Carter reorganization would begin at the WASHINGTON (UPI) President Carter signed the ' reorganization . uthorization bill yesterday and said he ould begin a "seaching examination of the entire government structure" with n overhaul of his owii office. The signing, which took place in the hite House Oval Office, Was a climax to Carter's two-year presidential campaign in which he repeatedly assailed the Washington bureaucracy. The bill gives Carter three-year authority to submit reorganization plans to Congress, subject only to a veto by either house. It carries a Republican :sponsored amendment requiring Carter to give the cost-effectiveness of each plan. "I think of all the 'campaign speeches I made, the most consistent commitment was that I would move as quickly as possible to improve the efficiency, if 3,500 families lose housing Appalachia ravaged by floods By United Press International Floodwaters surging to century high marks left scores of Appalachian communities ravaged yegterday. The runaway waters trapped and drowned victims as they tried tO flee and inflicted tens of millions of dollars' damage President Carter declared Kentucky a disaster area last ight as the worst flooding in a decade covered the state. Estimates indicated some 3,500 families lost their housing, at least temporarily; as a result of the flooding. The rampage of mountain rivers and streams, and the torrential rains 'that fed them, were blamed for at least 25 deaths. They drove about 23,000 persons from their homes in six southeastern states. The flood toll, coupled with deaths of 69 persons in the crash of a hail-battered Southern Airlines jetliner and 22 persons in tornadoes that swept the South, - pushed the three-day count of weather-connected fatalities to 116. Fighting continues in Lebanon TAYBE, Lebanon (UPI) - 'alestinian guerrillas ,and rightist llristian§ battered'' each ' others' • I sitions in the rocky hills of south Lebanon yesterday in nonstop artillery duels for control of a strategic strip along the Israeli border. The Palestinians and their Lebanese leftist allies appeared to have the upper hand, retaking this village two miles What's Inside Column by Dave Hickton ' page 2 Night receptionists page 3 Travel Agencies page 5 Washington news . , page,7 Ice Hockey page 9 Council candidate interviews page 13 Grant Ackerman interview .. page 15 Weather Partial sunshine this morning will give way to mostly \ cloudy skies this afternoon. Showers or snow flurries are possible late this afternoon and tonight. High today 48 and low tonight 33. Blustery, cold weather will 'return again tomorrow, with a high , of only 39. Virginity losing popularity By SHERI POLIS Collegian Staff Writer Penn State students are aware of the legend that the stone Obelisk on campus will crumble when a virgin walks by. The Obelisk stands today exactly the same as when it was built 78 years ago. Legend also has it at West Chester State College that a water tower is built every time a virgin graduates. At this time there is only one water tower, in existence since 1965. The evidence provided by these and other' popular college legends seems to Indicate that virgins are becoming obsolete on college campuses. Stella R. Goldberg, associate professor of Child Development and Family Relations, said recently in a lecture: "Some people have suggested that ten years from now, if one wishes to find a virgin over 21 years old, they may have to visit the Smithsonian Institute." But Goldberg adds that "there are many males and females who still desire to remain virgins until they marry." Graham Spanier, assistant professor of human development, believes it is difficult to predict the future of virginity. "Right now we're in a college at mosphere that's very different from how it was 10 years ago or how it will be 10 years from now," he said. Within recent decades there have been many conflicting attitudes toward premarital sexual practices. A study taken by Alfred C. Kinsey in 1948 showed that of women who had been born before 1900, only 14 per cent of single women had sexual intercourse before they were 25 years old. But 36 per cent of single women born between 1900 and 1910 had premarital sexual in tercourse, the study said. - In 1936, Dr. Maurice Chideckel Claimed that "incessant association, the daily fectiveness and sensitivity of the federal gOvernment in dealing with the needs of the American people," Carter said during the brief ceremony. The White House said in a statement that there is "no master list or hidden agenda" for reorganization targets. But it said Carter has identified several areas for early action, including energy, oil spill pollution control, con sumer affairs, civil rights, advisory committees and the executive office. The executive office, target of the initial reorganization, has grown from a small one concerned largely with budgetary matters during the Franklin Roosevelt administration