemmed from ill-feelings about the way some senators felt business was conducted over the summer.
The executive committee (Sonnenberg, Terri Hillis, Head and Renee Jackson-White, graduate representative) was expanded to include several advisers. Head did not attend the summer meetings.
Senate members charged that actions taken by leaders during the summer should be declared illegal and rescinded.
The resolution was voted down 11 to 6.
A coordinating group for the senate, composed of three members of the executive committee and those called in as advisers, made decisions for the senate during the summer that most directly affected allocations by the Campus Activities and Allocations Board.
The coordinating group no longer exists.
The challenge to the propriety of procedures initiated for the 'summer came from Head, the fourth member of the executive committee. Head said that decisions for the summer should have rested with the executive committee—not a coordinating group that included non-senate members.
Sonnenberg said nonmembers were called in strictly to give advice and that they did not vote. “Is the executive committee not capable of calling in experts in its decision making?” he asked.
Head also claimed he was not notified of senate activity prior to decision making and that he, like other members, only received information after votes had been taken.
Narbik Manukian, a senator from the graduate school, said the executive committee had acted out of turn in creating the coordinating committee in that “for committee nominations, we use the Committee on Committees, not an executive board expanded to a coordinating group.”
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Daily # Trojan
University of Southern California
Volume LXX, Number 8 Los Angeles, California Wednesday, September 29, 1976
BOLLED OVER—Acting as the cotton industry's representative, Victoria Laughlin, Maid of Cotton, met many statesmen during her travels. One of these was President Ford, who probably asked her what it felt like
to wear only cotton clothes during her reign. A past president of the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, she attributed her honor to her activities at the university and in her community.
Law prof to chair security inquiry
An informal grievance panel will meet soon to investigate charges of alleged harassment by Campus Security officers of minorities. Orrin B. Evans, a professor of law who has experience in arbitration, has been chosen to head the panel.
The panel will also investigate the firing of Mike Bland, a Campus Security officer.
Barbara Pearson, director of the Office of Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity, said Bland has a list of people he wants called at the hearing. They are involved in the allegations of harassment.
Bland claimed in The Los Angeles Sentinel Sept. 9 that he was fired by the university because he was complaining about the harassment of minorities by other Campus Security officers.
John Lechner, director of Campus Security, did not want to discuss the details ofBland’s case because he felt it might jeopardize Bland’s chances for a fair hearing.
Pearson said the panel will meet as soon as a convenient date for members is found. She said she is going to meet with John Griffith, executive secretary of the President’s Advisory Council, to set ground rules of the hearing.
The hearing will be closed and no lawyers will be involved, she said.
Pearson has asked that there be minority rep-
resentation on the panel. The members ofthe panel are chosen by the Executive Committee of the President’s Advisory Council.
She said recommendation of the panel will be referred to Anthony Lazzaro, vice-president of business affairs, who will decide whether to implement the recommendations.
The panel can recommend whether to rehire Bland. It can also recommend action, against Campus Security officers who have been accused of harassment.
Pearson said she has not looked into specific charges of harassment—that will be the job of the panel.
She said the panel’s recommendation is usually enforced by the vice-president because if it isn’t, the party involved can then go to outside agencies, where the original panel’s decision does carry a great deal of weight.
She said the grievance panel system seems to work well.
Pearson said she is very interested in the recommendations of the panel because charges of racial discrimination are very serious.
“Discrimination charges are easy to make and hard to refute. If there is harassment, we want to find out what it is. It is the kind of thing we don’t need around here,” she said.