The Daily Collegian Tuesday, Feb. 14, 1984
Improper reaction to assault
may worsen child's trauma
By TAMMY LINGG
Collegian Staff Writer
The reaction of authority figures
to'a case of child molestation has a
great deal to do with the psycho
logical impact the incident has on
the victim, the director of the sex
offender program for the Connect
icut Department of Correction
said Friday.
A. Nicholas Groth said that not
every victim of incest or child
molestation will be traumatized.
Through the use of examples,
Groth said parents sometimes
overreact to the sexual abuse of
their child and cause further trau
ma. In contrast, law enforcement
officials often handle a situation
by communicating with the child
on a level which he or she can
understand., This type of commu
nication can prevent further trau
matization and often helps
officials apprehend the offender,
he said.
Several dangers exist for chil
dren who are victims of incest or
child molestation. One is the dam
age clone to their self-esteem,
Groth said. Because of what has
happened, people treat them dif
ferently than before. They per
ceive the child , to be no longer
innocent now that he or she has
been prematurely exposed to sex
uality.
But it is very important for
children to be reassured that they
are no different than before, he
said.
Another reaction by children to
victimization is an inability to
form personal relationships,
Groth said. This happens especial
ly when children are victimized by
someone who is close to them,
such as in cases of incest.
Groth said that the premature
introduction to sexuality teaches
the victims of incest and child
molestation that se,x is a means of
control. This is a dangerous lesson
for the victimized child and often
facilitates the process in which the
child moves from the position of
the victim to that of the victimizer.
Depression, anger and guilt are
also emotions a molested child
often must deal with, he said.
Because incest and child moles
tation are such reprehensible
crimes, society has a tendency to
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want to ignore them, he said. As a
result, several myths have arisen
concerning the crimes.
One myth is a tendency to think
the child is lying, he said. •
"It's a rather curious thought,
when you think about it," Groth
said. "But somehow, in a society
that represses sexuality so much,
that shrouds sexuality with such
secrecy, that avoids dealing with
this aspect of children's devel
opment, people think this is the
kind of thing that. children are
going to make up."
Another myth that has arisen
about child molestation is what
Groth calls the myth of the seduc
tive child. Groth said offenders
who used alleged seduction as an
excuse for the victimization were
either misinterpreting the child's
actions or diminishing responsibil
ity.
"Sometimes I've asked the of
fenders, 'What do you mean by
seductive?' " Groth said. "What
they described was simply' age
appropriate behavior on the part
of the child. They'd say 'Well, she
crawled into my lap, she wiggled
around, she put her arms , around
me and she'd kiss me on the
neck.' "
But when Groth asked them the
child's age, they often told him the
child was as young as three years.
Groth said he calls a third myth
about child molestation the
monster myth. This stems from
the fact that most people find the
crime so ugly that they believe the
perpetrator must be similarly as
bad.
In one case, Groth said, a child
with a reputation of being difficult
at school and at home claimed to
have been abducted, locked in the
trunk of a car, driven to an unfa
miliar area and then sexually mo
lested.
When the ensuing investigation
found a clergyman to be the sus
pect, Groth said the child's story
suddenly lost most of its credibili
ty. It was later discovered the
clergyman had molested the child.
Another myth that exists about
child molestation is that young
girls are the primary victims.
Although most of the offenders are
men, Groth said boys and girls are
almost equal in their rates of vic
timization.
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Safety of pesticide residue questioned
By ADRIANNE . G. BROWN
Collegian Staff Writer
The Environmental , Protection Agency, which
banned the use of ethylene dibromide (EDB) as a
grain fumigant Feb. 3, has recently established
guidelines for the amounts of residue that remain
in foods already sprayed with the pesticide. Howev
er, some officials expressed a growing concern
over the actual safety of these residues even with
the guidelines
Winand K. Hock, University professor of plant
pathology and extension pesticides specialist, said
the EPA has been aware of the dangers of the
chemical for some time.
"I don't want to answer for the EPA," Hock said.
"But it knew close to 10 years ago that this material
caused cancer in tested animals."
According to the February publication of the
newsletter "Agrichemical Notes," written by
Hock, these guidelines set a maximum of 900 parts
per. billion (ppb) of residue in raw grains, 150 ppb in
grhin products that require cooking before con
sumption and 30 ppb in ready-to-eat products.
Peter Slocum, director of public affairs for the
New York State Health Department, said certain
amounts of EDB have been shown to affect the
reproductive systems in animals and are potential
carcinogens
"We have determined that the EPA levels did not
provide the kind of safety factor that we normally
like to apply for toxic chemicals," Slocum said. "It
is a matter that requires a national action plan."
