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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Thursday, October 7, 1971
sex information
Contraceptives
by robert koop
This regular question-and-answer column on matters of sexual
concern is being published in cooperation with Counseling Serv-
ices, a division of the Office of Student Services. Questions may
be mailed to Box 25, The Daily, 420 Maynard St., or phoned into .
76-GUIDE, the 24-hour counseling and referral service.
Q. A while back, you printed a table showing the effectiveness
of different contraceptive methods. Would you.rerun it? - J.G.
A. Sure. First let me say a little about what the figures mean,
though.
These figures - along with most other figures you see on con-
traceptives - are measures of use-effectiveness. That means they tell
you how successful a method is when its used by real people in their
real lives. It does not tell you the theoretical effectiveness of a meth-
od or how well it does under laboratory conditions.
The figures are expressed in pregnancies per hundred woman
years. That means that they are the percentage of women who can
expect to get pregnant over the course of one fertile, sexually active
year. Looking at it another way, it's about four times the number of
pregnancies one woman can expect in a fertile, sexually active life-
time.
ONE MORE THING. Statistics are statistics, and individuals
aren't. There's a lot of evidence that motivation is one of the big
factors in determining just how effective a particular contraceptive
is for a particular person. So if you're highly motivated and con-
scientious about whatever method you use, your chances of failure
are probably a good bit lower than those of the average man or wo-
man.
So here it is:
T he P ill .. ..... ........................................................... 0.05
Condom and foam .................................................... 0.1 - 5.0
IU D .............................................. ..................:........ 1 .5 - 8 .0
C ondom .................................................................... 5 - 2 0 ,
Diaphragm and jelly ................................................ 10 - 20
Vaginal spermicides ........... ............ 15 - 25
Rhythm m ethod .. ............................................ 15 - 30
Coitus interruptus .......... ......................................... 20 - 30
N othing at all-....................... .......... ................................ 40
Q. How do I get rid of crabs? Please hurry and don't print
my initials. - X.
A. Crab lice are picked up by intimate physical contact or shar-
ing louse-ridden bedding. It's also possible to pick them up in odd
ways, like trying on clothes that were just tried on, but that sort of
thing isn't very common.
Generally they like to inhabit the'bases of public hair although
you can find them sometimes in your eyebrows or on the hair on
your chest or under your arms.
There are two parts to the treatment-one is getting rid of the
lice on your body and the other is getting rid of the lice on all
things you come in close contact with. This includes close friends.
ALL HUMAN LICE live off human blood and starve to death if
they don't get it (or a very close facsimile). You can tell when they're
there feeding because of the itching sensation.
If you look closely at where you're scratching, you can probably
see them there. They're only one millimeter long, they're flat and
they're brown-white. If you've got really sharp eyes or something to
magnify them with you'll see why they're called crabs. They look
like crabs.
They lay their eggs on your hairs. If your fingers are sensitive,
you may be able to feel them as a little bump on the hair. (They're
called nits, by the way-which makes "nit-picking" into a very gra-
phic expression all of a sudd'en).
Anyway, here's what you can do about them. There are three
good preparations that I know of-Kwell (you need a prescription),
Cuprex and Topicide (you don't). Treat all affected areas by rub-
bing the preparation in, waiting an hour and then showering or
bathing. Don't get the stuff in your eye
You're not done yet. Comb out the hair with a fine-toothed
comb. Shaving helps, but it's not necessary and it makes it pretty
hard to hide the fact that something's up. Speaking of which, any-
one you've had and will have intimate contact with should have a
treatment too.
DON'T TRY TO TREAT crabs with an insecticide like DDT
powder. It'll kill the lice all right, but it won't kill the eggs and you'll,
be itching again right away.
You're still not done. Take everything you've been wearing and
all your bed sheets and stuff out and either wash them in hot water
or have them dry cleaned. The little devils can live off your body
for quite a while before they finally starve to death, as nothing is
really safe unless you haven't touched it for three or four weeks.
If at first you don't succeed . . . well, you know the old saying.
Or you might try seeing a doctor. She or he may be able to tell you
what you're doing wrong-or what the crabs are doing right. Good,
luck.
Organic farmers reap
last harvest of year
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Insects, which normally tempt
farmers to use chemical sprays,
did not affect the garden ad-
versely. "We had just enough
so that we could learn about
them" said another worker.
Collections were made of all
insects found, from which stu-
dies will be made to determine
how to encourage or discourage
a beneficial or harmful insect
without the use of poisons.
Bugs at the Community Gar-
den were dealth with in several
ways. Some plants were pro-
tected by tearing off infected
leaves, others by placing them
inside glass jars.
