Y 16, 1964 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PACEVVE' Y 1 6 1 9 4 T E M I H I G N D I L Y A E ~ ~ ' V11 c Lx"r rIV G N DORM HOUR PHILOSOPHIES: Colleges Vary Policies on Sex Poll Views .-... By TOM HENSHAW Associated Press Newsfeatures Writer NEW YORK-Sex I-and prob- ably II, III and IV, too-is still a popular *ubject on the college campus, even though it's not list- ed in the catalogue and students' get no credits for passing the course. In fact, concerned parents will be happy to know, most colleges still devote considerable time and energy to erecting a fence of rules and regulation s between their lusty males and nubile coeds. The subject came up recently at 1 Harvard. Fair Harvard, it seems, permits. its students to entertain women in their dormitory rooms for a total, of 35 hours a week. There are in- dications that some of the enter- tainment would startle the city' censor in nearby Boston. "Trouble has arisen," said Dean John U. Munro, "because what was once considered a pleasant privilege has come to be a license to use the college rooms for wild parties and sexual intercourse." At the same time, Miss Helen E. Clark, Dean of Women at the University of Maryland, tightened up rules which allow undergradu- ate women, with permission from their parents, to spend nights off the campus. Partying "A number of instances of stu- dent partying in apartments, con- siderable imbibing of alcohol and lack of moral behavior have been drawn to our attention," Miss Clark said. And only this fall, tiny Earlham College (945 students) in Rich- mond, Ind., revoked Sunday visit- ing privileges for men and women students. Too many doors were be- ing closed. "We are on record as a place that opposes extramarital inter- course," Dean Eric Curtis said, "and we see no reason why we should provide students with a situation where this may be pos- sible." Liberal MIT Few colleges are as liberal as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where women are al- lowed to visit men's dorm rooms 58 hours a week and the only rule is the interfraternity council sug- gestion that "promiscuous activity should not be permitted." On the other hand, few are as strict as little Mars Hill College in Mars Hill, N.C.-known to its stu- dent body, incidentally, as "the buckle on the Bible Belt"-where women are not even permitted to enter men's dormitory buildings. Representative of the great number of colleges which have found a middle ground between MIT and Mars Hill is Union Col- lege, near Albany, N.Y., Women are banned from dorm rooms but they are permitted in the social rooms from noon to 8 p.m. on Sunday and Friday and from noon to 1 a.m. Saturday. "An essential difference exists between what students think is fitting and proper and what their parents think is fitting and pro- per," says a Union College official. "We are trying to reach a median point but with emphasis on the wishes of the parents." The colleges that take the most benign attitude toward boy-girl relationships are concentrated chiefly in the northeast. Some have gotten their fingers burned. Yale allows dorm room visits on weekend evenings. They were per- mitted during the week, too, until 1960 when 20 students were al- lowed to resign or were disciplined for importing a 14-year old girl from a nearby town for nightly dorm visits. Unchaperoned Goddard College, often describ- ed as an "experimental" school in Plainfield, Vt., allows coeds and men students to mingle unchaper- oned in dorm rooms up to 9 p.m. Girls are never required to check in and out of their own dorms. "We have a few serious inci- dents, now and then, as every college does," Provost John Hall says, "but generally it works out well." But not well enough, apparently, for Dean Forest K. Davis has asked the student body to "think over" the current visiting rules with an eye toward changing them at the end of the current semester. Across the continent, at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, Calif., coed visits to dorm rooms are permitted to midnight on Friday and Saturday: 5 p.m. on Sunday. Most permissive colleges require that doors be left ajar during such visits. But not Harvey Mudd. Chilly Winter "All the doors open to the out- side," Dean Eugene Hotchkiss says. "It would be pretty chilly in the winter." Dean Warner A. Wick of the University of Chicago, where dorm visits are allowed on weekends, sums up the case for liberal visit- ing privileges when he says, "For- tunately, colleges are less often thought of as places where chil- dren can be sent to be safe and out of trouble and more as places where they will learn about the world and themselves. "That means taking risks, not only with their thinking but with what they do." Many of the colleges that pre- fer not to take the risks are lo- cated in the South and Midwest. "Old Fashioned" "We may be old fashioned," says Catherine Carmichael, dean of. women at the University of North Carolina, "but we take the view that one little girl ought not to be alone in one little boy's room." (The theory that there is chas- tity in numbers is widely held. Johns Hopkins University, an all- male school in Baltimore, permits weekend dorm visits, specifying that if one couple is present the door must be open; if two couples are present it may be closed but not locked.) "Some of these girls are a thousand miles from their moth- ers," says Col. Frank Hutchins of Tampa University. "We feel we have a certain moral responsibil- ity to watch out for them." Social Hours Fraternizing between the sexes in dormitory rooms is forbidden at both North Carolina and Tampa but boys and girls are permitted to mingle occasionally in the social rooms. The college rules have drawn protests, support and noncommit- tal shrugs from the students them- selves. At Williams College in Williams- town, Mass., the school paper as- sailed Harvard's Munro as "ab- surdly righteous" and consigned him "to the puritan heaven where collected martyrs to their faith peep at each other through key- holes." The University of Utah forbids women to visit men's dorms en- tirely but there is little student protest. W. David Smith Jr., editor of Utah's Daily Chronicle, thinks he has discovered the reason. "Why should they worry?" he says. "There are plenty of places to go off campus if they want to." It would seem that a good num- ber really want to. Dr. Graham B. Blaine Jr., a psy- chiatrist