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chronic stress can lead to sleep disruption and depression due to changes in the brain's melatonin levels. A recent study found that mice experiencing chronic stress had lower levels of melatonin, which caused them to have difficulty falling asleep and staying asleep. Additionally, the study discovered that these mice had alterations in their circadian rhythms and gene expression related to melatonin receptors. This suggests that chronic stress could be linked to sleep disruptions and depression through its effects on melatonin levels. This article was authored by Tian Jixia, Ji Wang, Su Weijin, and others.


Yes, they will develop skills, they will develop techniques, they will learn strategies. But they have universally a sense of entitlement to get what they want. They feel like they are worthy. They feel like they have permission to have what they want. And then from that position, even if they're not particularly skilled in their strategies or their techniques, these people will tend to get what they want anyway. Whereas men who do not feel like they deserve women or money or success or happiness, who don't feel like they're allowed to have it, don't feel like it was their birthright, don't get it. It really comes down to as simple as that. Developing a sense of entitlement creates the internal space where you can bring abundance into your life. Because if you don't feel worthy, let's say of beautiful women, you don't feel like you deserve beautiful women or that you don't have anything off of beautiful women, then it doesn't matter what you learn in terms of what to say to her.  And no woman wants to be with a man who doesn't feel like you deserve her. Because what does that say about her? A woman wants to be with a man who feels like he deserves to be with her and he chose her and he had choice. And therefore that increases her self-esteem and makes her feel like she's a valuable and sexy and appreciated woman. And you'll see this with things like money and finances and it can often come from a class thing. I know for myself I came from a very poor working class family and a family that also had philosophies around money that were not effective for getting it. Essentially that rich people were evil or greedy. And many people who come from working class backgrounds will have some sense of that belief because they don't have it and they need to justify that and also this world of finance and money is something that's mysterious and seems to be unfair and all this kind of stuff and so you have these beliefs about money. And the interesting thing is you cannot be what you hate or what you fear. In the same way I used to hate those cool guys who got all the chicks and I wanted to get lots of chicks and this causes internal dissonance because how can I get lots of girls and be that guy that I hate at the same time? So in order to shift that I really had to resolve the fact that I was jealous or I was intimidated or I was scared and that I didn't want to necessarily be like this jock arse all over here but I did need to integrate some of the elements that this man had in terms of boldly taking what he wanted, taking no shit from anybody else, living by his own rules. And when I could just let go of any of these negative thoughts that I had about these types of people and step into their world and play within different playing fields, suddenly the world opened up to me. Suddenly I could view money as energy. I could view money as something that I could wield to live an interesting lifestyle to change the world, to help people rather than something that was that only greedy evil capitalists had. I got to change my views on sexuality and seducing women to see that to have many lovers did not have to be something that was negative that was hurting women or that was misogynistic. It could be something that was actually spreading an amazing gift and emancipating and liberating women as well as, you know, making sure I had a good time as well. So the question then arises of course, how do you develop entitlement? How do you develop a sense of self-worth where you really feel it?  And somewhere in your subconscious, a little voice says, no, you're not. Or no, you don't deserve that. Or you're not good enough. All these little voices. Now, in order to, and everyone's ready, what's the technique? I can't give you a technique to do that immediately. And this will be a lengthy process to develop your self-esteem. But the important thing to do is to shift what your values are and put developing a sense of self-entitlement and worthiness at the very pinnacle of your value system. Because at this moment, many guys, particularly if they came to this because of seduction, their value system might be learn to get chicks. How do I get hot chicks? Because that is going to fill some void inside of me.  Or then I'll feel okay about myself. And that's typically why men who are insecure seek out a trophy girlfriend. Because it's like, yes, see, look at me. I've got this hot girl with me. That means I'm okay, right? And I mean, sure, that can happen. That can work, but it's a very shallow victory. And it's something that is, of course, dependent on that girl still being on your arm.


The first component you need is your why. Why you? What is the problem you're trying to solve? Because I always say this, business is a solution to someone's problem. Not only is it important to identify the problem, but you must identify a clear vision of what you're trying to create. I'll give you an example. One of my students, Makayla, she created her own donut store called Frankie Dee's Donuts and it's the most popular donut shop in her town. Not only do they have one of the best donuts, but the reason why they're so, so popular and have such a great community is because of her why.  And that's the reason why she's able to have such a close-knitted community who not only loves their product, but loves their mission, loves her why.


What is up you guys welcome back to another one if you are new to the channel I am GoPony and today we are in the new 2020 Lexus IS 300 F Sport courtesy of Bobby Ray Hall Lexus in Mechanicsburg PA and so I wanted to check this one out of course because of its distinctive and attractive looks first and foremost also above average reliability ratings by consumer reports that's always a plus but the main reason I always like checking out any F Sport by Lexus is because these seats are the most comfortable seats known to man in existence today and so without going into too much detail I have a very bad back and these seats really are the only seats to make me 100 percent completely comfortable and I'll get more into that as we go but what do you say let's go ahead and jump right into it and as always let's start with pricing and so there will be two different configurations for the 2020 IS 300 F Sport there is a rear wheel drive variant starting at $41,755 then you have the all-wheel drive starting at $43,805 and so I broke the pricing down that way because actually depending on one configuration that you go with the power plan is actually going to be a little bit different for instance if you go with that rear wheel drive configuration you will find a 2 liter turbocharged inline 4 cylinder putting out 241 horsepower 258 pound feet of torque of course sent to rear wheels through an 8 speed automatic with paddle shifters and that 0 to 60 time for that setup comes in at approximately 6.9 seconds top speed 143 miles per hour with mpg numbers coming in at 21 city 30 on the highway but so then there is that all-wheel drive configuration that what we have today powering this particular configuration is going to be a 3.5 liter naturally aspirated v6 big difference there putting out 260 horsepower 236 pound feet of torque sent to all four wheels through a six speed automatic with paddle shifters and so eight speed versus six speed automatic another big difference top speed coming in at 130 miles per hour with mpg numbers coming in at 19 in the city 26 on the highway so a lot of differences just between the rear wheel drive versus all wheel drive so I did want to mention all of that but so then before we do any kind of paddle shifter test which of course we will do or acceleration test I did want to mention the drive modes that drive mode button is located directly behind the shifter there and it is actually a drive mode dial but nonetheless there's drive modes will include normal eco and sport they will adjust things like the shift points the throttle response and the steering sensitivity and I do want to mention there is also a snow mode just behind that circular dial as well so a little bit of extra traction for you here in Pennsylvania because we do get snow quite often here so that's always nice for a little extra traction but nonetheless let's go ahead and turn it into sport driving mode there first thing I noticed actually is it did change the gauge configuration did change the gauge setup I guess the gauge colors really to be specific but it did also immediately downshift for me holding the rpms at a much higher level it's also been adjusted to throttle sensitivity and the steering sensitivity as well all in all that is typically the driving mode I prefer a most vehicle so I'm just going to leave it in there and to put it in full manual shift mode in the IS what you want to do is slide the shifter all the way to the back and to the left that is going to give me full control of the shifting here so what do you say let's go ahead and do a quick little acceleration here nothing too crazy but let's see how quickly these paddle shifters are going to react for us here here we go actually not too bad not the very quickest paddle shifters I've ever tested but definitely a quick reaction time I'm kind of impressed there and the paddle shifters they do feel very high quality as well I always like to point that out because a lot of times you'll find cheaper feeling plastic paddle shifters but these feel pretty nice so I do like the paddle shifter setup too but all in all to give control back to the IS all you need to do is simply slide the shifter to the right there and that gives control back to the IS 300 F Sport here and I do think you guys know what we have to do next let's do a quick little acceleration with the car having full control and let's see how quickly we can get this one here up to speed and here we go oh wow yeah boy I like the sound that was nice definitely no issues with any slack on the acceleration there certainly not going to have any issues merging on to the highway either that was a decent acceleration it is a kind of a linear acceleration too and most NA engines are going to give you that but I like it definitely a nice smooth acceleration I think is the best way to describe that that was nice but so then to go along with that acceleration as always braking is equally important and so up front you will find 13.1 inch ventilated front discs with four piston front cowpers in the back you're going to have 12.2 inch ventilated rear discs with dual piston rear cowpers and as far as the braking feel goes it's felt perfectly fine for me today as I'm coming up on a right turn here definitely no issues with brake pedal delay or anything like that so that is certainly on point touching on suspension and handling then up front you're going to have an f sport tuned independent double wishbone front suspension with coil spring shock absorbers and a stabilizer bar the rest of that pretty much as expected but f sport tuned suspension that is definitely going to give you crisper handling as opposed to the standard is 300 without the f sport so that's a plus as well in the back f sport tuned independent multi link rear suspension again coil spring shock absorbers and a stabilizer bar now I did want to mention an option for the suspension in case you were interested there is f sport lowering springs available from the factory for an additional $660 that of course is going to give you increased handling a little bit firmer of a ride but more so on the increased handling side of things that's a plus of course to go along with that it's also going to provide you a lower ride height so it's going to eliminate some of that wheel gaps that's always a plus too so better looks better handling little firmer ride so that's the trade off I guess but that's there for you if you wanted it but overall steering feel is perfectly fine definitely a heavier weighted steering wheel would say probably heavier than the Audi a3 I recently test drove so that is definitely a plus at least in my book ride quality has been