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
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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-
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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
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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."
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Thursday, April 7, 1977
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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.
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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."
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