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ByMARK VIGUET
Reporter
A "straight" in the Gay Student
le enoii ervices? Impossible?
Not quite.
Lynn Scannapieco, a junior bi-
llogv major, is a non-gay member of
^SS, the group battling in tlie courts
' ‘* s fnejl) r official university recognition.
e rigflll Although she didn’t join until last
lemester, Scannapieco (list learned
^VernnJ organization last \eai.
“A friend of mine irom school
iild me he was gay, and I met people
the group through him and
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Scannapieco decided to become a
ourcoii Wilber when she discovered how
ttrys^ lard it was for her gay friends to talk
* lathers about their lifestvle.
“I saw that it was extremely difli-
ult going to parents and friends
ith tnis type of thing, and I wanted
ofeel like 1 could do something to
lelp,’’ Scannapieco said. "I felt like
nysupport meant so much to them.
} ~ ‘ uv .' also joined for the same reason
w . 11111 myone else joins a group— because
believe in what they stand lor.
“It doesn’t matter to me what a
“ter otht arson's sexual preference is: that’s
E rsonal choice. To me it’s compa-
eto the color of someone’s skin,
treally shouldn’t Ik- a basis for prej-
idice."
Scannapieco says the moral sup-
i°csmAort is one of the most important
tthoritic straights can give to the
[roup.
“Tney are in such a minority here,
hey love to know that some in the
najority support gav rights," S<.m-
"1 joined for (he same rea
son anybody else joins a
group - because / believe
in w hat they stand for. ” —
Lynn Scannapieco, non
gay CSS member
napieco said. “At a fund-raiser,
someone once gave a good sum of
money to help with their legal costs,
and you just wouldn’t believe how
happy those people were to know
there was support from outside the
group.
’’He can also talk to other
straights about gays. I mean, these
are people with rights just like any
one else. They are extremely intelli
gent and great to be around. I think
of them as my friends, not my gay’
friends."
Harassment has not been a prob
lem as a result of her involvement
with the group.
"II I’m witn someone who’s gay,
people will often think I’m gay, but it
doesn’t bother me,” she said. “Most
just want to know why I’m in the
group."
Her parents, however, do not look
kindly on the fact that she has gay
friends.
“My brother is very supportive of
mv involvement in the group, but
mv parent’s don’t know I'm in the
group yet," she said. “They know I
have gav friends, but don’t approve
of it."
Scannapieco says the Board of Re
gents’ decision to fight the group is
the result of outside pressure.
“I personally think much of it
comes from old Ags who say it
doesn’t uphold the traditional atmo
sphere here — but that certainly isn’t
a legal basis to ref use a club recogni
tion,” she said. “I think the Regents
realize that the former students
would get furious if the they didn’t
show they were at least trying to put
up a light.
“The main reason university rec
ognition is important will be univer
sity-approved advertising,” she said.
“Many people come to meetings now
who are so scared, they won’t even
give their names, but at least they
come. The advertising will help us
get to the people that need to know
we’re here."
Scannapieco believes the fight for
gay rights is comparable to the
black’s fight for equality.
"I think the civil rights movement
laid the foundation for other mi
nority groups, including gays, to
speak out in defense of their rights,”
sue said. “The light for civil rights
still isn’t complete, and it’s been
going on for such a long time. I
sense that the atmosphere in general
is becoming more tolerant toward
gay rights, but it will take a long
time."
“People become frightened be
cause of the fact the group will be
recognized,” she said. “Gays are out
there now in your classes, walking
across campus; maybe you even
bump into them. ”
Photo by ANTHONY S. CASPER
High and low
Looking for textbooks at the MSC bookstore are Robert Faw
cett, a senior education major, and Stephanie Sobotik, a ju
nior sociology major. Bookstore lines were short Tuesday but
are expected to increase as the week continues.
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^Children play according to traditional patterns
University News Service
Despite efforts to de-emphasi/e
iexually oriented roles witn chil-
Jren, preschool lioys ami girls con-
inue to choose activities that follow
raditional patterns, a Texas A&M
study indicates.
In a study designed to examine
the relationship in children In-tween
creativity and different ty pes of play
materials, doctoral stutient Marc
Rogers found there were distinct
patterns in boys' and girls’ c hoices of
play centers.
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Choices of the 26 girls and 23 boys
who were 3, -4 and 5 years old re-
flecied a preference for activities
that follow traditional patterns, said
Rogers, who received his Ph.D. in
educational psychology in Decem-
ber.
“This is supposed to be an andro
gynous stage of development, but
there were sex differences in the
children’s choices of play materials,”
he said.
Among the 23 play centers avail-
center, a block center, a doll center
and a dress-up center which in
cluded firemen and military uni
forms.
Rogers observed the children dur
ing 45-minute periods and mea
sured the amount of time each cen
ter occupied a child in one-minute
intervals and then came up with a to
tal number of minutes for boys and
girls at each center.
constitute a total of two minutes for
the center.
Out of a total of 5,536 minutes of
play time, boys spent zero minutes
with dolls while girls played 142
minutes with the dolls, Rogers said.
Boys played 49 minutes with the
home center while girls played 340
minutes at the center.
For
able to the children were a home one minute at the doll center
example, two girls playing
~ would
Boys played with the blocks 466
minutes while girls played with
blocks only 96 minutes and boys
played zero minutes at the dress-up
center while girls played at the same
center 240 minutes.
Rogers also found boys engaged
in “tomfoolery” behavior three times
as much as girls during the observed
play periods.
“The current belief that males
and females are coming together
does not seem to be true,” he said.
“Ghildren are reflecting more tradi
tional roles than ever.
“The toy industry is saying boys
and gii Is like the same kind of toys
and that doesn’t seem to be true.”
Klan plans
to oppose
ordinance
United Press International
HOUSTON—The ku klux Klan
plans to demonstrate in front of city
hall Saturday against a proposed or
dinance giving homosexuals equal
protection in city jobs, the Texas
grand dragon said Tuesday.
“Basically it’s an anti-homosexual
and anti-kathy Whitmire demon
stration,” Charlie Lee said.
“The mayor's efforts to pass these
ordinances providing homosexual
equalilty is far beyond her public
duty.
“To let some of her aides oil so
they can go out and work for the
campaign lor homosexual rights is
really too much as far as we’re con
cerned and we feel somebody needs
to speak up against it.”
Whitmire s top political aide has
taken a leave of absence to campaign
for passage of the referendum
schecluled for Jan. 19 on the job dis
crimination issue.
The referendum was forced by a
public petition after City Council in
June passed a resolution and ordi
nance adding sexual orientation to
the list of factors — including race,
sex, age and national origin — that
cannot be considered in city hiring,
firing and promotions.
“The main reason (for the dem
onstration) is we’re going to get out
there to demonstrate to let the pub
lic know it is an important issue.
Lee said.
The Houston Chamber of Com
merce also is urging Houstonians to
vote against the ordinance.
Lee said he expects 75 to 100
klansmen at the rally at City Hall.
I he protesters then plan to distrib
ute anti-homosexual pamphlets on
Main Street, he said.
“We don’t want homosexuals to
have equality in being hired by the
police department or the fire de
partment,” L.ee said.
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