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ON S Mi ^ grai l^ke!. 56, an tie as: 5ea<le!j Eaate T plaj iKeefi Mary'j ilia f-gaif Apr! Cayces claim Psychic ‘explosion’ occurring today “There is a tremendous explosion of experi mentation in the psychic field today,” said Hugh Lynn Cayce, son of the late international renown telepathist Edgar Cayce, Thursday night. Hugh Cayce and his son Dr. Charles Cayce spoke and showed films to a large Great Issues audience in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom. “Legitimate scientific studies on ESP (extra sensory perception) are being done,” the elder Cayce emphasized. He added that these studies have been officially recognized by the National Academy of Sciences. “We are like children,” he said concerning man’s lack of understanding of perception. Hugh Cayce is the managing director of the Association for Research and Enlightenment Inc. (ARE). His son Charles, a psychologist specializing in work with children, works in ARE youth activities. Edgar Cayce at the beginning of the century made medical suggestions under hypnosis that helped cure an illness he suffered. He had had no previous medical training and remembered nothing about the trance. “For the next 43 years,” according to his son, “he gave psychic information to help cure people.” Edgar Cayce had only the names and addresses of patients to work with. The treatment outlined in Edgar Cayce’s read ings “are used by doctors all over,” his son continued. Hugh Cayce said a medical clinic in Phoenix, using his father’s information, has had positive results in the study of epilepsy and a skin disease. Dr. Charles Cayce discussed three films con cerning ESP research and answered questions. In the first film research volunteers try to control the body like high blood pressure and migraine headaches by controlling ‘bio-feedback’ through extreme concentration. Studies are being made to examine the influence of mind over matter and mind over mind. The question is posed, “Can a person get on the right wavelength to pick up another’s thoughts?” One study showed it is possible and now researchers are attempting to train people to do this. In one experiment subjects try to release more theta waves from their body than alpha waves. With an increase in theta waves subjects showed more self-conscientious. The second movie concerned a girl who per ceives stimuli through her skin. She recognizes color, numbers, printed words and pictures by touch. Lead gloves or glass placed over the print does not interfere with her perception. The 12 year-old says she sees the print in her head. She believes her power came from God. Her brothers, sisters and parents do not share her ability. The final film was Russian made and showed two women who can move small objects with their hands without touching them or creating wind currents. According to the Russians one woman can cause and dissapate at will blisters and headaches on herself and others. She is limited by weights and distances when moving objects but has moved up to 40 grams. She suffers extreme increases in pulse rate and loses several pounds in only a few minutes while working with her power. Dr. Charles Cayce Che Battalion Warm and rainy Vol. 67 No. 100 College Station, Texas Friday, March 24, 1972 Saturday —■ Cloudy in the morning, partly cloudy afternoon. Light and variable winds. High 78°, low 56°. Sunday — Clear to partly cloudy. Northeasterly winds 5-10 mph. High 83°, low 58°. 845-2226 u.s •5 South Vie Is stop peace talks WORKMEN TRANSFER COMPLEX ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT to the new KAMU- TV facility being built near the tennis courts. The present site of the campus television station, Bagley Hall, will be torn down, paving the way for another new building. (Photo by Mike Rice) Insurance men may be bad, but could be ‘We do not allow insurance companies to solicit their policies on campus, but we do allow some student-run businesses to oper ate on c a m p u s,” commented James P. Hannigan, Dean of Stu dents, in explaining A&M's solici tation policy. Most seniors and graduate stu dents are contacted by several firms during the year about buy ing insurance. Our policy states that this must be done by the U. S. Mail or by telephone, Han nigan said. “We do not permit salesmen on campus because we have had some very bad experiences with them in the past. We have had people come in selling something, take a large cash deposit and take off without delivering any thing,” he noted. The insurance companies get their prospective clients’ names from the A&M student telephone directory. They go through and pick out the seniors names and contact them by phone or mail, Hannigan said. This is in line with the policy. “Every once in awhile, we do have a problem, usually with an agent who is new and has not gotten used to the rules. Then we contact him and try to straighten him out. If that does not work we call his home of fice,” Hannigan said. A trick used by some compa nies in this area is to hire a well known personality to ped- Fall room reservations are now being accepted Students who wish to reserve their present rooms should reg ister for them at the housing office anytime until March 27. Students who want to switch rooms within their present hall should register for the new room on March 28 or 29. For changes between dorms, students should register April 10 thru 12. These ■will be assign ed on a first-come, first-served basis. Anyone who has reserved a room but does not pre-register will have his room reservation dropped. Rooms will be held un til July 25 for late registration, then assigned to other students. A student who has registered for a room and later decides he does not want it, must notify the housing office in person by July 31 to receive a refund of the room deposit. Cancellation afterward will cause the student to forfeit his deposit. Any student whose name is listed on the academic drop list published during the summer will automatically have his room reservation cancelled, unless proof of reinstatement is given prior to that time. worse die policies. Often this will be a football player or other athlete, Hannigan noted. “We frown on this form of ‘bird dogging’, but it still goes on.” “Generally most of the older, well-established companies follow our rules and there is never any problem,” he said All solicitation on campus is handled by the Concessions Com mittee, a