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Thursday, February 6, 1986/The Battalion/Page 7 rfBai tsfr4yM. infef ve, sex in ’80s b/soys cultural heritage causes our dilemma BRIDGETT KEOUGH Reporter ^^^nericans’ sexual dilemma — liscukietluT we should have sex or not mortlfs caused by the nation’s cidtural ritage, a Texas A&M professor of EERiP°logy sa ^ Wednesday night, r Joseph LoPiccolo told over eople in Rudder Auditorium hile the nation’s cultural heri- ictates that women be sexually t ractive, it insists that only bad girls ^^■xually active. ]; u ; At the same time, cultural heri- ™^^™lictates that men be unemotio- nd independent, LoPiccolo on the topic of Love and the 80’s, LoPiccolo defined , “A relationship lubricant, allows people to be closer to- f without grinding each other Hth the stresses and strains of ev- atch#' life -” SuiK:! e infe Dr. Joseph LoPiccolo iccolo does not agree that has been a sexual revolution. He said actual sexual behavior has changed for only one group — higher-educated women have doubled their participation in pre marital and extra-marital relationships since the 60’s. In a study conducted while LoPic colo was on staff at Oregon State University, LoPiccolo said college students were able to predict their parents’ answers to sexual permis siveness questions. But parents were way off base when predicting their childrens’ re sponses to the same questions, he said. LoPiccolo said as parents grow older, they also grow more conserva tive. Parents, even if they had engaged in premarital sex, didn’t want their daughters to do so. Acting as a kind of Dr. Ruth West- heimer but without the accent, Lo Piccolo later opened the floor to questions that lasted as long as his presentation. LoPiccolo stressed that drugs and alcohol reduce sexual performance, but they induce sex crimes. Yes, LoPiccolo said some sexual diseases, herpes and gonorrhea, can be transmitted by hot tubs, wet tow els and wet toilet seats. Asked if oysters are an aphrodi siac, LoPiccolo replied liking your partner is the best aphrodisiac. panvj 'ythona iddcrl nfhropology department ow to offer Ph.D. program By BECKY BARRET Reporter Axas A&M is on a roll, says Dr. Vaughn M. Bryant, ad of the anthropology department. The Aggies |the Cotton Bowl, and his department just re- p permission to offer a Ph.D. program in anthro- e Ph.D. program marks the culmination of a i for Bryant. en he came to A&M in 1971 as the first anthro- ist on the faculty, anthropology was a combined ith the sociology department, and the University jar behind many other Texas universities in the lizatiw % of anthropology, Bryant says. he PaviB e were essentially the last kids on the block,” Bry- -nd fcHfV' 5 - “The University of Texas started its anthro- ilog program in 1912 and offered a Ph.D. in the is for d line 3 ■ess, pa n Now, after 15 years, A&M has a separate anthropol- 5-blo idrp artment with 12 archaeologists compared to practaHs four, and has gained international recognition nforRi'lits program. crowning touch for the department came in j a (76 when the American Institute for Nautical Ar- decided to move its headquarters, which had n Pennsylvania, to A&M. [e addition of the institute brought several more ts on ancient shipbuilding and maritime culture campus, making A&M the only school in the world offering a degree in anthropology with a spe cialization in nautical archaeology. Quest magazine calls the anthropology and archae ology programs at A&M “the most unusual and pro ductive in the nation with its rare blend of both land- based and nautical research.” The 1981 article follows the success of the depart ment’s many excavations and discoveries, including the program’s excavation of a site in West Texas dat ing as far back as 8000 B.C., providing the best docu mented study of prehistoric diet, hunting and living habits in North America. With the international reputation in anthropology that A&M quickly gained, a Ph.D. program was all A&M lacked to make the sky the limit, Bryant says. The department spent more than a year compiling a document to submit to the State of Texas Coordinat ing Board of Higher Education for permission and funding for a Ph.D. program. After a team of professional anthropologists, hired by the state, studied the program and strongly recom mended it, the board unanimously approved the pro gram. The board is very important, Bryant says, be cause they determine what schools have the strength to offer a program worthy of state funds. “The program has only been approved for a week,” he says, “and people are already writing and asking about it.” And Bryant believes the new program could pro vide a new meaning to A&M. rnadoes rip icross Texas, ling two Associated Press I fast-moving line of thunder- Jns spawned at least a half- |n tornadoes across eastern Wednesday, shredding s, uprooting trees and blow- jmt windows as it weaved back |forth across the state. twister ripped through the Iskirts of Tomball near Hous- ishortly after 4:15 p.m., killing person as it smashed into [tment houses, homes and a or’s office, police said. [ne person died in a trailer in northwest Harris County Sen the storm front roared lough in the late afternoon, Jnty Sheriff s Cpl. Joe Hughes He did not know the per- i identity or any other details, ligh winds cut power to about homes and business in the Imball-Katy area of Harris Jnty, but Geri Konigsberg, puston Lighting & Power Teswoman, said power was ex- |ed to be restored by mid-eve- fornado watches were posted 43 counties in Northeast Jurors being selected for assassination trial Associated Press AUSTIN — otential jurors Forty potentiatji were questioned Wednesday for the retrial of Elizabeth Chagra, charged with plotting the 1979 assassination of U.S. District Judge John Wood Jr. Only four members of the panel said they had never heard of the May 29, 1979, shooting in San Anto nio and the following trials. U.S. District Judge William Ses sions, who estimated the trial would last from two to four weeks, led de fense and government attorneys in questioning each potential juror. De fense attorney Wilson Burnett esti mated before the trial began that a jury could be seated by Friday. Before jury selection began. Ses sions denied a defense motion that he disqualify himself because he had presided at previous trials involving Wood’s killing. Chagra’s retrial was moved Tues day from San Antonio to Austin at the request of government attor neys. She was convicted of conspiracy in 1982 in connection with Wood’s slay ing. But the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the convic tion last year and ordered a new trial. Wood, known as “Maximum John” for the tough sentences he gave drug dealers, was gunned down outside his San Antonio home May 29, 1979. He was to have pre sided in the drug trafficking trial of Chagra’s husband, Jamiel “Jimmy” Chagra. Earlier testimony was that Jimmy Chagra was afraid he would be sen tenced to life in prison by Wood md therefore hired Charles Harrelson to kill the judge. Jimmy Chagra was convicted of obstruction of justice in Wood’s murder. He is serving a 47-year term on that and other convictions, as well as a concurrent life sentence for plotting to kill former assistant U.S. Attorney James Kerr. Harrelson was convicted of mur der in the Wood case and sentenced to life. His wife, Jo Ann, was con victed of perjury. The federal ap peals court upheld the convictions of Chagra, Harrelson and Mrs. Harrel son. The indictment read by Sessions on Wednesday accused Chargra of conspiring with her husband in ar ranging Wood’s death. It alleges she delivered $250,000 in Las Vegas to pay off Harrelson. Chagra had been held in the El Paso County jail since last Novem ber, when she appeared in San An tonio at a bond reduction hearing. Sessions agreed to lower the bond of $1 million, set in 1982, to $250,000. i?j v Health is on the Way! 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