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Wednesday, November 9, 1966 Page 4 Physics Expansion In Research money for today's increas ing scientific activity have the right to know what their money is being used for." Valk also emphasized communication with four year colleges In Nebraska and neighboring states and with local high schools, where University physicists "It is important that the University which is 500 miles from major centers of scientific activity have a relatively balanced pro gram and a self-contained group of scientists," he said. "We have this in our department. "In addition, it is impor tant that our professors be competent and understand ing teachers," Valk said. "Besides those students who intend to pursue phys ics as a career, there are close to 1,000 students ev ery semester who need physics as background for their studies in such fields as engineering, agriculture and medicine." A physics department such as Nebraska's can aspire to be among the lead ers id certain fields, he said. "For example, infor PROBLEMS IN THEORETICAL PHYSICS ... are dis- cussed by Dr. Henry Valk, (center) chairman of the Department of Physics, with graduate student Jim Cos tello (left) and Dr. Thomas Morgan, assistant professor. Union Ride Board Aids Transportation Seekers Helping to provide trans portation for homeward bound students is the Ne braska Union ride board. This board informs stu dents desiring riders or rides to all parts of the state and nation of similarly in terested persons by having the students post the neces sary information. The board is divided into ten divisions and students desiring to travel to a par ticular area place a card on the corresponding hook be low the board. There are two services provided by the board, one for students desiring rides and the other for students desiring riders to travel with them. There are two maps on the board, one f Nebraska and one of the United States. According to Rich Scott, Union program director, the Nebraska board is used much more than the nation al board. He estimated that about 1,000 people use the boards BATTERIES Group 1 $795 11 me. tuor.. . m ex. Cr.24$ $1A95 36 ms. tuar I ex. STARTERS for $1 C95 it cart . I ejof tx. GENERATORS for most cart $395 ex. E00STER CAEIES 12 ft lengfbs, $098 a copper Check or low oricH . . . ku. wotoroamH. fuel vmof, Mtt, oil filter Ml enti-fretie. DUPL1-COLOR Teecli-es potof OMtkk color! M ell poouier cars ... 5 $149, iorvlco Gereet t FKEf PARKINS ot reor of ftere. DIAL 477-4491 216 So. 11th Hi Chairman Seeks mation obtained from our accelerator is utilized by workers from all over the country, from Berkeley to Chicago to Harvard. "This is the type of goal a department in a state uni versity should try to achieve." As a beginning to the de partment's planned expan sion, Valk hopes to add a solid state theorist and an astrophysicist during the spring semester. The department's balance is illustrated by the range of research programs cur rently being undertaken by theoretical and experiment al physicists. Dr. Valk divided these projects into several areas: Atomic and molecular. "This is the longest continually-supported grant by the Atomic Energy Com mission at the University. The original contract was awarded in 1948. "In our case, it again re flects the phenomenon that if you work continously in a certain field, you often find yourself in the fore front. Universities and lab oratories all over the coun- during the course of a school year. Scott said that the prob able success rate is nearly one-third. The Nebraska board has nearly 100 per cent success because of the number of students who travel to the various parts of the state every week. The present board, which is located outside the TV room in the Union, was constructed three years ago at a cost of several hundred dollars. Previously, a map was hung outside the cafeteria and interested students put their name on a card and stuck a pin in the map des ignating the area to which he wanted to travel. . READ NEBRASKAN WANT ADS f , I P , DIAMOND RINGS CONTISSA 1200 O' 0(0011 MO ittt0 'J. ClAWV try are interested in t h e types of work being done here by Drs. Theodore Jor gensen, Duane Jaecks and Eugene Rudd." Solid state. Drs. Edgar Pearlstein and J. W. Wey mouih are working in this area. "These experiments tell something of the forces that hold solids together. An array of atoms might be out of order and thus affect surrounding atoms and the strength of the material. "The AEC is often inter Growth and communica tion are two main goals of the new chairman of t h e physics department at the University. "I feel that we have a strong and vigorous depart ment," said Dr. Henry Valk, who returned to the University after a leave of absence as National Science Foundation program direc tor for theoretical physics. "Our staff is predomin antly made up of young sci entists who are rising in their fields