perfectly fine and typically Lexus does an amazing job with ride quality so once again very much so on point as far as cabin noise goes if I'm being honest I wouldn't say it's quite as quiet as an Audi but it's certainly not bad either it is a Lexus so cabin noise is certainly for the most part going to be on point I'm just saying just got done reviewing the Audi so I have it fresh in my mind and that is a slightly quieter cabin if it means anything to you at least and then the is 300 that we have here today but then touching on visibility I can see perfectly fine out the back definitely no issues there and usually with sedans you're not going to have any issues overall a very nice ride very nice steering feel and I think what honestly makes it even better is you can throw this thing around the turns on the back roads because these seats are bolstered beautifully and that is any F sport seats that you go with so that is once again my favorite part about the IS 300 but I'll touch on that a little bit let's now make our way to the exterior of this beautiful 2020 Lexus IS 300 F sport all right so now making our way to the exterior let me give you guys a little flash from the past here this is the old Lexus IS 300 also known as the Toyota Altezza in Japan but this is where the IS 300 originated and then today we have this the 2020 Lexus IS 300 F sport so certainly has come a long way although that Toyota Altezza is certainly a legend in its own rights but let's go ahead and start up front on this one of course you have that Lexus spindle front grille with the F sport specific front fascia really differentiating itself from the non F sport trim levels and it does that by adding gloss black accent surrounding the lower air curtains also gloss black accents found within the bottom corners of that spindle grille as well really making it a much more aggressive appearance a much better look to it honestly to the sides LED headlights across the board will come standard with LED daytime running lights this headlights of course coming with the automatic feature as well meaning when it starts to get dark out they will turn on automatically for you there so you never have to worry about that did want to also mention there is optional triple beam LED headlights that go for an additional $1,160 if you wanted them also an adaptive front lighting system adds an additional $300 and essentially what that will do is when you're going around a bend at night perhaps on the back road so its headlights will swivel based on your steering angle better help illuminating what is around the corner so you're less likely to hit a deer or squirrel or whatever is possibly in the road so that's definitely a safety feature in itself but now let's go ahead and make our way to the side on this one first thing that always pops out to me is the F sport badging found on the front fender always looks good and then immediately tells you this car is of course outfitted to be a bit sportier than your standard is 300 chrome windows surrounds will come standard across the board as well taking a look at those side mirrors they are body colored power adjustable side mirrors and they will actually come heated as well with LED integrated turd signals and they certainly look right at home I'm glad they're body colored and not gloss black on the sides there I do like the body colored side mirror look but take a look down at the wheel setup 18 inch split 5 spoke F sport specific alloy wheels will come standard on this one but let me tell you guys it is actually a staggered fitment in case you were curious meaning the rear tires rear wheel setup is going to be a little bit wider than the front wheels meaning you can't rotate them unfortunately but as far as the sizing goes it's 18 by 8 inches up front 18 by 8 and a half inches in the back of course with it being a sport sedan that is typically found in just about all sports sedans out there even if you go with the all-wheel drive setup like we have today but anyways all-wheel drive setup by the way will also give you all season tires which makes sense of course but let's now go ahead and make our way to the back first thing I wanted to mention to you guys is this rear spoiler that you were looking at right here this is an added option for an additional $400 if you wanted to go that route just above that of course you have your shark fin antenna led taillights will also come standard back here along with F sport badging found in the lower left hand corner of that trunk lid and just below it all dual exhaust outlets with chrome tips so I do believe you guys know what we have to do next as always here is that exhaust clip it's open now since we are around back as far as opening that rear trunk there are a few ways to go about doing that there is of course a button on the key file that is one way there's also a button by the driver's side left knee that is a second way and there is actually a rubberized button just underneath of the trunk above the license plate there on the right side of the trunk there that is the third way you can go about opening the IS 300's trunk there but once opened up cargo capacity is going to come in at 10.8 cubic feet if that was not enough space there is a 6040 split meaning the rear seats do fold down for quote a bit of extra space there if you needed it did want to also mention underneath the cargo floor back there there is a spare tire in case anybody was curious there making your way to the rear legroom that is going to come in at 32.2 inches which doesn't sound like a whole lot but for reference I'm an even 6 feet tall this is how much space I had back there for those rear passengers they can also find a rear center armrest with cup holders in addition to that rear ventilation can be had back there as well and that's something that doesn't always come standard in the size of this particular vehicle so it is nice to definitely have that back there but then make your way to the front seats 10-way power adjustable driver's seat with power lumbar will come standard eight-way power adjustable passenger seat along with that that's definitely nice heated and ventilated front seats come standard with the IS 300 F Sport a lot of times the ventilated front seats will be an option like on Audi's typically so it is nice that it comes standard on the IS 300 F Sport here as far as the finish goes it comes finished in a new luxe material Lexus calls it it's very similar to leather but a little better I would say and you will have a few different colored finishes to that seating as well of course you have your black there's also a light tan and there is a rioja red finish as well which of course is what we have today perhaps the best one but nonetheless they are the most comfortable seats seriously that exists right now after driving 450 ish cars these by far the most comfortable seats at least in my opinion and again that's any Lexus F Sport seats it doesn't matter if it's the IS the RC the NX whatever they are very comfortable but take a look at the steering wheel it is tilt and telescoping very nice bolsters on a little thicker grip so I do appreciate that it will come leather wrapped standard and you can get a heated steering wheel for only an additional $150 which we do have today and that button by the way is located directly in front of the shifter there to go ahead and turn that on but as far as the gauges go speaking of turning things on let me actually first start by showing you guys the key here you do have your Lexus logo on the one side and when you flip it over lock unlock and again that button to pop the rear hatch but it is of course all keyless entry so all I'm going to do is simply leave the key in my pocket and put my foot on the brake and press the engine start button which is actually located just in between the infotainment screen and the gauges so an interesting placement and it's something Lexus does quite often but it's different than a lot of other manufacturers out there but nonetheless very nice gauge setup once started up LFA inspired actually if you guys remember Lexus old supercar that went for over $400,000 called the Lexus LFA that is where these gauges essentially came from and so to control what is on those gauges there are buttons found on the right side of the steering wheel there perhaps the coolest part about those gauges is the center circular part can slide to the left and the right by using the button on the steering wheel that looks like three rectangles essentially but when you do that you could slide it to the left and the right when it's all the way to the right you have tons of different things you could check out including your average miles per gallon how many miles you have left until you hit empty there's your g4 statistics tire pressure monitoring system of course there's a compass your radio settings safety settings when you need your next oil change in the list continue so quite a bit of stuff you could check out there and then of course when you slide it back to the middle you have your standard fuel information trip information and your engine temp so a very very impressive gauge display still to this day in my opinion so that's always good but touching on overall interior quality there is a power moon roof that will come standard with this one dual zoom climate control to go along with that i can't forget to mention the lexus analog clock front and center that always looks good black headliner will come standard and the coolest thing about this headliner is a very soft headliner it almost feels like suede but it is not i can tell it's not a suede finish but it's super soft so i definitely love this headliner i don't know why i've been really into headliners lately but i don't know i'm weird aluminum foot pedals will come standard on this one as well to go along with that aluminum sill plates too and as far as fit and finish goes it definitely has a very unique design not many cars are set up the way lexus is really all in all are set up so it's very different and i like it there's a lot of very specific accents that kind of look like japanese paper i think they said in the past that's found just above the passenger side glove box and all around the center area as well so it's a very japanese oriented car i guess it is fully made in japan a lot of cars these days are made everywhere but this is a fully 100 made in japan car which is kind of nice because you know the reliability is going to be there for that reason but one of the coolest things like about the is 300 f sport is when you have the climate control on there are these two lines on each side of the climate control options there they don't look like buttons but they are if you press them it will actually increase or decrease the temperature but again they don't look like buttons it's kind of like a hidden way to adjust the climate control and i don't know how lexus does it but it's freaking cool i will say that but of course just below that you have your heated ventilated seat buttons just behind all of that you have two cup holders and of course a center armrest which actually has an auxiliary port two usb charging ports and a 12 volt power outlet found within that as well so that's definitely a plus too but homeland controls can also be found for up to three different garage doors found just underneath that rear view mirror there but now i think let's get to the tech display front and center it is a seven inch display screen that comes standard i put it that way because we do have the optional 10.3 inch high resolution display screen today by the way that comes with either the navigation package or the mark levinson and navigation package but the navigation package that we have today because for $1745 so so because of that let me show you guys that real quick to control what is on that because it is not touchscreen because honestly you couldn't reach it while you were driving anyways it is pretty darn far up there but to control what is on that there is kind of a mouse like device and a couple buttons just to the right of the shifter there and it is pretty simple to use and it's one of those things that you'll definitely get used to but what those buttons actually control on that screen are things like bluetooth and audio streaming you can check out your climate control information up there if you like some driving statistics as well but the one thing i really wish you could control up there just like you can on several other lexus models right now including the rc the two-door version of this essentially is android auto and apple carplay actually the is still does not come with android auto and apple