The Towerlight, November 14, 1975

tl19751114-000 "Masters discusses sexual reaearch After speech Dr. Masters answers questions concerning sex and ... r,11:( TL photo by Dave Esposito ""Everyone is responsible for their own pleasure."" t Ky lecture is threatened LXVIII, NO. 1 TOWSON STATE COLLEGE NOVEMBER 14, 1975 Masters says: Sex is a natural thing by Marlene Milder ""No one has had the privilege of hying with sex as a natural, function because our culture has denied us this privilege,"" maintained Doctor William Masters during his guest lecture as part of the Speakers Series. Speaking before a standing room Only audience in Stephens Hall, Without his counterpart Virginia Johnson, Dr. Masters concentrated on the topic of sex as an effective means of communication and the oPpressiveness of our culture to enjoy sex as a natural function. His associate, Virginia Johnson, could not attend the scheduled lec- ture due to a severe case of laryngitis. As a team, Masters and Johnson have done extensive scientific research in the field of human sexual ,a,etwity, conducting this research for �e purpose of obtaining information for realistic treatment of sex Problems. Masters showed the comparison between the bladder, bowel, and respiratory functions with the genital functioning system. ""Every natural function has one factor in common, that having voluntary and involuntary control,"" said Masters. ""Everyone can hold his breath, or control bowel or bladder functions for different lengths of time."" The ""sexologist"" maintains every man and woman who has voluntarily denied their overt sexual functioning for religious convictions has not really done so. Sexual functioning along with our other natural systems works at its own rhythm involuntarily. ""Regardless of age every man has an erection every 80-90 minutes all night long in or out of dream sequence while every woman in-voluntarily lubricates every 80-90 minutes all night long in or out of dream sequence,"" reported the doctor. WCVT-AM tunes in FM by Kathy Pascuzzi WCVT-FM will definitely go on the air December 5,1975, according to Steve Curran, General Manager and Program Most of the delays have been due to government bureaucracy. Curran emphasized that he's not angry about the delays, though. ""It's just something we have to work with. WCVT applied for a construction permit about 15 months ago. The FCC requires the permit before any plans Can go ahead for construction of a radio studio. The permit expires one Year from the date of issue, and two 90-day extensions are allowed. WCVT has applied for and received both allowed extensions. ""It wouldn't have taken nearly this long if someone had donated the equiPment,"" Curran said. He ex- plained that in order to purchase the ecluiPment, he had to submit bids through the 'State government. No such procedure is required for d onations. When a bid for the equipment was a warded, the order was processed by the CCA Company. About four Months from the expiration date of the construction permit, CCA went out of business. WCVT applied then for the first 90-day extension, and began solicitation for more bids. The Sparto Company was awarded the second bid for the an- tenna base and the transmitter, and another company, Rohn, bid suc- cessfully to supply the tower. By the end of September '75, all �""-equipment had been delivered. Plans started then for the sign-on. Unfortunately, the Physical Plant had neither manpower nor know-how to install it. ""We had to hire someone else to do it,"" said Curran. That meant more bids and more delays. In mid-September, Tower Maintenance, Inc. installed the an-tenna. ""We thought we were all ready to go then,"" said Curran, ""but Dave Sturdivant told us that any con-struction must be approved by the State Board of Public Works."" Another extension was obtained, and on October 15, the work was approved. On November 2, the tower was erected. It cost about $1500 to build the studios for the new station. This money was borrowed from the SGA. The Martin Marietta Co. helped with a $500 grant. ""That money was given to the SGA to help repay the $1500 loan,"" said Curran. Curran said he's not angry over the delays, but he wants ""everyone to understand that some major decisions were not made here. . . the setbacks have to do with going through the State."" He's pleased with all the ""support and help"" he got through the school. His main concern right now is programming and getting a workable staff of students. ""We're not a clique here. . . The station is open to any student with an interest in working here,"" he said. The AM station will continue as a training facility, according to Curran, ""The FM station is the outcome of the training."" Masters also cited instances ,where culture has influenced our :approach to sexual functioning while 'referring to a double standard system. ""During the 1950's and 1960's men ""did"" to and women were the ones done,"" said Masters. ""Wer the standards changed and men didn't do to their wives but felt responsible for them."" ""This 1800 change was in the wrong direction,"" said Masters, ""because this attitude of 'doing for' is a complete denial of sexual func-tioning being a natural function."" ""Being responsible for an orgasmic experience is as impossible and frustrating as being responsible for someone else's breathing,"" ad-mitted Masters. In the 1970's, Masters reports there has been a change from the ""doing to"" and the ""doing for."" in-stead, the doctor said effective sexual communication is being seen as partners responsible ""with each other."" ' ""In effective sex each one must be totally selfish in the moment of orgasmic experience and this is where communication is important,"" said Masters. Sexual Responsibilities Three responsibilities of sexual functioning were included by the doctor. Masters reported these in-cluded propagation of race, release of sexual tension, and as a means for effective communication. ""The privilege of exchanging vulnerability is one of the best means of communication between two committed people,"" was the advice of Masters. He sees this exchange necessary, which must be done through a means of communication. Advising the male audiences, Masters warned, ""Women don't know what they want until they find they don't have it, and this must be cOmmunicated."" Before 1972, 97�/o of the how to do it books were written by men for men about what women wanted, reported Masters. The books always advised men to ""find the clitoris and stick with it."" Again condemning the confines of our cultures' outlooks, Masters maintained women aid not have the cultural privilege of educating the male as to what she really wanted. For complete sexual functioning Masters warned ""males must forget the cultural concept of 'we are expert' and accept communication be it ever so halting, ever so slow understated and underplayed."" Each partner must communicate needs, interests, or lack of interests. A final misconception of sexual functioning by our culture was discussed by Masters in relation to sexual behavior in older people. When