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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.