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Phoenix Project Studies Atom Effects
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budget is how and where the mo-
ney will be acquired. In the main,
it will come from the University's
125,000 alumni, different founda-
tions, business leaders, industry
and the like.
CHESTER H. LANG has been
appointed national chairman to
handle this prodigious fund-rais-
ing job. Prof. William Haber of
the, economics department is the
faculty head.
And Marvin LubecY, '51, is in
charge of the student drive. A
student goal of from $100,000
to $200,000 has been set.
It is with no little amount of
justification that the University
will serve as a center for this vast
program of research on the po-
tentialities of atomic energy for
peacetime uses.
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FOR THE UNIVERSITY has
engaged in atomic research for
more than a quarter-century now.
From 1923 on, when scientists -
J. Robert Oppenheimer, A. H.
Compton, Lawrence Condon, Bohr
Pauli, Ehrenfest, Dirac, and Fermi
- assembled here in a summer
symposium, research has been con-
ducted here. Today these scien-
tists who taught and studied in
the summer sessions are the key
men in atomic research.
During the second World
War the dniversity served as
the chief purchasing agent for
the Atomic Bomb Project. Many
Jniversity faculty members,
such as Brown, Crane and Den-
nison played an important part
in the development of the atom
the uses of atomic energy will
have a powerful inflence on each
of their respective fields.
Already magazines, newspa-
pers and commentators through-
out the country have commend-
ed the University for undertak-
ing the Project.
President Ruthven has made
trips through the Northwest and
the Southwest, and Provost James
P. Adams in the East, stirring up
enthusiasm for what Ruthven has
termed "the most important Uni-
versity project ever undertaken -
one bigger than the University it-
self."
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EVEN THE "Voice of America"
program has publicized the aims
and purposes of the Phoenix Pro-
ject.
Thus far $35,000 has been gi-
ven to schools and departments
in the University for research
and the development of plans
for future experimental facili-
ties.
Faculty members received a
working fund grant of $60,000
shortly after the first announce-
ment of the project in the spring
of 1948. They have since explored
the effects of isotopes on thyroid
tissue and blood disease. Effects
of radiation on plant growth and
plant genetics have also been
tested.
FURTHER TESTING of the
uses of isotopes has been carried
on in chemical structure, cosmic
radiation and nuclear disintegra-
tion.
Also to be undertaken by the
Project is the building of an
atomic engine. Prof. Paul F.
Chenea of the engineering col-
lege has asserted that the prob-
lems of building an adequate
powergenerating pile are so
multifarious that the Phoenix
Project will aid the government
greatly in this job.
Chenea and his assistant, Al-
fred R. Bobrowsky, have plans to
investigate some of the problems
connected with the construction
of an atomic engine.
"ATOM FOR PEACE DAY," or
some day with a similar designa-
tion, will serve as a kickoff .day
for the project, and will be Oct.
18.
On that day the nation's top
scientists will have a special din-
ner in Ann Arbor, and a figure of
"world-wide importance" will
speak on behalf of the Project
over the radio.
Although students will partici-
pate in the national kickoff day,
they will have a special day of
their own on Nov. 10.
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ATOMIC GEYSER-A huge geyser shoots up from the sea during the atomic bomb tests taken at
the Bikini Islands after the war.
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B E S I D ES PROVIDING the
,many aforementioned scientists,
in 1935 the University had the
world's largest cyclotron, which
has produced over 100 rare iso-
topes.
Last summer a unique pro-
seminar was held by the
University. Entitled "Public
Policy and Atomic Energy," it
was conducted by Prof. Marshall
E. Dimock, of Northwestern
University's political science de-
partmgnt.
It is the social implications of
atomic energy rather than the
phrysical that were stressed in
this proseminar. Up to now
nearly all of the research con-
ducted on the uses of atomic
energy has been carried on by the
physical scientists, but plans
relating to the political scientist
aspect, as found in last summer's
proseminar, are rapidly being car-
ried forward.
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RELATING THE present know-
ledge of public control to atomic
energy and training individuals to
do research, writing and teaching
of the subject are the objectives
of the course.
For this reason it ras received
the hearty endorsement of the
A t o m i c Energy Comn ission,
and many of its members have
come from Washington to ad-
dress the class.
An idea of the many ramifica-
tions of the subject can be gained
by considering the fact that the
head /of the business school and
professors of economics, sociology
and forestry have attended many
of the proseminar's sessions.
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COUNTLESS QUESTIONS and
problems are hoped to be solved
by the research to be done by the
Phoenix Project. Some of them
are these: the causes and cures
of cancer, leukemia, arthritis,
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rheumatic fever and polio; the
manner in which disease-causing
viruses reproduce, and their con-
trol; the improvement of our land
and agricultural techniques.
for the entire semester
WE THOUGHT THIS AD WAS A GOOD IDEA
At the Bikini Bomb Tests, Ralph
Sawyer, dean of the graduate
', supervising the work of 500
ool, served as technical direc-
entists.
George Granger Brown, chair-
i of the department of chemi-
1 and metallurgical engineering,
director of the Atomic Energy
immission's Division of En-
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Many University faculty and ad-
ministration members have de-
clared that the Phoenix Project,
which will get under way in ear-
nest this fall, will have a wide-
spread effect.
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PROFESSORS Fred J. Hodges
of the roentgenology department;
Lewis M. Simes of the law school;
Robley C. Williams of the physics
department; and William Haber
of the economics department all
have indicated that discoveries opn
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Saturday evening, excluding those
weekends when a major event is
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Different campus events are
often sponsored by the Union, as
last spring, when it was one of
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All male students, once having
paid their tuition fees, are eligible
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the Union offers. Besides swim-
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Michigamua and the Men's Glee
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Union.
Incoming freshmen are invited
to smokers at the Union during
Orientation Week, at which time
they have the opportunity to meet
and talk with representatives of
different campus organizations and
many members of the athletic
'teams.
IT WAS IN 1907 that the Union
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which had formerly been the home
of Judge Cooley. In 1912, a wing
was added to the "hub" of men's
activities, but even with this ex-
tension the quarters soon proved
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Hence, in 1915 a $1,000,000
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the money going towards a new
site. Alumni and undergrad,-
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drive, and since then another
million dollars has been spent on
further additions.
One member of the Board of
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Union, and it governs the Union's
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Especially during the football
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Big easy chairs, couches*and
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meals and afternoon or evening
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