Daily w Troian
Volume LXVI, Number 82
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California
Tuesday, March 5, 1974
Loan granted to travel bureau
WE DO WHAT OUI CAN—Nat Lehrman, editor of Oui magazine, is shown participating in a panel on censorship held last Thursday night in Hoffman Hall. In
an interview, he said his magazine is trying to establish its own identity and break out of the mold of its parent publication, Playboy. DT photo by Gehrig Ikeda.
Oui editor says magazine strives to break out of Playboy mold
BY RUDY KOERNER
For the past 11 years, Nat Lehrman, editor of Oui magazine, has been a major contributor in the evolution of the institution known as the men’s magazine.
From 1963 to 1973, he was a senior editor of Playboy. As the advisor to the Playboy Forum, he helped define and further the now famous Playboy philosophy.
Six months ago. Lehrman was made editor of Oui. Oui, a publication that is a relatively new member to Hugh Hefner’s empire, was originally a French imitation of Playboy called Lui.
Oui's first edition in America was a sell-out at 800.000 copies. Its readership has since blossomed to a formidable 1,750,000.
So good are the magazine’s financial prospects that Moneysworth, a consumer-centered journal, named Oui as the best investment of its kind.
Because the magazine has become part of the Playboy Corporation, there has been a distinctive change in its attitudes and goals. As the head of Oui's administrative staff, Lehrman has the difficult task of determining the philosophy behind the magazine.
Lehrman, on campus to participate in a censorship panel Thursday night, expressed his philosophies at an interview with the Daily Trojan.
Daily Trojan: What are Oui's goals and objectives in regard to its readers?
Lehrman: Well, first, Oui is trying to be different. All of the other men’s magazines are an imitation of Playboy. We don’t want that. Oui and Playboy are in the same building and, accordingly, we are very conscious of that trap.
Oui and Playboy are almost exclusively for men, so Oui would like to go for a dual audience.
We have started a policy of publishing pictures of men and women together. In one of our upcoming issues we will feature Jean-Claude Killy and his wife Daniel Gaubert together in a photo essay. We intend to have other couples in the future.
Daily Trojan: The idea of having couples seems like an interesting point—from a reader’s
vantage point—but why hasn’t it been tried before?
Lehrman: Primarily because of this: there hasn’t been much exposure to men’s sexuality in men’s magazines because it
would scare most of the men.
Daily Trojan: Playboy has a very strong editorial voice—the Advisor, the Forum and the philosophy behind them give the
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BY LINDA CIRIGLIANO
Staff Writer
A $10,078 no-interest loan to the Student Travel Bureau was approved by the interim Student Programming Board at its second meeting held Thursday evening.
The board also approved a printer’s contract which will make the 1974 issue of Stonecloud available to students within a week and discussed who should hold copyright ofthe magazine.
Other issues discussed by the board were the lack of space available to student groups in the Student Union and reinstitution of the emergency loan fund.
The meeting was attended by seven of the eight board members.
Beause one member, Cindy Allison, a junior in journalism, was absent, the board voted to delay the election of permanent officers until next week, when all members can participate in the voting.
4 CHANNELS REPRESENTED
TV newsmen to speak at panel
Three prominent Los Angeles newscasters and a news director will discuss “What’s New in Television News” today at 12:15 p.m. in Student Activities Center 205.
Joseph Benti, anchorman for the KNXT Newsroom; Clete Roberts, anchorman for KTLA Network News Center and Christime Lund of KABC Eyewitness News will be joined by Charles Riley, KTTV news director.
The panel will discuss recent changes in television news and problems facing the medium. A question-and-answer period will follow.
The professional backgrounds of each of the four panelists is widely varied. Roberts1 affiliation with the business dates
back to World War II, when he was on assignment for ABC with General Douglas MacArthur. He served as correspondent in Rome. London, Paris and Cairo. He has covered the Hungarian Revolution, the Arab-Israeli War and the Vietnam War.
