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Golf Falls Tell Where You Can Fir .i Them.

YOU'LL FEVER lose another golf ball, if you fork over the cash to buy an exciting new set of clubs and balls eouipped with radio trans- mitters and receivers.

'A department store in Japan is offering the in- credible equipment for the duffer who has everything. The price? l

About $1,100 while the of—- fer lasts. Even without the scphisticated electron— ics, you'd search for

these balls, they're set with tiny diamonds. And, as an added feature, the clubs are gold-plated.

The Number's U For Lotteries' Death Code.

In a strange twist of log— ic, people hoping the batch

numbers on bottles of cyanide—

laced Tylenol capsules would bring them good luck bet heavin on the numbers in state lotteries.

Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New Hampshire lottery officials reported rushes on 2880 and 1910, both

of which marked batches of Tylenol capsules linked

to a series of shocking deaths in Chicago.

In fact, all three states

were forced to cut off bettim on both numbers

after gamblers forked out enough cash to win a stag- gering $4.5 million.

Don't Jog After Celery, Say Docs.

CELERY and exercise don't mix, at least according to a medical expert who says that munching on the green stalk and then work— ing out can cause an al- lergic reaction.

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Crazy Courses Colleges Offer for Credit.

Learn how to talk to space aliens. Play Frisbee, Photograph nude models. These are just a few of the goofy things you can do in college nowadays, and actually earn a credit.

"Some of the classes are just crazy," admits Alan Ross, a senior at UCLA, where a special class in nude photography was "hot"

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U.P.E.I. decenber 2,1982.

SC‘APpIe-TAP!

The Senate Committee on Academic Priorities and long—Term Academic Plan- ning(SC¥\PpLe—TAP) was setupinthewakeof the Report furor, to inves— tigate what is most imp- ortant at this moment in history for the academic health of UPEI, and to make proposals about development and changes in the'Universitv.

The new report is to be

so time is short. Good will and a free exchange of ideas is essential. Therefore, a public meet will be held on DEX? 8, WEDNESDAY, at 3:00, in the Duffy Ampitheatre.

A progress report of the carmittee, definitions, problems, approaches, and much else will'all be?" discussed. We hope to see you there!( We need

hel . 3K” p ) John Smith, Chairman

on canpis this year. "Some of the students probably didn't even have film in their cameras." Ross joked.

done by March 24.1983.

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At the University of South— ern California (USC) , "we have a great deal of far— out physical education courses," reveals senior Loretta Lynch. "Figure improvement is popular with the sorority girls. They get credit for work— ing on their shapes here."

For students who don't mind leg work, USC also offers courses in tap dancing, international style ball—roan dancing and ice skating.

Hampshire College in Am- herst Mass. , offers the I perfect course for "E.T." I _ _ - film fans. It's called :1 "extra-terrestrial intel- ‘ ligence',’ and students are taught ways of developing languages that might

be useful in communicating with a real "E. T."

Also at Hampshire, students can go canoeing, mountain ' climbing, survival camp-

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out of doors, for credits. MON DAY ' At the nearby University of CASINO NIGHT

Massachusetts, - spook-

loving students are offered T U E S D AY

a class in "ghosts and ap- paritions. " -

And students at all the colleges in the Amherst area

'srumsur NIGHT Special Price: For Student.

Dr. Gordon Fink, a researcher

k' at Medical cbliege of can eam credits in phySi- l Wisconsin in Milwaukee, cal education by taking WE DN E S DAY says the celery shock is of— courses called "Frisbee" c R AVE" "A ..

ficially termed "food-de— pendent exercise-induced anaphylaxis".

In one recent attack a patient actually went

from shock into a care, he adds.

Dr. Fink advises that for the moment, until more

is known about the phenome- na, not to mix celery and exercise back to back.

and "ultimate Frisbee" .

Sane educators are wondering

where it's all going to lead.

"Courses such as these cheapen the degrees of students who work hard on their education," complains ‘Dr. Charles Moser, a prob fessor of Slavic languages

at George Washington Universi

ty and president of the BOO-member University Pro- fessors for Academic Order.

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