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However necessary Coop expansion into non-student areas may be, it inevitably creates resentment among students who feel that the Coop is thereby neglecting the quality of service in student-oriented areas. Complaints about textbook service were frequent enough this year to warrant the Coop's publishing a pamphlet explaining how faculty members could expedite textbook orders and help improve textbook service...
While the Society's claims may suggest a "Dare To Be Great course for hippies"--a description made by one visitor at an introductory lecture last year--independent scientific literature supports the contentions of the pamphlet. Articles in Scientific American, Science, The American Journal of Physiology, and The Journal of the American Medical Association have documented changes in mental and physical states during meditation. The light sweat normally present in skin diminishes abruptly, signalling greater ease. Alpha waves in the brain, another indicator of relaxation, grow stronger. The heart beat and blood pressure drop...
There was a time when native intelligence was the salient American virtue. When Citizen Tom Paine wished to incite his countrymen, he titled his pamphlet Common Sense. His colleague Benjamin Franklin made a career of common sense; Poor Richard was a seed catalogue of utilitarian philosophy ("The used key is always bright"). By the early 19th century, De Tocqueville noted that Poor Richard had gone public. "Without ever having taken the trouble to define the rules of a philosophical method," he wrote, Americans "are in possession of one, common to the whole people...
...four years ago by a group of students at McGill University in Montreal. Since then, some 4,000,000 copies have been circulated in Canada, England, Australia and the U.S. Among the recipients were undergraduates on at least a dozen American campuses, including Tufts and Boston University, where the pamphlet caused no controversy-perhaps because it was distributed by student groups and not by administrators...
After considering several pamphlets, SECH concluded that the Handbook was not only the cheapest available (4½? per copy compared with $1 for others) but that its medical content was the best. "It's a very complete, succinct and medically sound book," says SECH's director, Dr. Louis A. Pyle. The committee decided that controversy over the pamphlet's introduction could be avoided by disavowing, in a covering flyer, the "wornout S.D.S. rhetoric of the late 1960s." But before distributing the Handbook in March-seven months after approving it-SECH forgot to staple in the planned disclaimer...