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Several major psychologists deny that homosexuality should be a subject of abnormal psychology, seeing it instead as an appropriate area for social psychology. Gay people are indistinguishable from heterosexuals on any available valid measure of personality. The once popular opinion that homosexuality is a pathological condition, or even associated with such broad labels as "neurosis" or "malad-justment," is heavily contradicted by psychological evidence...
Problems remain, even if one accepts women's studies as a valid area and recognizes its potential student support. Faculty interest seems limited. Goodenough says that all existing specialty committees have had strong individual faculty lobbying in support of them. For the previously mentioned reasons, that seems unlikely to happen for women's studies. Last year, the subcommittee that has grown into the current group sent letters to 800 faculty members asking for support. The response was negligible. The committee remains undaunted, and Stokes says, "The more faculty support the better, but if given a choice between faculty...
Stokes answers such objections by saying that the danger of a loss of perspective is a valid one, which is why a concentration must be interdisciplinary. As for the long-range goal of complete integration, Orgel says it is of course ultimately desirable, but "it's too idealistic" for the present...
...valid are the new jitters? Certainly, recent statistics have not been cheering. Led by climbing food and fuel costs, the January Consumer Price Index rose at an annual rate of 10%, the biggest monthly jump in a year and a half. No one expects that hectic pace to continue through the spring, but energy costs are certain to go on rising this year. Moreover, prices of a number of commodities-cocoa, cotton and most notably coffee-are climbing...
...well Director Hill's solid realization of the minor-league ambience?plasticized motels and bars, dreary arenas, the grubby team bus?and the brisk, vivid sketches of recognizable jock types with which he and Screenwriter Dowd* have peopled the Chiefs. Unquestionably, the film makers are at tempting a valid moral statement. Their concern is not merely with the decline of hockey from artful sport into blood spectacle, but also with the general tendency of pop cultural enterprise to go for the vulgar and the sensational, then to avoid responsibility by claiming to give the public what it wants...