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By ANN CERVENKA
Reporter
“Sex is the opposite of weather:
10 one talks about it but everyone
ioes something about it,” Dr. Joseph
LoPiccolo, a psychology professor at
Texas A&M said Monday.
LoPiccolo, a specialist on sexual
lysfunctions in adults, spoke at the
donday night meeting of the Psi
!hi/Psychology Club. He said for
nany years discussion of sexual dis-
jrders was criticized.
“Allred Kinsey (an American bi-
jlogist who studied sexual behavior)
ivas a real crusader for sexual free-
lom,” he said. In 1944, Kinsey
aught a course about sex in order to
ncrease enrollment at an Indiana
ollege. He stressed the harm-
essness of masturbation, premarital
ex and homosexuality, LoPiccolo
said.
“Nowadays it’s much easier for
people like me,” he said. “I mean, I
can even be hired at Texas A&M.”
LoPiccolo, who has treated more
than a thousand cases of sexual dis
orders at the State University of New
York at Stoneybrook, said these dis
orders are a common cause of prob
lems in marriages.
“I don’t think of myself as a sex
therapist,” LoPiccolo said. “I think
of myself as being in the marriage
saving business.”
A common problem treated by
sex therapists is vaginismus, LoPic
colo said. Normally, the vagina is un
der voluntary control. However,
with vaginismus, the muscles in the
outer part of the vagina go into
spasms whenever anything
pressed against them, making inter
course impossible.
Vaginismus is often caused by pa
rental punishment of children for
masturbation or premarital sex, or
by traumatic experiences like incest
or rape, he said.
Because of increased media cover
age of sexual offenders, “some
women have come out of their clos
ets,” LoPiccolo said. Women are will
ing to discuss their problems with
counselors.
LoPiccolo headed a program us
ing deep muscle relaxation to help
women overcome vaginismus. After
therapy, more than 90 percent of
the women were successful in having
intercourse, he said.
LoPiccolo said vaginismus is a
is more serious problem when both
participants are virgins.
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United Press International
CONCORD, N.H. — Almost a
[third of America’s households
i will see “rate shock” increases in
electric bills as high as $500 a year
I if nuclear plants undei construc-
j tion are built, a national environ-
j mental group said Monday.
The study by the Environmen-
jtal Action Foundation said Amer
icans’ electric bills will increase by
j$25 billion, forecasting that the
149 nuclear plants will cost $191
billion more than the fossil fuels
I they will replace.
The study said more than 35
million families would feel the ef
fect from newly completed nu
clear plants.
Texas, Louisiana and Ohio are
among those to be hit the hardest
by nuclear rate shock, said the
group.
"The promise of nuclear
power ‘too cheap to meter’ faded
rapidly as nuclear construction
:osts escalated at a rate 14 per
cent faster than inflation
throughout the 1970’s,” the study
reported.
Guatemalan art
displayed in MSC
By ADA FAY WOOD
Reporter
An exhibit featuring mannequins
dressed in contemporary and tradi
tional costumes representing 12 dif
ferent linguistic groups from Guate
mala is on display in the Memorial
Student Center Art Gallery through
November 18.
In a lecture preceding the exhibit,
three university professors focused
on the textiles and folk art of Guate
mala, and presented a comparison
of the influence of primitive art on
20th-century art.
Dr. Norman Thomas, a Texas
A&M anthropology professor, de
scribed the meaning of folk art.
“It is the art of the folk,” he said.
The folk being the people of the
land, the common folk,” Thomas
said.
The different weavings that came
from these people were used to dis
tinguish village from village and sta
tus within the villages, Thomas said.
The people learn to create these in
tricate weavings as children, Thomas
said. No formal training in weaving
is offered, he added.
Women use pre-Columbian back-
strap looms to make clothes,
Thomas said.
He said he feels that when these
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people start making their clothes
and begin to market them, the
breakdown of their culture and so
ciety will begin. That breakdown has
already begun, he said.
In addition, Joe Hutchinson, a
Texas A&M art history professor,
spoke about the influence of primi
tive art on 20th-century art, em
phasizing the work of Picasso, where
much primitive influence is found.
The faces of two women in the
Picasso’s painting “Damsels”, have
the look of primitive masks with gro
tesque enlarged features, he said.
Linda deBarrios, an anthropology
professor at the University of Del
Valley and a representative of Mu-
seo Ixchel - a private, non-profit in
stitution that preserves the disap
pearing textiles of the Highland
Mayan Indians of Guatemala, de
scribed different weaving techniques
and weaving patterns.
The lecture and reception af
terwards, was attended by about 60
people.
A grant given by Kate and Har
wood Smith of Dallas made the ex
hibit possible, along with the help of
the MSC Arts Committee.
For information of group and in
dividual tours call Theresa Chiang at
845-1515.
Particle accelerators
Major tool of trade
By KAREN BLOCH
Reporter
Particle accelerators are as impor
tant to physicists as telescopes are to
astronomers, Harvard University
physicist Dr. Carlo Rubbia said Mon
day.
Rubbia, who recently agreed to
serve as an advisor in the effort to
bring the super-collider to Texas
A&M, gave a technical speech in
Rudder Forum.
“Particle accelerators,” Rubbia
said, “are the main instrument by
which particle physicists and nuclear
physicists make discoveries and do
research.”
The particle accelerators can cre
ate special conditions for experi
ments. They also have practical ap
plications, such as X-rays and
television tubes, Rubbia said.
“The simplest, most familiar par
ticle accelerator is a television tube,”
Rubbia said. It can elevate the gravi
tational force of a particle to 10 tril
lion times that on a bullet, he said.
“Television tubes work by increas
ing the acceleration of electrons,”
Rubbia said. “The particles are then
deflected to a target and create an
image.”
Rubbia said acceleration of parti
cles can be caused through the proc
esses of linear or cyclic acceleration.
During linear acceleration, a par
ticle’s acceleration is increased as it
travels through tubes and electric
fields, Rubbia said.
“A cyclic accelerator,” Rubbia
said, “holds particles in a circular or
bit through the use of a constant
magnetic field.
“To keep particles in the right
track,” he said, “the frequency or
size of the field must be changed.”
This incorporates the concept of
phase stability, Rubbia said.
Particles arriving early or late re
ceive more or less force from the
field than the syncronous particles,
Rubbia said. “Slower particles get
more force from the field than taster
particles. This fundamental prop
erty creates a balance.”
The things we learn through the
use of these particle accelerators
have applications in many fields,
Rubbia said. The concept of particle
accelerators has contributed to the
development of the X-ray, the elec
tron microscope, various light
sources and forms of cancer treat
ment.
Rubbia led the research group
that recently discovered three sub
atomic particles.
He has done research on collisions
of subatomic protons and antipro
tons at the European Center for Nu
clear Research (CERN) near Ge
neva.
During the past year, CERN re
searchers led by Rubbia confirmed
the existence of weak boson parti
cles, which are predicted by theory
to be the “carriers” of nature’s weak
force.
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