GNIFIED CLAY—No, they're not ink spots. The picture shows particles of South Dakota clay magnified 16,500 times by the powerful microscope in Lindley hall. The photograph is one of the first three-dimensional photos ever taken through the instrument.
3 Dimensional Photos Easy With Electronics
Bv TRACY BARNETT
Making three-dimensional photographs of objects magnified 60,000 times is now just a routine affair at the electronic microscope laboratory in Lindley hall, according to Miss Ada Swineford of the State Geological survey.
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Miss Swineford stated, however, that without special equipment three-dimensional photos of the magnifications would be impossible, since only flat photographs could be produced. The third dimension makes the identification of Kansas clays and minerals much easier for the research workers of the survey.
One of the things which makes the three-dimensional photographs possible, Miss Swineford said, is a shadow casting unit which is now use. This unit is entirely separate from the microscope and really does nothing more than chromium plate the object to be photographed. However it isn't simple.
The shadow casting unit resembles a small pumping unit combined with a radio set, which has a large bell-shaped jar on top. The pump operates to take the air out of the bell jar, creating a near perfect vacuum. Two small containers, which are located in the center of the bell jar, hold the object to be processed and the chromium.
The electronic microscope won't magnify objects that are too thick for an electronic beam to pass through, therefore, the object must be specially prepared for magnification. Once this is done it is placed in the shadow casting unit for a plate of chromium.
When the air is out of the jar, the chromium is heated until it vaporizes. The chromium vapors tend to travel in the vacuum in straight lines from the source of heat. Therefore, she said, the lee side of the object to be photographed will not receive any chromium deposit. Chromium is deposited on the opposite side of the objects.
Once the object is placed in the microscope, fewer electrons will penetrate the heavy deposits of this metal. When the object is photographed, the part that has no chromium deposit gives the photograph its third dimension.
Storeo photos also can be taken with the ultra powerful instrument. Miss Swineford said, but this requires a special attachment for the microscope itself. The process demands that two photographs be taken, from different angles. When the photos are developed, the viewer can get a depth perception with special glasses by placing the pictures side by side.
Med Center Plan Works
Faculty members of the Medical center are hailing the successful completion of an experiment begun one year ago.
The school now has an effective and workable integration of the whole sophomore medical curriculum. No longer does the sophomore fight six different subjects in six different departments.
Each department has a part of the curriculum that allows the students studying tuberculosis and its control in microbiology and preventive medicine, the opportunity to also study pathological changes in pathology and the clinical findings in physical diagnosis.
In the past, students would study tuberculosis. He would have subjects entirely unrelated in other classes. Perhaps six months later he would study the clinical laboratory methods used in tuberculosis case findings. Clinical material on history of the disease would come at still a later time.
Simultaneously, in pharmacology, he is studying the antibiotics useful in tuberculosis treatment. Similarly for the other groups of diseases.
Daily hansan
Friday, April 17, 1953
SEC. C. LAWRENCE, KANSAS
50th Year, No.125
Student Committee Work Makes Relays Show Unique
By CLARKE KEYS
So, as a prophecy of prosperity, the mining engineers opened the exposition with an oil drilling rig boring through a rock. The following year, the mechanical engineers stole the show from a mock dogfight by Fort Riley flyers by doing out free ice cream from a refrigeration unit.
The Kansas Relays student committee stands as a unique group in the nation-wide track scene and makes the KU carnival the only major one of its kind in the country.
After the exhibits started being so elaborate it was decided to hold the exposition at 2-year intervals.
Engineering Exposition Marks 33rd Show
Bv RON KULL
The opening of today's Engineering Exposition marks the 33e such event presented by the School of Engineering.
But the history of this event goes farther back than the first exposition in 1923—14 years, in fact, this time the Marvel superhero, Captain America, embracing them called an "Engineers' day," where they got a day off from classes.
The chancellor approved the plan, and the Engineering Exposition came into being.
The event had turned into a little more than a simple vacation when, in 1922, a parade of floats built by the engineers were sabotaged. In inevitably, the lawyers were judged guilty of the prank. And also inevitably Green hall was turned into a legal omlet with not-so-fresh eggs.
And along with this chain reaction name Chaneellor Ernest H. Lindley's proclamation that engineers' day was no more. Still wanting to be active, P. R. Walker, then dean of the School of Engineering, proposed that the engineers' activities be directed into more constructive and less culinary channels.
