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MANY PEOPLE don’t know what Mensa is. Of
those who do, some probably picture a group of

brainy, bespectacled types huddled over computer
terminals, or rows of test tubes. After all, it’s an

elitist group for eggheads, mght?

Not so, says 19-year-old “One might say we're an
Mike Brats, of North Van- elite, because the Society
couver. Brais, who joined the doesn’t accept anyone (who
Vancouver Mensa group a docsn’t have an |! Q in the
year ago, says, ‘“‘Egghead top two per cent of the

and elitist is something we get
thrown al us every Once in a
whale All | can say ts that
people who call ous this
haven't met us

population) But many of us
are in associations of other
kinds We're not clitasts ’

Brais said) many people
assume thal

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‘*Mensans’’ are ‘“‘science and
technology freaks.’

*“*You can go (to the Socie-
ty) and find somneone who
understands technology, but
also find someone who
understands 19th century art,
or contemporary 20th cen
tury literature. The interests
are so widespread, that you
can't classify them."’

Mensa ts an internauvonal
non-profit: society for men
and women who score in the
top 2 per cent of the general
population on vanous in
tellagence tests It has groups

November 30, 1983

in over 78 countries, and
boasts over 5,000 members.
In the Vancouver Mensa
group, there are over 200
members

But what do people do in
Mensa? Brais described 1 as
a sort of high brow
group

‘“‘In Vancouver we have
frequent) social gatherings,
and in Mensa, you find a lot
of the social gatherings are
discussion = onented We
Meet in people's homes, we
have dinner we have
Movie have a

social

out
nights We

‘think tank’ and discuss cer-
tain topics (such as) nuclear
arms, pornography, all sorts
of issues.””

According to the literature

given out by the Mensa
Canada Society, the group
has three main aims

to identify and fosters

human intelligence for the

benefit of mankind

to provide opportunities tor
social and intellectual Contact
between members

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Brainy bunch compares notes

and to support research in
psychology and sooology

Mensa originated in) Bri
tain in 1945, when two bar
risters decided to establish an
international panel of in
telligent people to suggest
solutions to the problems of
post-war Britain

Brats became interested in
pyorning Mensa after reading
an asticle in the magazine
Omni

It said Mensans tc
quire a SAT (Scholastw Ap

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