The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, November 15, 1985 Page: 3 of 8
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Letters, cortt.
proceeds itself as being a racially unjust
organization. While your “Order of Chris-
tian Knights” prides itself on chivalry,
defined by Webster’s Dictionary as being
“the qualities of bravery, honor, protection
of the weak, and generous treatment of
foes,” your outward display of bigotry is
an unfortunate setback toward the im-
provement of interracial harmony at
Southwestern.
We would appreciate the opportunity to
discuss this matter further. Thus we send an
open invitation to come to one of our
meetings, which are held every Monday
night, in the SUB, at eight o’clock, and ad-
dress our grievances.
Sincerely,
The Members of Ebony
Campus Visitation
On Sunday, November 17, about 60
high school seniors interested in
Southwestern will be visiting our cam-
pus. These guests will be staying on
campus with current students.
During their stay, these prospective
students will attend a catered dinner
hosted by the Admissons Office, an
S.U. Stage Band concert in the SUB at
6:30 p.m., and a panel discussion in
the Faculty Lounge. The panel, led by
current students, will answer questions
concerning the academic and social
climate of Southwestern. At 9:00 p.m.
LLC will host a study break in the New
Dorm lobby to which everyone is in-
vited. On Monday, the guests will be
attending classes and meeting with the
Admissions staff. We encourage you
to take the opportunity to meet these
students. Many times it’s the impres-
sion current students make that sways
a student to attend Southwestern. If
you have any questions, call the Ad-
missions Office at XI200.
Book Co-op
Well the Spring term is approaching,
and it’s time to buy textbooks again.
Remember how much they cost last
semester? Well, it’s time to avoid the
lines and high prices of the Bookstore
and come to the Student Senate Book
Co-op. Through the Co-Op you can
buy and sell your textbooks at better
prices, because you avoid the
Bookstore’s markup, as you are buy-
ing and selling your books directly to
other students. In the next few weeks,
we will let you know where to bring
books and when, and the dates for the
Co-Op itself Remember this sale can
not work without your participation,
so get the most for your money and
check the Student Senate Book Co-Op
first.
' STANLEY H. KAPLAN
A REPUTATION THAT
SPEAKS FOR ITSELF!
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the living room sofa when the parents
are away. Even before their first ex-
perience, most kids have undergone
years of education by innuendo. They
spend their weekends at movies like
Porky’s and their weeknights glued to
MTV, and if they don’t know all the
jokes, they laugh anyway, because it’s
not cool not to know. They also learn
the attitude: Sex is a hush-hush sub-
ject; something you don’t mention
around your parents; something you
whisper about in the men’s room, joke
about in the locker room, giggle about
in the powder room. It’s a rare teen-
ager indeed who learns anything when
Mom or Dad finally takes the plunge -
reluctantly, of course, and probably
five years too late - and sits down to
“have a talk with junior about the
facts of life ’’
Instead of discouraging our children
from sexual curiosity - which is what
we’re trying to do - our reluctance even
to talk about sex only succeeds in mak-
ing them feel ashamed of their curiosi-
ty - and all the more curious. When we
do get around to talking about it, we
hem and haw and say as little of
substance as we can get away with.
After the awkwardness of the first
“birds and bees’’ conversation, most
parents communicate with their kids
about sex only indirectly through
disciplinary measures, curfews, and
approval or disapproval of boyfriends
and girlfriends. To make matters
worse, our message when we do com
municate is contradictory: one set of
rules for boys, another set for girls.
We teach our daughters to avoid in-
tercourse prior to marriage - to avoid
boys who have “only one thing on
their minds,’’ and then we teach our
sons that somebody has to take the in-
itiative, that someone has to have sex
on the mind or else there wil be no next
gereration. We end up lighting a fire
under our sons while throwing cold
water on our daughters. ,
Dereljct in our duties as parents, we
leave to the schools the hard job of sor-
ting out the contradictory messages
and letting kids in on the secret. That
doesn’t work, either, because book
learning is no substitute for education,
especially on such a touchy subject.
Says Dr. William Masters: “We’re
always in awe of the fact that all of the
sex education and all of the contracep-
tive information available to them are
rarely used by the young teen-agers.’’
Is it any wonder that our kids grow
up uneducated, frightened, confused -
and, all too often, pregnant? “We turn
tccn-age into disease,” says John
Money, “and we’ve certainly turned
teen-age pregnancy into an epidemic
disease.’’ One out of five girls today
has had sexuai intercourse by her first
year in high school - almost six times
more than in 1948. Each year, a half-
million teen-age pregnancies end in the
birth of a child - often unwanted - and
another half-million end in abortions.
We may be horrified by those
statistics, but we shouldn’t be too sur-
prised. What else do teen-agers have to
do or think about? Back in the “good
ol’ days,’’ as recently as 200 years ago,
the period between sexual coming of
age and social coming of age was mer-
cifully short. For reasons no one yet
knows - but probably related to nutri-
tion and exercise - puberty began at a
later age, at about 16 for girls and P
for boys. And because life expectancy
was half what it is today, most people
married by 17 or 18. In other words,
men and women - especially women -
tended to marry almost as soon as they
became sexually mature.
What a change in 200 years! Today,
v’irls reach puberty at about 12 years
and boys at about 13. Marriage is a
least seven or eight years away and
maybe 10 or 15. Yet Mom and Dad
and the local clergyman and everybody
else say “wait.’’ Wait for 10 years?
How can anyone wait 10 years when
the radio is blasting out songs like I'm
So Excited and What’s Love Got to Do
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steamy soap operas, “T-and-A,’’ ris-
que humor, and music videos; when
movies lump virgins and nerds together
in the same category of undesirables;
and finally, when that one-in-a-
lifetime rush of hormones is lighting
fires in all the wrong places?
“Insofar as adolescence is related to
the biologial fact of puberty,’’ says an-
thropologist Colin Turnball, “I cannot
think of a single culture I know that
handles this crucial stage of life more
abysmally than we do. The conse-
quences of our folly are to be seen all
round us in violence, neurosis, and the
loneliness of our youth, our adults,
and our aged, some of whom never ap-
proach the fullness and richness of a
lite that could have been theirs had
their adolescence been handled with
more wisdom, understanding, and gen-
tle respect. Our education process is a
traumatically disintegrative process. It
can and does lead to the split between
body and mind that gives ‘love’ an ex-
clusively physical, sexual meaning.’’
An Evening in Greece
After a busy week of studying or
working, plan to take a relaxing trip to
Greece on Friday, November 15. A
suitcase will not be needed, but one
will need to travel to the Southwestern
University campus and go to the Facul-
ty Lounge of the Student Union .
Building at 7pm. This program is spon-
sored by Friends of the International
House.
The evening will start with an arm
chair tour of Greece via slides and an
extremely interesting narrative by Mr.
George Sarantopoulos who is a native
of Thessalonike, Greece. Mr. Saran-
topoulos is the past president of the
Hellenic "ofessional Society and is
currently the program director of the
Hellenic League of Texas.
After the tour one will have the op-
portunity to sample such Greek
delicacies as tiropitakia, spanokopita,
dolmadhes, keftedhes-and baklava. To
end the evening everyone will be in-
vited to learn the Kalamatiano which is
the national dance of Greece and learn
or observe some other Greek folk
dances.
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