carplay perhaps next year well i have a funny feeling it definitely well next year but for this model year they have left it off the is 300 and they have given it to several other lexus models but yet not the is kind of interesting there but nonetheless factory navigation system will actually come with the 10.3 inch display screen which essentially is probably what i would use it for anyways but there is really a ton of stuff you can check out up there it is a very high definition display screen as well so that's always nice you can also check out your radio settings of course and by the way when it comes to the sound system you will find eight speakers that will come standard and like i said previously if you were to go with that navigation of mark levinson package that adds two thousand eight hundred and forty five dollars you will find a 15 speaker mark levinson surround sound system with 835 watts which is some serious awesomeness probably overkill for the size of this vehicle but serious awesomeness so you got that there but that of course is not the one we have today though so let's go ahead and turn on the radio see what we got playing today and let's test out the clarity of this eight speaker sound system that we have today actually gotta say i loved it that was a perfectly fine sound system eight speakers is just fine for the size of this vehicle bass was certainly nice as well so really mark levinson is gonna absolutely kill it don't get me wrong but that was a really good sound system actually for a standard sound system on any vehicle really so well done lexis but so then last thing i wanted to mention to you guys is when you do put the is in reverse you will find of course a rear view camera letting you know who or what is behind you which is always is going to lead us into safety and so to start front side and side curtain airbags will come standard along with the driver's knee airbag up front as well in the back you're going to have latch aka lower anchors and tethers for children for the rear car seats also back there rear child door locks and also some of the advanced safety features standard on the is 300 is going to be included in their safety system called lexis safety system plus that is going to include pre-collision system with pedestrian detection lane departure alert with lane keep assist intelligent high beams dynamic radar cruise control and road sign assist as well and to go along with that another standard safety feature is blind spot monitoring system with rear cross traffic alert and that's what i always look for these days that's where the little car icons are in the side mirror so it kind of prevents you from turning into somebody on the highway it lets you know what's in your blind spots that's pretty cool too but in addition to that there are some front and rear parking sensors available for an additional $500 if you wanted it and so but that is about it for this one you guys thank you so much for watching feel free to follow me on social media at the bottom of the screen there if you like be sure to hit the subscribe and the bell notification button if you're in the new car reviews that is what we do here on this channel after all do appreciate you guys watching more than you know and i will see you guys all in the next video stay gold


Well, let's find out. Hey friends, welcome back to my channel. My name is Greg and I'm a brain hacker creating content that will help you upgrade your brain performance. If you're interested then subscribe below and join our amazing community. Today we're going to talk about boosting your brain and mental performance. Now, most people that I know try to achieve this peak performance, the state of being in the flow for a long period of time. And honestly, I am no different. Now, the best way to do it to achieve this peak performance is to optimize your cognition to boost your brain power in a sustainable way that is going to work for a long time.  Now, this is the worst thing you can do and try to avoid doing that. So, what are some of the best scientifically proven brain hacks that can enhance your cognition and mental power? Well, let's check them out. Now, the first one that I want to talk about is to get some sun exposure early in the morning. The best time to get it is as soon as you wake up. Now, why is this important?  And those cells will trigger the correct timing of cortisol melatonin rhythms. Now, cortisol is a super crucial hormone which we'll soon talk about more. But keep in mind, this is a hormone that will increase your energy levels in the morning and that's what you want to get. You want to have lots of energy in the morning. And of course, melatonin is important for your sleep.  And also, your circadian clock, your inner 24-hour clock will be set or reset, depends on how you look at it. So, this is the most important thing in the morning to boost your focus, alertness, and mainly your energy levels. Now, the second thing you want to do is to increase your epinephrine levels. Now, epinephrine is a neuromodulator or neurotransmitter that is important for alertness. That's one of the best ways to increase your epinephrine level is by drinking coffee. If you like it, coffee contains caffeine, which is a stimulant, which will increase epinephrine, which will increase alertness. Gerbermata is great. It's a really powerful tea. You can learn more about it up here. Green tea is great.  And honestly, you don't really need coffee to increase alertness, but of course, coffee can help you out. Then, the next way to increase alertness is to kind of boost your motivation. Now, if you do anything what you're doing, if you do it out of love, out of fear, or out of anger, for example, well, this will lead to increased epinephrine levels. Now, without high epinephrine levels, you won't be alert. And without alertness, you won't be able to achieve big performance. So the next trick I want to talk about is to increase cortisol levels. Now, people get cortisol all wrong. Honestly, they see it as a stress hormone, and it is high levels of cortisol for an extended period of time can cause a whole lot of problems. But high levels of cortisol for a short period of time are crucial to boost your energy levels, because that's what cortisol does. It increases your energy. Now, normally, you get a peak of cortisol at about 9am, that's totally normal, no matter what you do. And then cortisol levels will go down, and then we'll get another peak sometime around 2, 3, 4am in the morning. But if this cortisol spike in the morning is not strong enough, or if you're not really feeling energized in the morning, there are a couple of things that, of course, you can do. For example, you can take a cold shower. You can do the breathing exercise from Wim Hof, a really effective way to boost cortisol levels. And of course, you can do a high intensity interval training early in the morning. This will definitely wake you up and increase your cortisol levels. By the way, guys, if you like this video, please press the like button below. Then you need to increase acetylcholine. Now, acetylcholine is a very important neurotransmitter for learning memory focus and attention. And high levels of acetylcholine are associated with better learning. So, how can you increase acetylcholine in your brain? Well, you can take some of the tropics. For example, I'm a big fan of citicoline, an amazing atropic. You can also take AlphaGPC, and you can learn more about them up here in the video. Of course, you can eat foods that are high in citicoline, but they need to be low in saturated fats. Why? Because saturated fats decrease oxygen flow to the brain. So, which are the best foods high in colon but low in saturated fats? Well, we're talking about soybeans, almonds, cruciferous vegetables, beans, quinoa, and so on. And they will help you increase acetylcholine levels in the brain. And then another trick is to look at a very small and narrow place, like for example the camera I'm looking at right now in front of me, for about 60 to 120 seconds. And this will also increase acetylcholine levels. Why exactly? Well, because mental focus follows visual focus. So, if you're visually focused, mental focus will follow. You can try it out. I'm sure you're gonna like it, and it's gonna work for you as well. Then you need to take the right nitropics for cognition. I've already mentioned taking citicoline, but of course there are many other nitropics that I recommend taking because they increase the amount of neurotransmitters in the brain, BDNF, they increase blood flow, and so on, so on. So, some of the best nitropics from increasing brain power are panics ginseng. It's a great adaption herb that can increase your energy levels. And optimal daily dosage is about 200 to 400 milligrams per day. Then, of course, L-tionine, which promotes relaxation without trousers. L-tionine is an amazing tropic for increasing focus and alertness, and you can take about 200 milligrams per day. Then, phosphatide dill serine, one of the best, my favorite nitropics on the market, because this is a special protein found in every cell of the body in the membrane of the cells and can significantly improve focus and attention. And the optimal dosage is about 100 to 300 milligrams per day. And lanusmin mushroom, great to protect your brain from degeneration, and you can take about 500 milligrams to about one gram per day.   Then you need to optimize your diet. Now, obviously, there is no perfect diet out there. Some diets are good for some people, other diets are good for other people, but there are certain rules and there are certain types of foods that everyone should eat, because those foods and those ways of eating will improve your brain performance. And there's just no doubt about it anymore.  And here are a couple of rules I want to share with you. Well, first of all, try to eat more protein early in the morning and then more carbs later in the evening, because protein will increase dopamine levels and carbs will increase serotonin levels in the evening. And dopamine is associated with focus and attention, whereas serotonin is associated with better sleep. So this means you will be more focused in the morning and you will be more tired in the evening and you will have a better sleep. Of course, intermittent fasting is great when people ask me about it. It's great for increasing awareness. But if it happens to you that you suffer from a midday crash, now usually people crash about two to four or five p.m. If this happens to you, then you can still do intermittent fasting, but started earlier. So eat an early dinner at about five or six p.m. And then do not eat anything until about, you know, six to eight a.m. And then eat a really high quality breakfast. This is a better way to get the right nutrients in early in the morning. You'll still get the benefits from fasting and you won't crash in the afternoon. So try it out if you are crashing as well. It's also important to keep your blood sugar stable and how you can do that.  You also need to get some sun exposure in the evening. Now, why is this so important? First of all, if you get some sun exposure early in the morning, this means that your circadian clock will basically try to wake you up the next day a bit earlier. And then if you get some sun exposure late in the evening, your circadian clock will try to extend your day a bit longer. So you will be awake for a bit longer. And then on average, you will go to bed every day at exactly the same time and wake up at approximately the same time. But there's another thing, the melanopsin ganglion cells that I mentioned before, actually those cells can be really sensitive in the evening to all the light exposure there is. There's a lot of lights here right now. And if I would be filming this in the evening, that would cause some problems. Now, if you get some real sunlight exposure in the evening, so when the sun is setting, your melanopsin ganglion cells will be less sensitive, which would have a really big positive impact on your sleep. Try it out. I'm sure you're gonna like the effects. Now, there are other bio hacks that you can do and many people like to do, but people make so many really bad mistakes. For example, like drinking coffee early in the morning, you should never do that. Now, which are those bio hacks? And how can you avoid those mistakes that you probably did as well? Well, check out the next video up here and learn all about them. All right, guys, thank you for watching this video. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me, follow your inception social media. And guys, I hope to see you soon again. Stay well.


