Student Sex Is Private Affair, Psychiatrists Advise Colleges

© New York Times Service NEW YORK—A group of 260 psychiatrists declared yesterday that the private heterosexual and homosexual behavior of students need not become the direct concern of college administrators.

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a 129-page study, entitled "Sex and the College Student," prepared by a committee of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry.

The study also said that colleges should draft explicit rules governing some areas of sexual behavior and provide information about birth control and venereal disease.

“THE STUDENT'S privacy requires respect," the report says. "Sexual activity privately practiced with approprate attention to the sensitivities of other people should not be the direct concern of the (college) administration," the report found.

The Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, known as GAP, was founded in 1946 by a number of prominent psychiatrists, including Dr. Karl Menninger and Dr. William C. Menninger.

The study was written as a guide to college instructors.

Dr. Esther Raushenbush, president of Sarah Lawrence College, praised the report. She called it "a book by people with wisdom, wide college students, underprofessional knowledge of standing and compassion."

behavior, the report says: In regard to heterosexual

“A CERTAIN amount of freedom in the area of student social and sexual interaction with the opposite sex is now taken for granted within limits of personal integrity and public decency.

We believe it is in keeping with educational goals to stress the responsibility of the student in these matters.

"At the same time, we believe that changing sexual mores and new social realiContinued on Page 17, Col. 8