to the present 18 councils and boards. White House Press Secretary Jody Powell said recommendations on this reorganization' would go to Carter in early June. from the frontier and capturing Hill 30 , army _markings, —, left behind by the one of the cOrnmandingheights around Christians. it. ' -'' ' More than 200 guerrillas with tanks, armored vehicles, artillery and mortars held the tiny town, empty of inhabitants since the rightists seized it last week. They said they Wok Taybe in a ,"short, clean fight" on Monday. Mortar and artillery shells whistled overhead and slammed into old stone houses with deafening roars as the rightists, angered by their setback, pumped shot after shot into the Palestinian lines. U.S. Ambassador Richard Parker, pressing a diplomatic initiative in Beirut to head off a further escalation of the clashes, met with Lebanon's defense minister and new army commander and with a right-wing Christian leader. President Elias Sarkis held emergency consultations with his defense chief and the leader of the 30,000 1 man Arab peace-keeping force and also met with the Soviet ambassador to Lebanon. The guerrilla commander at Taybe, Abu Nabil, said he was holding off returning the rightist fire to give his men a chance to collect the arms and am munition much of it bearing Israeli auto trips, vacationing together, alcohol, petting parties, sex talk, knowledge of contraceptives" all led to premarital sex. "In this age of opportunity, there are only two ways to choose, either con sistent restraint, or when sexual stimulation becomes intolerable, early marriage," he said. He said that females struggle to suppress sexual impulses. While Chideckel clearly ruled out premarital sex as ' an alternative, he added that "virginity is an attempted defiance of the laws of nature, hence is unnatural and against all concepts of biology." Fred Brown, an associate professor of psychology at New York University, and Rudolph T. Kempton of Vassar College co-authored a book entitled, "Sex Questions and Answers," in 1950. "In a society where the sowing of wild oats by men is regarded tolerantly," they said, "the expression of desire is more open and its satisfaction is more likely. Women are not permitted a similar freedom . . . A woman who violates the sex conventions may find herself a social outcast as a result of her rebelliousness. It is therefore necessary. for her to restrain her cravings until' marriage permits their gratification." A survey taken at the University of Virginia showed that in 1943-44, 45 per cent of male students had premarital sex. In 1967-68, the proportion had risen to 61.8 per cent and 74.9 per cent of college males had premarital sex by 1969-73, the survey said. Frank W. Finger predicted from the study, taken over a 30 year period, that "we may expect close to three-fourths of college males of the mid-1970's to be non virgins." 'While the statistics show that male students became increasingly more olle • iaril Some residents were beginning to return to their homes yesterday. Many found devastation waiting for them. ' . Bob Ryan, a Williamson, W.Va., firefighter, said, "Anything less than two stories was•completely under water. Cars are on top of cars, houses are upside down, the total business district has been wiped out." Homes, businesses and streets in Williamson were filled with mud and debris. Huge chunks of street and sidewalk had been tossed about by the Tug Fork River floodwaters. Elec tricity was dead and food and drinking water were in short supply. The police chief of Haysi, Va., reported, "Only two buildings are considered sound in the entire town." Virginia Gov. Mills E. Goodwin appealed for federal disaster relief. He said a conservative estimate was that the state suffered about $25 million damage to public and private property and $l5 million to roads and bridges. • Ambassador Alexander Soldatov, Foreign and Defense Minister Fuad Butros and Col. Ahmed al Hajj, the Lebanese commander of the peace keeping force. - sexually experienced, the female students were still expected to remain virginal. Alix Kates Shulman wrote in a popular novel entitled, "Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen." "In the five months I had been going with Joey," the title character recalled, "he'd come closer to 'getting in' than plan top Bert Lance, director of the Office of Management and Budget who per formed a similar chore when Carter was Georgia governor, will direct the reorganization. He will head a staff of 32 temporary employees grouped into six areas national security and international affairs, human resources, economic development, natural resources and energy, regulatory reform and general government. The White House said reorganization would seek maximum efficiency and economy, - simplify government "so people average citizens can un derstand it," reduce overlap and paperwork, open up government proceedings and documents to the