Although the pesticide has the potential of being a
health risk, it has never been positively shown to
cause cancer in human beings, Hock said.
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"The problem is that nobiidy can really at this
point positively declare that a certain amount (of
EDB) is harmful and a certain amount isn't harm
ful," he added.
Robert Metcalf, a biologist at the University6f
Illinois and a former member of the science advi ,
sory panel of the EPA, said he found that EDB was
effective in producing cancer in 80 to 95 percent of
the exposed laboratory animals tested: He added
that it did not matter if the chemical was adminis
tered orally or by vapor.
"That is a very high percentage," Metcalf said.
"This is a very potent carcinogen (when) com
pared to other pesticides."
Metcalf said that last year the EPA set a level of
only one ppb of EDB in ready-to-eat foods as being
safe for consumers. He added that he thinks the
new EPA guidelines are inadequate when the
public's health is taken into consideration.
According to the newsletter, the Grocery, Man
ufacturers of America found that cooking tends 'to
destroy most EDB residues. It can reduce the
amount of EDB by 78 to 99 percent in wheat
products and 94 to 99 percent in corn products.
Although cooking may significantly reduce the
EDB residue present in food, a'danger still exists of
being exposed to the vapors that escape into the
atmosphere
David Kurtz, an analytical chemist at the Univer
sity's Pesticide Research Lab, said the pesticide is
"a pretty volatile material."
Kurtz said one problem that exists is that build
ers are now constructing. houses with increased
amounts of insulation. The insulation makes the
house air-tight and allows little circulation. Al
though the EDB vapors are heavier than air, they
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have a tendency for rising if it is hot or if there is a
fan operating.
."You can still breathe it in," he said.
The Bureau of Foods and Chemistry of the
Pennsylvania Department of. Agriculture is cur
rently conducting tests to measure the amount of
EDB residue present in various food products.
According to a prepared statement by State
Secretary of Agriculture Penrose Hallowell, of 29
food products samples tested, none showed levels
of EDB that exceeded the EPA guidelines.
"Our food inspectors will be sampling foods
which have .been identified in other states as
containing levels of EDB above the acceptable
limits," the statement said. "Where our testing
shows similar levels, these products will be remov
ed from sale." •
Robert Bunty, a spokesman for the state Depart
ment of Agriculture; said: "We have found no
products in Pennsylvania which even approach
those guidelines established by the EPA."
He also said about 45 inspectors from his bureau
have been going through the state, taking samples
of grain products and testing them for EDB. Of
about 163 samples tested, only 40 have shown any
detectable traces of the residue.
"We are enforcing those guidelines that went into
effect," Bunty added. "We will take appropriate
steps if we find' anything,"
Slocum .said when there is no human exposure,
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Modern
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Technology's
on relationships
By GRACE LoMONACO
Collegian Staff Writer
Today is the traditional day for love,
flowers, hearts and cupids, but with the
rise of technology, many traditions
may be threatened with changes in society
and personal relationships.
Theodore R. Vallance, who teaches
technological change and human values,
(Liberal Arts 480), says people in general are
affected with technical change. As far back as
the industrial Revolution, when jobs started
taking people out of the home, technology
gave the family less opportunity to interact.
When the typewriter came into being, it
gave women a more respectable role in the
working world, Valiance says. Before office
work, women worked in sweat shops.
Vallance says that although he does not •
have the proof, the telephone has weakened
the art of letter writing. Therefore, a lot is
said and forgotten while the written word can
be evaluated
Even the car changed values because now
children could get away from their parents,
he says.
Anisa Zvonkovic who teaches Foundations
of Marriage (Individual and Family. Studies
318) says technological advances, like the
car, have changed relationships along with
students living away from home, but they
have not necessarily added to
permissiveness.
"(Technology) made it easier to find
privacy and what you do in your privacy
depends on your values," she says.
Zvonkovic (graduate-human developement
and family studies) says the trend for college
students in the 1980 s seems to be moving
towards the conservative side with men and
women about equal in sexual activity
compared to the 1960 s when men were very
sexually active and women were not as
active, she explains.
The class discusses wide varieties of
standards from abstinence to
permissiveness, Zvonkovic says.
Families' future
Valiance says our latest technology
computers is a risk to freedom, though,
because people's beliefs and attitudes are
easily obtained. He explains, for example,
through polls similar to the Nielson ratings
which monitors what is being watched on'the
television a political party can stay in
office by finding out what issues appeal to
various interest groups.
Also, this information can be stored to be
used against a person in the future, he says.
Yet, computers may help women and men
to work at home as long as they have a
telephone to transfer the work to the office.
"Maybe technology can help if the mother
is stuck in traditional roles," Valiance says.
"Technology can do something for love in the
family."
He says he is worried about both parents
working out of the home.
