Word: alpha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other experiments in altering consciousness have concentrated on alpha waves, a brain-wave rhythm often associated with states of relaxed alertness. Investigators believe that human beings can learn to produce these waves at will if they are guided by "biofeedback training," a system of recording brain waves and letting a subject know (by means of a light or other signal) whenever he succeeds in emitting alpha. Capitalizing on the widespread hunger for instant nirvana, commercial promoters are selling "alpha machines" for home use and opening "alpha training institutes." According to Psychologist Thomas Mulholland, chairman of the Bio-Feedback Research Society...
...spokeswoman for Alpha Phi Omega said yesterday that the fraternity received permission from Harvard's Planning Office the week before to enter Harvard's public and private buildings. The group planned to study the buildings' entrances for potential obstacles to handicapped people, Nomanbhoy Shabbir said...
...passions changed. Recent Harvard classes haven't been as alienated as the people who lived through the University Hall Bust and Kent-Cambodia strike. Pre-meds are a flourishing sub-species and law school admissions preoccupy everyone else. Rampant pre-professionalism makes a quiet student body. But though Sigma Alpha Epsilon is staging a comeback here, parietals will never be popular again. Official university involvement in private College life will be minimal, and Bok's committee of House masters studying sex will be a minor embarassment unless the president makes some major miscalculations...
...four year ebb in the membership of Harvard's only fraternity reversed itself with a flood of new members last Fall, as sophomores seeking beery fellowship discovered Sigma Alpha Epsilon...
When the last U.S. military man has left Viet Nam, Camp Alpha will be turned over to the U.S. embassy. Its commander, Captain George Parrott of Taft, Calif., apparently will be that last man. He is perplexed about one final detail: "We haven't decided who will process my papers...