Pests also were crushed by
hands, and as a last resort, gar-
lic spray.
The soil was enriched with
compost, a natural fertilizer.
Composting, or returning hu-
mus to the soil, is unlike the
methods of chemical fertiliza-
tion which unbalance the soil's
supply of nutrients.
Rather than working against
the.' soil, explains a gardener,
"by composting and returning
humus to the soil, man cooper-
ates with nature."
As a finale to the garden's
success, a party was given for
and by all who had contributed
to the garden in some way. Not
only were organically grown
vegetables and fruits served but
also a pig they had roasted in
the ground.
"The beauty. of it" said one
participant, "was that we all
shared something we all helped
to create."
nator, "We had more food than
we really needed. The biggest
thing, though, was--its social
success - and the total chan e
to learn about, and sense na-
ture."
Hunter case
postponed
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The District Court of Appeals
subsequently ordered Hunter to
put up the bond. Feikens asked the
appeals court to reconsider, but
when it stuck by the ruling and
Hunter failed to put up the bond,
Feikens ordered that Hunter once
again be removed irom the pay-
roll.
Counsel to Hunter, Frederic Mc-
Donald, told the arbitrator that his
client was dismissed because of his
"militant attitude" concerning the
workings of the HRD, and because
of the allegedly racist attitudes of
higher city officials.
Lax countered that Hunter's dis-
missal was not in fact "patently
arbitrary or discriminatory," but
was based on Hunter's "insubordi-
nation, misuse of sick-leave, failure
to fulfill the duties of his position
and acts inconsistent with the poli-
cies of his department."
THE ALLEY CINEMA
PRESENTS
TONIGHT ONLY-THURS., OCT. 7
AKRAN
dir. RICHARD MYERS
Ann Arbor Film Festival Winner, 1969
"AKRAN was unquestionably the discovery of the year .
..capturing in rapid brilliant flashes the fears, the frustra-
tions, the hangups, the hopes-the emotional texture of young
people today."
-Arthur Knight, Film Society Review
".. may be the single most important event for this year's
Chicago Film Festival . . . the most influential film since Godard's
early-work."
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$1.00.
SHOWS AT 7 AND 9:30
330, Maynard
COMING MON.-LUIS BUNUEL'S
"THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL"
Sponsored by ann arbor film cooperative
Protesting testing
Vancouver students massed around the U.S. Consulate building
yesterday to protest American nuclear tests planned for Am-
chitka Island.
Beach Boys: TFrom
past until present
EASTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY presents
poco
and
DOUG KERSHAW
FRIDAY, OCT. 15, 1971,8:30 p.m.
Bowen Field House
and
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talgia, however, is not Parks'
answer, nor the Beach Boys':
A choke of grief heart har-
dened I
Beyond belief a broken man
too tough to cry
At this point the group deliv-
ers its solution.bSurf's up! Join
the young and be free:
I heard the word
Wonderful thing
A children's song
The child is the father of the
man
There it is. What begins with
a diamond necklace ends with a
children's song. But beware!
The "children" of Surf's Up are
not you and me, as they are in
almost every other self-congra-
tulatory rock song. Let's face
up to it: We haven't found the
grail --- not in philosoph-rock,
not in soul, not in drugs. In-
stead, Parks and the Beach
Boys urge us to look to the real
children, the children not yet
corrupted by it all. As I said
before, they are our hope be-
cause in each of us there is that
germ of innocence.
And the legacy of the Beach
Boys may be their ability to
reach the naivite smothered be-
neath the stern facade of our
understandably humorless gen-
eration. They don't prescribe
detachment. On the contrary,
they performed an hour set atj
the May Day Demonstration
last spring and even cancelled
three tour dates to play a bene-
f it for the Berrigan Defense
2 DAYS
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HOWLIN WOLF
FRI.-HILL AUD.-9 P.M.
$2.50-$3.50-$4.50
Tickets: Mich. Union
Salvation Records
330 Mavnard, 1 103 S. Univ.
Fund. But at the same time
they've retained their innocence
and their integrity. On the one
hand,. they've recorded a clean
Louie, Louie, a Christmas Al-
bum, and had their fan club
address on the album jackets.
On the other hand, they've pro-
duced incredibly sophisticated
music that places Brian Wilson
among the geniuses (I use that
word advisedly) of pop. Without
them the world would be that
much gloomier. Who knows?
Without them k we might not
be able to make it.
Like I said, it's very myster-
ioso.
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PLAYERS
Call:
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764-7920
DIAL 8-6416
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