Wednesday, November 9, 1966
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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
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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. .
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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.
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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
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SUPPORTING THE AUF DRIVE . . . pledges Sam Thorson, Cherie McLullougn,
Bobbi HaU and Steve Reppert will auction off their tickets to the Oklahoma game
this week end.
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,
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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.
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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.
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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? Anyone who can stretch ribs like that belongs in
paleontology.
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AccirJent Victim
Is Hospitalied
A University student, Ro.
bert Wilson, was struck by
a car in an accident on 16th
and Vine Tuesday after
noon.
He was taken to Lincoln
General Hospital where he
was placed under observa
tion. JOHN STRUVE
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