—The Daily'Collegian Thursday, April 7, 1977
AP captures mine drama
Reporter recalls disaster
The Associated Press
"captur.ed drama and
emotion, courage and fear at
the mine site" in its coverage
of the Tower City mining
disaster, said one of The
AP's Lop reporters last night.
The AP had its first bulletin
about the cave-in moving on
the wires 18 minutes before
other competing wire ser
vices, said Lee Linder, an AP
editor and coordinator of AP
coverage of the tragedy.
The AP had 11 staffers at
the mine site and four at its
Philadelphia headquarters
writing the breaking leads.
"The AP got news wherever
they could," Linder said,
adding that their reporters
went to the bars and the
neighbors and relatives of the
trapped miners to uncover the
slightest details in order to
add color to the story.
He said The AP was the
wire service to make the first
report of the trapped survivor
Ron Adley. It also bought an
exclusive interview with
Current
WASHINGTON (UPI)
Wholesale prices have nearly
doubled in the past 10 years
for the worst inflation rate
since World War 11, govern
ment data showed yester
day.
This was surpassed only by
the 102 per cent price surge of
1941 to 1951, which occurred
during an era when the United
States, was fighting World
War 11. This period was
Virginity losing popularity
Continued from page 1.
Spanier, at Penn State, attributed a
shift in attitudes in part to a sexual
revolution. Spanier said that there are
"a number of trends occurring in the
United States right now which have led a
lot df people to believe there is a sexual
revolution going on."
He said most of the trends involve
"changes in the amount of behavior, the
number of times people are doing cer
tain things and the number of people
doing these various things."
He said some of the changes included,
"lesser level of commitment' necessary
before becoming involved in sexual
relationships, willingness to tolerate
different values and attitudes, and more
open discussion of and 'exposure to
sexuality in books, magazines, the
cinema and mass media.
"There has been widespread adoption
of more effective methods of con
traception by women of all ages, social
class levels, religions and race,"
Spanier said.
"The pill, of course, is the big new
development in the '6os," "Sex in the
We have a few openings
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The pay is low. All we
promise is the opportunity
to help others and a quiet
pride in your work. A few
people will even thank you.
One will be eternally
grateful. His name is God.
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Adley after his rescue and
shot an exclusive photograph
of Adley being transported
from a mining car into an
ambulance.
One AP reporter, Bruce
Dallas, was the only reporter
to interview one of the
rescued miners in the hospital
before these interviews were
banned. Linder said this ini
tial rapport, along with The
AP's reputation, helped them
to later buy the first private
interview with Adley.
Linder faced numerous
problems in getting the whole
story.
One problem was the
number of media personnel at
the mine, he said. As the week
progressed, people, including
mine officials and families of
the trapped miners became
less cooperative.
"The firAt day, people were
a little more talkative and
cooperative," Linder said.
"Some newsmen over the
week became aggressive and
obnoxious."
inflation worst since
followed by the biggest
productive peacetime ex
pansion of the century.
But the current inflation
has been accompanied by
high unemployment and idle
machinery.
The Federal Reserve Board
estimates manufacturers
operated at only 70 to 80 per
cent of capacity for the past
two years while the Labor
Department says unem-
'6os" reports. "It is widely used and
even more widely discussed both at
college and at hoine."
"Despite all the increased knowledge
and discussion of birth control," Het
tlinger explains "the number of
illegitimate births among teenagers
doubled between 1940 and 1961, and in
the same period the number for the
twenty to twenty-five age group nearly
quadrupled."
"The magical pill has not solved the
problem," Hettlinger said.
Spanier said society's idea that a
woman must maintain her virginity
affects the use of contraception.
"Some women think, that if they are
protected or prepared to have sexual
intercourse, then they're bad girls. But if
intercourse is just something that
happens to them in a moment of passion,
on the spur of the moment, then they
really didn't have any control over it."
Spanier added that attitude changes
toward sexual standards have affected
the female much more than the male.
In "Sex in the '6os," edited by Joe
David Brown, this new freedom is seen
Another problem occurred
when state public relations
men said the rescuers had
broken through to Adley but
offered no clarification of
what they meant by saying
they "broke through."
Linder said several
newspapers reported that
Adley had been rescued when
in actuality the rescuers had
only made a three-inch hole in
order to talk and pass food
and blankets to the trapped
miner. .
"I'm proud to say The AF' is
careful," Linder said.
"Although we like to be first
with the news, we like to be
first with the right news."
Linder said he observed
much gloom and unhappiness
at the mine sight, and had to
deal with relatives of the
trapped miners who were
understandably uncom
municative.
