Hot point
avid Holmes, professor of clinical psychology, may have been a bit apprehensive yesterday as he touched a burning match to his
Staff photo by GEORGE MILLENER
hand to prove a point during a lecture to a Psychology 104 class in hand to prove a point during a lecture to that many demonstrations of hypnosis involve trichia.
Prof explains hypnosis
Hypnosis doesen't put people into a trance or anything magical, but it can give them the power to do so.
By CONRAD BIBENS
Staff Writer
David Holmes, professor of clinical psychology, supported that theory yesterday, when he said there was no scientific proof that trances existed.
Holmes gave examples of how professional hypodates fooled the public by using a fictitious name.
Addressing a beginning psychology class in Fraser Hall, Holmes lectured on the history and myths of hypnosis, a practice which has been used by people have tried to influence others, be said.
He said hypnosis became well-known in the 1700s, through the work of Anton Mesmer, a French doctor who thought many illnesses were caused by an imbalance between magnetic fluids in the body and the positions of the planets.
TO CURE THIS, Messmer had his patients sit with their feet in a fat of water. Holmes said. With lights dimmed and music playing in the background, Mesmer then made a dramatic entrance in a purple robe and patients with magnetically charged robes.
often successful in improving the health of Meister's patients, including some French members of the royalty. The word comes from the doctor's name, he said.
French doctors of the time were suspicious and investigated his practices. They concluded that Mesmer had no physical cure but that he stimulated his muscles, causing him to suggest that they would feel better if they followed his instructions. Holmes said.
surprisingly, this unorthodox method was
TODAY THE effect of hypnosis can be induced without using trance-like methods, he said. The success of hypnotism depends on the tricks used and on or on the tricks of the hypnotist, he said.
To get a subject ready for his influence, a hypnotist usually tells him to stare fixedly at an object while he sits motionless with his arms in his lae.
"Then you're told that your eyelids are getting heavy and you’re getting heavy and you’re getting tired." Holmes said. "But they'd get that way naturally if you tried to stare at something for a long time without blinking."
Then the subject is told that his arms are getting heavier, too heavy to lift. But Holmes said that anytime you don't use your arm muscles for some time they relax
anyway, giving the impression that the arms are dead weight.
"BUT BY NOW you're beginning to have confidence in the hypnotist and think that he knows things about you that you don't even know," he said.
To further gain confidence, a professional hypnotist in the entertainment field can play tricks to amaze his subject. As an actor, he might try to put it to his hand without causing a burn.
The trick was that he moved the match across his hand without letting it stay in one place. The flame burned up, he said, away from his skin.
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Another trick is lying flat above the ground, supported by only two chairs, one beneath the neck and the other beneath the head. You can place a percent of the population could do it as well.
"You're stronger than you think. In an emergency situation the adrenaline gets flowing and you can do some amazing things," he said.
THEN HE LAY across the chairs again, and had a flat board placed length-wise across his body. Two girls, weighing more than 200 pounds together, then stepped on the board, which Holmes supported with little effort.
KANSAN
See HYPNOTISM page 10
Vol.86 No.110
The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
Senate to act on KU budget
Friday, March 26, 1976
Staff Writer
Bv JIM COBB
Increases originally recommended by the governor and cut by the House Ways and Means Committee were 10 per cent for salaries and 12 per cent for OOE.
TOPEKA- The Kansas Senate is expected to begin floor action on today on a bill that would allocate $43.1 million for the University of Kansas in fiscal 1977. The bill was approved yesterday by the Senate Ways and Means Committee.
Because the committee made no changes in increases of salaries and other operating expenditures (OEO), any changes in those items must be made by the full Senate or in a Senate-House of Representatives conference committee.
Salary increases for KU faculty members remain at 8 per cent for fiscal 1977. The decrease is due to the passing of
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes last night that he was pleased the funding has remained at the 8 and 10 per cent levels at the level provided by some legislators."
Earlier this year, some representatives had proooed only 5 per cent increases.
Dykes said that he expected attempts to change the funding would be made in the Senate but that he doubted major changes would pass the Senate.
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, said that, "considering the conditions in the state this year," the appropriations were reasonable.
"We haven't gotten everything we wanted or needed," he said. "We've made a good case for more, and we need more, but the legislature has been reasonable."
Before unanimously approving the measure yesterday, the Senate Ways and
Conventions voted to approve it.
- Added $30,983 to finance five, half-times positions at the Bureau of Child Research
- Cut $20,000 to be used in the KU Audio-
Reader program.
—Approved a new, supplemental request for $800,000 to replace discontinued federal capital grant funds (student funds) at the UMD Medical Center by formula) at the KU Medical Center.
— Added $82,578 to replace federal funds in operation of a mobile paired-national care plan.
The appropriations bill should leave the Senate by early next week; and although an attempt to raise salary and OOE increases are given little chance of passage.
In examining many questions concerning the satellite union, the task force suggested allocation of a 31,000-square-foot space as follows:
Satellite Union report approved
—Hallways, restrooms, stairways,
maintenance rooms and other areas would
require about $8,000 square feet. The con-
struction cost of this space would be
$60,000.
The three groups are being asked for
their potential might be incorporated into the final result.
The report will be sent to the Student Services committee, student senators and the Kansas Union Memorial Corporation board.
--Added $174,113 because of a reduced salary shrinkage rate at the Med Center. The shrinkage rate was reduced from 5 to 3 for each student and funds to be available to the Med Center.
- Restored seven positions in the Med Center's Outreach program that were to be claimed.
The Kansas Senate Ways and Means Committee had cut a $20,000 Audio-Reader appropriation yesterday after Sen. Wint Winter, R-Ottawa and committee chairman, said the money would have been used to pay workers.