"Children need someone to raise them, and
transitory babysitters don't set standards,"
he says. "(Children) need role models to tell
them what's right and wrong.
"Without a steady teacher in the home,
people risk to lose well defined moral codes."
he explains.
Many families need both parents to work
and children tend to follow older children's
role models.
Thomas Poole, program'coordinator for the
office of religidus affairs, believes that any
two-career relationship is tough because of a
different sharing of roles that must be
accepted, but it will work if the couple
realizes their responsibilities.
"In the ideal, it would be great to have a
parent with the child all day, but we don't live
in the ideal world because of economical
considerations and traditional garbage,"
Poole says.
Media and sexuality
The family is both an economic and an
emotional unit, Valiance says. Family social
effects
intercourse is quite different since the
television has been introduced to the home.
He adds that psychologists say that although
the family is in physical proximity, this does
not necessarily put it into a closer effective
relationship.
' Media have affected society's view of sex
and sexuality, explains, his wife, Jean Val
lance, a certified registered nurse practition
er at the Family Health Services.
Advertisements we see "day and night are
bound to hit us."
"We're not made of plastic, but women
believe in (advertisements), live by them,
and men do, too," she says.
"Americans have always felt that new
developemepts are always right," Jean
Valiance says. "The question is, 'is it really
good?' "
Poole believes television has made
relationships physically oriented, superficial
and egotistical.
"It's a total negation to the other aspects of
a relationship;" he said. "I don't think we
blindly follow it, but society changes that
way."
A trend has started that life is not
consequential no matter what you do, Poole
explains, but our actions are going to bring
consequences.
"There are all kinds of evidence that people
value short, superficial relationships. The bar
scene tends to be like that," he says. "But
there's no place where people who want deep
relationships can gather."
The pill, a liberator?
According to Theodore Vallance, the birth
control pill has•alleged to liberate women but
instead it makes them more exploitable.
"It's a technology that has made a big
difference in love in the past 20 years," he
said.
Jean Vallance says sexual freedom does not
exist. Although women tend to believe if they
take the birth control pill they are "home
free," she says, it can cause problems and in
rare instances, threaten life.
"Technology alters sexual relationships,"
Jean Valiance said. •
Women are exploiting themselves in
assuming complete responsibility of
contraception, unless they have talked it over
with their partner and decided on that
method, Jean Vallance says.
The practitioners at the clinic do not
promote one form of birth control over
another. If a woman visits with her mind set
on a certain form, or if she just wants to talk
about the various form: of birth control they
oblige, she said, but the client's health is a
consideration and the practitioners may
recommend against a form if it is a health
risk.
"Abstinence always works, but it may be
unrealistic," she says, "Contraception is here
to stay."
Jean Valiance believes people are
becoming a little more responsible about
relationships:
"It's an era of caring of one's self. We think
nothing of brushing our teeth and eating
this is just another health measure," Jean
Valiance says." The pill is safer than any
pregnancy."
Birth Control is not a new concept, Jean
Valiance adds, plants, herbs and even gun
powder have all been tried. Ancient
Egyptians even used the bladder of goats for
condoms.
"Technology had made it ultimately safer
for women through more sterile practices,"
she says.
The latest form of contraception is the
rhythm method, discovered in 1936 by
Kyasaku Ogino from Japan and Hermann
Knaus from Austria.
The Catholic Church recognizes this as the
only acceptable form of contraception and
Jean Valiance believes religions not a factor
in the use of contraception. The'clinic
receives people from every religious sect
from all over the world, due to the diverse
population attending the University.
Some religious groups think pre-marital'
sex is immoral and contraception makes it
planned,.while others teach to deal with it
responsibly, according to Poole.
Poole says each different religious
organization has its own way of centering on
the quality of relationships with values,
assumptions and family backgrounds
emphasized.
"It's amazing how little some people
communicate when on the verge of getting
married," Poole says. "We'd all like to think
that we love each other . . . but when the
cupboard is bare, anxiety rises."
Social technology at PSU
The Undergraduate Student Government is
uting high technology to affect the social lives
of the students (and professors) at the
University with a computer date match.
USG business manager Lenny Piotrowski
(junior-Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional
Management) claims approximately 1,800
have already submitted applications to the
Great lovers and gifts of love
By GRACE LoMONACO
Collegian Staff Writer
For everybody who is celebrating
Valentine's Day .with their favorite mate,
some famous figures give some hints on how
to really enjoy. According to the Book of
Lists, here are some tough acts to follow.
The French film star Brigitte Bardot, at
an interview when she was 40 years old, said
she "must have had a man every night." If
calculated from the time she was 20 years
old and giving her an arbitrary 76 days a
year for travel, illness, menstruation or
rest, Bardot had 4,980 nights of sexual
activity.
