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_^ jr^^^yW ^MHBIjm 1 By EDITH McNEILL Asst. News Editor When do twelve adults fall asleep on a stage and imagine they are eight years old? When does a man think a dollar bill weighs two thousand "pounds? When they're hypnotized. "REMEMBER TWO things," said hypnotist, James Mapes, of the Mind Control Center in New York," Pay attention and go with your instincts." Mapes then hypnotized about 350 people. "Close your eyes and put your feet flat on the floor," Mapes said in the Russell House U room Tuesday night. "Relax your left leg, then your right leg." Mapes mesmerized the whole audience until every person's head was slumped on his chest. "Now I want you to sleep... sle?p . . . sleep." Mapes, who was for 12 years an actor, began as a psychic when he was seven by predicting his grandmother's death. "I hate the word psychic and I don't believe in ESP because I think anyone can do it. It's just a matter of mind control," he said. Mapes began his performance by picking a woman from the audience. "Do you have a strong mind?" he began. "Just concentn .e and look into my eyes," he told her. "Now I want you to think of a number." The woman picked the number nine. Mapes pulled a slip of paper from an envelop and had the woman read it. Jhe number was a nine. Six persons were invited on the stage. They were told to write down anything mi i Three law pro] By JOHNNY LOTT about n Gamecock Staff Writer were pr law pr Three USC law school professors below oi have submitted written and a h resignations and two other The s resignations are expected by July the low* 1, acting law school Dean Harry J. time, th Haynsworth said Friday. Howe) It is uncertain how many annual j professors may eventually resign, school hi One professor, who requested to "Such ? remain anonymous, said he southeai believes the total may reach 12, or with nat about one-third of the school's institute current 34 members. The major also sail reason for these resignations is fidentia finnnpial ho cairl "Vaii'rn 1 a/aI/inr< QCCArlini iiiiuiiviui, iiv- ouiv*. t uu i v iiswrviluoovi uui at a very healthy chunk of the Anoth faculty, however you look at it," he already added. discusse The professor, who is also with o considering resigning, said six ministra faculty members have firmly "Fran decided to quit and four others plan salary s to take leaves of absence or sab- at you," baticals. added, < pay me "SOME JUST haven't written that at 1 letters ot resignation yet, he said, the matt Other as-yet-unannounced most a resignations may be delivered salary ii soon, he said. "Ther At a law school faculty meeting a great Ar1?nt Morwit-THI! OAMECOCK they wanted on a piece of paper. Mapes a collected the pieces of paper and said, "What is written on this paper will tell me what sex you are, what you're like and who IV these pieces of paper belong to." c h MAPES TOLD THE six to look into his ai eyes and try to lie to him. As he correctly h guessed who owned each piece of paper, the audience was amazed. a' "It's really very simple," Mapes said. w "There are ways to tell if a person is lying. li First, his right eye blinks. His body temperature changes, and when a person oi is speaking, his vocal cords change when w he is lying." R "Hypnosis is really very, very simple," si Mapes said. "When you day dream it's a form of self-hypnosis." For instance, when si you're driving down a highway and you Y begin to stare straight ahead or if you fall d asleep in front of a television test pattern. ir These are both forms of self-hypnosis. jj Mapes again hypnotized the audience. b "Relax your arms and your legs, then relax your whole body." Heads slumped a down on chests again. "Now I want you to si stand and then raise your right arm, let it sj feel as light as a feather." Several persons si in the audience stood up and raised their b; right arms. hi Mapes went through the audience a looking for subjects. Sixteen were picked si onH iiinrA 1A/I An f/\ fWio ?1IU nv/i C 1\/U UI1 iU ilK W "Not all of you will be good subjects," nr Mapes told the people on stage, "but I hi don't want you to be offended. It takes a great deal of concentration to be hypnotized." Mapes put his subjects to sleep n A * lessors resign, tw< ine months ago, statistics Nolan said, referrii esented showing that USC ferences in pay seal ofessors' salaries rank other law schools, thers in the Southeast one that a professor m alf years ago. least 25 per cent m< outheastern average was an^ accept est in the nation at that position. e professor said. "I'VE HAD OFFE1 /pr Hnvncujnrtli - - < . ? , ml pel LCIIl II1UI C III Si*l< mrvey that placed the law benefits," Whittei igher on the national scale, position he accepted' i study would show that cent more than his | stern salaries are on par pays, he said. "But, ional salaries and, in some anywhere just for th mis, higher," he said. He said. d USC has access to con- No figures were a\ il data proving this law professors aver n. The Advocate, er professor, who has published by the B1 resigned, said he I,aw Students Asso d USC's salarv structure tifipH thp rpsionino f) ther law schools' ad- John C. Allen, Jam< itions before he quit. Harry Lightsey Jr., kly, when you explain the Stewart, Webster M tructure here, they laugh Ralph U. Whitten. he said. In every case, he Also, accordin [>ther law schools offered publication, professt eting and far exceeding Foster, former dea JSC. Different faculty see school, and Robert er differently, he said, but plan to take leaves ol re pessimistic about a year and professor (ICrPAftP M/i Anni/ilf ?