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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
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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
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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,"
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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."
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