—The food service area should include a
Winter had told the committee that the
But Hurwitz said funding originally was requested to extend the program into other areas of Karsas. Later she learned a federal grant was available, she said, and requested the funds be used to match the federal grant to improve facilities.
The Satellite Union Task Force approved inventive ideas and space allocation last month.
"We desperately need more space and equipment," she said. "But we never intended to pay our workers. With their dedication and concern there's not enough money."
She said, however, that volunteers working for Audio-Reader had never been paid and had never requested pay for their work.
The director of KU's Audio-Reader program said last night the reason a legislative committee cut the program's funds yesterday was "just ridiculous."
Audio-Reader funds cut; move criticized
By RANDY CZARLINSKY
$20,000 could be cut because the program already had operating funds and that workers would volunteer even if they weren't paid.
The $20,000 wasn't part of KU's original budget request but was added in the House Ways Committee.
A retail facility for select merchandising, which would include the buying of art supplies, toileries, popular books, posters, and a "hot-line" textbook order service, would occupy 4,000 square feet and cost $280,000.
Rosie Hurwitz, director, said the committee had said it was vetting the funds because the money would be used for salaries.
Lounge space would include areas that could be used as a study area or stereo louge, a large multipurpose TV meeting room and a fireplace and general louge area. The louge area would occupy about 3,500 square feet and cost $350,000.
fast food operation, salad bar and a delicatessen. The facility must be made as flexible as possible and be able to convert to a coffee house or become an open area for after-game functions. The construction cost will be $70,000 and occupie 81,000 square feet.
Senate seeking treasurer
The Senate needs a new treasurer because the term of office of John House, the old treasurer, expired just before the Senate voted not to abolish the office Wednesday, an act that left the Senate with an empty office.
The Student Senate will begin taking applications next week for the office of
However, House said that he had run across a March 24 termination addressed to the KU Personnel Office, but that told him of the change in terminal date.
House mailed a letter to senators before the meeting urging them to vote against the abolishment bill, sponsored by Tedde Tasheff. student body president.
House said Tashseh had originally asked him to resign effective April 1. The first time he officially learned that his position was vacant, he early, was at the Senate meeting, he said.
Kevin Flynn, Senate executive secretary,
had said House didn't have that right and,
as a consequence, the Senate billed
House for $9.15 to cover the expenses.
Controversy developed at the meeting over whether House had a right to use Senate equipment and supplies to print and mail the letter.
HOUSE SAID yesterday that he wouldn't pay the $5.91. He said that because his mother was originally agreed upon with Tasheff, he would consider the $2 that he would have received to be sufficient payment for printing and mailing of his book.
Flynn said House badn't told him he wouldn't pay the bill. He said he planned to wait for the explanation before deciding what action to take.
IN RESPONSE to House's comments, Tasheff said that she had made an agreement with House that his job would be terminated March 24, but that he could continue as an unpaid consultant if he wished.
To fill the vacant treasurer's office, Tashef said, the Senate would advertise the position in the Kansan early next week. Any student can apply.
Flynn said the deadline for applications would be April 3rd and an appointment would
Tasheef's bill would have transferred the duties of the treasurer to the StuDex chair.
House had said in his letter that the treasurer's job "ought not be hidden behind some other office."
Tasheff had responded to House's letter at the meeting by saying that if the StudEx chairman assumed the treasurer's duties, much of the work that used to be handled by the StudEx chairman would go to the Senate and not been fully used in the past, she said.
She had also said her bill would make the job subject to more control it was now. She said that the treasurer was responsible only to the student body president, but that the StudEx chairman was responsible to StudEx and the Senate.
The Senate voted 55-28 to defeat the bill.
—Activity rooms could contain typewriters and duplicating equipment for student use, cabinets for student organizations and meeting areas. The construction cost of the 2,000 square feet proposed for these rooms would be $140,000.
- A banking and distribution area would include banking services with possible deposit and withdrawal facilities, postal service, a reserve reading library, a ticket booth for selling tickets for University events and space for the SUA Wilderness basket program. An area of 1,000 square feet for these services cost $70,000.
The task force said the finished 31,000 square feet would cost approximately $2.2 million. An unfinished lower level having no floor elevation by the task force for future development.
The report said, "The task force strongly recommends that any cost cutting measure which appreciably affects the overall appearance and aesthetics of the completed structure should be made to endorse the inclusion of a provision for future expansion."
Traffic, parking changes delayed
University Council yesterday delayed action revising parking and traffic regulations and proposing increased parking fees until its meeting next Thursday.
Council members began preliminary discussions on the revised regulations and fees, but less than the two-thirds of the 38-man team required for formal action was present.
The parking and traffic board, a group of four faculty members and four students.
In the preliminary council discussion, a member requested that the board consider enforcing parking lot restrictions during enrollment and break periods. Currently, parking lots regularly restricted to permitholders are open during those periods.
revised fee schedule for the 1976-77 school year.
The fee schedule would call for increases in the number of parking permits for all campus lots.
Council members also asked that the board consider lowering the proposed price and increasing its capacity.
High Cotton, chairman of the parking and traffic board, said he had just received estimates of the parking services budget for that week. "We need to know that information at next week's meeting
permits. Under the board's proposals, the permits would cost $4, up from $30 this year.
Also scheduled to be discussed at next week's council meeting is a report submitted by the ad hoc committee on financial exigency. The report outlines actions the team has taken in order to meet deadline declining enrollments and possible reduction of faculty positions.
Baking in the sun sun and hot asphalt pushed temperatures to the boiling point on the roof of Robinson hampered by gutsy winds. This week's unseasonably warm weather should continue this Yesterday's warm weather won't enjoy at least five percent. The late afternoon Gymnasium. The crew of workers, who were patching badly in the road, was also afternoon and the rest of the weekend.
staff photo by DON PIERCE