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Page 4B THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 1977 Book Review Robbins’ book too sexy Kids try sex in different locatm By SUE MUTZEL With his usual flair, Harold Rob bins spins a plot around sex, drugs and a woman’s search for identity in his latest best seller, “The Lonely Lady”. Robbins changes the story but not his racy style as he journeys through the mind of JeriLee Randall, a frus trated playwright, as she trades her body for the success that makes her independent in a man’s world. The book begins with an interest ing and well-written look into JeriLee’s early search for identity and it ends in her riches to rags story. From a successful Broadway ac tress to a topless dancer and prosti tute, Robbins focuses on JeriLee’s endless affairs with men, women and drugs as she falls to the depths of mental breakdown and then rises as the author of a bestseller. Although at times Robbins be comes bogged down with focusing on her bisexual affairs, the book is compelling and shocking as JeriLee discovers how to compete and suc ceed in today s society. The sexual overtones defeat the plot at times. Robbins concentrates too much on sex and loses track of the story in several parts of the book. By PATRICIA McCORMACK United Press International It is easy reading, the story is good but not recommended for “G” audiences. Week’s work to help fish NEW YORK — “The pill” and working mothers apparently are set ting sexually active teenagers free, according to a new nationwide study of the sex life of unmarried girls, age 15 to 19. Thirty-five per cent of the girls have had sexual experiences, up from 27 per cent the last time teen age girls were studied — in 1971. More also are using the pill than ever before. By LISA COTROPIA Adjusting from high school to col lege life is a major problem. Next year. 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Mike Gentry, 1977-1978 Corps Commander, is in charge of the orientation. Most had both their first, and most recent, sexual intercourse in the boyfriend’s home. The girl’s place also is popular for trysting. Dr. Melvin Zelnik, commenting on the study he conducted with Dr. John F. Kantner of Johns Hopkins University, told United Press International that mothers out working means large numbers of homes are unoccupied by adults during the day. He speculated that such homes are preferred over lover’s lanes, cars, and motels or hotels for many Students who have expressed a desire to join the Corps of Cadets will be told about the optional freshman week during their sum mer orientation sessions. “It’s got a refrigerator, a bed room, radio, hi fi and the price is right. Cheaper than a motel or hotel,” Zelnik said. Home as a trysting place also is safer than in a car parked in a lover’s lane. Teen-age couples can’t be molested by perverts or robbers. From the 1940s to the 1960s cars GOOD FARMERS NEEDED. AND OTHER SKILLS NEEDED, TOO. PEACE CORPS VISTA ON CAMPUS: APR. 25-27 INTERVIEWING SENIORS/GRADS: PLACEMENT OFFICE 10th Floor Rudder Tower SIGN UP NOW! were known as bedrooms on wheels, because of amorous adven tures that occurred in them, espe cially at drive-in movies. The study, as well as the one in 1971, was supported by grants from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Some $200,000 from that source, plus some Ford Foundation money went into the most recent one. In an interview in connection with publication of their report today in Family Planning Perspec tives, a Planned Parenthood jour nal, the investigators said teen agers experience sex in greater numbers, at earlier ages and with more partners than at the beginning of the decade. “But their knowledge of preg nancy risk and other fundamentals of sexuality remain poor overall, and, as in 1971, contraception is often not initiated until after an un planned pregnancy has occurred, Zelnik said. Nevertheless, the investigators found that twice as many girls in 1976 were using the pill or the intra-uterine device, the IUD, than in 1971. The investigators from the Hop kins School of Hygiene and Public Health were asked if teen-age boys shouldn’t feel slighted by this sec ond study of sexual activity of teen age girls. And is the study sexist — looking only at the girls? It may be, according to Zelnik. He said the government did not have sufficient money to fund a study of boys either in 1971 or 1976. But he is hopeful that a study to be begun in 1978 will be sufficiently funded to include boys. Why are such studies done, any way? “Curiosity,” Zelnik said. “To find out what people do. Also, there is a societal concern about the conse quences of behavior — such as teen-age pregnancies and out of wedlock births. There are hard ships. As in any survey, how do the in vestigators know the teen-agers re sponding to their questions were telling the truth — and not staging a big put-on, something teen-agers do? “Every survey has thatprol Zelnik said. “We can’t voucl 100 per cent.” P.S. The investigators teen-age sexual activity pei ing the summer. Pleasant Dining — Great \m\ SERVING LUNCHEON BUFFET 11:00 A.M. - 1:30 P.M. Each day except Saturday $2.50 DAILY $3.00 SUNDAY Serving soup & sandwich 11.-00 A.M. - 1:30 P.M. 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