What and why do you think this is the same? We're not going to say anything. Let me just say nothing. Yeah, I don't think it's going to be the same. What if it's going to be different or another? It's going to be the same. The other thing is we don't have to change the rules. What if we're going to be banished in the New York Times and the government will be spotless. Wait, I'll tell you. So not everyone is in the picture as many as you need to be. I should myself come. I said I should leave. Okay, please don't move because they will be terrible in the picture. Don't move. One, two, three, and one, two, three, say Sam all together. One more, one more. Thank you. It's not directly related to what they're doing, but it demonstrates how original I am. No, go and search for it because it's relevant to trouble. Okay, I should leave. Now, if you ask me what is Shusha, me, what is Shusha, me, what is Shusha, I... She should have a sufficient amount of autonomy, independence, and agency to be able to function as a separate entity even in an intellectual relationship.  So no margin, no fusion, no base of pathology to that. She should not be dependent in the sense that if she is left alone, she's perfectly okay with her own company, and she's self-sufficient in every possible way. I think this is a general recipe for proper life, what the so-called the ancient Greek in the name. So it's a good life recipe, and it applies also to parentry. Parenting, today we believe that parenting is done through a process called modeling. You show the child how to get a good person. The child emulates, you serve as a model for the child. So you just need to get a good enough person for the child to become a parent. And that's the least that we can describe. So she should be secure about how to let the child become an individual. Which is the most difficult thing, bro. Can you describe in more detail the process and outcome of that? For example, is there still a pyrotechnism and imaginary friend? Does the individual still become an artist with the same needs as a conventional? No way. Two sets of unity here. And all the moments of men, women, competing. We don't have a sense of this, of this, bro. They are tiny. It cannot be, even if we were to think that this is at the core of gender dysphoria, we would never have a fraction of what's happening today. And what's happening today is a social phenomenon. Social phenomenon. Now, why is it bad? Who cares?  Men one day. The problem is that most social institutions, not all of them, most social institutions are constructed of this difference. Is it a good thing? Maybe not. I'm not expressing anything in fact in general. Maybe the idea into basic institutions of gender is idiotic. Or bad, or reactionary. It should be dispensable. We should be in institutions which are gender neutral. Maybe we should do this, but we don't have it yet. Because we don't have them yet, if people were to choose gender just because they read an article or watched a television show, which is the vector of contagion, then we're in serious trouble, institutionally. And we're in serious trouble as far as relationships, for example. Marriage, family, community, and so on. All of this is based on gender. It's not the same. It's not to say, for example, the same-sex marriage is a problem. It's not a problem. If the institution is preserved, these people have a biological identity that corresponds to the gender identity.  So it's okay. It's one on one, it's biology, gender, institution. Nothing is broken. That's why it was easy for the Supreme Court to accept the same-sex marriage. It's still the paradigm that there is correspondence between biology, gender, institution. So same-sex marriage is not destructive. It's perfectly okay. Not so, not so a mass hysteria of transgender conversions. Because that's a serious problem. Because in this case, there is no correspondence between biology, gender, and institution. And we have constructed all civilization based on this correspondence. There have been periods in history where homosexuality was utterly common. Actually in ancient Greece, every youth, every youth has gone through a homosexual experience. At the end of the book, he studied. It was his, it was only mate. Every youth went through this. The mentor, what today would be called a professor. That sexist student, there was an initiation. Not to mention the army where homosexuality was encouraged in order to create cognition of fighting units. So homosexuality is a very long history. It's biologically determined. It corresponds to the gender perception. And therefore, it was wrong. We want to extend to homosexuals all the right, the heterosexuals. Including the right to marry. It is not destructive of anything. Society is intact. The transgender hysteria or psychosis is threatening the foundations of civilization. It's a problem. It's a very serious problem. And it also draws out the authentic voices. Because there are a few people who really feel that they are not their assigned gender. They are such people. This is totally psychologically determined. But they still, the feeling is still real. And these people are drowning in the victimhood movement of transgender. And in the spectrum of transgender. In the hysteria and psychosis of transgender. In the politicization of transgender. These authentic few individuals who really have gender dysphoria for whatever reason. Probably psychological, but it doesn't matter, it's real. They're drowning. They are hijacked. And in my view, they are abused. But the advocates of transgenderism as a human right, I think they are abused. But they're leveraged. And so this leads us back to British Columbia studies where they've shown, they've demonstrated that many victimhood movements are hijacked by narcissists and psychos. So it's a narcissistic phenomenon. As you can see, I'm pretty liberal. I don't have, I try not to have any biases and so on. But I do agree that sex and gender are not related. Are not related, absolutely. There are societies where gender is chosen.  But the transgender psychosis is met in every way that I can see. Thank you very much for the theory. The parental interest in this is a benign entity. It's an entity that guides you and provides inhibitions, tells you what you're doing wrong and what you're doing right, etc. It's a friend. It's a friend. It's a good friend. And like every good friend it is basically an illness. And not afraid to tell you when you're doing something wrong. It's an advisor, it's a life-long advisor. It's a guy, it's a compass. So it's a good force. It's a good set of introduction.  Or an introject that causes dysfunction in the child. Because the introject is likely to encompass absence, depression, harsh criticism, statistic outbursts, and so on and so forth. The mother's introject becomes an internal enemy character. We call it much later in life. The secretary object. This is the first secretary object upon which the template on which the narcissist constructs the secretary objects later in life. Later when the narcissist has intimate partners he converts them into the secretary objects that, of course, resemble the template. The mother introject. That's why the narcissist tries to convert all his intimate partners into mothers. The only template he has is this. So this is the mother introject. The child then creates gradually, probably between 18 months and 36 months, there's a debate. Some scholars, like my great father, think that he ends in 24 months. John Gershel thinks it's 36 months. Albert Pantua, for example, thinks it lasts much longer.  Around the ages of 2 to 3 years old the child creates a false set. A false set is a goal. A pattern of social. It's a goal. And it is as powerful as the mother introject. It holds the mother introject in check. It controls her. Prevents her from attacking internally the child. The child according to the mother is a bad object. The child is deficient, not worthy of love and lovable.  The child is a recipient of conditional love. Love conditioned upon performance. The child is instrumentalized, sometimes marginalized, identified, etc. So the child is the repository of bad qualities. A hopeless case, so to speak. Because of the process of speaking I'm not going to repeat the whole three days just because of the process of speaking the child is all bad. His mother has to be all good. It's terrifying if mother is bad. It's a terrifying thought. The child is all bad. The mother is all good. The child is all bad. The next stage is the child purges. It becomes one with a false set. It becomes one with a false set.  Thereby rendering the false set less than divine and of course not omnipotent. So the merger or the fusion weakens the false set. Weakens it to the point that it can no longer counteract the mother interject. At that point the child is faced with a choice. The child can subject itself to the mother interject. You know, perpetually. Some children maintain this choice and become borderline. Some children even allow the mother to dominate the false set so to become co-dependence or people-gleecers and so on. The narcissistic child has another solution. The narcissistic child detects itself from the false set detaches itself from the false set. Thereby restoring the false set's divinity or borderline powers. Because not the bad object is again outside the false set. And the false set is restored to its former grace and stature. Now the false set can again constrain the mother interject. There is industrial peace on this level. There are no internal attacks. No internal attacks. No internal dissonance. No internal conflict. Here. But the child now becomes all bad. There is even a catch-22. The bad the more divine the false set the more perfect, the more good, the more everything. The worst of the child because it's the result of a splitting defense. So if the false set is 7 the child is 3. But if the false set is 10 the child is 0. The more the child idealizes or actually linearly affects the more the child affects and idealizes the false set the more the child is to denigrate itself. Render itself of bad object. Think of it as two baskets. For example in multiple baskets there is everything that is bad and in the other basket there is everything that is good. There is a splitting. So if the false set is all good, 100% good the child must be 100% better. This of course is intolerable intolerable to the child. So it creates serious dramatic consequences. The child's next move is to try and find a mother's substitute. Someone asked me yesterday can a good neighbor be a mother's substitute? Can a grandmother be a mother's substitute? A grandmother might make the cut. A grandmother might make it. But neighbor's teacher is not because intimacy is important. Intimacy, love there is a sense of dimension to the relationship between a child and a parent. So this is an upset of teachers, neighbors and so forth. They can't fulfill the role of a mother's substitute. So the child has to wait throughout the life of their older child until the child is capable of finding an intimate or replacing a mother's substitute. The child experiences dissonance, anxiety and depression. Indeed, the vast majority of narcissists and the history of anxiety disorders depressive disorder previous to their adults in adolescence and so on. The overwhelming of people diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder have had a history of anxiety disorders and depressive disorders throughout childhood and adolescence before they find an intimate partner. Depression and anxiety actually then vanish in many, many narcissists. The minute they start to have intimate or so-called intimate relationships with insignificant others. So I don't say insignificant others but insignificant