and gaining na tional recognition for their work. "With the completion of the Behlen Laboratory of Physics in 1965, the stage has been set for an expan sion in the staff and activity needed for a growing de partment," Valk continued, noting that the University has a pending request be fore the NSF to expand the physics department in the next five years to 33 pro fessors and 120 graduate students. "Scientists, of course, of ten prefer to do their work and be left alone, but the responsibility to be a part of the community is one that every man on our staff feels," he said. "Those who put up t h e ested in this kind of work because of the rapid degrad ing of materials in their r actors when exposed to ra diation." Energy loss of radiation and particles in matter. "Former department chair man Dr. E. J. Zimmerman, for example, is concerned with the mechanism for en ergy loss in matter a study of how particles pro duced in our 350,000-volt ac celerator are slowed down when they enter matter. In the same general area, Dr. Paul Byerly is inter ested in the absorption of radiation in matter. Dr. Robert Katz is study ing the similar effects pro duced by cosmic ray parti cles of very high energies. His studies have a bearing on such widely different top ics as the birth and death of stars and the treatment of cancer." Theoretical physics. A theoretical physicist is one who formulates the results of experimental physicists by means of mathematics. Most of the current impor tant branches of theoretical physics are represented on the staff: high energy and elementary particle physi cists are Drs. David Jo seph, Dan Schlitt, William Campbell and Paul Finkler; solid state theory, Dr. Sif aram Jaswal; astrophysics and relativity, Dr. Thomas Morgan. Dr. Valk is a nu clear physicist. FROM $150 STREET mICn OOCT WEDNESDAY PLACEMENT Office Luncheon, 12:30 p.m., Ne braska Union. YWCA - Cultural Crafts. 2:30 p.m. Nebraska Union. BUILDERS Tours, 3:30 p.m., Nebraska Union. AWS - College Days 3:30 p.m., Nebraska Union. YWCA - Christmas Ba zaar, 3:30 p.m., Nebraska Union. BUILDERS - Advertising ion. BUILDERS Special Edi tion, 3:30 p.m., Nebraska Union. EAST CAMPUS PROJEC TION, 4 p.m., East Union. ASUN - Student Senate, 4 p.m., Nebraska Union. RED CROSS, 4:30 p.m Nebraska Union. ; UNION Special Events Committee, 4:30 p.m., Ne braska Union. YWCA - Cultural Tours, 4:30 p.m., Nebraska Union. AWS Representatives, 4:30 p.m., Nebraska Union. UNION Public Relations, 4:30 p.m., Nebraska Union. TOASTMASTERS Club, 5:30 p.m., Nebraska Union. YWCA - Head Start Pro gram, 6:30 p.m., Nebraska Union. BUILDERS Board, 7 p.m., Nebraska Union. WILDLIFE Club, 7 p.m., Nebraska Union. KOSMET KLUB Rehears al, 7 p.m., Nebraska Union. ARNOLD AIR Society In terviews, 7 p.m., Nebraska Union. NU MEDS, 7:30 p.m., Ne braska Union. BUSINESS & ECONOM ICS Round Table, 7:30 p.m., Nebraska Union. SDS, 7:30 p.m., Nebraska Union. LAMBDA TAU, 7:30 p.m., Nebraska Union. ALPHA PHI OMEGA, 7:30 p.m., Nebraska Union. CIRCLE K, 7:30 p.m., Ne braska Union. MATH Counselors, 7:30 p.m., Nebraska Union. THETA SIGMA PHI, 7:30 p.m., Nebraska Union. NU VETS, 8 p.m., East Union. Coney To Direct CBC Gemini Shot Lee Coney, assistant pro fessor of journalism, will act as manager of news operations for the Columbia Broadcasting System's cov erage of the Gemini 12 space mission. Coney will direct CBS operations at the launch site at Cape Kennedy. After the firing, he will fly to Hous- , ton to join the coverage ! team at the Manned Space Center. i Coney also directed CBS j coverage of the Gemini 11 ; flight. He is head of the j broadcasting sequence at I the School of Journalism, j Grir SHIRTMAKERS ,'7 i-i I 3 ! 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Pledge Classes Sell OSU Tickets As a public service pro ject the Theta Xi fraternity and Gamma Phi Beta so rority pledge classes will auction 52 tickets for the Oklahoma State football game over KLMS radio station Thursday evening from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. The pledge classes will contribute the proceeds from the ticket auction to SNCC Votes To Remain Affiliated With National In a decision to remain friends of the Student Non violent Coordinating Com mittee (SNCC), Friends of SNCC voted Tuesday to send $150 to the SNCC national office in Atlanta. There had been questions concerning the affiliation and the status of the FSNCC campus group since the be ginning of the semester, however it was decided in the meeting that "there is no reason not to keep our SNCC affiliation", accord ing to Gene Pokorny. The question of status solely as a fund-raising or ganization was resolved with passage of a motion to set up three committees two for educational pur poses and one for raising money to support SNCC or local action projects. Internal and external ed ucation committees will be involved with bringing speakers to campus and dis seminating literature about the civil rights movements, NUDIST MAGAZINES Artistic and OMUtMut. NOT for PfiUDCS. Thes on l90l wlwW by U.S. Su prem Court. Lincoln's NEWEST bMkstcrt, 37 No. 13rn (South of Mrs. Luti'si. V 4 ;ri : MAY, -s f ft Walk s . 