conducted in near silence. Several commented it was the best-dressed, most orderly picket line they had ever seen In making this policy we are not forming any judgement on dress as such, but only noting public opın ion regarding dress-that the opposition to the anti Viet Nam demon strators centered oftenest on their beards and sneakers. We did not enter into picketing easily and con tinue to use it as a last resort. We notify the institution several times and offer to call off picketing if they will enter into negotiations

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Paul Goodman, author and critic "We can't really plan for a Great Society without first having a decent society At the time of the Jenkins case I waited, in vain, for some note of revulsion in the press reportage-not to what Jenkins had done, but to what the police had done -some feeling that the cops' peeking at Jenkins was in itself a moral fault. There was none. And I submit that in a decent society, which we do not now have, there would be one. And what would the moral attitude of a decent society be? I would like to think it would be something like mine Let be If neurosis springs, as Freud and I seem to have concluded, from what can't do, then I you would say, by all means Do You may ask, in the decent society, a freer society, will there be more homosexuality? Yes, I imagine so. I'm not afraid of it Question

“What is the greatest problem facing the homosexual today?" Answer "The atom bomb." Question "Has there ever been or is there today a decent society?" Answer "I think Denmark is pretty decent." Question "Are things getting better or worse?" Answer "Better An instance is the treatment of narcotics addicts." Question "What would be the place of the homosexual in the decent society?" Answer "In the decent society, I

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don't think the word 'homosexual' would be used." Applause.

Dr George Weinberg "The bias against homosexuality in analysis psychoanalysis has several roots. First, basic, is Freud's Victorian ethic, that the judgement of any sex activity is its end, and that the proper end must be coitus. Among other less obvious and therefore perhaps more dangerous factors is that of heterosexual jealousy, which gives rise to talk of 'immorality' which H. L. Mencken defined as 'the lurking fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy' Still another factor, now noted and sometimes made allow ance for in analysis, but more often, sadly, furthered by analysis, is the trend toward uniformity and certainly the homosexual is not the man next door Last, with analysis there is an automatic need to look for problems. If homosexuality as such is defined as a problem, the problem, then the analyst has found a 'condition' he can treat." Weinberg stressed the dangers of psychoanalysis to homosexuals repeatedly throughout his talk. He concluded with the following admonitions to analysts “1 If you feel repugnance for homosexual activity, it might be well to look at yourself, consider if you are the proper analyst for this patient. 2. Analysis should try to change the patient least, not most. The purpose is to make it possible for the patient to lead his own life, not to make him into someone else. 3. Guilt must be dımınıshed, not accentuated. 4. The analyst must help the patient build a value system with a humanistic orientation, allowing him to realize his full potential in society

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Dr Ralph Grundlach reported the results of research he has conducted with the co-operation of the Daughters of Bilitis. There is no evidence that lesbians favor one parent over an other One half of the lesbians he has