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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1969 THE DAILY NEBRASKAN PAGE 3 Geologist Treves to go south to Anarctica The chairman of the University of Nebraska geology department is going south for the winter to Antarctica. Dr. Samuel Treves will leave California December 28 on his fifth trip to the Antarctic for a two-month study of Mt. Erebus, an active volcano on the An tarctic continent. The history and composition of Mt. Erebus will be the object of Treves' study. He plans to bring samples back to the University where tests will be run on them to determine their history. After the project is completed, he will write a report outlining the evolutionary history of the region. Helicopters will be used to land Treves on the summit of the volcano. In addition to gathering samples of the rock, he wil make geological maps of the site and study its activi ty. Treves is one of a team of scientists participating in the U.S. Antarctic Research Pro gram financed by the National Science Foundation. The team will live at the permanent American base at Ross Island but will sometimes sleep in tents on the field. Treves said that geological ICE CUBES 10 lb. Bag LOWEST PRICES IN TOWN AT DIVIDEND 16th & P St. Just South of Campus Dividend Bonded Gas WE NEVER CLOSE work in Antarctica is much like that anywhere else only col der. He explained that the temperature will always be around 32 degrees where he will be working. "Though it will be summer there will be very little snow melting," Treves added. All of the clothing and equipment to be used is specially designed for polar weather, and most of the food that the scientists will eat on the field is frozen or dehydrated. It is good and quite easy to prepare, according to the researcher. "Since it is summer In the Arctic Circle, daylight will last 24 hours, he continued. "This makes long working days possible." - Dr. Treves explained that expeditions to determine the history of the Antarctic are the first step to future studies. "Once we understand the origin of the region, we can start to relate geological phenomena in the Antarctic," he said. The department head men tioned that his interest in An tarctic studies began in the late fifties while he was a graduate student at Ohio State Universi ty. Ohio State was a data -reduction center for samples brought back from the An tarctic during the International Geophysical Year, giving Treves the opportunity to develop an interest in Antarctica. Wednesday, Dee. 10 Nebraska Union 2:30 p.m. Union-Music Committee 3:30 p.m. Jr. Panhellenic Red Cross-Villa Marie Builders-College Days & Tours 4 p.m. ASUN 4:30 p.m. AWS Workers Coun il Union-Hospitality Union-Contemporary Arts 5:30 p.m. Engineering Toastmasters AWS Congress I p.m. Phi Beta Kappa 6: IS p.m. Red Cross 6:30 p.m. Kosmet Klub Workers 7 p.m. Alpha Kappa Psi NU Meds NU Wildlife Club Builders NU Marketing Club IFC 7:30 p.m. Math Counselors 8 p.m. YMCA-Student Involvement 9 p.m. Nebr. Arab Assn. Kappa Alpha Psi 9:30 p.m. Fellowship of Christian Athletes tudent efficiency is Object of NU study by BUI Smlthennan Nebraskan Staff Writer Do you feel that you study and work better at certain times of the day? You probably do, according to Dr. Kenneth D. Rose of the University Health Center. Dr. Rose and his colleagues have just completed studies that show the relation of biological or circadian rhythms to how a person functions in tellectually. Using a test group of nine students and facilities in the student health center, Dr. Rose attempted to discover a dif ference between the biological functions of a "day person" and a "night person." He explained that the test subjects were housed in a wing of the health center. They were allowed to come and go as they pleased, were fed three balanced meals a day, and allowed to eat anything they wished between meals. "In short, conditions were much like those the students had been in before beginning the experiment," Dr. Rose said. During the two-week test period, the subjects gave urine specimens every six hours and also took batteries of psychometric tests at the same i v t ,r . - Dr. Kenneth Rose Dow stops napalm intervals. The tests measured the level of mental alertness, while the urine samples were used to determine the level of two adrenal gland secretions in the body. Before the test began, sub jects were asked to fill out trineodic charts on themselves at regular Intervals, Dr. Rose said. These charts are graphical means of determining when a person considers himself most and least efficient. On the basis of these charts, the test group was chosen to include three "day people," those who function best in the day; three "night people," those who function best at night, and three who fit in neither group. GO BIG RED Midland, Mich. (CPS) Dow, Chemical, sparkplug for countless demonsti ations on university campusss in the last three years, has stopped mak ing napalm. Company spokesmen said the American government awarded the contract for the jellied gasoline several veeks ago to another company American Electric of Los Angeles, when Spanish clllL Dow was an unsuccessful bid- . to give film der for the new cont act. Last year, Dow's board chairman Carl Gerstackir pledged that the Company would continue to make napalm as long as the government needed it. The contract was worth about $10,000,000. Or ami Set $260 5m'nA Lincoln Sincr 1905 29 o STREET SQKTBtfD JtWtLtRJ AMERICAN CM JOCtfTV The University of Nebraska Spanish Club, Circulo Espanol, will show the film "The Young and The Damned" ("Los olvidados") Thursday at 