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...Psychiatry John H. Halpern traveled to the Southwest to spend time with members of the Navajo tribe. During his stay, Halpern consumed peyote as part of the Church’s sacrament and conducted tests on hundreds of tribe members. The study compared the results of a basic psychological exam given to 60 Native American Church members who had used peyote over 100 times, 79 tribe members who did not use the drug, and 36 individuals with a history of alcohol abuse but little or no peyote consumption.According to Halpern’s results, frequent peyote users did better...
...spirituality over Chinese take-out and watched reruns of “The Simpsons” while analyzing Shakespeare. He wrote existentialist poetry, listened to the Grateful Dead, and taught me to skateboard during our lunch hour. I managed to keep this crush in class by tutoring him before exam period and taking extra notes in math, a positive influence that only went so far: a physics teacher soon caught him shooting construction workers with a B.B. gun and his spring break became a permanent vacation. I tried to shrug it off, directing my attention to the math team...
...biggest constants in West’s career as an academic is this devoted student following. Students who have heard him speak are enamored with his dynamic lectures, and many of them stay in touch with the professor well after their final exam is over. A three-week advance booking is recommended to land an appointment during his office hours, students say, although he has been known to hold them from anywhere between five to 12 hours at a time. Despite his over-booked schedule, West remains as friendly and approachable as Jia-Rui Chong ’99 remembers...
Baring it all used to be a routine part of orientation. Between the 1880s and the 1940s, the University required new students to pose nude for “posture pictures” as part of the regular heath exam. Of the approximately 3,500 subjects who stripped down for the camera, those deemed to have poor posture were required to take a corrective health class, the New York Times Magazine reported in 1995. W.H. Sheldon, a Columbia University physique scholar, had sold the idea of “posture pictures” to all the Ivy League colleges. Sheldon...
...student opens her exam booklet. Yes, it’s that time again. She has practiced a million times, but it never gets easier. Name, address and sex—no problem. But the final question is not so simple—she is asked to choose her race. Once again bureaucracy demands that she shed the complexity of her identity and simply “choose one.” “Only one?” she thinks to herself. Shakespeare’s famous quote, “Deny thy father and refuse thy name...