group of two students and two faculty members. This group meets once a week to consider students’ applications to sell on campus. If accepted, he is granted a concessions card good until the end of the school year or for use on a certain date. “We generally issue these cards to students only if he is offering a product that is not readily available at the Exchange Store or from local merchants,” Hannigan commented. Many times food sales will come up. In these cases special sanitary requirements must be fulfilled before the card is is-' sued, he stressed. “We don’t encourage the wide spread sale of food in the dorms because we don’t want to risk unsanitary conditions developing. We do allow food to be delivered on campus like pizza,” Hannigan stated. The board reviews the appli cation of a student and votes. A majority vote is necessary, but usually if anyone votes against, we don’t grant one, he said. Many of the cards are granted (See insurance, page 2) University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. PARIS ca>) — The United States and South Vietnam on Thursday canceled the next week ly session of the Vietnam peace conference and posed conditions that made an early resumption of the conference unlikely. U. S. Ambassador William J. Porter, speaking at the 147th session of the deadlocked con ference, told the North Vietna mese and Viet Cong that as far as further meetings ,:.re con cerned “We believe it would be preferable to await some sign from you that you are disposed to engage in meaningful ex changes.” He added that he was attempting to put the conference on a “more business-like basis.” The North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong, in one of their sharp est rejoinders in the three-year- old conference, called Porter’s condition an ultimatum and re jected them. The North Vietnamese spokes man, Nguyen Thanh Le, said Porter’s stand — seconded by South Vietnam—constituted “an unprecedented hysterical and dangerous act” to sabotage the conference. The Viet Cong’s spokesman, Le Van Sau declared. “We can never accept Porter’s conditions.” The conference, which several times has been interrupted brief ly. appeared to be tottering on the brink of a breakdown. But it was considered possible that a new effort would be made to get negotiations going through secret meetings between U.S. and North Vietnamese officials. The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong said they want to con tinue regular Thursday sessions, as has been generally customary. But the U. S. spokesman, Steph en Ledogar, told newsmen: “The old formula is not the right one ... It does not work.” Porter used lack of progress on the prisoner of war issue as the reason for not meeting next Thursday. Then Porter went into more basic questions concerning the peace talks. He called on the Communists to begin a serious discussion but added: “We may need to explore your intentions rather fully prior to agreeing to meet.” “Our side intends to suggest meetings to discuss particular points or subjects whenever such discussions appear likely to be useful,” Porter continued. “Let me emphasize that these ar rangements are intended to pre serve the utility of this forum should there be a corresponding desire on your part to take it seriously.” Newsmen were unable to ob tain from the United States and South Vietnamese spokesman any clarification of how it could be Taste-Iii’ to be held this Sunday The annual Host and Fashion Committee “Taste-In” will be held Sunday evening from 7:30 to 9:30 in the Memorial Student Center Ballroom. The theme of this year’s “Taste-In” will be “Food Around the World” and will feature gourmet foods and wines from Latin American and European countries. All students and faculty are invited to attend. Admission is free. determined prior to a meeting that the Communists were will ing to negotiate seriously. The spokesman said only that contacts would be made through delegation liaison officers or other channels. South Vietnamese ambassador, Pham Dang Lam aid down what appeared to be somewhat differ ent and tougher conditions for resuming the talks. He told newsmen that hence forth the allied side would at tempt to “center the discussions on a concrete subject.” He said the allied and Communist sides would have to agree on this pro cedure before fixing a date for a new meeting. Two interpretations of the al lied move were current among observers. One was that the allies were attempting a negotiating tactic to wrest concessions out of the Communist side and had no long- range intention of scrapping the Paris talks. The second was that the Unit ed States and South Vietnam wanted in fact to abandon the semipublic weekly sessions and move the talks back into a secret framework, where they have been several times. The United States has long been opposed to the present char acter of the talks, in which speeches and comments of dele gates are made public. The Unit ed States argues that the talks have degenerated into Commun ist propaganda sessions. Closed meetings give each side the possibility of feeling out the other more freely, U. S. offi cials believe, despite the fact that the previous secret sessions have come to nothing. The stated positions of the two sides are now, briefly: APPLICATION for Voter Registration Certificate d»c:. —The Communists want the United States to fix a total troop departure date and cease support for President Nguyen Van Thieu of South Vietnam. Prisoners of war would then be freed. —The United States and South Vietnam promise a total U. S. troop withdrawal within six months of agreement on their peace package, which includes elections after the resignation of Thieu. A new move is possible from the Communist side, but no one knows its content. Mrs. Nguyen Thi Dinh, head of the Viet Cong delegation, was due back in Paris today after an absence of more than six months. In the past, the return of Communist dele gates after trips home has fre quently been followed by revised peace proposals. Class of ’’24 to assemble Fifty members of A&M’s 1924 class will assemble at the Rama- da Inn here Friday through Sun day for an informal 48th anni versary reunion. Among the class are two A&M Football Hall of Fame members— Dr. E. King Gill of Rockport and L. S. (Tiny) Keen of Dallas. Dr. Gill is the famed “12th Man” of Aggie history. Registration begins at 3 p.m. Friday. 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