Creighton University - Bluejay Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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--Jim Wand provides hypnotic 4 entertainment By Shannon O ' Neill A hypnotized person is in complete control. He will not do anything contrary to his morals and he will not do anything unless he wants to, said Jim Wand. Wand hypnotized about 20 students before a large audience on Oct. 5. The show opened with comedian John Winter who joked about college life and Saga food. SBG vice president of finance, Scott McMahon, introduced Wand. Wand detailed hypnotism and its uses. He claimed to have hypnotized 35,000 people to date. He had no trouble finding volunteers and even invited the rest of the audience to participate. Anyone who saw the show had to admit that Bruce Watley was once again the star of the evening. Wand claimed that because Watley had been hypnotized before he was less inhibited and more relaxed. This became especially obvious when Watley and other guys thought they were male strippers. The girls on stage were either dancing or fully embarrassed. Wand had his participants flying, driv- ing semi-trucks and lying in the burning sun. One student, thinking he was a doc- tor, prescribed the cure for another ' s ill- ness as a kiss from a beautiful girl. Wand also had Watley speaking mar- tian while another student translated. For his finale Wand told his subjects that at 11 p.m. they would have an over- whelming urge to dance. Being in a post- hypnotic state of partial amnesia, the students were a bit embarrassed when they suddenly started dancing. The show followed up with a self- hypnosis clinic the next morning. 22

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Warren Francke . . . Watching the Watchdogs. maha history set to music Australian Consul-General Terrence McCarthy was one o£ the speakers sponsored by the Honors Program.

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Creighton students play I Spy with their tennis shoes. How many times has this guy gotten lucky? We love being hypnotized. Oh no, Bruce again? 23