others pseudo intimate relationships. The minute in other words they're able to replace the father introject, most narcissists can no longer be diagnosed with anxiety disorders or depressive disorders. This is a very telling fact. It means that up until the stage that the narcissist is able to find an intimate partner the narcissist is dissonant. After this phase once the narcissist finds a substitute mother introject an intimate partner the narcissist becomes consular which is why many, many scholars have made the mistake of saying that narcissists are helping or lacking that they are ego-syntonic that they are they love themselves because they are consular the minute they have the mother introject they no longer have an internal constant they lose their anxiety they lose their depression but again I repeat the vast majority of children who would become narcissists have an analytic history of anxiety and depression that's a fact by the way another surprising fact is that psychopaths have a history of anxiety that's when you discover it okay I realize being with you bye bye I will never find you I am a good mother introject we are about to we are about to begin with cold therapy not cold, we are about to begin to learn about cold therapy so this this is crucial that's why I dedicate the scarce moments to this because what cold therapy does it eliminates the force of by collaborating with the punitive by collaborating with the punitive mother introject to be clear this is an exceedingly risky strategy and then you would say another one but risky then evoking or reviving the mother introject or endow empowering empowering the mother introject at the expense of the false sense of course to remain because a child exists even if you are 90 years old child is life long who says that child to be to remain defenseless so the child is forced to interact with the mother introject the child for example for the first time again experiences the profound shame that Masterson and others describe so there is a feeling of profound shame that child is threatened existentially threatened by the mother introject


Hello, Ohio University alumni, other members of the Ohio University community and anyone else who happened to stumble onto this special homecoming 2020 Ohio University Archives video presentation of a somewhat brief and very random history of student expression on Ohio University's campus, 1812 to 2018. I am Ohio University Archivist Bill Kimock and I have just a few words for all of you before we take off with this presentation. Although the title implies that this will only be about student expression for the first 200 years plus of OU's existence, much of the film also includes oversight of, expectations for and reactions to student expression on campus by Ohio University officials during that same period. Indeed the presentation begins with the very first rules for student behavior and expression and ends with the most recent rules regarding student behavior and expression. I also wanted you to know that I know that there is a lot more to this story, but we are not writing a book here so things will be left out which possibly some of you will think should have been included. Even if I made this a 2 or 3 hour thing there would be lots of stuff that would have to be left out. But I have it whittled down to 47 or 48 minutes hoping to spare everyone from having to listen to me drone on for a ponderously seemingly endless time. Which may occur anyway. Anyway with all of that said, thank you for being here and let's get this thing started. The history of student expression in Ohio University's officials attempts to regulate student expression began as early as March 18, 2012, three years before the first class of students had ever graduated from OU, when the University Board of Trustees laid out the very first rules that would govern Ohio University's student behavior. Important for our purposes this evening is that one-third of the university's first 16 resolutions laid out by the board regarding student behavior specifically related to student expression in one way or another. Resolution three, for instance, stated that no Ohio University student should possess or exhibit any indecent picture nor purchase nor read in the university any lascivious, impious or religious book or ballot, nor sing or repeat verses of like character. And if any student should be convicted of lying or profanity he shall be punished according to the nature and heinousness of the offenses. Resolution four, stated that if any student shall quarrel with, insult or abuse a fellow student or any person whatever he shall be punished. Resolution seven, stated that modesty, civility and due respect were required of Ohio University students and that if any student shall either in speech or action manifest disrespect toward the university president he shall be admonished and either make due acknowledgement to the offended party or be suspended from the university. Resolution 10 also addressed student expression by banning hollering, whistling, jumping or any other boisterous or tumultuous noise from apartments of the university. And finally and perhaps somewhat oddly another limitation to student expression came in resolution number 11. Remember please that for the first 60 years plus of Ohio University's existence students were exclusively men and when these rules were laid out by the board there may be just a handful of men attending the university at the time. Nevertheless here's resolution number 11, which stated that no student shall disguise himself by wearing women's apparel or in any other way under such penalty as the president and the board may see caused to inflict. As a side note none of us has any idea why the OU Board of Trustees thought it was important to make this resolution one of the first 16 rules of the university but there you have it. Later during the 1840s the rules governing student behavior were updated. The enrollment at OU was still male but nothing was written in these new rules about dressing up as women so we can assume that either the fad among college students at OU had passed or perhaps the board of trustees members of the mid 19th century had just become more progressive. Nevertheless the updated rules still warn students to avoid profanity obscenity and vulgarity, to observe polite and decorous deportment toward each other and other persons, to observe cleanliness in person and in dress and to give testimony when called on by the faculty concerning irregularities and transgressions of the college order. However despite these warnings as enrollment grew, reprimand suspensions and expulsions increased throughout the 1830s and 1840s. In 1840 a student expressed his displeasure over his grades by filling the halls of Cutler with moan grass. Another student was found to have insulted a citizen and a company of ladies and he was dismissed. Other students were found guilty and punished for scribbling on college building walls and still others for conversing in a grossly profane and infidel nature. In the 1890s the faculty expressed its concerns about boisterous cheering and college yells that took place in lectures, recitals and assembly halls and in 1907 there came a description of an incident in which the members of two main literary societies, the Athenians and the Philomathians were saying derisive songs and yelling disparaging chants toward one another. As we move into the 20th century we find the students of course have had no trouble finding other ways of expressing themselves on OU's campus, sometimes in surprising ways and in surprising places. Here's one of those surprising places. The so-called kissing circle is at the intersection of brick pass on a college green. According to tradition this intersection roughly formed a circle where any man could kiss any woman who was passing through at the same time. One wonders how many OU women either totally avoided this part of campus during the day and night or if they could not avoid it on their way to Chubb Library or the next class, waited until the coast was clear before they made their mad desperate dash for the circle and onto safety. Nevertheless the kissing circle is popular in today and beyond being a place to kiss it eventually evolved into a spot in which students rather than having a physical encounter might leave a painted message anonymous or otherwise noting their affection for someone else on campus. Moreover the area around the kissing circle could be painted by anyone at any time and later in other decades to kissing circle area evolved to being a spot where various organizations and groups painted their various announcements and concerns. Meanwhile as long as we are discussing ways in which OU students have publicly expressed their affection for one another here's an image of the so-called graffiti wall which while today is more often used for student social and political expression it was also once a place for expression of personal affection. I'm making a bigger deal over student publicly expressing their affection for one another than you might imagine because apparently how students express their affection for one another in public became of increasingly significant concern to OU administrators. Going back at least to the mid 1940s when his term as OU president began Ohio University President John Calhoun Baker and his wife Elizabeth attempted to discourage public expression of affection often referred to in brief as PDA on the University campus. The Baker's have become so concerned about this matter that an OU student handbooks at the time students were warned that public display of affection sold their reputations especially the women's reputations among their peers in the public. But the Baker's were not the only Athens dignitaries who found such expression to be unsightly. As some of OU's alum might have heard or perhaps as some alum might have experienced themselves the grounds of the Athens asylum provided a peaceful quiet semi-private retreat for OU couples who were banned by OU social rules from engaging in intimate physical contact on campus. Well perhaps it was not so private after all. Here's a letter from Athens asylum superintendent C.H. Creed to President Baker in 1948. It states that we have always welcomed the students of Ohio University to come to the grounds of the hospital but the conduct of certain students has become nothing short of obnoxious. Superintendent Creed goes on in paragraph three to inform President Baker that on warm days the boys and girls flock over here and lie around literally on top of each other with so few clothes on that in driving through the grounds one would think it was the Naked City. By the way for those who do not know this the motion picture called the Naked City was out and very popular in 1948 which was when this letter was written hence the reference. Anyway the asylum superintendent goes on in this letter to the president to state that the conduct of the students is disgusting and repulsive some of them having sexual intercourse and broad daylight in full view of the walks and drives throughout the asylum. He repeats that he is happy to have the students visiting the grounds of the asylum but only if they as he writes can conduct themselves in a manner comparable to that of our mentally ill patients. As many of you probably know already because maybe some of you are around for it concern of how OU students express their affection for one another in public did not die with the 40s and 50s. If the contents of student handbooks or any indication this matter was still a pretty big deal to OU administrators at least into the early part of the 1960s and since the handbooks also contained plenty of information related to other means of student expression