5 the All University Fund drive, according to Terry Grasmick, Theta XI pledge class vice president. The public may call KLMS at 489-3855 between 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. to bid on the tickets. The top 52 bidders will receive their tickets Thursday evening and their names will be recognized over the air, Grasmick sad. specifically the black pow er concept of SNCC. A sequel to the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) sponsored black pow er teach-in was discussed. The sequel would contain lo cal people and try to give the white liberal viewpoint of black power, according to one member. Seminar groups on civil rights may be in the offinp for FSNCC as the internal education committee d i s cussed the advisability of such extra - curricular classes on campus. Watch her eyes light up this Christmas with a selection from our extensive BULOVA COLLECTION She'll delight in receiving the excellence and fashion-styling BULOVA offers. You'll be proud, too, you pleated her with a Bulova Come in. Let our Watch Experts thow you our extensive Bulova Collection of fine watches, uw euumtK" eut)f In ths round. 17 fwcl. 8f H-win(A. Yellow or wnit. Silt (ODDCSt (F TlMl "W (uturioiM UK (ia cw. 17 Jtwtle. Ytllow or wtilt t.H When you know whot mikti e wttdi tics, you'll our Bulovt. Ph. 432-1818 Open Monday and Thursday 'til 9:00 f warn mm - i The highest 52 bids at any one time have prior ity, Grasmick said, "until someone tops any of these bids. Then the lowest of the 52 bidders will be dropped. KLMS will announce a running account of the mini mum bid, Grasmick added. The ticket office will allow the persons holding these tickets into the game with out identification cards. Grasmick explained that it is possible to bid on en tire blocks for families or friends. The tickets are valid for seats in the South stadium. The two pledges classes had originally planned a social function to the foot ball game, Grasmick said, but they decided that do nating their tickets instead would be a worthwhile way to help the AUF drive. !BiqojjjgoefeBjjjejojM On Campus "M" IS FOR THE MANY THINGS YOU'LL TEACH HER Nobody will dispute-surely not I-that raisins? children a task which requires full time and awesome skills. is Nonetheless, a recent nationwide survey has revealed a startling: fact: mothers who go back to work after their children are safely through the early years are notably happier, better adjusted, and more fulfilled than mothers who simply remain housewives. Moreover and mark this well the children of such working mothers are themselves happier, better adjusted, and more fulfilled! All very well, you say, but what's it got to do with you ? Isn't it obvious? If you are underachieving at college, get your mother a job. ' 1 What kind of job? Well sir, your mother is probably between 35 and 50 years of age, so certain occupations must immediately be ruled out. Logging, for example. Or whaling. Or carhopping. But don't despair. There are other kinds of jobs-not many, to be sure, but some. However, you must not stick Mom in just any old job. You must remember that after the excitement of raising you, she would be bored to tears as a file clerk, for instance, or as a dolman. (A dolman, as we all know, is someone who brings handfuls of water to track layers. With the recent invention of the pail, dolmen are gradually falling into technological unemployment.) But I digress. I was saying, find Mom a job worthy of her talents, something challenging that uses her vast wis dom and experience but, at the same time, is not too hard on her obsolescing tissues. That's what Walter Sigafoos did, and the results were brilliantly successful. Walter, a sophomore at the Upper Maryland College of Wickerwork and Belles Lettres, majoring in raffia, ap proached the problem scientifically. First he asked himself what his mother did best. Well sir, what she did best was to keep hollering, "Dress warm, Walter!" At first glance this seemed a skill not widely in demand, but Walter was not discouraged. He sent out hundreds of inquiries and today, I am pleased to report, his mother is happily employed as wardrobe mistress for the Montreal Canadiens. Another fortunate venture was that of Frank C. Grans mire, a junior at the Oregon State Conservatory of Music and Optometry, majoring in sties. Frank, like Walter, did a survey in depth of his mother's talents. Chief among them, he found, was her ability to make a roast of beef feed the whole family for three days. So, naturally, Frank got her a job at the Museum of Natural History. What has one to do with the other, you ask? Isn't it obvious? 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