University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository 1976 The aiD ly Lobo 1971 - 1980 11-12-1976 New Mexico Daily Lobo, Volume 080, No 60, 11/ 12/1976 University of New Mexico Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/daily_lobo_1976 Recommended Citation University of New Mexico. "New Mexico Daily Lobo, Volume 080, No 60, 11/12/1976." 80, 60 (1976). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/daily_lobo_1976/133 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The aiD ly Lobo 1971 - 1980 at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1976 by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Cof/oqe:o.h. ' '37%'/rl SPEGIAl. ti11J6JW . OOr.J,EC'rlONS ~f1tSUNM Senate New Mexico · APproves 2 Bills DAIL" ·, Friday, November 12, 19:76' ·: .. In Final. Meeting . ' ' By Ruth S. lntress At its shortest and last meeting this semester, th!< ASUNM Senate Wednesday night passed two bills, One· of the bills·, which is scheduled to appear on the. ASUNM fall ·election ballot next week, will ask students what issues John K. Fairbanks, a· profess(lr ruling class jealously guarded its revolution. He added, "Like the the Lobby Committee should of Chinese 'history at Harvard monopoly on correct ideas and China of old, the People's Republic concentrate on in the upcoming University, will discuss recent prevented anybody else, merchants is still massive, profoundly legislative session. The other bill changes in China caused by the or soldiers for example, from collectivist and professedly anti­ limits temporary appointments to death of Mao Tse-Tung. 'i'he. gaining power. It stressed individualist.'' lecture, sponsored by the ASUNM tranquility and order, not struggle executive committees to 15 days Fairbank said few Americans Speakers Committee, will take without prior consent pf the senate. today seem anxious to discover The Speakers Committee, which place at Woodward Hall, Thur­ Damon Tobias sday, Nov. 18. ~.•..•.. what it was about Viet Nam or is in the red from last year, had a r China that made them so resilient balance. of approximately $5,600 Committee, "I have asked Brian Tickets are now available at the to heavy doses of American good prior to Stan Lee and William ·sanderoff to pursue a fuller in- SUB box office and the tr will. He added, "The United States Colby's appearances, said Finance vestigation of the Film Committee Albuquerque Ticket Agency. got into Viet Nam partly out of Committee Chairman George including their last year's Fairbank said that present sheer ignorance and now we want Coston. Coston said Lee lost ap­ book.keeping. A s~perficial behavior of both China and the to get out and remain ignorant. proximately $1,500 and Colby lost examm~ti~n of last year s.finances ' West are largely determined by Neither move does us much approximately $2,000. a!e ,pomti~g towar_ds dis.cre~an- historical-cultural traditions that no ASUNM President Damon cies. _Tobias als~ said ~PP~IcatJons one, not even Chairman Mao or credit." Tobias said the only other speakers for Fdm Com~Ittee Chai_rperson Henry Kissin~er. can escape. the comJl!itlee is contracted to bring are presently bemg accepted. The Harvard professor said that are John King Fairbanks, Buck The senators then discussed this j'The great Confucian system of once the novelty of the new Minister fuller and Dick Gregory. past session and the things they said government that evolved by tht: acquaintance has faded, both "Outside of Fairbanks, Fuller, and they felt they had accomplished second century B.C. has resulted in.: Americans and Chinese will still Gregory we will, unless we can during it. Among points made by a yawning cultural gap between face many of the same problems bring a sure-fire money maker OF· some of the senators were; East and West that is still including Taiwan, the clash of do shows with virtually no cost to -The senate should be more responsible for much of the tension American individualism with us, close the Speakers Committee involved in actions and bills other between them," he said. · Chinese collectivism' and "the down early beca~se we don't want · than just financial ones; Fairbank explained that Con­ to go into deficit like last year," -Senators should receive fucianism consisted of rule by a · arrogance of China's implacable John K. Fairbank Tobias said. compensation for the time they scholar elite. By the eighth century self-esteem." He added, "Most Tobias said, "We took too.many spend in meetings, such as partial­ a complex system of civil-service and change as the primary goals of important, as Americans we must high risks, and they might not have tuition difference; and examinations, based on literary and society." give up the enduring historical hope lost money if we hadn't had one· -Decide on guidelines for ethical knowledge, had become the Fairbank argued that China has that bringing China into the world chairman pick the speakers and executive committees and their principal route to bureaucratic ' not freed itself from this Confucian will somehow make the Chinese another try to run it." chairmen to follow. advancement. "The scholarly past despite Mao Tse-Tung's more like us." Tobias said the Speakers <;::ommittee is considering bringing an entertainment-type speaker, like Lily Tomlin was last year, to help Hypnosis Valuable T9ol to Psychoanalysts bail them out financially. "There Despite all the myths about it, . meaning and villue of hypnosis. increasing a subject's ability to watched. "Hypnosis is powerful enough to aren't many superstars in our price hypnosis' is a valuable tool in "When you are hypnotized you overcome old behavior patterns." \ range. Chevy Chase would cost psychoanalytical and behavioral are immersed in a fantasy to the Hypnosis also can help a subject induce reactions tha~ some subjects approximately $5,000 and we can't therapy treatment, said a UNM extent that you can filter out remember repressed details of old can't handle," he added. "For afford that kind of risk. We have a professor who describes hypnosis as contradictory information," Katz fears and conflicts so they can be example, hypnotizing an over­ chance at getting Ljly Tomlin back ''controlled and guided said. brought into the open, Katz said. weight person to keep him from but since she was here Jast year she daydreaming." Hypnosis is "a magnifying "Hypnosis is a tool just like a eating isn't enough of a treatment if might be a financial risk," Tobias About 90 per cent of the adult glass" that can increase the ef­ scalpel," he explained. "You don't he has 'other psychological said. population can be hypnotized, said fectiveness of a psychological consult a hypnotist; you consult a problems related to his weight. "There is a possibility of co­ Dr. Norman Katz of UNM's technique by "enlarging and in­ health professional who may use So1,11e people use their weight as a defense · against personal sponsoring someone like Chevy psychology department. tensifying" .the treatment, he hypnosis as part of a variety of ) '. Chase between PEC and the "I define hypnosis as the added. treatment methods." relationships." Speakers Committee but it's a bad psychology of believed-in "Hypnosis is similar to · Not all psychologists and Hypnotic techniques were used precedent to look towards PEC to imaginings," he said, adding that daydreaming but involves a psychiatrists receive training in 3000 years ago in ancient Egypt, bail anyone out," Tobias said. there are divergent theories among specific, guided fantasy. It can hypnosis and there are no cer­ Katz said, an.d by the early 1800's Tobias said concerning the Film health professionals about the speed up the therapy process by tification ·requirements for hyp­ Europeans were conducting ex­ notists, a fact which Katz terms periments that led to many of the "unfortunate." However, prac­ still-prevalent myths and the Marijuana Debate Scheduled for·.Nov. 16 titioners who belong to the sometimes-shady image· of hyp­ International Society for Clincial nosis. Decriminalization of marijuana will history of marijuana use in a Fred Schueler of UNM's and Experimental Hypnosis or the One early French experimenter, be debated on Tuesday, Nov. 16 in program set for 7:30 p.m. at the philosophy department will speak American Clinical Hypnosis Anfon Mesmer, coined the term the first of a series of educational Farmington Holiday Inn. on "morality and marijuana" at Society have received special "animal magnetism" to describe programs about the impuct of The philosophical aspects of 7:30 p.m. at Eastern New Mexico training and may be more reliable, the convulsions that accompanied marijuana on society. marijuana use and laws will be the University. he. added. his treatments, but an investigating Debaters will be attorney Keith topic of UNM philosophy professor There are "thousands of ways" committee concluded that the Stroup of Washington, D.C., and Don Lee at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 30 at Each program wiJI include a to hypnotize someone an·d the effects were solely the n;sult of his Hardin B. Jones, professor of New Mexico State University in Las discussion by local lawyers, familiar dangling watch isn't subjects' imaginations and ex­ physiology at the University of Cruces. The final program is psychologists and humanities necessary. pectations, effects later ascribed to California at Berkeley. Stroup, scheduled in Portales on Dec. 2. scholars. "i use what eve,; .method the "mesmerism." executive director of the National subject is accustomed to or ex­ Freud's theory of psychoanalysis Organization for the Reform of pects," he said. "I see myself as a was based on his work with hyp­ Marijuana Laws (NORML), will facilitator of the subject's own notized subjects, Katz said, speak in favor of removing criminal hypnotic talent, teaching the although Freud abandoned penalties for possession of small essential principles of controling hypnotism when he found that amounts of the drug.