Roberts joined KTLA 11 years ago as a newsman. He then worked as a newscaster for KNXT, before returning to KTLA last December.
Benti’s start in network news was in 1964, when he became a news reporter and political editor for KNXT. From 1966 to 1969, he was the anchorman for a morning network news show. Later he came to Los Angeles to coanchor the KABC news show.
Benti returned to KNXT last
year as the anchorman of the eleven o’clock news.
Christine Lund, a native of Sweden, has been a newscaster for KABC since 1972. Before that, she was a field reporter for KGO-TV in San Francisco, news director for WLXT-TV in Chicago, newscaster and talk-show host for KFOR-TV.
Riley has been vice-president and president of the Southern California Radio and Television News Association, editor and president of City News Service in Los Angeles, news manager for KABC and assignment editor for KNXT.
The panel is sponsored by the USC chapter of the '. Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi.
Abraham van Kempen, director of the bureau, asked the board to loan $10,078 to cover spring and summer expenses and to provide advance payments the bureau must make to airlines to assure space on charter flights.
Van Kempen said that since September, the bureau has been operating on a $3,000 budget which is now almost exhausted.
He told the board that the bureau estimates it will arrange for close to 15 charter flights to Europe this summer, plus several flights to the Far East.
Income from the flights will total well over $7,607, Van Kempen said.
The first summer charters will begin returning in July, Van Kempen said- As soon as the flights begin returning, the money students paid for flights will be released to the bureau.
Cliff Ishii, a board member, asked Van Kempen how the board could be assured the loan would be repaid.
Part of the loan money will be used to publicize the bureau’s facilities, and Van Kempen said he was sure the advertising would convince the 327 students who have signed up for summer courses in Europe to use the bureau as their travel agent.
Payment of the loan is set to begin next September and to continue in installments for nine months, to give the bureau a chance to build a fund from which to pay operating expenses in the future.
Dan lives, Stonecloud’s editor-in-chief, brought a question to the board of who should hold the magazine’s copyright.
The 1973 issue of Stonecloud was copyrighted by the Associated Students of Southern California.
lives proposed that the copyright be turned over to Pacific Perceptions, a corporation formed last semester to publish the magazine.
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WASHINGTON—Legislation that would broaden the availability of federally insured loans at 7% interest has been cleared by a House subcommittee.
The bill (H.R. 12523) now awaits action by the House Education and Labor Committee. Similar legislation has been debated in the Senate.
If passed, the House bill would abolish the means test—by which such loans are determined—for students from families with less than $20,000 in income.
If enacted by both houses of Congress and signed by President Nixon, the legislation would take effect July 1—in time for more students to secure such loans for the 1974-75 academic year.
The legislation was intro-
House panel clears insured-loan changes
duced Feb. 4 by Rep. James G. O’Hara (D-Mich.), chairman of the House special subcommittee on education.
O’Hara introduced the bill after the subcommittee heard testimony last summer about the sharp decrease in the number of insured loans to students—an estimated difference of 32% between 1972 and 1973.
Witnesses told the subcommittee that provisions of the Education Amendments of 1972 that went into effect in March, 1973, helped cause the drop in loans.
Under previous regula-
tions of the Federal Insured Student Loan Program, students from families with less than $15,000 in income could easily qualify for the 7% insured loans,
However, the changes that took effect in 1973 imposed a means test as part of the process for securing such a loan. The law now required that college financial-aid officers perform need analyses.
Financial-aid officers complained that they were asked to do unnecessary paperwork, since bank officials had the final decision on whether to grant the loan
—not the colleges.
The law also provided that students from families with less than $15,000 in income could receive a federal subsidy for the 7% interest payments while still'in college.
Students from families with more than $15,000 in income could qualify for the loans-—but not for the interest subsidy.
Students, parents and financial-aid officers complained that banks interpreted the law incorrectly.
They said that the means test was employed by bank officials in such a manner as to deny loans to students from families with more than $15,000 in income—instead of denying just the interest subsidy.
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