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...Psych-Out Course...
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...Psych & Soc. Rel. 1570. Special States of Consciousness...
...organized teams. This year the competition on and off the court, and the consequent bickering, grew so hot and ludicrous that many veteran players withdrew from the game. Said the program's coordinator, a woman: "They couldn't pay me to do this job again." Efforts to psych the opposition ran all the way from intentional on-court talking (and even smoking) to giving wrong driving directions to teams headed for a remote court, so that the enemy would be more than 20 minutes late and thus forfeit the match. Off-putting snide remarks, of the sort now openly urged...
...strength of this work, Jones decided to teach a junior tutorial on the sports personality. Reaction to the tutorial was so favorable that Psych. and Soc. Rel. 1860 was established to help meet student demand for instruction in the subject. Still, Jones likes to limit the class to 50 students, in order "to give more personal, one-to-one contact. I can't do that with 200 people," he says. Indeed, that's how many showed up for the first class two years ago, but over two-thirds were discouraged by the course's stringent academic requirements...