Another famous silver screen star, Mae
West, was once quoted as saying "I do all of
my best work in bed" when asked how she
went about writing her memoirs. One of her
anecdotes was one session of lovemaking
with a prodigy named Ted that lasted 15
consecutive hours. Possibly a sexual
marathon record?
According to his memoirs, Giovanni
Giacomo Casanova seduced thousands of
women although only 116 are named. The
promiscuous womanizer's specialty was
seducing his friends' wives and daughters.
He enjoyed taking baths with his
companions while eating oysters,
(supposedly an aphrodisiac).
An exotic dancer in Paris, but better
known for spying for the Germans, Mata
Hari slept with men for state secrets. It has
been estimated that her "tactics" caused
the deaths of 50,000 Allied soldiers. When the
Germans betrayed her, six former lovers
tried to scheme up ways to save Mata Hari
from the French firing squad that took her
life.
The "Queen of the Nile," Cleopatra, was
not centerfold material but was well versed
in the art of lovemaking. She took her first
lover when she was 12 years old and used
sex for power and pleasure. Cleopatra
supposedly erected a temple where she kept
young male lovers who were fed drugs to
increase their sex drive. It Was in this
temple that the queen practiced erotic
secrets that she learned in Alexandria with
up to 100 men a night. •
King Solom'on, the third king of Israel,
enjoyed 700 wives and from 60 to 300
mistresses during his 40 'year reign.
The man who gave us the word sadism,
the Comte Donatien Alphonse Francois
(Marquis) de Sade lived a scandalous life of
infidelity and sexual perversion. The
Frenchman was involved in the Rosa Keller
affair, when he tortured a Parisian
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USG computer date match service.
The applicants will receive their list of
names and numbers of their date matches
between Feb. 17 and 21.
Piotrowski says applicants would like to
believe that the computer will find a match but
no risk is involved because a full refund is
given to those who the computer does not
come up with at least three date matches.
Jeff Koenigsberg (senior -history) is one of
the 1,800 applicants for the computer date
match. He says he applied to find a woman he
will be able to have a meaningful relationship
with and hopes others who entered are
looking for the same thing.
"It's better than looking at a party for
something appealing to the eye,"
Koenigsberg said."ln society, people are just
looking for superficial relationships.
"People tend to value short term
relationships as if they were efforts when they
really didn't try at all."
If the computer date match works, he says
prostitute. He was tried and sentenced to •
death for being involved in the Marseilles
scandal, an orgy where he was accused of
sodomy, torture and poisoning participants
with chocolate-covered bonbons. (Watch out
for that gift of chocolates). Sade was spared
by the king and wrote "100 Days of Sodom"
in which he described 600 variations of the
sex instinct.
Nevertheless, be wary of the person who
thinks he can match these famous busy
lovers even Attila the Hun died while in
the act.
Not everybody is a great lover but they
may want to impress that certain someone
with a gift. Well, if the right gift just can not
be found think of these more than generous
love offerings:
Richard Burton gave Elizabeth Taylor the
modest 69.42-carat Cartier-Burton diamond
valued at 61.95 million. But Burton did not
stop there, he also gave her the most
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he wants to meet someone with a compatible
personality. He says the computer method is
"just another way of finding a date."
Konensberg says he can see a lot wrong
with the computer date match, but USG is
making a good effort to match the right •.
people. A little skeptical of it because the
questionaire does not ask all the questions it
has to, he says he is not taking it too seriously
and doing it mainly for curiousity and it would
be fun to try.
Mike Berstein (senior-general arts and
sciences) also applied for the computer date
match because it is hard to meet people at
parties.
"When you do, people are tired of the same
questions like their term, major and if they're
getting along with their roommate," he said.
Berstein says the computer date match will
get the conversation past the usual and the
couple can talk about their interests more.
With a relationship in mind, Berstein says
at least he will make a few more friends.
expensive mink in the world (at the time
$125,000), the 33.9-carat Krupp diamond
($350,000), the "Ping-Pong" diamond
($38,000), La Peregrina pearl ($37,000), an
emerald ($93,000) and a sapphire brooch
($65,000).
Cleopatra at a feast in honor of Mark Antony
put two priceless pearls in a glass of wine
and drank them to his health saying tribute
to Mark Antony should far surpass the price
of any feast
If physical fitness fanatics want to
impress their date they could give them a
replica of the $lO,OOO bicycle "Diamond
Jim" Brady gave to Lillian Russel. It was
gold-platted, complete with mother of pearl
handlebars and spokes encrusted with
diamond chips, emeralds, rubies, and
sapphires.
It may be a bit extravagant, but
remember, a single rose is approximately
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