i PAGE XK THE 'DTI C H I G V% DAILY WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1956 PAGK SIX THIE MICHIGAN DAILY WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 19b6 X ENON-FILLED CH AMBE R: 'Bubbles' For Physics Developed White Sees SEASON OPENS: No Nero 'Black Chiffon' Players T7 . of # f Arrive, Start Rehearsals Icy BOB BALL A University physicist 'has de- veloped a device which will open the way for new developments in the field of nuclear physics. The instrument is a liquid xenon-filled bubble chamber de- veloped by Prof. Donald A. Glaser, an improvement over the bubble chamber developed three years ago by Prof. Glaser. (Xenon, a rare gas taken from air, is used as a source of colored light in street signs.) With the xenon chamber, physi- cists will be able to observe the passage of uncharged, or neutral, nuclear particles from a high-en- ergy atom smasher in action and reactions which often last for less than a ten-millionth of a second. May Answer Questions University physicists believe that the devlopment will answer many questions necessary to an under- standing of the elementary nature of nuclear particles. The basic bubble chamber works on a principle long-observed by scientists: If a pure liquid is heat- ed in a clean container, the tem- perature of the liquid may be raised high above its normal boil- ing point at normal pressure, but if it is disturbed, it will boil ex- plosively. Using this principle, the device is a metal chamber with two par- allel glass sides--one for observa- tion and one for illuminatioi. The pressure and temperature of the liquid inside are closely controlled. The chamber is readied for an experiment by raising the liquid contents above the boiling point at high pressure, then dropping the pressure suddenly. In the few thousandths of a second before the liquid boils violently, it is "sen- sitive" to any charged particle, * such as an alpha particle (a he- lium atom nucleus), an electron, proton, or meson, recording the passage of the -particle with a stream of bubbles. No Satisfactory Explanation No satisfactory explanation for in diameter and one-haalf inch. deep, and they are planning tho d ro Pge construction of one 20 in ches long . : c a from e i >_ In comparison to former methods, a propane-filled bubble chamber Southern libe a becomes unten- would have to be 8 feet long and a cloud chamber, the ancestor of As an illustration of this point, the bubble chamber, would have Wbite cited the defeat of Gover- : to be 4000 feet long, nor James Folsom of Alabama by University physicists hopec.to a high official in thy; White Citi- place the larger xenon ciamber in tn Council because "he had not a beam of particles produced by 'taken a strong enough stand in the University of California's the Autherine Lucy incident at Bevatron, the most powerful atom the University of Alabama. smasher in the world next year. Southern Liberals According to Prof. Glaser, the 'This will cause the Southern xenon chamber will make possible liberals to say as little as pos- detailed study of both charged sible on the segregation issue," he and uncharged pc rticles and radi- commented. ations that are released when pro- Although ome Southern lib- tons meet antiprotons. erals, such as Senator John Matter -Annihilated Sparkman, were unsuccessfully In this reaction, matter isa opposed on this issue in past elec- nihilated, providing scientists withL tions, "but as things become more a ring-side view of 'an event pres- tense," White explained, "some ently on the frontier of modern Southern liberals may be defeat- chamber may rank with the in- d s ~nuclear physics. And if this happens," he con- It is believed that the bubble tinued, "there will be a large, very conservative voting bloc in the iotncfem Senate which will tend to affect Where the atom smasher made our politics overall." available beams of high-energy As to the difficulties facing projectiles with which to bombard Northern Democrats, White com- targets, the bubble' chamber has imented, "They 'can't afford any ed atomic particles by trails of made possible the mass production large scale defection because the edhamer. rof photographs showing what hap- elections will swing to the Repub- chamber. pens in these collisions. lican Party. Therefore, they must satisfy the Negroes that they are of the products of radioactivity), in Russians Interested for the Supreme Court's deci- addition to the variety of charged More than 25 institutions in the sion," particles. country are adopting it, one uni- "At the same time," he con- In the xenon chamber, some of versity has a three million dollar tinued, "Northern Democrats must bubble chamber program, and the think of winning the Presidential these uncharged particles interact Russians are working hard in the election, although the chances with the atoms of the liquid xen- field. At the International Con- aren't great. And if the issue on, which is nearly as dense as ference on High Energy Physics in produCes a bolt from the party aluminum, creating two electrons, Geneva this June, a half-day will as in 1948, tle chances will be which leave the bubble trails, be devoted to the bubble chamber less." From the diverging paths of the alone. More hope electrons, it is possible to chart The AEC is currently building a Pointing to factors more-hope-1 the energies and paths of the ori- liquid-hydrogen chamber of sev- ful for the