public, and increase the predictability and consistency of government actions. walkie-talkie: "All positions open fire," and the Palestinians unleashed their own barrage. ' The recapture of Taybe, apparently with Syrian encouragement, halted a week-long rightist offensive. The fighting, which engulfed many other villages in the south, was the fiercest in Lebanon since last fall. f In Israel, the state-run television network quoted military sources as saying the rightists have shown "very poor" fighting ability. The sources added it was "doubtful" the Christians, outnumbered 5 to 1 by the Palestinians and leftists, could hold out for long, according to the network. A Christian militiaman who crossed the border into northern Israel said the Phalangists' morale was dropping. "Without help we won't be able to hold out against the stronger Palestinian forces," he said. Sarkis met separately with Soviet Senate heads back arms stand WASHINGTON (UPI) The Senate Republican and Democratic leaders joined the bipartisan defense of Pres ident Carter's strategic arms proposals yesterday in what appears to be a mounting patriotic backlash against Soviet rejection. "When it comes to testing an American President on the issue of national security it should be known that there are no Republicans and Demo crats, just Americans," Democratic leader Robert Byrd said in a Senate speech. , And Republican leader Howard Baker urged Carter to stand firm, saying, "If we don't get a new SALT pact, I'm going to blame the Russians." Their remarks came as Secretary of State Cyrus Vance returned to Capitol Hill for more briefings on last week's Moscow arms talks, buoyed by the array of bipartisan endorsements that followed his talk with senators Tuesday. among college students 1. 1 anyone else, but I had always managed to resist." "What happened to the girls who gAve in," she continued, "and even to those only suspected of giving in, was an unthinkable nightmare .. . Renee Thomas had been expelled for allegedly going all the way . . . Girls sneered at her, boys abused her, her name ap- ; 04 . 1 •• A woman walks past the closed doors of the State Theatre (right). The" State was shut down by local code enforce- State Theatre forced to close After a borough code enforcement inspection yesterday morning; the State Theatre, 128 W. College Ave., was posted and ordered closed because of dangerous conditions, according to Robert M. Reichen baugh, a code enforcement officer. Reichenbaugh, State College Deputy Fire Marshal, and fellow code enforcement officer Bob Nellis in spected the theatre and fdund it in violation of the borough's building and fire codes. According to ,Reichenbaugh, the theatre has leaks in the roof, causing 4) .41 t) plaster to fall into the seating area. He also cited extension cords stapled to the wall leading to a bare wire on a set of lights over the stage. Another violation found was an unused balcony conatining rubbish, card board boxes and flammable oil-based paints. "The exit lights are in distinguishable and two main exit doors are chained and padlocked shut, even when the theatre is open for business," Reichenbaugh said. He added that the doors remained chained and padlocked during the "It is vitally important that we remain patient and persevere" in the search for a new strategic arms limitation treaty, Vance told the House International Relations Committee "I am not depressed or despondent in any way" over the abrupt Soviet rejection of both Carter's SALT pro posals, he said. "The meetings turned out about as we expected." He expressed hope the Soviets would become more receptive "when they have had a good chance to reflect upon the proposals." After initial talk of U.S. bungling and "miscalculation," Carter and Vance appear to have scored dramatic gains in domestic political support for their proposals and their negotiating tactics. Declarations of support came Tuesday from former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who counselled patience, and from Sen. Henry Jackson, D-Wash., a peared in all the graffiti, freshmen gaped at her in disbelief. , She would never marry in Baybury. She'd have been better off dead." In a 1974 issue of "Playboy Magazine," Kathy, an 18 year old virgin from the University of Mississippi, supported the double standard. "I wouldn't want my husband to be a virgin," she said. "I would think it was a little queer. Somebody's got to have a little experience. I was taught you have your good girls and your bad girls. And men go to bad girls to lose their virginity and then they marry the good girls." In the Nov.