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V Fhe Battalion ;ppy I WOPB Serving the Texas A&Af University community W Vol. 75 No. 36 m 14 Pages Wednesday, October 21, 1981 College Station, Texas USPS 045 360 Phone 845-2611 The Weather Today Tomorrow High 80 High .. .66 Low 62 Low .. .55 Chance of rain. . . . . . 40% Chance of rain . 20% Recent relaxed sexual attitudes topic of speech ee mai t. ; trainiiii iuffedi repladi Buck Ej iumed ae, but! tbs laten newitkl amity. lore By NANCY FLOECK Battalion Staff Acceptance and openness have been most significant changes in this bntry’s sexual attitudes, Gay Talese, ihor of “Thy Neighbor’s Wife” said jesday night. [Speaking to a crowd of about 400 in der Theater, Talese said Americans ! teamed to relax and enjoy sex and [open about sexuality. “I don’t think this country is any bre moral than it was during my bther’stime,”he said. “But because of 1th control pills, they can now do jjthout fear what they did (before) with alese said he noticed this change of itude during the late 1960s and early 'Os, when massage parlors and por- aphic magazines and films became imonplace. He said this change mpfed him to write “Thy Neighbor’s life. ’ The best-seller concentrates on lalattitudes, especially those among iiddle-aged” men. Me researching the book, Talese , he spent six months managing a sage parlor. Most of the customers Ire middle-aged, middle-class mar- ' men, he said. lese men don’t consider patroniz- a massage parlor an infringement marital rights, ” he said, but view it as a; rm of therapy and a release from otonous marriages. There are men who seek sexual vari- ,” Talese said. “It’s part of the male fogy ... men seek variety, whereas men are much more serious about He said when a woman has an extra marital affair, it’s usually a serious re lationship and often threatens her mar riage. Because of this personal involve ment in sex, he said, women don’t fre quent massage parlors. He added that he didn’t believe any man could make a living as a gigolo. “Women just won’t pay for it,” he said. He also said women, unlike men, aren’t sexually aroused by photographs or films of nudes. Instead, Talese said, women find written material exciting. Both markets are big, and such material is as prevalent and accessible in most cities as Dairy Queens and Kentucky Fried Chicken, he said. Talese said he believes this relaxed attitude proliferated during World War II. When women entered the work force at that time, he said, many moved away from their home towns, “confine ment, gossip and the parish priest.” Men were being drafted and leaving behind them feelings of loneliness and emptiness, he said. No one knew if they would return, Talese said, and a feeling of urgency and sexual abandonment pervaded these years. This attitude change had advantages then, as it does now, he said. People no longer married just to have sex, he said, and, consequently, were better able to deal with the responsibilities of mar riage. “I think people learn through sex education what many in my generation learned through marrying,” he said. “They discovered what sex is, as opposed to love.” Indents vote down RA in mock poll By JANE G. BRUST Battalion Staff Texas A&M students failed to ratify eEqual Rights Amendment in a mock ferendum sponsored by the MSG 'litical Forum Committee Tuesday. In a tally of 1,414 votes cast, 697 idents (49.3 percent) voted in favor of e ERA and 717 students (50.7 per- :nt) opposed it. “With the conservatism on this cam- bs, we felt the no’s would really out- unber the yes’s, but it was really ose, Political Forum member Gary ickmann said. From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.. Political jforum members worked polling sta bs at five campus locations including ke Memorial Student Center. Committee members originally pre- Bredonly 700 ballots, but with a grea- er-than-expected voter turnout, they quickly printed an additional 700, Hick man said. “We had about twice as many people as we expected,” he said, “but some people did say they haven’t made up their minds about the ERA. “Typically people did have their minds made up, but many were sur prised that the amendment is so short. ” Hickman said that might indicate that those voters had never actually seen the ERA before. The mock referendum was a project intended to generate interest in a Poli tical Forum debate scheduled for Oct. 27 in Rudder Theater at 8 p.m. Phyllis Schlafly, national chairman of Stop ERA, and feminist activist Kather ine Brady will debate in the program entitled, “Perverted Hoax or Fun damental Freedom: The ERA.” Hick- mann is chairman of the Schlafly-Brady debate. Staff photo by Dave Einsel Gay Talese, author of “Thy Neighbor’s Wife,” speaks in Rudder Theater Tuesday