a man reaches his 60's his bodily functions slow down, reported Masters, and this is � considered natural. A man, finding it taking longer to achieve an erection in his 60's begins to feel he is on the road to impotence, said Masters. ""All that is happening,"" maintained the doctor, ""is that the system naturally is slowing down."" Masters compared nursing homes to college dormitories. In nursing homes there is no sexual interchange, maintained Masters. If a 70 year old man wants to have an effective sexual function then he is considered a ""dirty old man."" ""On the other hand as we socially isolate elders we allow the young social freedoms."" Masters warned the culture must accept the fact that age doesn't make you sexually uninterested, disfunc-tional or inadequate. ""We haven't considered sexual functioning as a natural function, and we don't consider its great potential, not that of reproduction, not that of release of tension, but as one of an effective means of communication as we know,"" maintained Masters. by Steve Haas In what had begun as an orderly demonstration against the scheduled speaking appearance of Nguyen Cao Ky and a presentation of petition signatures to S.G.A. President David Nevins, the restrained mood of the ""meeting"" was shattered as one of the membO' rs of the Coalition to oppose Ky stormed into the Student Senate office and briefly gained control of the discussion. Threat Executed Interrupting the presentation of group spokesmen Robert Bannister and John Young and pushing two female sympathizers aside in his unbounded desire to enter the crowed room, Coalition member Steve Tobias issued what appeared to be an in-dividual threat in proclaiming, ""If you don't renege on the contract with Ky and take it to court before November 21, I assure you that there's going to be hell to pay."" Tobias promptly exited from the room after his statement and the meeting continued. The presentation of the anti-Ky signatures to Nevins was the culmination of Coalition activities Tuesday. Beginning outside the College Center at 12:30 p.m. with a teach-in concerning Ky, the group leaders collected some extra signatures and answered questions prior to the march to present the ,signatures to Nevins and express their opinions of the situation. Originally, the Coalition to oppose Ky had planned to march to the Administration Building to present the petition to President Fisher, but their plans had to be altered when it was learned that Fisher was scheduled to be in New York at that time. Bannister generally led the presentation for the Coalition and remarked that ""We have 642 signatures of people who don't think that they should have to pay this amount to the tune of $2500 for what they don't consider to be . . . a responsible choice in an educational situation to have him speaking on a sensitive political issue."" Small representative support Nevins indicated that the signatures represented only 5�/o of the student population and frequently reiterated that ""I don't. think 500 signatures means that he shouldn't speak. I don't feel that the minority should override and dictate the views of the majority. The majority of the people who chose to express them-selves (in the referendum) showed a desire to have him speak."" He added that ""even with the signatures, my decision at this time is to let him speak."" Debates continue Flurries of debate arose between the gathering and Nevins over the issues of the referendum an-nouncement, the method of selecting Ky for the ""SGA Celebrity Speakers Series,"" the limited points of view in the Series, and the constitution of the Nevins ""majority."" John Young expressed the Coalition viewpoint by informing Nevins that ""we don't oppose K's right to speak freely, but we are against what Ky represents and what he stood for and what he stands for now."" Nevins countered with a query about where the opposition had been for the speakers in last year's edition of the series, to which Young replyed, ""Some people are more irrelevant ' than others."" Nevins agrees Nevins, forced to handle the goup's onslaught by himself when he became isolated in the room with the protesters and the few reporters, brought the demonstration to an abrupt halt when he answered a statement from Young that ""we can talk till we become blue in the face and you're not going to change your mind,"" by answering commically, ""I agree."" The quiet presentation, generally, and the orderly dispersal of the Coalition came as somewhat of a surprise after rumors that the demonstration might get overly vehement. The campus police were represented by a man in plain clothes who was getting a list of names of possible disruptors of the November 21 speech. David Nevins TL photo by Kathy Dudek Food survey called 'misleading' Mike Hill TL photo by Kathy Dudek by T. F. Troy Labeling it ""misleading, inac-curate and sickening,"" SGA Senator Mike Hill criticized a survey com-paring food prices at Towson with food prices at five other eating establishments: Harvest House, Johns Hopkins University, Goucher College, UMBC, Parkside Pharmacy and Howard Johnson. The survey was distributed among Towson residents October 22, 1975. Prices Lower? In response to student anger over the quality and prices in the cafeterias, an infavorable Towerlight editorial, and an SGA Senate in-vestigation into food services, the administration conducted a survey of local eating places to compare their prices with Towson State's. From the figures cited in the survey, John Suter, Director of Auxiliary Services, concluded that prices at Towson are substantially lower than at other eating places. Survey Unnoticed The survey went relatively un-noticed since it was distributed among resident students, until Hill, of the College Affairs Committee, decided to look at it more closely. He expressed his opinions on the survey at the SGA Senate meeting on Tuesday. Hill blasted the survey as an ""attack on the intelligence of anyone who reads it."" HIll thought it was absurd to compare the prices at TSC, a state college, with those of two expensive private colleges, three profit oriented restaurants, and single other state school. The College Affairs Committee is continuing its investigation of food services, and says it will have the finished report in two or three weeks. Hill however, is not happy with the administrations attitude. ""Originally, we went about it as a very con-servative pace so as to win the cooperation of the adminstration. Now, I'm not so trusting."" He said, his committee would ""not submit to efforts to pacify and stifle the voice of the student."" In another development, Tuesday, Maria Williams announced her resignation as a Senator, claiming school work priorities. In her letter of resignation, she took the opportunity to condemn the ""internal bickering that has hindered SGA in the past."" Candidates for the vacant Senate seat can pick up applications in the SGA office of the Collge Center from Donna Raymond. To be considered for SGA Senate, the candidate must collect at least 200 full-time day students signatures. "