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Unlikely as it may seem, there are researchers who claim to have discovered something better than sex. At McGill University in Canada, Psychologist James Olds used electrodes to locate specific "pleasure centers" in the brains of rats, and then allowed the animals, electrodes still in place, to stimulate themselves by pressing a lever. Given a choice, the rats preferred this new pleasure to food, water and sex. Some pressed the lever as many as 8,000 times an hour for more than a day, stopping only when they fainted from fatigue...
...Mather's strong point may be its coach. Tutor David Leighton-Brown coached the equivalent of the JV team at McGill University last year...
Cornell won the Boston Garden ECAC Christmas Tournament with a 6-2 win over New Hampshire and a 12-2 thrashing of weak Boston College. The Big Red also ran over McGill, 9-0, to bring its season record...
...quit under fire and to return to his old job as professor of psychology and education at the University of Michigan. His exit confronts the troubled, nine-campus University of California with a second hard-to-fill vacancy. The other is the chancellorship at San Diego, which William J. McGill left two months ago to become president of Columbia University. So far, neither San Diego's faculty nor California's regents have been able to find a good man willing to become McGill's successor. Finding another Heyns for Berkeley may be just as difficult...
...McGill was a first team All-East selection for his tournament performance. Freshman Peter Kellogg and Peter Hersch were second team picks...