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University Daily Kansan
Thursday, Sept. 14, 1961
More Campus Construction Primarily Aimed for Science
Construction is moving rapidly at KU, and the expansion is keyed to the need for increased scientific facilities.
The most important of the scientific construction projects is the new Engineering School building. Work is expected to start this fall.
- Addition to Snow Hall, which will be opened when classes begin.
- Nuclear Power and Environmental Health Center, now in operation.
- OTHER IMPORTANT construction:
- Research Center for Engineering Sciences, now in operation.
- Addition to Dyche Natural History Museum, expected to be completed in 1963.
- Replacement for Blake Hall, to be finished in 1964.
- Addition to Watson Library, to be finished in 1964.
THE 10-KILOWATT reactor on Fifteenth Street is the first permanent nuclear reactor in Kansas. It was activated this summer.
The instrument will be used for teaching and research. Several KU departments are working together at the nuclear center.
THE ENVIRONMENTAL health laboratory conducts studies on sewage treatment, water purification, re-use of water, industrial waste processing and treatment, air-borne pollution, and problems of radioactive fallout.
The purpose of the Center for Research in Engineering Sciences is to develop industry in the Kaw River Valley. It is expected to be one of the most important facilities on the campus for basic and applied research.
Language Pro. Exams To Start Sat., 8 a.m.
The written part of the language proficiency examination will be given at 8 a.m. Saturday at the following places:
Latin — 210 Fraser; German — 206 Fraser; French — 213 Fraser, and Spanish — 205 Fraser.
French, German, and Spanish students who pass the written exam will be given a brief oral examination next week.
Students wishing to take the proficiency examination should enroll with the appropriate departmental secretary or with Cyrus DeCoster, professor of Romance languages, at 206 Strong.
The world's finest roads threaded the plains and mountains of the Mediterranean island of Crete some 3,500 years ago. In recent years United States machinery and foreign-aid funds have helped Cretans repair wartime damages to their ancient highway system. New and resurfaced roads again stretch from one end to the other of this island cradle of Western civilization.
Good Roads in Crete
Insects cannot rival man in intelligence because of their limited size. biologists believe. A mechanism allowing flexible behavior requires an enormous number of neurons, and no insect has reached a size large enough to provide the minimum.
Plant Catches Fish
A common water plant sometimes catches fish. The bladderwort, which grows in ponds across the world, has sacs in which it traps many small animals, including an occasional tiny fish. The trap is triggered when an organism strikes sensitive hairs at the bladder's entrance. The rootless plant is believed to require animal food for nitrogen.
KU Professor to AE Symposium
The K.U. scientist, an authority in radiochemistry, will be among 15 or 20 United States delegates at the meeting. He will present a paper entitled, "A Program of Research in Radiochemistry and Radiation Chemistry Based on a Small Nuclear Reactor."
F. Sherwood Rowland, associate professor of chemistry, will be one of two U.S. chemists attending the International Atomic Energy Symposium in Vienna Oct. 16-20.
The conference is one of a series sponsored regularly by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The symposium, which will be attended by from 200 to 300 scientists from both sides of the Iron Curtain, is to give an opportunity for an exchange of ideas and techniques concerning nuclear reactors.
Prof. Rowland will also direct a new research project here for two years under a $54,356 grant from the Air Force.
would use radioactive tracers to study initial stages in the reactions of molecules to light absorption.
Prof. Rowland said the research
Laos Has 'Smoky Season'
The sport of Indonesia's Madura island is bull racing. Derby Day in October matches 24 pairs of champion bulls that have won regional finals. The jockeys ride on plowlike sledges.
In war-battered Laos, nature alternates bone-dry and rain-flooded seasons. Between the two extremes comes a period known as the smoky season. It is so hazy that fliers say you can't see ahead at all, only straight down. They follow the rivers and navigate by the shapes of familiar fields.
He has named Burdon Musgrave, Danbury, Nebr., graduate student, as research associate, and David A. Johnson, Muskegan, Mich., graduate research assistant. A second research assistant will be named later.
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