~\ ... luvrtiMii^iv aim VJtx V ll e is no question but there is be on sabbatical dui disparity in salaries," Two other professoi Hypnotist James Mapes amazes the as he identifies the authors of what unsigned pieces of paper. Hypiit gets ac to act 1 nd then dismissed four as bad subjects. BEFORE HE CALLED on his subjects, [apes told the audience there were no ises when people didn't wake up from eing hypnotized and no one ever says nything he regrets while hypnotized ecause he is not asleep. "Hypnosis heightens sensitivity and wakens suggestion," Mapes said. "I've orked with all kinds of people. The only mits are the imagination." "Do you drink?" Mapes asked a subject i stage. "Yes, White Russians," said the oman. "Then you've had five White ussians," Mapes said. The woman's head umped, as if she was in a drunken stupor. "You're all on the beach," he told the 12 jbjects. "It's starting to get very hot. ou're all perspiring and it's ninety egrees." The 12 on stage began fidgeting i their seats, one woman took off her icket. "Now it's cold," Mapes said. They egan to shiver. "When I stamp my foot twice you will be leading male ballerina," Mapes said to a ibject, "And you will be Tarzan," Mapes iid pointing to another man. With the lap of his fingers Mapes awoke and put ack to sleep several people on stage. Then s stamped his foot and the first man woke, leaped and Dirouetted across thp age as a ballerina. Several minutes later ith the stamp of Mapes' foot, the second lan awoke, beat his chest, and announced e was Tarzan. THE PERFORMANCE that brought the lost laughter from the audience was one (i more rpsiOTifi -n? tig to the dif- Nolan and J. K. Grant, h es here and at pressed some doubt abou He estimated ning next year. ight make at "I don't think they're )re by leaving back," Nolan said of thosi ing another leaves of absence or sabl Of the four professors US totaling so sabbaticals and leaves of ? ary and fringe only *he two on sabbati i said. The expected to return, and t will pay 30 per returning only to rep jresent salary . university for the stipend r you don't go professor said. They mi e money," he f?r one year, while those o of absence are not gn 'ailable on the stipend and are therefore i ige salary. financial obligation to rc i newsletter repay such a debt, ick American CONFLICTS WITH th ciation, iden- administration and tlit professors as legislature are also reasoi js C. Bowers, for the resignations. The t Margaret G. trustees' decision to ad [yers Jr. and students to the school witl point ratios less than 2.0 \ k iu me sucn contact, ine ooard's < >rs Robert W. to lower admission standi n of the law up to 17 per cent of an in R. Bridwell class produced anothe r absence next frontation. Both resolution* s William S. in 1975, but have been rep I G. Owen will As a result of these d ring fall 1977. then-Dean Robert W. *s, Dennis R. resigned. Foster, now > audience Tuesday t is written on six i HlSt hilts ike kids in which Mapes told all 12 subjects that they were eight years old and at the movies. "Would you like some popcorn?" Mapes asked his subjects. Mapes handed them imaginary popcorn and they ate it as if it were real. The subjects were then told they were watching cartoons, horror movies, love stories and thriller movies. Like turning on a switch, Mapes made the subjects scream with laughter one minute and break down in tears the next. "Here is a thousand dollar bill," Mapes told a subject. "If you can pick it up you can keen it?hut if wpiohc tiun pounds." The man immediately ran to pick it up but he couldn't lift it off the floor. A young boy was brought up on stage and he picked up the bill without difficulty. However the subject, Yancy Poole, still couldn't life it off the floor. "All right put the bill in his pocket," Mapes told the boy. The boy put the bill in Poole's pocket. Poole fell to the floor. "The Mind Control Center has only been open five years," Mapes said. "But we've worked with all kinds of people: athletes, people who want to stoD smokine npnnlo who want to lose weight, and people with amnesia." Mapes claimed that a student's GPR can be increased by 39 per cent and hypnosis is being taught at 29 colleges and universities | in the United States. "You know I still can't believe that he could do that," said Poole. "I knew in my mind that I could pick up that dollar bill, but the harder I tried, the harder it was for me to pick it up." ; lions expected rr*/. mmmmmmv jv._ " '' -r'-'i^,yul -jv v'Tp-wOti ' "* ' '*< coming H SL . taking Sy || ra ibsence, ^ ?8|hL^^ g| cal are j^^pWP^ eceived, |R!F', ist work :. jHWh^ n loaves ie use ^BbH j i state j is eitcxl >oard of ' 1 Imit 14 h grade Haynesworth .vas one decision professor, took a two-year leave or irds for absence beginning last semester, -coming Although Haynsworth said the r con- resignations could in no way . nnnnnJ iortnurHl7ft iho nnniar'c or. > pclootJVI jvu|/?i uikv iiiv vviiivi a aviealed. creditation, some students and isputes, professors believe the best Foster professors resigned. Even if a law Sw LAW SCHOOL, page 11