'Boyfriend of America to be here
Buddy Rogers, called "America's boyfriend" in the 1920's, is coming to KU Dec. 11.
Rogers will be here in conjunction with the SUA showing of the 1927 film "My Best Girl." The film stars Rogers and Mary Pickford to whom Rogers is now married. It will be shown at 8 p.m. in Dyche Auditorium. Rogers will be in the auditorium during the film's showing and will remain there afterward to talk with students.
In the early '20's Rogers attended KU. He was signed on by Paramount Pictures to star in "Wings" while still a student. He has since had his own orchestra and radio and television shows besides making movies.
"My. Best Girl," made before Rogers married Miss Pickford, is the only movie in which the two co-star.
"The showing of Mary Pickford movies is very rare," said John Tibbets, Lansing graduate student and president of the KU Film Society, "because she owns all her films. We had to get special permission to get this film."
During the process of getting this "special permission" Tibbets also got Buddy Rogers to make the appearance at KU.
Admission to the film will be 75 cents.
Debaters get honors; fourth,fifth
University of Kansas debate teams placed high in all tournaments they entered last weekend, including two described as "major" by Debate Coach Donald W. Parson.
In the important Georgetown University Invitational Tournament in Washington, D.C., and the United States Air Force Academy Invitational Tournament in Colorado Springs, Colo., KU debaters placed fifth and fourth, respectively.
David Jeans, Independence, Mo., senior, and Bob McCulloh, Prairie Village senior, teamed to win fifth among 162 schools at Georgetown, while Dan Beck, Prairie Village junior and Bob Prentice, Turon sophomore, took fourth among 60 schools at the Air Force Academy.
In the 62-team senior division of the Iowa State University tournament at Ames, Iowa, the team of Phyllis Culham, Junction City junior and Diana Bartelli, Pittsburg sophomore won third place and the team of Randy Elam, Wichita sophomore, and Alan Rupe, Salina sophomore, won fourth.
Among the 78 junior division teams entered at Iowa State, John Masterson, Falls Church, Va., freshman, and Bill Russell, Omaha, Neb., freshman, took third place.
2 KANSAN Dec. 8
1969
Sexuality discussed at seminar
By CAROLYN BOWERS
KAREN BOOKER
Kansan Staff Writers
The fear of being hurt is the major factor contributing to mechanical relationships without feeling or passion between men and women today.
James G. Stachowiak, professor of psychology made this statement at a seminar on sexuality sponsored by the Associated Women Students (AWS) in Lewis Hall Saturday and Sunday.
The first day covered the physical aspects of sexuality and included discussion of facts about birth control, venereal disease and abortion. Values of sexuality including current sexual standards, morals and ethics were discussed Sunday.
Stachowiak described this as a "new form of puritanism" forcing men and women to simply use each other without becoming emotionally involved.
He also said sexuality is a "social invention that is relevant to the time we live in" and related this in explaining that today we have "a marriage-minded culture in which people feel they must be married although they are unhappy and unsatisfied with it."
"It's as if we haven't looked on all manners of male-female relationships inside and outside marriage," Stachowiak said.
He said sex attitudes were treated by Victorian puritanism as non-existant but the theories of Freud had initiated their liberalization.
"Today we are almost obsessed with sex," he said in describing modern sexual perspectives.
The sexual revolution has given the student the responsibility of making choices regarding sex. Innovations such as no hours, coed dorms and dependable birth control pills create this responsibility he said.
Abortion, its legal, medical and theological aspects, were discussed by Paul Wilson, professor of law, Mary Hatfield, physician at the student health center and Guy Stone, associate minister of the Plymouth Congregational Church.
Wilson explained the revised Kansas abortion statute passed by the last legislative session.
Under the new statute, a doctor may perform an abortion only if he and two other doctors have justified it by stating that the pregnancy will endanger the mother physically or mentally or if the mother is a victim of rape, incest or other felonious intercourse.
The present law allows abortions only to save the mother's life.
Wilson said sanctions on abortions for economic and social reasons had existed since the
Dr. Hatfield said unmarried pregnant students faced the choices of marrying the father, having the baby alone and then returning to school or getting an abortion. She said a great number choose abortion.
early history of Judaism but Catholic theologians first related it to murder.
Dr. Hatfield, who expressed amazement at "the ability of students to find abortionists," warned that these practitioners were not interested in the well-being of the patient but in the fee alone.
Rev. Stone said theologians oppose abortions on the assumption that it is a sin to destroy a living human soul.
"What is causing the severe pain today is whether or not it's wrong, how much does one person affect a life and can he end it," Rev. Stone said.
The degree of infection by venereal disease among University of Kansas students is extremely high, Raymond Schwegler, director of Watkins Hospital, said.
He said it is most prevalent among unmarried males and that the rate had risen within the past few years.
Gonorrhea cases are most numerous, Schwegler said. Syphilis, which infects not only the mother but her unborn child as well, is the second highest, followed by lymphogranuloma trichiniasis and
a yeast infection found in females, he said.
Dr. Sigmund Gundel, consulting psychiatrist at the mental health clinic, spoke on current sexual standards and behavior in Sunday's segment of the seminar. He said the movement to banish old taboos about sex had brought free discussion of the subject into the open but that new problems had been created by this sense of freedom.
The pill and other contraceptives have curtailed the fear of pregnancy.
However, he said, the psychological effect of such sexual freedom is often trying.
A panel from the Meninger Foundation, moderated by Rev. Richard Bollinger of the department of psychiatry and religion, discussed value considerations for moral and ethical decision making. The panel talked about the influence of today's new sex standards on marriage and love as well as on the personal ethics.
Integration discussion groups led by KU faculty and staff members followed the speaker and panel.
Topics of discussion included the psychological effects of communal living and reasons for turning to sexual deviant behavior.
Doug Taylor got his B.S. degree in Electronics Engineering in 1967
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Doug is already a senior associate engineer in Advanced Technology at IBM. His job: designing large-scale integrated circuits that will go into computers five to ten years from now.
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"I'm one of a five-man team. When
we're assigned a project, we look at the overall problem first. Everyone contributes his ideas. Then each of us takes over his own part of the project and is responsible for designing circuitry that's compatible with the system."
Doug regards the computer as his most valuable tool. "It does all of the routine calculations that could otherwise take hours. I can test a design idea by putting all of the factors into a computer. And get an answer almost instantly. So I can devote most of my energies to creative thinking. It's an ideal setup."
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