perhaps this is a good time to examine those interesting artifacts of Ohio University history a little closer because as most of you know student expression on college campuses took on a whole other life in the 1960s as college students everywhere began questioning the society in which they were raised and presently living consequently the university reacted by constantly modifying its rules governing student expression to try to keep up with the times while at the same time welcoming thousands more students as enrollment began to take off. Perhaps of greatest concern to parents and to the university was how the parents of college aged women would react to these changing times and sending their daughters off to college as a reaction to this and perhaps as a recruitment measure Ohio University began publishing separate handbooks for men and women and there were some very interesting differences even just starting with the titles of the handbooks here is the title page in the men's handbook for 1964-1965 it is titled you the college man and one might fairly expect the handbook for OU females to be titled you the college woman right but no here it is and it is titled simply you the co-ed some might suggest the implication being that while the men were grown mature college students the women were considered as being something other than that and as one might suspect the differences between the university's expectations for OU men and women and how they might express themselves to not end with the titles of these respective handbooks here on this page in the first line under general university regulations the university tells its male students that a college man has many things but above all else he is a scholar that sounds reasonable right let's see if there's a similar statement about college women in their handbooks well here it is on page 13 under Ohio's co-ed the most important thing about being a college woman is being a lady so okay there you have it the manner to be scholars the women are to be ladies maybe you can also see at the bottom of this handbook page where it says social tips once again women were implored not to express themselves in their romantic relationships openly and they were schooled in proper ways of addressing their elders these are all one way or another forms of personal expression which the university hoped not to regulate then at least a coax women toward expressing themselves as though they were candidates for a catillion or debutant event rather than as being students hoping to get a good academic education at o u meanwhile i'm not showing you the equivalent of these behavioral expectations in the men's handbook because there was no such equivalent in the men's handbooks in fact much of the long lists that were included in the women's handbooks regarding how they should behave and express themselves were either excluded or at least considerably abbreviated in the men's handbook here's one good example in the men's expected dress standards in their handbook just a few lines are included informing the men that collared shirts and long pants along with shoes and socks are expected every day except sundays when ties and coats should be worn that's pretty much it for the men otherwise their freedom of expressing themselves by what they wore was left up to them reasonably but what about college women well so it turns out that ohio university women had dressed coats for just about every meal every day of the week and it took nearly two pages to tell them this not only were their dress coats for classes and meals but also for sun bathing and teas and dances and movie nights meanwhile pin curlers and rollers and scarves should not be worn in lounges dining halls or anywhere on campus outside of their rooms if becoming acquainted with their dress expectations was not demoralizing enough for the women the next section of the rules immediately informed them that even if they had some freedom in expressing themselves in their chosen attire in public the time in which they could do this outside of their residence halls was limited as you could see in the next session a handbook on the next page regulation hours it details the time in which these college age women are allowed outside of their halls according to these rules women must be in their residence halls by anywhere from 10 to 11 on weeknights depending on their years in college and by 12 30 a.m on weekends except for special occasions such as jay problems when they get stout until 1 30 a.m in all cases women must not leave their residence halls until after 7 a.m i looked for a similar section in the men's handbook but there was no such curfew for men again i bring this up in this presentation because this was a limitation on how students in ou could express themselves even regulating when at least half the student population could do so by the way i've heard rumors that women develop methods of circumventing these hours rules especially maybe some of you who were here for that time could share with us some of your memories of that in our mapping memories exercise whatever way women took matters into their own hands covertly perhaps again circumventing those rules as you will see in later in a later slide women officially took matters to their own hands later in the 1960s and got the curfew rescinded moving along now any report on the history of student expression at ohaw University would be irresponsibly incomplete without some mentioning of student written expression the student newspapers are excellent examples of representation of student expressions throughout the 20th and so far the 21st century here are just a very few examples of student expression as they were printed by the green and white which was the predecessor to the post in these examples from the 1930s you could see that students were protesting war they were protesting against the existence of an rotc on campus which mostly came about in as a result of the forming of the seven college system and then they were also protesting about how faculty had been criticizing student reviews of performances and recitals meanwhile here is the post reporting on race issues and discrimination in Athens at ohaw University which were more more prevalent as more african-americans moved from the south to the north they're in the great migration the post has continued throughout the years to be a spokes vehicle for student expression and a catalyst for fomenting student expression in its editorials the post and its green and white predecessor employed a lot of fine writers who've gone out to make their mark in journalism one way or another and as such would be worthy of their own history in fact there are several other student publications that could be mentioned here however for the purpose of moving along through this brief presentation we have to be selective and so we'll just mention one more student publication mostly because it's so much fun to talk about it not all student publications reported on the news and commented on the news straightforwardly as the green and white and then as the post some student publications use satire to express themselves such as this one called the hangover which was reportedly published on doomsday and this was reportedly volume four courts and of course the issue here was prohibition and the students what the students thought of prohibition one of the longest lasting and possibly the most popular student publication of its time in ohio university other than the green and white and the post the green goat was often the center of controversy and usually by choice was satire being its writers preferred form of expressing themselves and their concerns about national and local and ohio university matters first published in 1913 with this as its first cover the green goat was above all else intended as a humor magazine and as far as i can tell it was the first absolutely independent student publication at ohio university which means that the students who published it hired and paid their staff independent of university support did all of its own design all of its own writing and basically published independently of any university political strings rules of financial aid the focus of the magazine clearly is to express its writer's opinion as satire while pushing the boundaries and some might argue pushing sometimes beyond contemporary boundaries of humor of the time making the green goat more attractive its covers and interior drawings were wonderfully artistically creative here in the late 1920s you see a cover that is mocking prohibition and later on at the end of the roaring 20s another cover asks the question is sex necessary which seems pretty tame to us today but most certainly would have been scandalous especially as a cover for a student magazine in 1930 the green goat staff prided themselves on the spectrum of issues they could mock and just about any subject and area of ohio college life and culture was fair game for the magazine writers and illustrators the green goat even mocked its own tenuous relationship with the university as you can see by page one of this issue where the green goat proudly proclaims that this magazine is not a recognized publication of ohio university but to show that the goat holds no grudges ohio university is still a recognized institution of the green goat it's predictable then that the green goat's jokes and satire about sex and drinking and its relationship with the university on ohio's campus were just the start of it members of an anti-establishment publication such as the green goat were not about to suffer gladly administrators that they perceived as being strict and straight laced one such administrator who ended up taking a lot of playful heat from the green goat was ohio university's dean of men moral hunkins famous among students on ohio's campus as being a no-nonsense and strict disciplinarian dean hunkins was known to many ohio students sometimes as moral moral and in other times as dean humbug and so in this mid-1950s green goat the writers apparently thought it was great fun in depicting the dean as Adolf Hitler allegedly enjoying and i'm quoting from the article a fine ohio post editorial title conformity a positive force in university society as you can see in the same issue of the green goat ohio's police staff also came in for some sharp green goat satire as the goat included an illustration of a so of a nazi military parade but instead gave it the caption campus police exhibit the forward look with shiny new cars and other disciplinary equipment before i go further just a few words in defense of dean hunkins he responded in writing to president bakers concern about this issue the green goat writing that it really was not such a big deal to him and he thought that the green goat would have to go a lot further in the way of vulgarity for it to become a candidate for censorship this was not characteristic of the dean for the earlier 1950s they had written passionately to the president expressing his concerns as so-called McCarthyism had the possibility of shutting down free expression on college campuses and of course this was not an empty concern on college campuses during the 1950s as our exploration of student expression on ohio's campus will demonstrate the issue of free speech and expression really took off on college campuses across the country during the 1950s and early 1960s especially after ohio state university instituted its famous resolution prohibiting the appearance of certain speakers from its campus allegedly concerning itself with national security ohio state university's board trustees ruled in september 1951 that osu's president could bar any speaker he wished to bar from addressing students on campus ohio state's decision to squelch public