University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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could only see you now: r marijuana ordinance was repealed last sum- mer by the Stephenson regime, the threat of arrest is still minimal. If someone wanted to make a good invest- ment in Ann Arbor, they should get a liquor license and build another bar. The Village Bell, probably the number one bar on campus, is frequently forced to turn away patrons. It seems local merchants have still been unable to catch up to the demand for places to drink and dance created by the lowering of the drinking age in Michigan. Many a student has driven all the way to Bimbos in Ypsilanti in search of a good time. In the area of sexual habits on campus, things are generally agreed to be getting freer over the last twenty years. But it would probably be found that campus sexual behavior is not as far ahead of national norms for unmarried young adults as one would think. Twenty-five years ago Dr. Alfred Kinsey published his famous survey of American sexual habits. In 1973 the Playboy foundation sponsored a similar survey conducted by Morton Hunt, aimed at determining how much customs had changed in those 25 years. Among the findings relevant to the Univer- sity age group were these: In Kinsey ' s study one third of the single women had inter- c ourse by the age of 25 years, in Morton ' s three quarters had. Morton found that of males with some college education more than half had premarital sex by the time they were seventeen, in Kinsey ' s survey only one quarter had. It was found that contact with prostitutes in the 18-24 year old group in 1973 was half as much as it was in 1948 survey. The variety of sexual practices had increased greatly over 25 years although homosexuality had remained fairly constant. Interestingly, many of the conclusions reached by Morton coincided with candid views of authorities on campus: Ira Reiss, a leading expert on sexual mores felt that attitudes expressed by college students on sex didn ' t necessarily agree with their actual practices. Morton ' s article concluded that sexually liberated single girls still feel liber- ated only within the context of affectionate or loving relationships. University authorities here agreed. While students do not feel sex for physical pleasure alone is not wrong, they are still inclined to search for relationships that go beyond that aspect commented one in a phone interview. So it seems that the major characteristic of the new sexual customs is a higher level of enlightenment combined with a greater readiness to experiment. But it seems that the ultimate goal of a physical combined with an emotional relationship has not changed. 75

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At the big U, trying to get your homework done and naving fun at the same time requires a cool head and a sense of humor. The sad thing is that we all have to pay our bills and buy our books and that means we ' ll have to stand in those unbelievably long lines. And for the ambitious, there are also those mass campout and pajama parties knows as the football ticket lines that seem to start earlier and earlier each Fall. We stand in lines while waiting for those works on reserve in the library. Nobody can under- stand why everybody else waits till the night before exams to read them. When we don ' t have wheels to get to our destinations we have to register with traffic control over in the basement of the Union. And of course there is always the problem of traffic cops and tickets, but students don ' t seem to mind this top much knowing that the City operates exclusively on ticket income. 77