night about changing sexual attitudes in America. Talese, who was sponsored by the MSC Great Issues Committee, discussed many of the themes found in his best-selling book. Mengden scheduled to announce candidacy State Senator Walter H. Mengden Jr., R-Harris County, is scheduled to be in College Station Thursday to announce his candidacy for U.S. sena tor. He will present a news conference at 2:15 p.m. at the La Quinta Inn, 607 Texas Ave. Mengden, who has 11 years of ex perience in the Texas Legislature, is seeking the Republican nomination for the Nov. 2, 1982 election. He will be competing against Republican Don Richardson and U.S. Representative Jim Collins for the nomination in the May 1, 1982 primary. Mengden, a Houston oilman and attorney, will be travelling across the state presenting a series of news confer ences. Rioting Poles clash with police United Press International WARSAW, Poland — Thousands of Poles battled in the streets of Katowice with police who were trying to suppress underground newspapers, and strike threats spread across Poland because of food shortages. Solidarity said 5,000 people took to the streets in the worst violence in 14 .months of unrest after three unionists were arrested for distributing under ground newspapers and Solidarity bul letins. The police crackdown could sig nal a new hard-line stance by the gov ernment. Polish television showed a huge crowd in the southern city, with leaders standing atop an overturned police van using bullhorns to direct an attack on police headquarters. Although Solidarity negotiators felt a breakthrough could be near on ending a week-long wildcat strike by 12,000 workers protesting “tragic” food shor tages in the town of Zyrardow, else where strike threats spread to other cities and provinces. Most of the deadlines on the protests over drastic food and other consumer goods shortages were delayed until after a crucial meeting of the Solidarity lead ers Thursday and Friday to set national policy on food disputes. “Bullhorns were used from the over turned van to instigate the people to attack the police station,” television said after the riot in Katowice, the first major battle over a purely political issue. Solidarity said helmeted police use truncheons against the crowd. The offi cial report said “order was restored by police,” but not before windows in the police heaquarters had been broken by stones. Solidarity’s chief negotiator in the stalled talks in Zyrardow said author ities had dropped their position that the strike, which began Oct. 12, was “poli tical” rather than economic. Workers do not receive strike pay for political strikes. “It could be a breakthrough,” Stanis- law Rusinek said of the strike near War saw. Rusinek had extensive telephone contacts with government officials after talks begun Monday did not resume Tuesday as planned. He said if the government had not branded the strike political, it probably would have ended quickly. Mubarak orders end to Arab criticism United Press International CAIRO, Egypt — President Hosni Mubarak has departed sharply from the policy of Anwar Sadat, ordering the state-controlled media to end their war of words today against Arab govern ments opposed to Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel. Even Libyan leader Moammar Kha- dafy, usually the target of virulent attacks and scathing satire, was not mentioned in the columns of Cairo’s three Arabic-language daily news papers. In an interview published on the eve of today’s renewed Palestinian auton omy talks, Mubarak also indicated a firm stance with Israel in talks on Pales tinian autonomy — the first negotia tions with Israel by the Mubarak gov ernment. But Mubarak also told an Israeli in terviewer Tuesday he hopes to visit the Jewish state before the end of next Janu ary for his first summit talks with Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Cairo newspapers under Sadat car ried anti-Arab editorials and cartoons in support of his battle with Arab govern ments that attacked Egypt for making a separate peace agreement with Israel. Sadat often castigated his Arab de tractors in public statements and speeches, but Mubarak insisted he made the decision jointly with Sadat before his assassination. Mubarak first disclosed his intention to end criticism of other Arab regimes in an interview with two American corres pondents, which Cairo newspapers gave banner headlines in today’s edi tions. Declaring he will adopt a “wait and see” attitude, Mubarak expressed hope his decision will improve relations with a largely hostile Arab world. Indepen dent observers said it may defuse ten sion but is unlikely to heal the rupture. Small fire extinguished in elevator A Texas A&M student extinguished a small fire at the