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Strea From Staff Reports Results of a study by a USC psychology professor indicates Carolina's streakers last spring to be bright, healthy and achieving students. While many psychologists across the country made armchair analysises of the nation's short lived fad, Dr. Robert V. Heckel interviewed 85 streakers to compile what he believes to be the only controlled study of streakers. After interviewing 74 male participants, Heckel's data shows the average USC males streaker to be 5'11%" tall, weigh 170 pounds and to be somewhat muscular. He found most streakers to be protestant but there were a greater number of Catholic streakers than the percentage of Catholics on campus. The average male streaker, according to Heckel, dates regularly, has almost a B-average and comes from a town with a population less than 50,000. Only one-third of the streakers belonged to fraternities but a majority came from families where the father is a business or professional man and the mother is a housewife. On a controlled test used by Heckel the students scored higher ME Amencan Medical Co lege Admissions Profil Inc., offers a cot puterized analysis to assi you in more effectively a sessing your qualificatio and more accurately 4 recting your medic S1 kdng than other males at USC and higher than the national collegiate norm. Male streakers, Heckel said,.feels more external controls on them from society and viewed streaking as a chance to break away from the controls of. others. Interviews with 11 female! streakers showed the average to be 5'3%" tall and weigh 117 pounds. Heckel's data indicated the coeds to be above average students and from families with business or professional fathers and housewife mothers. The typical female streaker also dates regularly, comes from a small town and feels less ex ternally controlled than the average USC coed. Heckel suggests the female streakers were freer than their non-streaking sisters. Heckel found the majority of participants through streaking to be a fad and said they simply joined their friends for the outing. Others said they streaked to help break a record and in two in -stances they were stripped by wriends and once undressed decided "why not?" The students reported that the reactions they received from others were mixed though in general very positive. They said many fellow students and even some DICAL SCHOOL APPLICAI Al- school applications. Your s e, MCAT scores, grade point n- average, college attended, n ist state of residence, age and i is- other criteria are used in a i ns comparative analysis with 2 Ji- the previously accepted s al class at the medical londay Mi udent Spe4 *3.5O U.S. Choice Sirloin ChoiceetfPotato Salad Dar Ele ian's 741 SAL.UDA AVE. - COL.UMBIA. SOUTH irvey shows stre parents thought streaking was cute or funny. The most negative reaction, according to the study, was by parents of students who did not participate. A number of non streaking students, Heckel said, indicated that they might have participated but feared the 'Book Corn BY MOBY SALAHUDDIN Gamecock Staff Writer Forward or back September is the turning time Ask the man whose livelood is apples Or the man who lives for love -Rod McKuen September is also the time to buy McKuen's poems. The Book Corner at the USC Campus Shop has sale on him this week. Mrs. Winifred King, Book Corner manager, said she would try to have a book sale- "walk-in special every other week. For now, King is mostly ordering books from qTS chools you select. Contact your pre iedical advisor for further nformation or write .M.C.A.P., Inc., Box 747, Boston, Mas achusetts 02114. lt sial Resevations. 252-5141 FIVE POINTS CAROLINA 29205 akers bright a parental response would be to withdraw them from school im mediately. Most of the students said they would never streak. again and described streaking as a crazy one time thing which did not have a profound impact on them. r' open for catalogues because she is un familiar with current reading preferences on campus. She said she would welcome student suggestions in ordering morfe books and wants the Book Corner to reflect student interests. Traditionally, according to Jo Ann O'Rourke who also works in the Book Corner, science fiction, lpsychology and philosophy have. ben popuiar reading at Carolina. According to the last sale figures available form the Chronicle of Higher Education , Alex Comfort's "The Joy of Sex"is the number one best seller on udiversity campuses across the. country. ' "I imagine it has dropped now,' King said, referring to the popularity of "The Joy of Sex.' She did not explaion why. O'Rourke said Carolina students are not doing much leisure reading right now. She thinks students are "panicked enough about school. They don't have time for pleasure Governan A SGAun From Page One Hardin Street, because "they are considered on-campus students." Leventis was sympathetic, however. "They have a bad situation," he said. By the end of this week, Leventis said, there should be three more copy machines on the campus. He said four more would be installed in the near futrue. Also, this fall, the "Green Street issue will be finally resolved. We are trying to get Green Street closed from Sumter to Pickens." Leventis said Green Street traffic "splits campus life in half. It takes away 'from the aesthetics of the University." Once Green is closed, SGA will "put benches up there, plant trees, etc. It will be pretty nice," Leventis said. Green Street will be closed October 15 on an ex perimental basis. Student Governemnt plans to have music groups there to celebrate the oc casion. Leventis said, during his stay at Carolina, the Oct. 15 closing of Green Street was among the most significant actions taken by SGA. According to Leventis, students expressed "more concern on this issue than on any other issue." The twenty-four hour visitation at Bates West is another decision that pleased Leventis. Calling it a "pretty good achievement," Leventis said it was not just a Student Government concern other people were also involved. "But it was a Student Govern ment project." nd healthy Heckel compares the spring streaking spree to other "rites of spring" which have marked human cultures for centuries. The streaking fad, Heckel said, marks a campus movement away from protest activity and back to the former spring activities of festivity. suggestions reading." Ben Swanson, Campus Shop manager, said often the high price of texts discourage students from buying additional books. The Campus Shop cannot afford to sel books at discount prices to students because, according Swanson, "we have to be self supporting." University professors$ however, have bought books at reduced prices. Swanson said he did not understand the reason for this. "If the basis was economic - need, then students, too, should have been offered books at reduced prices. Swanson said if price concessions "can't be justified for students, then they cannot be justifiable "or professors either." It is possible, Swanson sugested , faculty members consider these discounts "a part of their fringe benefits." ce remais clertaking "A great many students are interested" in making decisions regarding their own future, ac cording to Leventis. He said it would give him great peasure if he could help students win a greater voice in the affairs of the University. "Students don't have that power now," said, Leventis, "but they can exercise; it ef fectively and intelligently." "Students are apathetic because they don't have enough say in the working of the University. I don't believe people come here apathetic." Leventis said every year freshmen are among the most enthusiastic workers in the student governemnt. "But they phase out. They see no future in It." Once students realize they cannot effect substantial change they are disillusioned. "Why fight it? They get out of active din volvement." Leventis is working toward the creation of a University Senate with an equal number of students, faculty members, and ad ministration representaion. All will have an equal say in the decision making policy sat the University. The President, however, would still retain a veto. "This idea has been in the wind for three or four years. I would like to see it instituted," Leventis said. "That would be something wor thwhile." Leventis said he tries to deter mine popular opinion by talking to various students. On an important issue, he said, it is not hard to measrel' studnt opsin.s.