Human Sexuality

School lunch prices will stay the same this fall, the schoolsystem's director of operations told school board members at yesterday's meeting.Robert Lazarewicz, the director, said elementary school lunches will cost $1, and middle and high school lunches will cost $1.35. Super lunches and coach's corner lunches will cost $2 and adult TTC lunches $1.80, he said, and the price of a half-pint of milk will remain at 25 cents.By comparison, elementary school lunches cost $1.10 in Anne Arundel County, $1.50 in Baltimore County and $1.30 in Harford County, Mr. Lazarewicz said.

Harford's school board has refused to consider banning the controversial sex-education play "Secrets" in county high schools."I very seriously doubt the board will ever back down on 'Secrets'; we feel very comfortable with it," board President Anne D. Sterling said last week.The play, condemned by opponents as racist, inaccurate and immoral, was performed for the last time this school year at Aberdeen High School Thursday.Decisions about the play could now be left to the school system's Family Life Committee, being expanded from seven to 15 members, possibly next month, school system officials said.

Dr. Margaret P. "Peg" Brian, a retired Baltimore obstetrician-gynecologist, died Sunday of congestive heart failure at her home in Sacramento, Calif. The longtime Riderwood resident was 98. A daughter of a businessman and an artist, Margaret Paxson was born and raised in Philadelphia, where she graduated from Simon Gratz High School in 1931. After graduating from Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pa., in 1935, she earned her medical degree in 1939 from Temple University Medical School in Philadelphia.

The school board unanimously approved seven videotapes yesterday for the family life and human sexuality courses, including one tape on sexual harassment that received some mild criticism.Gary Bauer, a school board candidate and parent activist, said that "Out of Bounds," a tape on sexual harassment, was not appropriate for seventh- and eighth-graders. The tape is one that would be shown during a presentation by an educator from the Rape Crisis Intervention Service of Carroll County.Board members did not agree, apparently, and approved it along with several other tapes.

DURHAM, N.C. -- Timothy Feifs, all elbows and knees, is at that tender age when gangly hasn't given way to lanky. His voice has yet to drop. His features are soft and malleable.To most of the world, he is still a kid.But to the assembled congregation of St. Philip's Episcopal Church, Timothy Feifs is about to become a man.One of five 13-year-olds participating in the spring 1991 "Rite 13: A Celebration of the Gift and Challenge of Womanhood and Manhood," Timothy will walk across the front aisle, where he stands with his family, to join friends on the other side.

President Clinton's meeting with gay and lesbian leaders in the White House Friday followed by a day an event that may have as much political impact on homosexuals in America: Publication of a poll done for the Alan Guttmacher Institute concluding only about 2 percent of American men have had homosexual experiences and only 1 percent consider themselves exclusively homosexual.Most experts in the field of human sexuality have known the homosexual population was about this low. For example, a massive 1988 Census Bureau survey for the Centers for Disease Control found that only between 2 and 3 percent of American men had had even one homosexual experience in the past decade.

VATICAN CITY -- Fighting from a script written by Pope John Paul II, the Vatican fired a new broadside yesterday against a planned United Nations population conference, attacking the United States in general and Vice President Al Gore in particular.Members of a 17-member Vatican delegation leave today for Cairo, Egypt, carrying papal instructions to unflaggingly oppose a draft resolution for the Sept. 5-13 conference that endorses abortion on demand and takes a liberal view of human sexuality.

Shawn E. Brown -- described by police as an "inherently evil" predator of children before his conviction last year in the strangling deaths of two Baltimore boys -- was sentenced yesterday to two consecutive life terms without parole plus 30 consecutive years for kidnapping.The sentence makes it virtually impossible for Brown to be released.Brown, who at his jury trial claimed to be a 3,729-year-old immortal who only wanted the boys for research into human sexuality, was sentenced by Baltimore Circuit Judge Joseph P. McCurdy.

CHICAGO -- The nation's largest Lutheran denomination released yesterday the first draft of an unprecedented social statement on human sexuality that emphasizes the importance of trust at the center of people's relationships with friends, family, sexual partners and God. It does not discuss whether the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America should allow gay and lesbian clergy to serve. That issue, currently vexing many Protestant denominations, will be addressed in a second document, leaders said.