Linder has been with The
AP since the end of World Photo by Ken Kasper
War II and has covered Lee Linder, an Associated Press editor, spoke last night on
stories throughout the nation. , the AP's coverage of the Tower City mine disaster.
ployment hovered around 8
per cent of the workforce.
Jack Carlson, chief
economist of the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce, said
some producers need price
increases of 10 to 15 per cent
more to begin rehiring
workers.
Despite these signs of
hardship, employed workers
have been able to keep pace
with the inflation, spiral.
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VVVVII, gov't. says
The Labor Department
estimates - average weekly
earnings beforg taxes have
increased 92.2 per cent since
the 1967 including wage gains
of more than 8 per cent this
year.
Prices for goods that
producers sold in large
quantities rose at an annual
rate of 6 per cent in January,
then surged to 10.8 per cent in
February for the biggest gain
as "considerably more radical for the
single girl."
The book states the college female is
"freer morglls> from the restraints of
home from the strictures, of religion,
freer economically from dependence on
family allowance, freer geographically
from the - confines of the hometown."
Sally, a 21-year-old from Yale
University, told "Playboy Magazine" in
1974 that "what is happening on campus
is that women are coming to terms with
their own sexuality and refusing to be
restrained by the values of the past."
Goldberg said that through exposure
in the mass media, women's sexual
feelings and needs are now considered.
She said there is freer conversation
about sex and more sexual activity on
campus.
"People are generally more accepting
of sexual choices," Goldberg said.
In a 1964 study of 160 females at Penn
State, David Francis Shope found that
when choosing between virginity and
non-virginity, "most individuals are
highly influenced by cultural demands
and that in our present American society
middle class standards of morality are
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Visiting Artist Lecture. Irwin Petlin, 1 p.m., Zoller Gallery.
Astronomy Seminar, A.G. Davis Philip, Dudley Observatory, Albany, on "Recent
Observational Results in Globular Clusters," 2:45 p.m., Room 445 Davey.
Anthropology Colloquium, James Deetz, Brown University, on "Historical
Archeology in the United States," 3:30 p.m., Room 101 Kern.
Statistics Colloquium, Daniel L. Soloman, Cornell University, on "A Comparative
Approach to Species Diversity, 4 p.m., Room 165 Willard,
Frontlash meeting, 7:30 p.m., Room 312 Boucke.
International Student Association Lecture. Graham Spanier on "Marriage in the
U.S.A., 7:30 p.m., Room 101 Kern.
University Theatre, "Jazz Dance Theatre in Concert," 8 p.m., Playhouse Theatre.
Chambers Gallery: Jamaican Child Art.
HUB Gallery: Smithsonian Institution exhibit, "Ride On," the story of bicycles.
Kern Commons Gallery: Rotogravure prints from the Herald Tribune, 1926-1932;
Margery Johnstone and Jean Jiddings, rugs and weavings; Sylvia Rogers, patch
work quilts.
Museum of Art: Ancient Glass Classical, Sassanian, and Islamic; abstract
paintings and prints from the permanent collection.
Pattee Galleries: Art History Department exhibit on historical preservation, Main
Lobby; Jim Masitelli, drawings, East Corridor Gallery; Mike Lucas, drawings,
Lending Services Lobby.
Zoller Gallery: Student drawing and printmaking.
in more than a year.
The trend continued in
March when prices for farm
goods and a wide range of
industrial commodities in
cluding glass, copper and
chemicals jumped. •
Wholesale prices have
increased more than 90 per
cent sincel.9.67 with two-thirds
of the gain in the past four
years, according to the Labor
Department.
among college students
dominant."
"Conformity could be either a matter
of refraining from premarital in
tercourse because of society pressures or
it could be a matter of holding inter
course because of in-group pressure," he
said.
He also said that the "college en
vironment is not the breeding ground for
sexual intercourse," because three
fourths of the non-virgins in his study
had already had interccurse before age
19.
A random survey was conducted by
The Daily Collegian of 65 Penn State
single males listed in the student
telephone directory. , The males ranged
in class from freshman to senior. The
survey revealed that if given the choice,
57 per cent of male students would prefer
to marry a virgin. Twenty per cent
would prefer to marry a non-virgin and
23 per cent stated that they had no
preference.
However, the majority of males in the
survey might have difficulty finding a
virgin.
Spanier estimated that less than 50 per
cent of college students in the United
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EXHIBITS
Disabled stage sit-in
WASHINGTON (AP)
Faced with staying and
starving or leaving as a
group, a band of about 50
blind, deaf or otherwise
disabled demonstrators gave
up their • occupation of the
Department of Health,'
Education and Welfare
headquarters yesterday.