A.P. Beutel Health Center Tuesday night which a fire offi cial says resulted from a short in the elevator door mechanism. No one was hurt. The College Station Fire Depart ment responded to the alarm at 6:14 p.m. but the fire was already put out, Captain David Giordano said. Texas A&M student Burt Pie, an emergency care attendant, put out the flames out with a fire extinguisher after noticing sparks and flames as he got off the ele vator. The University Physical Plant has not yet determined the extent of damages. But, until the elevator can be re paired, Giordano said, people at the health center will have to use the stairs. Doctorate in philosophy proposed The establishment of a doctoral de gree in philosophy with options in in dustrial or clinical psychology is sche duled for discussion Thursday at a 1:30 p.m. meeting of the Academic Council. This type of degree was proposed several years ago but was rejected by die Texas A&M System Board of Re gents, said Dr. Rand B. Evans, head of die Department of Psychology. The degree emphasized the field applications of psychology; however, die degree now being proposed emphasizes industrial and clinical psychology. These are the two major areas in present-day applied psychology,” Evans said. “We have very good hopes diatthis one will go through.” In other business, council members "dll discuss establishing a bachelor of business administration degree with a major in business analysis and discuss proposed curricula revisions in the Department of Biology. The Academic Council is a Univer sity-wide body comprising adminis trators, deans, department heads and elected faculty members. Recommendations made by the Academic Council are forwarded to the Board of Regents and then to the Coordinating Board for Texas Col leges and Universities. The meeting is scheduled to be held in 601 Rudder. Texas A&M psychology study College football players less angry than peers By JENNIFER CARR Battalion Reporter College football players are actually less angry, hostile and depressed than their peers not participating in orga nized athletics, says a study done by two Texas A&M psychology professors. Dr. Jack R. Nation and Dr. Arnold D. LeUnes administered a series of four tests to a group of 108 college football players, to 60 college students who had lettered in high school athletics and to 60 students who had not. The first test given measured six per sonality components: tension, depress ion, anger/hostility, vigor, fatigue and confusion. The football players re sponded differently than the other two test groups in that they showed consid erably less of all the components except for tension, which was about the same for all three groups. However, the football players showed considerably more authorita rianism — the tendency to think in con ventional terms and to be prejudiced or closed minded, LeUnes said. “They (football players) certainly are conventional, rigid — they would cer tainly be prone to discriminate against people who aren’t like them,” he said. “Of course, this can be of real value to a coach because you want your players not to like the people on the other team.” In another test, the players indicated they tend to feel other people are more in control of their lives than they are. LeUnes said. The test measures whether people feel internal control of their own lives or external control by chance or by other people. “We thought they might be more in ternal, but when you think about it, they’re under the domination of the coach and coaching staff so much,” LeUnes said. “They tell them every thing.” The final test showed that while the high school athletes and non- athletes believed that brute force wins most athletic contests, the players believed strongly that mental preparation is im portant to the game. LeUnes said he and Nation were sur prised at how much better the football players scored in comparison to the other two groups. The players are successful people who have been good at something all their lives, he said, and this may be why they are so healthy psychologically. LeUnes said he and Nation would like to work with women athletes and possibly with professional football play ers to develop a means of using weekly tests to determine how a player would perform that week. And, he said, they would also like to test other groups such as student lead ers and merit or president’s scholars. “I don’t think it’s restricted to football that you get these kinds of results,” LeUnes said, “It may be a profile of a successful person regardless of the en deavor. ” Staff photo by Brian Tate Arnold LeUnes, left, and Jack Nation, Texas their study comparing college football players to A&M psychology professors, discuss the results of non-athletic college students.