-Dec. 1976 issue of "Humanist Magazine," Warren Mintz, an assistant professor of sociology at Hofstra University stated the reason why women must remain virginal while men seek sexual experience. "Women have been kept from knowledge of their sexual capacity," Mintz said, "in hopes that without standards of comparison any level of performance will have to be accept able." "By convincing women that sex is a male thing," he said "and by threatening to abandon any woman who might confront his feelings of inadequacy . men (are) protecting themselves." Richard F. Hettlinger discussed the effects of the double standard in 1966 in his book entitled, "Living With Sex: The Student's Dilemma." He said "one out of every two upper level males under twenty-five stated that he intended to marry a virgin, or at least a girl who had only slept with him before marriage. This means that the man who persuades his girl to have intercourse, and doesn't eventually marry her, often puts her out of the market for the kind of marriage he thinks most desirable." Ten cents per copy Thursday, April 7, 1977 Vol. 77, No. 144 18 pages University Park, Pennsylvania Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University , * E , *. centre region code enforcement i .O I t. I 118 soulh Item Weal Melo college. pennsylvaele 16801 814 231.1411 Ql O p ie THIS PLACE OF ASSLMBLY cLosro UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE WIC Or MUNICIPALITY - State College Borough NAME Of AUTHCRIZID OFPARTMCNI HAVING JURISDICTION - Code Enforcement Department, ' Centre Region Council of Governments 11IE CNAPTER AND SECTION OP TUE CODE UNDER IIIICU TIIIS hOTICI. Is issurn - 8.0.C.A. Basic Building Code, Article I, Section 125.1, 'Vacating Structures" and 8.0.C.A. Basic Pine Prevention Code, Article I, Section P-105.1, Subsections 1,3, 7 and 9: Oidinonco 713 of the Borough of State College adopting the 8.0.C.A. Basic Building Code and the 8.0.C.A. Basic Fire Prevention Code. DATE THIS PLACARD HAS POSTED - April 6, 1977 NO PERSON SDALL DEFACE OR RFMOVE THIS PLACARD FROM ANY PLACC or ASSEMBLY WHICH INS BEEN ORDERED unsrp. sowing poll/ilia Ferguson pAlon townships. and sista 000090 borough ment officers. The theatre was cited (left) for a num ber of violations of local building and fire codes. showing of movies. Merle Baker, manager of the State, when contacted replied, "I have no information in this case." The Cinemette Corporation of America, located in Pittsburgh and owner of the State and other local theatres, was unaware of the closure yesterday afternoon, a Cinemette of ficial said. "The theatre will be closed until further notice," Reichenbaugh said. Corrections must be made and the building must be reinspected before it can open, he added. Basically, the President proposed • reducing nuclear missile and bomber arsenals well below the totals agreed to in the preliminary 1974 Vladivostok agreement. Failing that, he called for ratification of the Vladivostok accord without including the U.S. cruise missile or the Soviet Backfire bomber. Yesterday,, Byrd called Carter's package "sound;" and suggested the Soviets may be bluffing. "We must learn the lesson that the Soviets are tough bargainers," he said. "They say 'no' today and 'yes' six months from now." Williamson, a professor of sociology at Lehigh University, said in 1966 that "a recent study of 11 university campuses revealed that only six per cent of the sample could justify a man's indulgence in premarital sex relations and still deny the same privilege to a woman." He also said a study of college males showed that those students who believed in a double standard had a higher rate of premarital intercourse. New attitudes were forming when a Gestalt therapist in Boulder, Colorado, Susan Dickes Hubbard, wrote in a 1976 issue of "Humanist Magazine" that "there exists a new set of values and judgments to contend with. Women and men these days experience anxiety and embarrassment about a lack of sexual experience or appetite." Hubbard recalled speaking to one female freshman at the University of Colorado who expressed anxiety over being a virgin. "Most of her friends claimed to have had affairs already, and she presumed there was something wrong with her because she was different," Hubbard said. April 6, 1977 I=l /...... d A L. , Lnforecment og Deputy Fire ”arshol hard-line Kissinger critic who called Carter's approach "fundamentally right." The sudden chorus of support suggested to some Capitol Hill observers that the Carter-Vance strategy, all along, may have been line up domestic support first and worry about the Russians later. By the early 19705, students' attitudes toward the double standard were changing. A 1973 survey of 300 Penn State males appeared in the Daily Collegian. This survey showed that the double standard was becoming less accepted on campus. Two hundred of the males polled at tached little importance to the female's maintenance of virginity before marriage Only 100 of the males said they wanted to marry a virgin. In "Marriage and Family Relations," author Robert C. Williamson said that "the most significant shift had probably been the weakening of the double standard." Continued on page 16 NIN
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