Sporadic discussions be
tween demonstration leaders
and top HEW officials which
had gone on throughout the 28-
hour occupation of the
secretary's outer, office had
broken off shortly before
r the
-decision to leave was made.
The demonstrators were
demanding immediate en
forcement of civil rights laws
for the nation's 25 Million
handicapped. They promised
to return in greater numbers
next month.
There • were also similar
Mafia suspect indicted
DETROIT (UPI)
Reputed Mafia leader Vincent
A. Meli and three other men
were indicted- on extortion
charges yesterday for
allegedly forcing< truck
drivers to pay employer
contributions to various
Teamster ' Union pension
funds.
U.S. marshals arrested
Meli, who reportedly is on the
verge of an underworld
promotion, and the trucking
company owners named in
the plot, James A. Russo and
Joseph P. Cusmano, at their
business offices.
The fourth man charged by
a federal grand jury, Roby G.
States are virgins. He, also said that
according to a recent survey of newly
married women, only 6 per cent were
virgins at the time of marriage.
Spanier said the best predictor of what
the female does or doesn't do is the in
fluence of her dating partner, who he is
and how often she dates him.
Shope's 1964 study shows that virginal
girls tended to go out with more males
than non-virgins.
But Spanier said that the more
students talk about premarital in
tercourse, "the easier it is for people to
get the idea that everybody's doing it, all
around them. But that just isn't so."
"Realistically, there ,has been a
sexual revolution if we view it in terms
of change of behavior," he said.
"But if we view a revolution in terms
of a major change in our thinking about
sexuality, the way people behave
sexually and the nature of their
relationships with each other, I don't
think there really has been a sexual
revolution yet and I think we have a
long, long way to go," Spanier said.
There won't be a true sexual
revolution until people can engage in
demonstrations at HEW
regional offices in San
Francisco and New York.
About 65 demonstrators were
involved in San Francisco and
six in New York, according to
department officials.
' HEW officials, while ex
pressing sympathy with the
demonstrators' cause, had
permitted the Washington
group only one cup of coffee
and one doughnut each since
Tuesday and indicated no
more food would be provided
because the demonstration
was technically illegal.
Yesterday afternoon,
demonstration leaders in
dicated they had softened
their demands and hoped for
a settlement. But negotiations
broke down shortly
thereafter.
At the center of the dispute
is a complex set of proposed
Smith, a former business
agent for Teamsters Local
299, remained at large.
The Detroit local was the
powerbase used by Frank S.
Fitzsimmons and James R.
Hoffa before him as a step
ping stone to the union's in
ternational presidency and it
figures in another Teamsters
corruption case involving
Fitzsimmons' son. Hoffa has
been missing and presumed
dead since July 1975.
Meli, Russo and Cusmano
pleaded innocent at their
arraignment before U.S.
Magistrate Chris E. Stith and
were released on personal
recognizance bonds of $lO,OOO
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regulations designed tof
im
plement a 1973 law that ex=
tended civil rights guarantees
similar to those for blacks and
women to the handicapped.
The draft regulations;
written under federal court
order by the Ford ad ,
ministration but never
signed, would:
Require all federally
supported schools and
colleges to make their
programs accessible to the
handicapped and eventually
eliminate architectural
barriers.
Would prohibit 'env
ployers receiving federal
funds from refusing to hire
qualified applicants because
of handicaps and would
require reasonable efforts to
make jobs physically ac
cessible.
each.
The indictments accused
the four - men of , forcing
drivers for the J & J Cartage
Co. to fork over about.s2B a
week to the firm to cover its
pension fund contributions.
Russo and Cusmano were co
owners of the company at the
time, Meli was its labor
negotiator and Smith
represented the drivers.-
The drivers were
threatened with loss of their
jobs, loss of equity in their
equipment, lighter loads and
"a little rough stuff" if they
failed to agree to the scheme
in writing, said U.S. Attorney
Philip Van Dain.
sexual relations without feeling guilty
because they were brought up to believe
that good girls protect their reputations;
he said. People in this society still at
tempt to legislate the sexual behavior- of
others.
A sexual revolution will require
"equality between males and females in
making decisions regarding sexual
behavior and involvement," Spanier
said.
Many people believe a sexual
revolution has occurred and that the
concept of virginity is becoming ob
solete. Still other sources like Hettlinger
believe that "although today's student is
undoubtedly more ready to boast about
and defend his sexual emancipation, his
father actually enjoyed though more
discreetly a very similar sexual
freedom."
One
One female Penn State student said,
"Some people still believe that virginity
is important. Others feel that the loss of
virginity is important. I feel that the
most important thing is that people are
finally accepting both and allowing the
individual to choose between virginity
and non-virginity."