I (Tell It Like It Is,’ ex Educator Says hip licate >stracs n ever im ce THE isten- large The “tell it like it is” gen era- ion of young people demands ditionally that it be “now” in e area of sex education, a rominant Austin clergyman and }cial worker says. “What they are seeking is ful- illment and meaningful personal elationships,” explained Dr. Rob- rt E. Ledbetter Jr. in a Health Iducation Seminar. Pointing out that one of the lost important social area re- Mdonships is between man and roman, the marriage-family re- itions counselor believes proper- y oriented sex education will ave positive answers to a whole luster of social problems. “Teenagers and young adults ire participants in a new free- lom . . . called by some the ‘age if consent’,” the University of Eexas Mental Hygiene Clinic staff nember remarked. “They have a itraight-forward way of dealing vith a topic. They talk about it dien it needs talking about.” THE TROUBLE, as Ledbetter sees it, is that sex education of roung people has been poorly ilanned and haphazardly handled, faster Egg Hunt Set For Hensel The Apartment Council will sponsor an Easter egg hunt at 2 p.m. Sunday in Hensel Park. The hunt is open to all chil dren of Apartment Council Ac- ;ivity Card holders or at 20 cents per child for others. Prizes, eggs and candy will be available for the youngsters. The activity cards, which may 3e bought Sunday for $3.50, will admit one couple to the Civilian Weekend dance and barbecue and other Council activities. AUTOREG (Continued From Page 1) want an honest appraisal,” he said. ELECTED recording secretary was John Beckham, assistant dean of the College of Science. The committee designated four problem areas in computer regis tration: its effects on students, on departments, on colleges and on system procedures. System procedures, the com mittee agreed, included basic poli cies on the preferred treatment of some students to others, handl ing the student traffic in the add-drop procedure, and prevent ing computer printouts from be ing returned to the departments. After the meeting, the sub committees each elected a spokes man and a recording secretary. ** ifl IS Fourty-four 1-0 games were played in the National League Last season, a major league record. if at all. Adults, pleading embarrass ment or acting Victorian when the topic comes up, have been purposefully withholding infor mation and “aiding and abetting immorality, contributing to ille gitimacy, venereal diseases and juvenile delinquency,” the speaker reasoned. He cited several statistical in dications of the “age of immor ality” but noted some experts refute the findings. “For example, one source pre dicts that one of every six girls now 13 years of age will bear a child out of wedlock by age 20,” the ordained minister offered. “WHAT IS important is that young people and young adults are assuming more responsibility for their conduct,” he added. They continue to look to parents and teachers for illumination of their own feelings, realizing a tremendous need for some under standing of human sexuality. Ledbetter reported that three of four public schools will have sex education programs in their curricula this fall and that the programs will need the complete support of school-agers’ parents. “There are three effective sources of sex education, peers, schools and mass media,” he noted. “Schools provide the most important means because it is the only method that takes ad vantage of self-conscious pro gramming. Yet it is the least efficient.” “And notice I haven’t even mentioned parents or churches. We’ve got to admit we’ve not handled the problem well in the past. Parents have the first re sponsibility for setting their children’s values, but this has been abdicated. The process is now put on our public schools,” Ledbetter continued. HE ADMITS there are prob lems in the school programs. Sex education must be structured to provide physiological and biologi cal reasons for human sexuality. More important to the majority nf teenagers who know the me chanical details are the psycho logical aspects. “They want questions answered about attitudes that relate to feelings on human sexuality,” added the social worker who has dealt with youth in the Travis County Juvenile Court and Hous ton’s Jewish Family Service. He admits most teachers prob ably are not equipped to handle such questions, but that only re cently in Austin have schools turned to UT clinic personnel for assistance. “The problem is not all with the socio-economically deprived,” Ledbetter asserts. “An Austin lawyer, a well-educated man. called me for assistance. He was embarrassed to attempt to an swer the questions of his 15-year- old son.” it Jpf'. • ItelSs; 4 w '' * P SNOW ISLAND J. C. Watson and Freddie Fox, 8 perch atop a snow bank and watch water from the ice- jammed Loup River rise around the Watson home in Columbus, Neb. (AP Wirephoto) Wartime Transport Demands Mean Speculation: McGruder “Cold comfort” can be taken in the fact that U. S. transport capability might better sustain nuclear attack than the transport users, the director of the Office of Emergency Transportation ob served here. OET Director John L. McGru der was one of the key partici pants in the 11th annual Trans portation Conference jointly spon sored by the Department of Transportation and Texas A&M. The two-day meeting on “Emer gency Control of Transportation” concluded Friday. “In the event of a general nu clear war, there is relatively little experience to go on,” McGruder pointed out. “We must speculate —and try to simulate—what the conditions and demands would be.” He said it is generally recog nized that full-scale nuclear war would create a vastly different situation than existed in World War II, but he pointed out it is possible for the U. S. to find itself in a limited war, the con ditions of which resemble those of Warld War II. “BOTH conditions,” McGruder emphasized, “share one common essential of preparedness: an in telligent and informed body of transportation people—in and out of government—who will work together to resolve the nation’s transport problems.” “In any such national crisis,” he continued, we must expect some breaks with custom and the past.” Priority requirements for transport, the OET executive ex plained, will be defined by the government with the military, international, industrial and con sumer complexes competing for priority. DETERMINATIONS will be made by the government, Mc Gruder continued, and can be expected to change as the situ ation changes — as requirements and their relative priorities and the availability of transport change. “We cannot know now what the transport demand and supply will be,” he added, “so we cannot definitively allocate now, in ad vance, the transport to fill antici pated needs.” If it should ever occur, the actual situation would probably require completely different allo cations, the federal official ad mitted, but emphasized now is the time to begin thinking of the needs and the measures to fulfill them. “WE CAN, now, develop pro cedures by which we would operate, to make and implement decisions in emergencies,” Mc Gruder reasoned. “We can, now, develop standby procedures for control of the use of U. S. civil transport under emergency con ditions and we can develop an informed corps of transportation people who would constitute our greatest resource.” “If we continue to give this our attention,” he concluded, “we will be better prepared to meet whatever emergency our nation may face in the future—and our controls will enhance, and not interfere with, effective trans port use.” The conference attracted 150 industrial and governmental transportation officials from throughout the nation. THE Friday, March 28, 1969 BATTALION College Station, Texas Page 3 If you want to Why not Cutco? demonstrate... their spare time... making $50 or more a week. You operate on a ■flexible schedule that will not conflict with your study time. If you have use of a car, we can offer on-the-job training...you can actually earn while you learn. For com plete details, write or call: R. Revisore P. O. Box 552 Austin, Texas 78767 Phone: 512, GR 6-0889 Cutco is a division of Wear-Ever Aluminum, Inc. 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