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ANNULMENT IS POSSIBLE

IF ONE IS HOMOSEXUAL

If it can ve proved that one of the parties is incapable of giving consent in a marriage, then there is no contract and annulment is in order. That is the viewpoint expressed at a meeting of the American Guild of Catholic Psychiatrists in St. Louis recently. Dr. John R. Cavanagh, a Washington, D.C., practicing psychiatrist,said the church might be able to therefore offer annulment in good conscience in cases where one of the partners is a complete homo-

sexual.

"The complete homosexual," he said, having no true concept of what normal sex is, cannot give his consent to marriage because he can desire nothing

that he does not understand."

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for teen-agers. However, five of these girls did favor the style, although three of them had reservations about it. Neatness was cited; but some girls, wondered how the boys got them on and off. Main objection to the tightness of fit (and reason the girls said they made the boys look sissified) was that the snugness tended to round off the boys' hips too much. In fact, the girl whose statement appears above added that the fashion was absurd, lacked individuality, and showed little taste. No doubt this is ground for differing opinion among the male students.

HOMOSEXUAL PURGES ON AT TWO UNIVERSITI ES

The campuses of two large state universities have been the scene of concerted police action aimed at breaking up "homosexual contact centers." In each instance, many individuals have been arrested, with court trials, forced resignations, etc., resulting.

At Gainesville, Fla., an undisclosed number judged homosexual by administrative officials have been "purged" from the University of Florida. At Ann Arbor, Mich., 34 arrests have been made on the campus on charges of homosexual activity (generally, for importuning or soliciting), at the University of Michigan.

TIGHT PANTS ON BOYS DRAWS REACTION FROM GIRLS "Tight pants look rather effeminThe Florida clean-up has apparently ate." That is a partial reaction of a San Francisco high school girl who been triggered by pressure from the was asked, along with her classmates, Johns' State Legislative Investigating how they regarded the form-fitting pegCommittee in that state. In Michigan, ged jeans so popular among teen-agers local newspapers indicate the action and young male adults today. Seven is merely a zealous enforcement of girls were quoted in the commentary state laws which declare such behavwhich appeared in a newspaper column ior a crime.

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In both instances University officials The Ann Arbor homosexual crackhave sanctioned the actions. Florida's down, which has resulted in some 34 was conducted by campus police, workarrests so far, is seriously questioning in conjunction with city authorities, able with regard to methods, motives, but involving the use of a number of legality and moral implications. The methods, although police have "young special agents" who loitered

in campus toilets. The Michigan acbeen reticent to explain them in detail, tions have been pressed by Ann Arbor boil generally down to this: three spec police who also utilized a trained trio ial officers were selected about two of special plainclothes officers to months ago to linger day after day in make the arrests. In each instance enrestrooms around the city, waiting to trapment tactics have been denied. make contact with homosexuals, then From Ann Arbor, a report to the arrest them. REVIEW states that entrapment procedures were positively utilized, and a report in the Michigan Daily also charges the truth of this.

In one of the opening examinations of one of those arrested at Ann Arbor, this exchange occurred when the lawyer questioned the arresting officer: "What time was the arrest made?" "10:30."

More critically stated, they have been paid with public funds to aggravate the psychological problem of the homosexual, first by enticement, then by arrest, arraignment, trial, and perhaps a prison sentence. This is neither a logical way to spend public funds nor a sensitive way to handle a public problem. THE UNIVERSITY'S part in this seems negligible, although police in-

"What time did you enter the rest sist it is cooperating very well. True, · the University has been inane enough to remove the doors from stalls in one

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A reporter, who states that he knows two of those arrested in Michigan, added that it was the plainclothesman in each instance who started the conversation and made the advances. HOMOSEXUAL CRACKDOWN OF DUBIOUS VALUE

"8:45." "That's a hell of a way to make a Angell Hall restroom, and has not yet replaced them. But other than that, it living, isn't it?” hasn't helped the police significantly. The University cannot refuse the police admittance to its restrooms, of course, and what the officers do there is their own business. But for the University to cooperate any further would be unfortunate. When an individual is arrested, tried, and found guilty, then it is the University's place to talk with him and make the final decision on his future here.

..Thus was headed an editorial in the Michigan Daily for January 9, when Staff Writer Thomas Hayden wrote the following editorial, which states the case as understandingly and as sensibly as possible:

A natural question arising from the above is what motives the police might have for the sudden crackdown. No maj19