Moonie Makes Waves

A campus leader for the Collegiate Association for the Research of Principals (CARP), an affiliate of the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Movement, is attempting to form a chapter at Jesuit-run Boston College, according to The Heights, the campus daily.

CARP representative Sean Fenton, a BC sophomore, is heading the efforts to bring the "moonies" to BC. Fenton will meet with BC administrators next week to discuss the creation of a CARP chapter.

BC Community Affairs Director Larry Barton told the Heights that he is "very concerned" about the prospect of "moonies" at BC. "Some students can be very vulnerable to this kind of group, and they can be very convincing."

BC Chaplain John A. Dineen told the Heights, "The situation is definitely something to be wary of." He added, "Some of these people, like Sean, seem fine. Yet at the same time, you hear stories about people all over the country who have been brainwashed by these people and end up leaving their homes."

"My parents freaked out when I joined the movement," Fenton told the Heights. "But I've always been close with my family, and I've kept in touch with them." SEX

College Women Hold Off Longer

Independent, college-educated women appear to become sexually active later than other women, the Associated Press reported last week, because college-educated women are less likely to seek security through a man.

That's the conclusion of two experts on human sexuality, who used personal information and comments supplied by 34,000 readers of New Women magazine. "Most of these more successful women had sex on a first date because they wanted to," the experts said. "A smaller proportion had sex with a man against their better judgment because they feared rejection if they refused him."

Overall, the study found that most women had slept with someone on a first date, and that most women first made love between the ages of 16 and 19.

The research was conducted by Helen Singer Kaplan, director of the human sexuality program at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, and her associate, William Bernhard. SATs

Score Surge Stalls

High school seniors in the Class of 1986 averaged no better on the Scholastic Aptitude Test than students a year earlier, the Associated Press reported this week.

The average combined score on the two-part exam was 906--475 on the math section, 431 on the verbal--unchanged from the previous year, according to the College Board, which administers the test. The test is scored on a scale of 200 to 800, with 1600 being a perfect combined score.

Average scores levelled off in 1986, following a record nine-point combined gain a year earlier.