Dempcratic Party, ginal particles. eral cubic feet volume at Brook- White said that "party identity is The paths of the neutral par- haven. A major cost of this in- not lightly changed." Referring ticles do not leave trails, but the stallation will be the plant re- to the first Negro swing to the density of the xenon causes the quired to cool and liquefy the hy- Democratic Party in 1932, he ob- collisions to occur in a shorter drogen. served that it "took a tremendous time than would be possible' with Prof. Glaser's work has been upheaval-the depression and eco- the "usual" liquids-hydrogen or supported by the University's Me- nomic questions - to cause the propane. morial-Phoenix Project, and Hor- swing," Prof. Glaser and his associates ace H. Rackham Fund, the Nation- "So it is probably premature to have tested a pilot model of the al Science Foundation and the think Negroes as a bloc are going xenon chamber measuring one inch Atomic Energy Commission. to swing to the Republican Par- ty." White said. But he pointed I out that minor defections may Annual Education Confeene swing the balance in some states. Turning to GOP policy on the ! , s u en ( '7 . h E egregation issue, the political sci- To Discuss Science Teachmuiimetsst:; rnce instructor believes there is little doubtdthat the Republican The 28th annual Conference on f} ,n , Party will adopt a pro-civil rights PROF. DONALD A. GLASER-T for observing paths of high-spe bubbles left in the glass-walledc the bubble formation has been} made, but one theory suggests that the kinetic energy of the particle imparts enough heat to" the liquid to cause local boiling. This formation of bubbles lasts' for only a few millionths of a second, so recording must be done' with cameras. Stereoscopic cam- eras are used to provide three-di- mensional views. After the pho- tography, the bubbles continue to grow, and the entire liquid erupts" in violent boiling. ' The advantages of the new li- quid xenon-filled bubble chamber is its ability to detect uncharged, particles, such as neptrons, neu- tral mesons and gamma rays (one Cast members of the opening Drama Season play, "Black Chif- fon," began arriving on the cam- pus yesterday, and rehearsals started today in Lydia Mendels- sohn Theatre. Among the performers coming in are Deirde Owens, Pamela Simpson and Paul J. Phillips. Head of the supporting cast Murray Matheson, and stage manager William Weaver, will arrive later in the 'week. Settings and costumes for this first of the Season's five, plays are already being made by designers Robert and Emma Hirsch Mellencamp. "Black Chiffon" opens on May 14. Season tickets will be on sale at the Lydia Men- delssohn Theatre box office daily U I r" -1 U.S. i oGrant Scholarships Competitions for United States Government-scholarships for grad- uate study abroad for 1957-58 are now open. Approximately 49 University stu- dents have had applications sent to the Institute of International Edu- cation in New York City for the next year. The programs under the F'ul- bright Act and the Convention for the Promotion of Inter-American Cultural Relations will give ap- proximately 1,000 American citi- zens the chance to study abroad, Countries where U.S gi-aduates may study under the Fulbright Act are Australia, Austria, Belgium and i Luxemburg, Burma, Chile, Den- mark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Italy, Japan, the1 Netherlands, New Zealand, Nor- way, the Philippines and the United Kingdom. Eligibility requirements for these, foreign study fellowships are United States citizenship, a college degree or its equivalent at the time the award is to be issued, know- ledge of the language of the coun- try of application sufficient to carry on the proposed study, and good health. Preference is given to applicants not more than 35 years of age. y Final selection of Fulbright gvantees is made by the Board of Foreign Scholarships, 10 leading educators and educational admin- istrators appointed by the Presi- dent. Competition for the 1957-58 academic year closes Nov. 1, '56. frome 10 a. till 5 p.m. Tickets foir individual performances of the five plays, to be presented through June 16, will be placed on sale Friday morning,. Drama Season patrons who ordered tickets by mail and did not enclose a stamped self-addressed envelope are, re- quested to pick up their tickets as soon as possible at the box off ice. SWill iscuss LSA Education A Literary College Steering Com- mittee conference on "Why a+ Liberal Education - the Function7 of a Literary College" will be held at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in Rm. 3K of the Union. Panel members Prof. Arthur M. Eastman and Proi. Marvin, Fel- heim, both of the English depart- ment, and Prof. Roger W. Heyns of the Psychology department and assistant to the Dean of the Liter ary College will open the discus- sion. Prof. Felheim will define the tra- ditional concept of liberal educa- tion, Prof. Heyns will discuss how, this concept is interpreted by the Litearary College, and Prof. East- man will consider problems in thea Literary College and the Justifica- tion for liberal education. The discussion will then be opened to all students and faculty attending the conference. It is expected that questions concerning the liberal arts tradi--I tion at the large state school and the value of a liberal education will be raised, Officers of G&S Chosen for Fall John Montgomery, '57E, was