Brown and White Vol. 96 no. 33

              t he brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pennsylvania vol 96 — no 33 tuesday february 19 1985 215 861-4181 lu prof's sex survey reports student interest going down by elizabeth varga students interest in sex seems to have declined at lehigh compared to other schools nationwide us indicated by a recent survey conducted by zeno dahinden teaching assistant in the psychol ogy department dahinden's results were com pared to a sex on campus survey of 20 colleges conducted in 1982 by playboy magazine in the allentown morning call the lehigh survey was a class project for stu dents of dahinden's introductory psychology course we had a suspicion we would find an unexpected shift in sexual attitudes which was not indicated by most of the recent studies with which we were familiar he said although there have been many studies on sexual attitudes according to dahinden these results are unique studies in the past 15 years reflect a much more liberal picture he explained based on dahinden's studies there appears to be a trend toward more conservative attitudes toward pre-marital sex casual sex and a swing back to double standards for men and women the interesting part dahinden said is that the change in attitudes is somewhat one-sided males versus females in the beginning of the 19605 with the availability of birth control via the pill it was females who became liberated in sexual activity and in the sexual rights they demanded now it appears females are going back to being conservative certain sexual attitudes are accepted in males that are definitely unacceptable in females said assistant psychology professor diane hyland who teaches a course on the psy chology of women a high overall virginity rate reported at lehigh 38 percent is almost double the rate reported by playboy less than three years ago contrary to this increase is the substantial decrease playboy reported from a similar study conducted in 1969 while male college students remain sexually liberal female students apparently are becoming more traditional he explained one half of col lege girls investigated admit to never having sex in their lives compared to roughly one-third of the males the double standard is further reflected in the fact that only nine percent of all girls object to a spouse with previous sexual expe rience whereas over 23 percent of all males steering committee to create more faculty input by marlena mihalakis a proposal for a faculty steering com mittee designed to make significant improvements in lehigh's on-campus governance was discussed at an open meeting last week the proposed faculty steering commit tee is the result of a review of the faculty and of faculty committees roles in uni versity governance by the governance subcommittee on the educational policy committee edpol . the subcommittee revealed problems in two areas of uni versity governance including interac tion between the faculty and administration and interaction within the faculty at the meeting it was stated that poor communication led to ineffective policy making and ineffective faculty input also the president and provost have per ceived a need to have a representative group of faculty with which to consult on a regular basis a group that could direct administrative initiatives to appropriate faculty committees for sub stantive review and advise them on uni versity concerns that lie within the administrative sphere according to the proposal for estab lishing a faculty steering committee the purpose of the steering committee is to a enhance communications between the university faculty and administration b improve the coordi nation of faculty committee activities and to c facilitate more effective faculty input into university planning and policy-making the steering committee will consist of the chairmen of edpol the graduate committee the faculty compensation committee financial planning and operations committee a senior member of the personnel committee an elected faculty representative from each of the three colleges and the school of education the president provost and the faculty co-chairman of the forum according to the proposal the steering committee is charged with the responsi bility to consult with the president and provost to advise them regarding the appropriate faculty committees for sub stantive deliberation and on questions of administrative reorganization and also respond to ideas and initiatives of the administration coordinate faculty committee action channel faculty initiatives to the appropriate faculty committees and attempt to resolve jurisdictional disputes oversee the implementation of faculty initiatives to ensure that they don't get lost in the press of everyday adminis trative responsibilities brown asks for investment in black community by liz beezer american blacks can best enhance their power in society and politics by learning to spend their money within the black community according to televi sion producer tony brown brown the host and executive producer of tony brown's jour nal a syndicated black-affairs television series lectured last monday night at lehigh as part of black history month brown suggested that every september be black consumer month a - time to learn how black dollars could be redi rected into black organizations rather than the businesses and professionals of other groups every time you spend a dollar you're doing something put it in a place that it can come back to you ," brown urged the only color of freedom in ameri can is green many blacks must be taught how to use their votes as well as their money to achieve equal rights brown said we must become sophisticated and play the game intelligently i think black people have to come to grips with how to use their votes there are some states in which we shouldn't vote at all some where we should vote democrat and some where we should vote republican we must know how to tilt the elec torial college in order for blacks to progress both politically and economi cally brown said it is necessary for them to know themselves we are all richer if we know about the pasts of other groups and we are particularly enriched if we know about our own groups who underachieve have no knowledge of who they are what they are furthermore brown said blacks should not think they are a minority brown asked his audience how do you get a group to perform when you've defined them as a non competitor brown urged blacks to be proud of their contributions to american culture such as in the case of language wherever you go the language will tell you who the people are dialects are oral histories there are 11 dialects in america blacks have one of them ' ' referring to the adoption of black phrases such as hey man by whites brown said in a culturally diverse society you only bor row the best a communications expert as well as a civil rights crusader brown denounced network situation comedies for portray b&w photo by rob weisstuch tony brown . . . blacks must know themselves see steering page 5 see brown page 5 see sex page 4