for Harvard University health services, reported recently that sexual relations between col- lege men and women are on the increase. A 1938 survey, he said, showed that 35 per cent of college women were not virgins; a 1953 survey placed the figures at 50 per cent; a current survey shows "they have climbed." Over the years, thoughtful col- lege students have come up with a choice assortment of methods of circumventing the rules-and not all of them are as crude as sneak- ing away to an off-campus motel or lovers' lane. Vocal Fight At the University of Rhode Is- land several years ago a girl in- filtrated her boy friend's room by mixing in with visitors during a parents' day open house. What did they do? They got into a loud argument that brought half the house to their door. And the story, possibly apo- cryphal, is told of the time Dart- mouth permitted girls to visit boys' dormitory rooms, but only if a 100-watt bulb were kept burning all the while. One enterprising student re- portedly made a quick financial killing-selling 100-watt bulbs painted black. .S., Japan Rights Ideal WASHINGTON-A recent sur- vey of the attitudes of students in three American and three Japanese universities toward civil liberties has backed charges of civil libertarians that the United States is falling away from some of the basic concepts of the Bill of Rights. The survey, conducted by Prof. Elliott McGinnies of the Univer- sity of Maryland, was conducted under grants from the University of Maryland and the Office of Naval Research, the Washington Post reported. Ask Questions Groups of 100 freshmen in each of the universities were asked to respond to a series of statements about civil liberties prepared in conjunction with the American Civil Liberties Union. The results of the survey tend to support indications of a greater concern by Japanese youth than American youth with civil liber- ties, Both groups defended the prin- ciples of freedom of speech, em- ployment based solely on ability, right to cross-examination and against self-incrimination. But the Japanese showed far more liber- tarian views on the teaching of religion in public schools, wire tapping and supression of offen- sive ideas. New Statements Some of the statements put to the groups of students and their responses were: -The teaching of sectarian re- ligion should be permitted in pub- lic schools. United States, 72 per cent agree, 16 per cent disagree; Japan, 6 per cent agree, 83 per cent disagree. -Police officials should have the right to listen in on private phone conversations. U n it e d States, 75 per cent agree, 15 per cent disagree; Japan, 4 per cent agree, 87 per cent disagree. By The Associated Press WASHINGTON - Present draft laws are being studied by the Pentagon with an eye to their pos- sible major revision with an early result being the newly-ordered testing of 18-year-old men. Officials point out, however, that complete abandonment of some form of conscription is not likely without a vastly more drastic re- duction of military forces than can now be expected. Nonetheless, studies have been undertaken on all aspects of con- scription, including its possible abandonment. The studies are be- ing directed by William Gorham, a deputy assistant secretary of de- fense. Escape Draft A major objection to present draft laws is that the broadening of deferment possibilities has brought charges that young men with enough money to get married or enter college have an advantage over those who must go to work immediately out of high school. Selective Service regulations are said to be applied differently in different communities. President Lyndon B. Johnson, alarmed by the reported deficien- cies of thousands of young Ameri- can men, has ordered pre- induction draft examinations given to all eligible 18-year-old males "as soon as possible." In the same directive, he ordered the secre- taries of labor and of health, education and welfare to set up programs to correct the personal problems found in the examina- tions. Backing Johnson's action was a report from a special task force on manpower conservation set up last Septembercby :the late Presi- dent Kennedy. Of 306,000 men who reported for preinduction exami- nations in 1962, 49.8 percent were disquajlified. "These youths were found lacking in the physical, mental or moral equipment con- EQUITY, EFFECTIVENESS: Pentagon Considers Draft Law Overhaul sidered essential to absorb mili- tary training and to perform satisfactorily in our modern armed forces," the report said. Mind, Body The report estimated that about half of the rejections would be for physical reasons and the other half for mental reasons. Potential inductees at present do not receive their examinations un- til the age of 22 or 23. Johnson said that he is not rushing young men into the armed forces through the Selective Service system, but to get the speediest possible treat- ment for those unqualified for duty. Another hope in lowering the age at which the examinations are given is that the chances of a man 18 years old accepting such rehabilitation are far greater than the chances of acceptance by a man 22 or 23 years old. Under the plan, rejectees will not be required to seek out remedial services but will be referred to public and vol- untary rehabilitation agencies. Some Time "I must emphasize that early examination will not mean early induction," Johnson said. " There will be no change in the present practice of calling older regis- trants for actual induction into the armed forces before younger ones are called." Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz added that 18-year-olds still in school or married will not be called for the early preinduc- tion examinations on the theory that they probably will not be called for service in any event. The labor secretary also noted that the heavily expanded examinations would not begin until after July 1, MM ." " : J ...'.' . 11 :J::''1.J".JJ:..L" .$:.r. 11 Welcome E C. lack, Students from kC TV RENTALS RENT a new ~II Portable TV only $10 per mo. DELIVERY and SERVICE display at Follett's Bookstore RENTALS ?o z-S671 19 for FREE TV setc call NEJAC TV ........::::v........... .............. . ....... q. :x".v.,,;" r:"n.". . s^N .. __ _ 1 and Tom Huck sought scientific excitement This is, thespotfor BARGAINS in New and, I STUDEN'T SUPPILIE*V Ever book for eve cou se. 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