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SENATE FILIBUSTER EXPECTED
Reagan still backs Lefever
From AP and UPI
WASHINGTON-President Reagan remains a floor vote. whether the administration continued to support the
determined to fight for confirmation of Ernest Sen. Jesse Helms (R-N.C.), a Lefever supporter on nomination.
Lefever as his human rights adviser despite war- the Foreign Relations Committee, said White House Baker said that during the White House meeting
nings of a probable Senate filibuster aimed at representatives were telephoning senators as recen- earlier in the day he had "asked the president for fur-
blocking the appointment, a White House spokesman tly as Monday urging support for the nomination. "I ther instructions" regarding the Lefever nomination.
said yesterday. don't know of any intention to withdraw it," Helms He said Reagan did not respond immediately, but he
Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker said he said. expected to hear from him before long.
told the president at a leadership meeting that con- Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd told repor- He said the lack of an immediate response did not
firmation would be a "tough fight" because he ters yesterday that he "probably" will vote against surprise him because the nomination was only one of
probably will need the'three-fifths margin necessary the nomination because he is concerned about several topics dealt with in the meeting. "I told him
to cut off a filibuster. Lefever's human rights philosophy and "the conflict that I was anxious to do as he wished," Baker said.
ASKED WHETHER the administration still sup- of interest problem." AT THE WHITE House, deputy press secretary
ports the nomination, Baker said, "As far as I know, VICE PRESIDENT George Bush, emerging from a Larry Speakes was asked whether Reagan wants to
they do." And he predicted "the great majority" of meeting with Republican senators at the Capitol, did fight for his nominee. "Yes, he does," Speakes
Republican senators would support the nomination in not answer a reportdr's shouted question as to See LEFEVER, Page 1I
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Victorian
sexual
image
disputed
From AP and UPI
NEW YORK-A little-publicized sex survey of 47
American married women of the late 1800s found
that, unlike the stereotypical image of the Victorian
era, they "approached sex with gusto," according to
a report in American Heritage magazine's June-July
issue.
"This survey, though very small, appears to be the
earliest systematic study of sexual habits and at-
titudes of American women, including information on
sexual desire, frequency of intercourse, and
orgasms," according to Kathryn Allmong Jacob, an
assistant historian at the U.S. Senate Historical Of-
fice.
THE STUDY, BEGUN in 1892 by researcher and
physician Clelia Duel Mosher, was discovered in 1974
in the Stanford University Archives by historian Carl
Degler.
"Clelia Moslier demonstrated in her small,
pioneering survey that despite the conflicting war-
nings of the marriage manuals of the Victorian age,
most of the women she studied engaged in sex with
neither reluctance nor distaste," the magazine said.
Jacob notes that unlike studies by Alfred Kinsey
and Shere Hite, which dealt with women born in the
20th century, the study by Mosher dealt "almost ex-
clusively" with women born around the time of the
Civil War, three quarters of them born before 1870.
IN ADDITION, although the majority believed
reproduction was the primary purpose of intercour-
se, 24 women said "that the pleasure exchange was a
worthy purpose in itself," Jacob writes.
At least 30 women also said they used some form of
birth control, most often citing douching as the com-
mon form. Withdrawal and "timing" were also cited.
Although her study is not representative of a
statistically significant sample of Victorian women,
it "is important because it is the only such survey
known to exist," American Heritage said.
THE FIRST DATA goes back to 1892, when the
report's author interviewed women at the University
of Wisconsin.
Some faculty
criticize
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med school
promotions
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some time to see how this person works
at the University, then they give him
non-tenured status. This is quite ap-
propriate," he said.
Faculty also say they object to this
method of promotion because depar-
tment heads can dismiss non-tenured
faculty without discussion.
"There is a great deal of sentiment
that this is the wrong way to go about
things. It gives the chairman of the
department free reign," Friedman
said.
HE SAID THE Internal Medicine
department, to which these four faculty
members belong, explains the
promotions by saying that they have
more tenured faculty than they need,
and thus cannot give any more tenured
positions.
"The Medical School is now in the
process of de-linking the promotion and
tenure decisions," Reed said, adding
that the Medical School Executive
Committee will soon come out with a
new policy on tenure and promotion.
"You can either be out of the Univer-
sity altogether, or in with a job that
doesn't have tenure security. You'd
have to make the decision as to which
you'd rather have," Reed said.
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