University Daily Kansan, April 11, 1965
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Physicist explains particles' role
Subatomic particles discovered in 1982 are involved in reactions that slow down the deterioration of the sun, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who helped discover the particles said last night.
Carlo Rubbia, co-winner of the Nobel Prize in physics for 1984, said particles W and Z, which are the bigger brothers of protons, act as thermostats for the sun. Without them the sun would burn itself out.
The department of physics and astronomy brought Rubbia to the University with the financial help of the Kansas University Endowment Association.
Rubbia and Simon van der Meer discovered the particles in 1982, after five years of study. To discover the W and Z particles, Rubbia and van der Meer collided beams of matter and anti-matter to produce the particles.
Physicists have suspected since the 1930s that W particles existed, and since the 1960s that Z particles existed, but were unable to observe them. Because the particles are too small for a particle nucleus, Rubbia and his associates had to invent a way to produce the particles artificially.
Ant-matter represents the exact opposite of matter. If a proton in an
atom contains a positive charge, the anti-proton would contain the opposite charge and rotate in the opposite direction about the nucleus in an atom.
Rubbia said anti-matter could not exist for long in the world because it tended to combine with matter and produce energy.
New Kassebaum farm plan would raise wheat prices
Rubbia was born in Gorizia, Italy and earned his degrees in physics from Scoura College Superior, Pisa, and the University of Pisa in 1958. He joined the staff of the European Center for Nuclear Research in 1961 and became a professor of Harvard University.
By United Press International
TOPEKA — Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, R-Kan., has released a five-year farm aid plan that is intended to lift ailing wheat prices by limiting production and spurring export sales.
Speaking at a news conference yesterday, Kassbaum said she devised the $3.1 billion plan as an attempt to recharge the "stalled" debate on developing a national agriculture policy.
Her proposal would give farmers a guaranteed price for their crops and allow the government to sell surpluses abroad.
The plan would require farmers to leave at least 20 percent of their crop land idle to be eligible for a guaranteed $3.50-a-bushel target price for the five years that the plan is in operation.
Kassebaum said she does not intend to introduce the bill into the Senate, but instead will offer it to lawmakers as a guidepost for farm legislation.
Kassebaum said her plan was designed to wean farmers of government intervention, but also pro-technology with them some economic security.
"I want to give the farmers a sense of certainty," Kassebaum said about farm prices.
ON THE RECORD
A VIDEOCASSETTE recorder and one tape, together valued at $610, were stolen between 3 and 5 p.m. Tuesday from 222 Fraser Hall, KU police said yesterday.
AN AM-FM CASSETTE stere, a briefcase, a Nikon 35mm camera, a telephone recorder and a calculator, valued together at $445 were stolen between 9 p.m. Monday and 9:50 a.m. Tuesday from a car parked in the parking lot of the Holiday Inn Holdome, 200 McDonald Road, Lawrence police said yesterday.
AN AM-FM CASSETTE stereo, booster and eight cassette tapes, together valued at $433, were stolen between 12:30 and 4 a.m. Saturday from a car parked in the 2300 block of Iowa Street, police said.
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University Council to discuss divestment
The University Council is scheduled to meet today to discuss a resolution calling for the Kansas University Endowment Association to divest all of its interests in companies that do business in South Africa.
The council can either pass the resolution or defer it to the University Senate for a vote of all faculty members and student senators. The council is the executive branch of the Senate. The Senate meets April 18.
If the council passes the resolution, the Endowment Association would not be required to divest because it is a private corporation separate from the University.
The University Senate Executive Committee passed the resolution to the council last Thursday.
The resolution, in addition to calling for total divestment, asks the Endowment Association to contact the state attorney general's office to determine whether the Endowment Association can
legally divest its interests
According to state statute, the Endowment Association is prohibited from making investments or divestments based on an attempt to cure social, political or economic ills.
The Endowment Association has said it must follow the Prudent Man Trust Management Law, which says that an organization that manages trusts must invest in companies that yield the greatest profit.
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