THE MICHIGAN DA1Y FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1949 SCIENTISTS GET $1,500: 'U' Phoenix Project Makes Initial Grant Mays Says 2 Purposes ASSOCIATED PRESS, P u EWS The Phoenix Project, the Uni- versity's "living" War Memorial is making it possible for University scientists to "turn back the clock" through nuclear research. . The preliminary planing com- mittee of the Project has just made an initial grant of $1,500 to get the wheels turning on a method of dating the remains of animal and plant life of the last 30,000 years with a degree of ac- curacy which was not possible until recently. * * * THIS METHOD for dating was developed by Dr. W. F. Libby and his associates at the University of Chicago's Institute for Nuclear Studies. The initial grant will be spent under the direction of Dr. H. R. Crane, professor of physics, in the construction and testing of the necessary instruments. The responsibility for collecting specimens for dating will fall to a committee headed by Dr. James B. Griffin, associate pro- fessor of anthropology and di- rector of the Museum of An- thropology. Just how extensive the project becomes will be determined largely by the success of the Michigan Memorial-Phoenix Project cam- paign to raise $6,500,000 for the establishment of an atomic re- search center at the University. EXPLAINING how atomic en- ergy has come to be involved with civilizations and plant and animal life which existed on the earth thousands of years ago, Dr. Grif- fin points out that scientists have discovered that a radioactive ma- terial known as Carbon-Fourteen is included in the growing organ- ism. This form of carbon behaves chemically like ordinary carbon but is distinguishable from it by a slighly greater weight and by a very weak radioactivity. All living plants and animals take in small amounts of C-14 from the air and some of it becomes part of their tissues. "The proportion of C-14 taken in has been found to be the same regardless of climate, altitude or position on the earth," Dr. Griffin explains. "It has been found that the C-14 starts to disintegrate at a constant and measurable rate as soon as the plant or animal dies and in about 5,000 years half of nthese radio-carbon willhhave changed back into nitrogen atoms." * * * "PHYSICIANS studying the ra- dioactivity of C-14 have deter- 'nfined quite accurately the rate of disintegration," Dr. Griffin says. "If we wish to measure a piece of organic material, we now can measure the remaining radioactive strength of the C-14 it contains and arrive at its age within one per cent of accuracy." Pointing out that except in the Southwest there are no known dates about America prior to the introduction of European mate- rials, Dr. Griffin feels that this technique of dating organic re- mains will add materially to the knowledge of life on the American continent. "We should be able to date an- imals, such as the mastodon which formerly lived in Michigan, learn considerable about Indian history, determine when Indian agriculture first came into use and the length of various states of cultural de- velopment." Rondestvedt Gets Research Grant The Phoenix Project planning committee has granted $250 for use in a study of abnormal Mich- ael reactions. Christian Rondestvedt, Jr., of the chemistry department, will make a study of the reaction, which is widely used in the syn- thesis of hormones. CRAMPED QUARTERS: A ncient 'U' Structures To Remain in Service Cramped quarters will force the University to continue using three old buildings which had been headed for the scrap heap. Instead of being torn down, University Hall, South Wing and Mason Hall will still be in use when the fall semester opens, according to Vice-President Robert P. Briggs. * * * * "WITH CLASSROOM SPACE still at a premium and many de- partments of the literary college forced to put three or more faculty members in one office, it has been decided that the structures are needed too badly to be demolished, Briggs said. University Hall was built In 1873, Mason Hall in 1841 and South Hall dates from 1849. All have been called "unsafe" for mass student use in their present condition. To meet safety requirements, most of the space in the aged edi- fices will be used for offices, libraries and resarch centers, with only a few classrooms in use. * * * * THE INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL RESEARCH will move from its basement quarters in the elementary school building to the first and part of the second floor of University Hall. Tappan Hall, vacated when the Business Administration build- ing was completed, will offer more space to overcrowded literary college departments in the fall. A scientific language laboratory for romance languages will be a part of South Wing in the fall. Recording and play-back machines and listening booths will be provided for language students there. * * * * OTHER SPACE in South Wing will be used by the mathematics and political science departments for additional staff offices. The English, history and psychology departments will expand into Mason Hall, with the Psych. 31 staff taking over the old office of the academic counselors. What was once the registrar's office will house the Navy Confer- ence Research program, and an Engineering Research Institute busi- ness machines project. The Army ROTC has already left its Victorian mansion on State Street, and along with the Air Force unit, will join the Navy in North Hall for the fall term. