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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 -”
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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.
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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.
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