The Daily Northwestern has a Guest Column by Sarah Bush, who says she was hypnotized in the library.
She says 1. There is a sexual assailant on the loose in the library. 2. The library stacks are quite isolated, and as a consequence not quite safe. 3. There isn’t much being done to make the situation better.
“That’s why I am writing this column. I tried on my own to spread my story and prevent more hypnotic “experiments.” Clearly, it wasn’t enough. So again, here’s the description: He’s medium-sized, with glasses, brown hair and severe acne. Be wary of people asking you to participate in studies without consent forms.“
Well actually…
They could remove the doors from most of the study rooms in the towers where there is inadequate supervision (and NO practical way to provide it, to be honest). But then, students would be whining about the lack of privacy…
Still making the study rooms more visible couldn’t hurt, and having people patrol on a regular basis.
Hypnosis as a weapon
Convential wisdom, for what that is worth, is that you cannot be hypnotized against your will. And even when hypnotized you do not lose control of your will at any event, and that you can break the trance at any time. ‘Course, most people wouldn’t know that, but I’d think that even a willingly hypnotized person, on finding herself being groped, would react viscerally and break the trance.