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN in Learning Every student today needs both general and vocational education to be a good citizen, according to Prof. Arthur B. Mays of the Uni- versity of Illinois. Prof Mays, chairman of Illinois' department of vocational educa- tion, spoke at the 20th annual Education Conference at the Uni- versity yesterday. * * * HE DECLARED that the need for vocational preparation of the youth to meet his obligation as an economic producer is obvious. "Increasingly, society demands that the schools include in its program almost the entire edu- cation of the young-their in- tellectual, moral, physical, aes- thetic and vocational educa- tion," he said. "The old conflict between edu- cation for making a life and edu- cation for making a living no longer has any meaning in Amer- ican education," he asserted. ." * * HE CONTINUED by saying that "it is clear now that general edu- cation and vocational competency are closely related. Appreciation of this fact is one of the most im- portant developments of modern education." Prof. Mays suggested that the schools be prepared to provide an extensive and flexible offer- ing of general education and vo- cational training for a large number of occupations at many economic levels. He stressed the need for eve- ning classes for older youths and adults, slack-season classes, part- time classes and full time day classes to meet special needs such as homemaking education, agri- cultural and industrial education. "The cost in dollars of such a program is large but experience seems to show that in the long run it is much cheaper to provide it than to fail to do so," he said. So Is the Leg ANTHILL, Idaho-If you grab the leg of a Daddy Longlegs, he will shed the limb and scurry away. The Daddy Longlegs is relatively harmless. So is the leg. sion salary will be available at cashier's window, July 15. The New York State Civil Serv- ice Commission announces exam- inations for positions in the fol- lowing fields: research and munic- ipal planning; personnel adminis- tration, engineering, public health, and psychology. The Lumberman's Mutual Cas- ualty Co. of Chicago has openings for men interested in positions as underwriters, statisticians, sales- men promotional men, and invest- ment analysts. The Blaw-Knox Construction Co. of Pittsburgh, Pa., is inter- ested in contacting men interested in positions as mechanical, civil, electrical, and chemical engineers, and physical chemists. BS, MS, and Ph.D. candidates will be con- sidered. For further information, call Ext. 371, or stop in the office, 3528 Admin. Bldg. Lectures The Departments of Aeronauti- cal Engineering and Engineering Mechanics are sponsoring two lec- tures by H. M. Westergaard, Gor- don MacKay Professor of Engi- neering, Harvard University. The first lecture entitled, "Brittle Fail- (Continued on Page 4) S H 0 E S -- Mrs. Helen T. Thompson, of Long Beach, Cal., holds (right) a native wood shoe of the Belgian Congo and a miniature pottery shoe, part of her collection of more than 1,000 shoes. EASON' ' F I K S T A I C -Virginia Sheppardof Alexandria Bay, N. Y., shows her limit catch of black bass on the opening day of the season at Thousand Islands, New York State. NOMINATED - M rs. Perle Mesta (above), Newport, R. I., and Washington, D. C., society leader, has been nomi- nated by President Truman to be Minister to Luxembourg. D 1 A M 0 N D S 0 N D I S P L A Y-Models wear (1. to r.) Boucheron's "Aigrette," his bandeau and clip, and Sterle's tiara in a show by jewel merchants at the "Tiara Ball," in Paris.!- BRUNO WALTER thrills to the finer tone of S0 L U M 'aI, loG -PLAIUG R E C D5 ". . .a revolutionary innovation which must fili every music lover's heart with great satisfaction."-B. 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Martial Singher, baritone, All notices for the Daily Official Bulletin are to be sent to the Office of the Summer Session in typewritten form by 3:30 p.m. of the day preced- ing its publication, except on Satur- day when the notices should be sub- mitted by 11:30 a.m., Room 3510 Ad- ministration Building. FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1949 VOL LIX, No. 18S Notices The Detroit Civil Service Com- mission announces examinations for the following positions: Jun- ior and Senior Medical Technolo- gist, Social Case Worker, Medical Social Case Worker, and Student Social Worker. Additional infor- mation may be obtained at the ART CINEMA LEAGUE PRESENTS JANET GA YNOR FREDRIC MARCH ""A STAR IS BORN" with ADOLPHE MENJOU TEcNICOLORo Produced by DAVID O. SELZNICK RELEASED THRv UNITED ARTISTS Black's Club in Chelsea Noted for their famous . . . COUNTRY FRIED CHICKEN T-BONE STEAK DINNERS Make your reservations today for the week end. Bureau of Appointments, 3528 Ad- ministration Building. Graduate Courses dropped after the fourth week of the Summer Session will be recorded with a grade of E. The deadline for the acceptance by the vendors of veteran requi- sitions for books and supplies for the Summer Session, will be Aug- ust 5, 1949. Students, College of Engineer- ing: The final day for removal of incompletes will be Friday, July 15. Petitions for extension of time must be on file in the Secretary's Office on or before Friday, July 15.P . -W. J. Emmons, Secy. History Language Examinations will be held July 16, 10-11, Rm. 1035 Angell Hall. The use of a dic- tionary is permitted. Summer Session Faculty: Salary checks for one-half summer ses- W H E E L E D T A K E O F F'-Gloria Nord, of the Americani skating Vanities, does a roller leap during a rehearsal in Paris. FORM OF A C HAM P I O N- Yvonne Sherman, of Brooklyn, N..Y., demonstrates one of the figures that won the U. 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