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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Nov. 13, 1963
Students Beware:
Pep Pills Impair Judgment in Exams
ROCHESTER, N.Y.—(UPI)Students who take "pep pills" before examinations in the hope of improving grades are just kidding themselves.
Dr. G. Richard Wendt, professor of psychology at the University of Rochester, reports such pills actually may have the opposite effect. Why? They tend to impair the student's judgment both while he's studying and while taking the test.
Wendt, who has conducted extensive studies on the psychological effects of drugs for 25 years, also finds that students don't realize the potential effects of overdosages of pep pills.
"Like most people, they apparently are not aware that if they take more than the prescribed dose, they can suffer far more harmful effects than the hoped-for benefit such pills are supposed to offer," he said.
The scientist noted that a student who habitually takes pep pills while cramming for exams is likely to overrate the effectiveness of his studying and to become overconfident.
The crutch tends to make the student think less clearly and to express himself less effectively during exams.
"In an oral test," Dr. Wendt said, "he may become extremely talkative, egocentric, and aggressive, and may seriously misjudge the examiner's reaction to his answers.
"Benzedrine, for example, produces quite evident personality changes in some people. Unfortunately, it's very difficult to persuade those who have been taking it that any such change has occurred."
Noting the increasing availability of such pills without a physician's prescription, Dr. Wendt said that many people don't understand the "build-up" effects of certain of the so-called "sustained release" drugs.
"The action of such drugs last for many hours," he said. "Thus, even if a person takes only the recommended dose, repeated dosages within, say 12 to 24 hours, can produce the same effect as a direct
overdose—with results that may range from merely uncomfortable to medically dangerous.
Dr. Wendt said science has known since 1913 that effects of caffein—frequently used in sustained-release pep pills—can last for 36 hours.
Of course, people frequently drink coffee to help them stay awake. But Wendt said you'd have to drink a lot of coffee in 24 hours to take in the amount of caffein that would produce a harmful reaction.
"Caffeine taken via the sustained-release capsule is another matter," he said. "It's very easy to take too much. That's why, to me, such pills seem an open invitation to overdose."
Pinnings
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Cindy Snyder, Bethesda, Md., junior to Don Rea, North Kansas City Mo., junior, Kappa Sigma.
Donna Gould, Shawnee Mission senior, Pi Beta Phi, to Jim Duvall, Kansas City, Mo., Delta Tau Delta.
Barbara Cowen, Junction City senior, Chi Omega, to Rod Craft, Junction City senior, Theta Chi.
Georgeanna Chaffin, Hugoton junior, Alpha Delta Pi, to Edward Weidenbenner, Junction City senior, Theta Chi.
Marilyn McPherson, Wichita junior,
Delta Gamma, to Jeff Heeb,
Lawrence junior, Delta Upsilon.
Sherrill Murrow, Topeka senior, Gamma Phi Beta, to Chuck Anderson, Osage City senior, Sigma Phi Epsilon.
Janet Fassnsch, Kansas City, Mo.
sophomore, Alpha Chi Omega,
to Don Epp, Tribune senior, Tau Kappa
Epsilon.
Sheila Brown, Leavenworth junior,
Pia Betaphi, to Dave John, Grand-
view, Mo., junior, Kappa Alpha, at
Missouri School of Mollis, Rolla, Mo.
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Mary Bradbury, Kansas City senior, to Pat Maloney, Hutchinson senior. Phi Kappa Psi.
Dian Kramos, Kansas City senior Delta Delta Delta, to Joe Kollias Omaha, Phi Kappa Psi.
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Nancy Jane Henry, Wichita sophomore, to Edward J. Blackburn Derby senior.
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Janice Nitsch, Oberlin sophomore, to Gerald Lawson, Norcatur junior, Theta Tau.
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Lin O'Mara, Dubuque, Iowa, senior, to Ray E. Carson, Emporia senior.
Linda Ward, Florence, S.C. junior,
Delta Gamma, to Jerry Morton,
Lawrence junior.
Margaret Ives, Silver Lake senior, Alpha Chi Omega, to Ron Popham, Topeka senior.
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He said that over 90 per cent of his customers are recommended by former clients, their friends and relatives. And many's the young woman for whom he's found a mate who was registered by the girl's parents without her knowledge.
Patricia Lane Dustman, Springfield, Mo., senior, Pi Beta Phi, to Richard Young, Springfield, Mo. graduate, Sigma Pi Epsilon.
Field said he interviews each prospect in depth-with casual chat at first, because many callers are nervous and often a bit embarrassed at being there. But as they grow more at ease, he begins to take notes on personality, job, salary and other financial assets, age, education, appearance and religion.
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Marilyn Miller, Larned senior, Pi Beta Phi, to Gene Lee, Wichita, first-year law student, Delta Tau Delta.
He said his clients these days are about evenly split among the protestant, Catholic and Jewish religions. But he will not match-make differing religions.
THE FACTS ON every client are cross-filed so that if, say, a bachelor in his 30's, successful, but still searching for the ONE, will be introduced to eight or 10 young women with a background Field feels will fill the bill. There are 7,000 names in his files, he said.
This is a matrimonial agency, said Feld, not a lonely hearts club. Arranging dates as such is not my job. These people who come here have tried on their own everywhere (to meet a marriage prospect) without success. They come from all walks of life, all ages. I match up mutual backgrounds. It's got to click. A big sign on one wall of Field's office proclaims, our service is personal and strictly confidential.
I don't close a case without results, declared Field, who calls himself the dean of New York's marriage brokers. For 35 years, Field, has been middleman in the intricate mating game.
FIELD ESTIMATED he has arranged an average of 100 marriages a year and said that so far as he can determine the matches are permanent.
NEW YORK — (UPI) — Boy looks or girl. Boy meets several girls, thanks to Irving Field. And boy usually falls in love with one of the girls and settles into the happy state of matrimony.
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