expression became known widely across the country on college campuses as the gag rule at least somewhat likely because of osu's geographic proximity to Athens in 1962 newly installed ohio president verne r alton was frequently asked by students during the fall of his first year as ohio's president to take a position on the issue of outside campus speakers coming to the Athens campus but before pronouncing a verdict in this matter president alton and his staff did their homework and in doing so they relied heavily on a speech that was made by the university in new mexico president tom pope joy in july 1962 pope joy had stated that an american university is a place of free inquiry postulating questions criticism controversy debate and doubt in all matters social as well as scientific pope joy insisted that because of these reasons the university must remain a place of learning where students and faculty can search for the truth uninhibited among a sampling of other papers in president alton's papers his study of the matter of speech on campus and policies um also included indiana university and the university of minnesota at which student organizations were deemed to be free to invite just about whomever they wanted to speak on campus is obvious from president alton's eventual statement of policy relating to speakers at ohio university they had been influenced by these words ideas and reports of course president alton's policy statement began in big bold caps the constitution of the united states because when you start your decree with the constitution people really have to take you seriously after spending a little time mentioning responsibilities that come with free speech president alton stated that at ohio university we believe that freedom of inquiry and discussion is essential to a student's educational development and we recognize the right of our students to engage in free discussion to hear speakers of their choice and to speak and write without fear of administrative action so as it turns out this is not just the speaker's policy but a document relating to free speech in general on campus and this philosophy of allowing free expression on campus would eventually be tested and constantly modified throughout the 1960s and actually forever since then in the 1964-1965 handbook which of course was published before the academic year 1964-1965 there's only one line about student protest and it actually occurs within the same paragraph as a line about water fighting so it's obvious that at that point university officials were not yet taking the matter of student protests at ohio university all that seriously however after this massive student protest on the college green relating to crowded classrooms and residence halls at ohio things began changing quickly with regard to how much and how many ways the university was willing to accept the free and unmitigated expression of OU student concerns so just one year later during the 1965-1966 academic year with tension growing and boiling over on distant college campuses as well as some at ohio university student disturbances went from being just one sentence in the student handbook to being a subheader unto itself labeled as riots in the next year's handbook ohio administration had quickly redefined the university position on student expression qualifying it with a statement that the university believes that all students should have the right of free assembly and should be provided this opportunity to express their views openly however such public displays of expression can only become meaningful when they are exercised in a responsible and mature manner and that the qualities or of responsible citizenship must be observed at all times in the 1966-1967 handbook just a year later student expression took up well over two-thirds of a special section on university policy as students were encouraged instead of protesting to air their grievances in student newspapers and through the student government and other recognized student organizations so as you can see over the course of just three years in the handbooks university concern over these matters that escalated from a simple sentence in the 1964 student handbook to a full subheading and then to a whole section of a student handbook then a year later in the 1968-69 handbook not only was discussed about how students could protest but also there began to be this reservation system for where students could place banners and where they could place tables when it came to protests this would be a precursor to OU's eventually system of reserving free so-called free speech zones for such events which will come up later in this presentation okay so despite the university's stricter tone in addressing student expression on OU's campus there were still many protests in fact too many during the mid and latter part of the 1960s for us to go into all of them during this presentation so for the sake of brevity i will briefly mention four areas of student activism that raised eyebrows and fomented change on the OU campus i told you i'll get back to the women's rules issue with 850 women staying out past their curfew and protesting the women's hours matter it left the university with very little choice but to back off on the curfews it was not as though the university was going to have 850 students arrested or even send them home and that would have meant refunding their tuition fees and room and board so even though expulsion was mentioned by the administration afterward it never happened and this was the end of the curfews earlier in the presentation a slide came up demonstrating the post raising the issue of discrimination in Athens during the earlier 1960s the tradition of student concern for civil rights continued as numerous rallies took place on campus related to civil rights some of them led by nationally well-known speakers such as the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth who spoke at Ohio University twice during the 1960s meanwhile as OU students participated in several nationally famous civil rights marches as you see here the one from Selma to Montgomery President Vernon Alden cheered them on with his open letter to the newspaper in april 1968 when dr king was assassinated OU students protested in the peaceful style of gondian king by staging a sit-down strike in the middle of courton union in the center of Athens please remember that in those days there was no bypass around Athens and so courton union most likely had heavier traffic flow than that intersection has today at least as far as vehicles went beyond dr king and the national civil rights movement african-americans and other OU students believed that right here on OU's campus black culture and history was not getting a fair deal when it came to what was being taught in the classrooms at OU so on december 3rd 1968 several black students marching to president alden's office and threw down a list of demands which among other things included the establishment of a black studies program consequently after some consideration the outgoing president alden promised that a quarter of a million dollars would be set aside to start a black studies program as early as the fall semester of 1969 and surely enough as you can see from this first brochure advertising the black studies program it was indeed up and running by the fall meanwhile a third protest which had a shorter life but was nonetheless intense in its occurrence was in late january and early february of 1970 over the the raising of tuition and fees at ohio university on the afternoon of january 29th 1970 75 students gathered in front of hanning hall the old post office building to demonstrate against the increase in university tuition and fees at around 3 p.m the group walked from hanning hall to cutler hall where they marched around the building and then entered a lobby of cutler hall filling it completely while chanting we want soul we want soul in reference to the university president claude soul for his part president soul offered to meet with a chosen few of the protesters the next morning to explain the reasons for the increase in tuition fees but the group refused that as an alternative and the next morning as 150 students gathered again around cutler hall and began breaking windows and ignoring a restraining order the ohio highway patrol and athens police arrived as it turned out 46 of the students that were arrested of the 46 students that were arrested in charge of participating in the disturbances 39 of them pleaded guilty and were fined eight were additionally placed on disciplinary probation and 35 of the students received serious reprimands from the university this certainly all sounds serious enough but of course it would just turn out to be merely a warm-up for what was to come in april and may of that spring as we have said earlier as far back as the 1930s students and faculty at ohio were speaking out against american involvement in wars and even in relation to the war in southeast asia there were anti-war protests on the on the ohio campus throughout the mid to late 1960s here's an example of a peaceful student march on court street and acknowledging the national moratorium on the vietnam war in the fall of 1969 and here are students protesting at the soldier's monument during that same moratorium in the fall of 1969 however the war the draft and the rotc related protest activity began to be turned up a notch after april 22nd when nine ohio students staged a so-called sit-in in an rotc class on campus after the protesters refused a request to leave they were arrested and they were banned from campus by edict of the board of trustees and president sol what followed were several days of intense but still relatively peaceful daytime protests as ohio students gathered on the college green to air their grievances in one way or another for instance there was a series of so-called teachings in which university professors brought their classes to the green to address the war the draft student power and other social issues here is the late great and very distinguished professor of english jack mathews leading such a teaching here is a large rally near the west portico memorial auditorium and here are images of the same rally from other perspectives and angles still things remain relatively peaceful on ohio's campus until the last days of april when word came that president nixon had expanded the war in southeast asia to cambodia and Athens and elsewhere across the country especially on the college campuses all hell was about to break loose most of you know the story on may 4th 1970 at kent state university where ohio governor james rhodes had sent the national guard to oversee protests four students were shot and killed and several others were injured by national guardsmen the politics and the aftermath involving kent state and those students and the guard and the governor are not within the purview of this discussion but it was at this point that the demonstration at oh you became more and more violent especially at night when riots took over the green and on the streets of athens and confrontations between campus and local police and students escalated after that the violence intensified night after night through that first and second week of may as you can see an example of it from the scene at the intersection of core street and union street in athens until finally the president's soul announced at three a.m on the morning of may 15th at the university was closed it was at that time that the ohio national guard who had been withheld from the action until the official announcement of the closing had been made marched up from the athens fairgrounds and began oversight of the transition during which ohio students were told to gather their belongings