re- cently elected president of Gilbert and Sullivan Society. Other new officers include Dick Booth, '57, vice-president, Pris- cilla Torsleff, '58, secretary, and Ann Olson, '58, treasurer. Jerry Davies, '56, publicity man- ager, and Thelma Kavaituiu, '57, were high vote-getters for their positions. These people will remain in office for the fall semester. Their official duties begin immediately. The Society also announced that "Ruddigore" is the name of their fall semester show. Professional Fra ternity Initiates 19 Alpha Kappa Psi initiated 19 hmen into full membership last Thursday evening in the Chapter House. Those initiated were: Lawrence Zuckerman, James Morse, John Lagonico, Paul Schre- ur, Robert Dan Wagner, Francis Griffin, William Penoyar, Demp- sey Dupree, George Peterson, May- nard Hall, Paul Sterner, Constan- tine Ballas, Samuel Bohinc, An- thony Dubart, Theodore Cutler, Barton Forsythe, Achiel Wanket, Louis DuBois, David Gwinnell. Harlow Curtice, President of General Motors Corporation, has accepted an honorary membership into Alpha Kappa Psi. He will be formally initiated at the na- tional convention to be held in Detroit on August 30 through Sep- tember 1 of this year. Religious Day Causes Codiflicit University officials are urging students to begin planning now about problems that will be caused by the Jewish Day of Atonement's falling in the middle of orienta- tion week next fall, Prof. Arthur Van Duren, chair- man of L.S.&A. freshman and sophomore counselors, is advising students who will be affected to get their programs approved this spring. There will be opportunities for both returning students and those entering the University next fall to work on their prgrams with their counselors during the sum- mer. Students signing up to be orien- tation leaders are being notified of the date conflict. a Cat.ee Piano? 0o. of the modiet leirmg and profitable careers in which a young American can invest his future is FOREIGN TRADE or FOREIGN SERVICE The American Institute For Foreign Trade offers you graduate-level training for a satisfying and lucrative career abroad. Ad'vanced degrees off ered. Writ* tar The Registrar Xmerican Institute For Foreign Trade P. 0. Boa 191 Poeuix. Arikona -1. 1 . ; 4 ° _ I Attention Sentors! GRADUATI ON 'CAPS AND. GOWNS should be ordered AT ONCE 711 H. University- HAROLD S. TRICK - 902 S. State Teacher Education wilf be held the top i' unuwupit rk)gx ,, 43, tomorrow at the University in the {Objectives, Designs, and Results," at 2 o'clock. Rackham Building. "Selected Teacher Education Topic of the general session at Research Projects in Michigan." 10 a.m, will be "Status and Prob- will be discussed by Prof. Chester lems of Science Teaching in Michi- McCormick of Wayne University's gan." The presentation will be education department and Prof. made by George G. Mallinson, William C. Morse of the Univer-j director of graduate studies, West- sity's educational psychology de- ern Michigan College. John R. Mayor, University of Wisconsin science director. will Jaanese Editor speak at the luncheon meeting at 12:15 in the League. Mayor's topic To Speak T oday will be "A New Force in Educa- tion." ANN ARBOR - A colloquium Kenneth Bordine, director of sponsored by the University's Cen- teacher education, Central Michi- ter for Japanese Studies will be gan College, and Donald Currie, held at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday in director of placement, Michigan Rm. 2446 Mason Hall. Guest speak- State Normal College, will present er will be Goro Kambayashi, editor, - in chief of the Japanese publica- I i plank in its platform. He went on to explain that such. action may put them in a posi- tion to lose the support of the Southern states. "In recent years," White said, "Republicans have us- ually been able to control Con- gress by a conservative coalition with Southern Democrats. If the GOP makes a move for the sup- port of the Negroes, they will of- fend their friends in the coali- HENRY H. STEVENS, Inc. LONG DISTANCE MOVING 1273 Broadway 8i11 Flint 6, MichiganS tevens Phone Flint Manager Collect CEdar 4-1686 For Lower Interstate Rates. We own, operate, schedule and despatch our own fleet of vans for better direct service without transfer. "However, as I pointed out," he continued, "Negroes got into the Democratic Party on an economic issue. They wanted the liberals economic politicies the Democrats' still favor. The question is whe- ther the Republican Party will be able to get the Negro vote back on the segregation issue alone; and this is in favor of the Demo- cratic Party." 4I a I IOTI -15ullgel OIIUIIJU. I I I Organization Notices Coed Soph Show, rhere will be a 1 NAACP: Meeting tonight, 7:00 p.m., Central Committee meeting, tonight, Rins. K and L, Michigan Union. 5:00 p.m. League.d by A. Michelson 9~'II '. THIS SUMMER or NEXTFALL Room and Board or Board only , 1 Hillel Fondation: Assembly Meet- ing, tonight, 7:00 p.m., Hillel- The films, "One People" and "Ameri- cans All" will be shown tonight, 8:00 p.m., Hillel. Assoc. Professor Ronald Freedman will conduct a discussion. *4 * international Students Association and International Center. Dr. Djohan, President of the University of Indonesia,s will speak May 10, 4:30-6:00 p.m., Mich- igan Union Ballroom. Special guies's will be participants in UNESCO-spon- sored Asian-American Seminars. 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