7 p.m. in Live Library. "Los olvidados" is a drama of juvenile delinquency filmed in Mexico. The film was directed by Luis Bunuel whose early surrealist films include "Un chien andalou" and "L'age d'or." Student tickets are available for $ 50 from Miss Virginia Shea in room 323-324 of Burnett Hall. Registration date is extended The registration date for the Nebraska Union recreation tournament is being extended to Friday. All students in terested in competing in pool, bowling, ping pong and chess may sign up in room. 128 of the Nebraska Union. Dr. Rose explained that the idea for the experiment came from Patrick Horsbrugh, a former University of Nebraska architecture instructor. Horsbrugh became interested in student efficiency when some of his advanced design students were not doing as well as he thought they should. When Horsbrugh left his design lab open 24-hours a day and allowed students to work at any time, he found that their efficiency improved. The biological rhythm experiment was an attempt to find out why. Dr. Rose added that the two adrenal secretions studied are known to have a daily cycle. They are sometimes high and ' sometimes low. "In the experiment, we found that the highs coincide with greatest intellectual efficiency and the lows with least effi ciency, he said. "In day people and night people, these cycles seem to be almost exactly out of phase." He continued that on the basis of the data, people who think they work best at night probably do. The same is true for day people, he said. "Through this and later research, we hope to emphasize that people not only vary in height, weight, and hair color," Dr. Rose added, "but also in their biological rhythms." "If we try to make everyone fit in a nine to five mold, some people will be at a disad vantage," he continued. Dr. Rose said that this data could be put to practical use by students. People that work best in the evening should not sign up for morning classes and day people should not take night classes. Ag student tvins livestock judging John Jarchow of Daykin, an animal science major, placed first among 180 individuals representing 36 colleges and universities in a livestock judg ing contest held in conjuction with the International Live stock Show in Chicago, 111. The NU team, composed r Jarchow, Larry Kubicek of Wilber; T. J. Peters of Elk Creek; and Larry Greenwood of Craig; placed eighth in over, all team standing. The Uni versity of Kentucky was first with 4,599 points, followed by the University of Missouri with 4,593 and Kansas State University with 4,581. The NU team, coached by Prof. R. B. Warren, had 4,543. firywpislte ' ' 1 i! V X' tiff r , 1 .a - J, t , I 7 s pitvr RtwiN cow, sr. tw Nk "(gmsoks m mo wmw am J 1 1 J.ii . I . k i . K .M. L &7 h I V .1 1 L L iIIIHII I MMlHdfc f J ONIGMT LAST CHANCE TO SEE THE FILM PROGRAM OF THE YEAR SHELDON ART GALLERY Wednesday Dtcombir 1C, 7:00 anil 9t3Q p.m. ADMISSION $1.00 V INtLDON ART UUIIf AND TMI NIIRASKA UNION PtLM COMMITTCI He predicted that in the future the principle of biological rhythms will be used in planning society. "The day will come when planners, academic and otherwise, will have to consider a 24-hour day rather than an 8-hour one." "There will need to be much more research into this con, cept," Dr. Rose said. "Horsbrugh has been at the University recently for the purpose of planning a research program expansion." The project just completed was financed by the Steinhart Fund through the University of Nebraska Foundation. Crompton receives PBK award Dr. Louis Crompton, pro fessor of English at tha University of Nebraska, haj won the 1969 Phi Heta Kapp Christian Gauss Piize for his book "Shaw the Dramatist." The Christian Gauss Prize of $2,500 is awarded r.nnually for an outstanding book in the field of literary scmlarship or criticism. The 1969 presentation was made to Dr. Crompton at the Phi Beta Kappa awardj banquet in Washington, D.C., this weekend. "Shaw t h e Dramatist," published April 13 by the NU Press, offers the most detailed analysis to date of 11 major plays in the light of Shaw's ideas and intellectual milieu. The book was the subject of an essay review ir the June 21 issue of Saturday Review In which John Barnes praised its "new and lively insights into Shaw's career as a dramatist." Frederick P. W. McDowell, writing in The Shnw Review for September, called the book ."rewarding and challenging, the most important critical work on Shaw to have appeared since Arthur Nethercot's 'M:n and Supermen st.d Martin Meisel's 'Shaw and the Nine, teenth Century Theater. Cultivated readers and specialized scholars alike ar in Mr. Crompton's debt, lis writes tersely and gracefully." A native of Port Colborne, Ontario, Dr. Crompton earned his bachelor of arts and a master of arts degrees in mathematics from tha University of Toronto He holds a master of arts degree In English and a doctor of philosophy degree from tha University of Chicago. Holiday tale 'appealing to all' The fairv tale musical en titled "The" Rose and the Ring" will be presented today through iDec. 13 and Dec. 17-20 at Howell Theater at 8 p.m, Matinees will be at 2 p.m. to day and Dec. 13. The play directed by Andy Backer is being produced Joint ly by Howell Theatre and the Lincoln Recreation Depart ment. Children from City Rec reation will take part in the production which claims to have appeal at every audience, level. The joking, dancing and fool ing take place in the fantasy worlds of Pallagonia and Drim Tartary. Religion for tht Coming Agn' Univanal Pmc mutt hvt dirtct action to b reality. 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