and get off campus within 48 hours remember that this was during academic quarters and so the middle of may was actually the middle of the spring quarter and there was still nearly a month left of the academic term so closing the university at this time was a major event there was not much humor in this but i did find some comic relief a few years ago at a homecoming display one alum said to his wife thank god for those protesters honey if they hadn't closed the university that spring i never would have got through calculus during the summer of 1970 after the smoke had cleared literally and figuratively president claud soul gathered a community workshop with the responsibility of improving conditions and taking a fresh new look at student expression policy which came out of this task force it reminded students that although the university was always open to rational discussion and the preservation of freedom of its members this was only so for as long as the public order and rights of others were not infringed additionally while the university did its thing the state legislature in columbus was busy doing its thing in fall of 1970 house bill 1219 was passed stating that when a student was convicted of an offense of violence that occurred on or near public university in ohio the student would be automatically suspended from admission at any state school in ohio for no less than one calendar year as this little snip from the 1978 1979 ohio university student handbook suggests the university had every intention of following house bill 1219 even seven or eight years after it was passed into ohio law and so by the mid to late 1970s ohio university's regulations about student expression were fully updated and codified into the student conduct rules in the handbooks which outlined which outlined several restrictions that carried with them the maximum penalty of expulsion from the university it should be made clear at this point that not all examples of student expression throughout and student protests throughout the 1970s and beyond were deemed as being in violation of the student code of conduct as far as student expression went for instance in 1979 take back the night of protests mostly by ohio women to bring attention to sexual assault on campus and in the community started as an annual tradition that continues today memorial celebrations honoring the life and work of dr martin luther king and led most often throughout the years by the alpha phi alpha fraternity have taken place year after year on the college green even long before the official holiday was instituted during the early 1990s ohio student in sympathy with the unionized farm workers protested the university serving non-union produce in the dining halls they also supported the actions of local ohio union workers efforts to procure a fair bargaining agreement throughout all of the student protests in 30 years between the closing of the university in may 1970 in the turn of the century the university rules for student expression changed very little however things did change when during the early 2000s university laid out what it referred to as reservable space zones and later quantified the zones under a use of outdoor space official university policy here's the overall map of reservable spaces with darkened areas being the designated locations that could be reserved for public engagement and expression some of these spaces as you could see are far outside where students might usually centrally gather for protests tail great park the aquatic center the stocker picnic areas are example of places where students were unlikely to gather for their voices to be heard here's a map of the more likely spaces near the center of student activity namely on the college green where students were more likely to gather and protest but according to this map protests around the civil war monument was banned and although the west portico memorial auditorium was still a space allowed for public speech there's now a boundary over which the protesters could not spill or risk university reprimand and possible arrest students seeing the space limitations as restriction of their rights disparagingly called those reserve space areas free speech zones suggesting that public space for exercise in their first amendment rights to freely speaking was being severely restricted by the university once again for the sake of time i will not document all the student protests from 2000 through 2018 as you could see from these newspaper clippings at least according to the post every time a protest came up and was thwarted by policy students were concerned about their right to free unfair expression being violated but nothing of note was changing however there were a couple of protests that eventually led to the policy the new policy that we're going to be discussing at the end of this presentation and at this time i'll talk about those the fall of 2014 an incident unrelated to Athens and Ohio University was the reason for a significant peaceful protest on Ohio University's campus on august 9 2014 michael brown jr and 18-year-old black man in ferguson missouri was fatally shot by a white police officer on a missouri grand jury subject only voted not to indict the police officer with any crime oh you students gathered in protest on the fourth floor baker center where they remained protesting until after the building was supposed to be closed at midnight however university officials announced the building remained open until the students were ready to leave citing the university did not want to disrupt at this time the students coming together at this moment to heal and support one another subsequently no arrests were made at the and at about 2 30 a.m remainder of the protesters peacefully left baker center but this is important because of the precedent that students may have thought that it's set for the last incident of student expression that we will mention in this presentation which led directly to the university updating and clarifying its policy on student expression on oh use campus on february 1st 2017 ohio university police arrested about 70 protesters on charges of criminal trespass after they refused to leave a sit in demonstration inside baker university center the arrests were made after protesters ignored university officials complaints that they were that the protesters were negatively impacting baker center operation blocking egress from the building and creating a safety issue explaining why the reaction was different this time that it had been in 2014 when the students were who were protesting the Ferguson shooting were allowed to stay in baker center the police chief reportedly responded the problem is that every time we allow anyone to take up this space in baker center we've got to allow everyone to do it that means that if the Ku Klux Klan came in and sat it in the baker center rotunda we'd have to let them stay if we had previously allowed other people to stay meanwhile the charge was criminal trespassing and some of the arrested students pled guilty while others waited for their day in court as it turned out nearly two months after the incident an Athens municipal county court judge dismissed the remaining charges against the protesters at the request the city law director had been asked by oupd to drop the charges nevertheless ohio administration knew by then that its policy covering student expression was flawed and incomplete and immediately set about to create its most comprehensive student expression policy of all time which after several months of meetings and deliberations and advising and consulting resulted in this affirming that the value of free expression on campus was topmost in their minds but admitting that application of such broad values on college campuses is a complex matter ohio's most recent policy policy zero one point zero four zero regarding student expression on campus was published in july 2018 this new policy stated that among other many other things that while mere can inconveniences created by protest should and would be tolerated by the university genuine disruption of university business would not be tolerated but the document did admit that sometimes defining the difference between the two can be difficult just as president olden's document almost 60 years before had gone to the constitution for basic support so too did the new policy but it added that while almost everyone in the united states is aware of the first amendment rights to free expression not everyone shares a common understanding of what the law requires prohibits or permits and so the document that explains the policy in detail to include several scenarios in which free expression might or might not be limited for instance one issue is content neutrality the university is concerned about that the expression must be written and enforced without regard to the content of the expression next is protected versus protected protest versus civil disobedience meaning that protesters on campus may express their views in many ways so long as they are not disrupted or violate basic use of area rules the policy especially explains that civil disobedience is different from free expression because by definition involves breaking the law and there is no constitutional right to break the law or even to substantially be disruptive and so civil disobedience on campus may result in disciplinary and legal consequences in covering protests in which there were counter protests the new policy stated that when this occurs the university is legally permitted to manage these scenarios to ensure that groups can safely communicate with each other in the surrounding audience and prevent one from physically silencing the other and finally as for so-called hate speech and other offensive speech the policy follows closely the olden 1962 doctrine that Ohio University does not shield its community from speech on the basis that it is uncomfortable wrong or offensive rather Ohio University seeks to prepare each student to engage thoughtfully and passionately with all ideas even with disagreeable views and so here we are with this new policy 208 years from when the expression rules were no calling the president names and no dressing like women and 50 years from student from one student expression caused the closure of the university is this policy enough to cover every manner of student expression ever probably not the way things are developing these days especially technologically and politically perhaps just 20 years from now there will be some new form or method of expression that somehow does not fit under the umbrella of this policy and then the rules will once again have to be modified and whoever is giving this talk will have to add 10 or 12 more slides so in closing I hope that everyone has enjoyed this presentation I know that it has been long but I hope that there was enough in it to provide everyone with a little more knowledge of Ohio University history in at least somewhat of an interesting way please note once again that most of these images that I use in the PowerPoint came from our digital collections that is one of the reasons that I actually chose to do this presentation because I I want to show off the types of things that we have in our collections all you have to do to see any of these wonderful collections is to go to the website and click away there you have the website address for our digital collections in the meantime thanks to all of you who watched on a personal note I will miss seeing so many of you this year at what is usually our big Alden library annual homecoming display I hope that by next year we can do that again but in the meantime have a great homecoming 2020 and please remain safe wherever you are and whatever you are doing