Plasties were introduced by the mechanical engineers in 1938 as the latest thing in applied science. In 1940, the last exposition before the war, the electrical engineers sold hamburgers fried on a cake of ice.
World War II interrupted subsequent expositions until the revival in 1948. They have been held annually since then.
The engineering departments compete for the Sigma Tau trophy awarded for the most outstanding display. Members of this honorary engineering fraternity act as judges.
Music Room Offers Quiet Relaxation
Last year, at the 32nd Engineering Exposition, the civil engineering department won the cup. The prize winning exhibit was a 30x10 feet model village and surrounding countryside built to scale. The village, dubbed "Olympia," emphasized problems met by civil engineers in their work.
Because last year's exposition was held apart from the Kansas Relaws, attendance fell far short of the record crowd of 20,000 in 1951. Only 9,000 attended the 32nd exposition.
The purpose of the Engineering Exposition is to relate scientific principles and recent scientific developments in terms the layman can understand. Its success is reflected in the popularity of the event and the enthusiasm which it receives from faculty, students, and visitors.
Students Find 'Communism' Often Used, Seldom Defined
Communism is an often-used seldom-defined term. Or at least this is how it might seem after talking to students.
Another student, emerging from contact with too many definitions, was mixed up: "I don't know. Communism is just a word. It can mean communism in Russia, the theory of communism, what Sen. McCarthy calls communism. Its just a word that everybody throws around, really. I don't think there is a defi-
Sitting in a comfortable chair, one can listen to works of Brahms, Bach, or any famous or less well-known composer. Files classified by composers, titles, or kind of music make it easy to find the favorite piece.
Friends of classical music and a good book have found a perfect place for themselves in the music room on the main floor of the new Student Union.
According to a poll taken of 50 students from various schools and departments of the University, there isn't too clear an idea of what communism is.
One fine arts major was truthful: "I really don't know what communism is. I mean, I hear it all the time and read about it, but I don't know how to define it.
But pleasure is not limited to listening only. Hemingway, the Holy Bible, or an illustrated work on the beauties of American National parks provide relaxation.
Bv PETER SLONEK
A short investigation at the record files shows a variety of interesting things. "Kind of music" starts out with "Balalaika" which is an almost classical stringed instrument. "Chamber music" is not too far from "Jazz band" but the only thing existing of the latter is the file card itself. "Percussion" seems to be interesting music, and "Viola d'Amore"
nition of it."
Still another student took the democratic approach: "Communism is the worst enemy of democracy. It takes away individual rights of freedom of speech and action."
For more serious research, one can choose the Saturday Review of Literature, the only magazine that found its way out of the nearby browsing room.
One student gave a brief but not too accurate definition: "Communism is a good example of fanaticism." Another concise statement: "Communism is what the Russians have and we don't want."
An education junior said "It is a dictatorship based on greed and demands for more power by one nation. It is a definite threat to the United States and all democratic nations.
near to the end of this list sounds very promising.
Whenever someone there cannot help laughing, aloud he must be reading one of the favored humor books. People enrolled in different literature courses prefer the fiction section or the numerous collections of plays.
Some visitors like to be acquainted with African art or the different shapes of furniture in history. "Everybody can find something for his taste" could be the slogan for this room.
Other students seemed to mix their terms: "Rule of a group of virtual dictators," Or, "A false belief in equality for everyone."
Or, as another graduate student put it, "Its a pilferage of the masses for the good of the state."
But a graduate student finally came up with a fairly comprehensive definition of true communism: "Communism is that form of economic system that strives through abolition of private property and therefore classes in society to reach under the temporary dictatorship of the proletariat, this dictatorship ultimately to resolve itself to give a self-regulating society, to attain the maximum productivity of the community and to secure for each individual all of his needs.
This 19-man group handles the great majority of the work coupled with the running of the Relays, making the local affair the only relays actually run by students of the sponsoring school.
Starting six weeks before the relays date, the committee's work isn't finished until days after the big day. From the first invitations sent out to the last paper work cleared up after the meet, the committee has the big hand in making the annual relays a success.
The committee works under the direction of two capable and experienced men, M. E. "Bill" Easton, Kansas head track coach and director of the relays, and Dr. E. R. Elbel, professor of physical education and relays manager.
With the help of these two men, the senior managers plan the daily work for the rest of the committee. The first action taken by the group is sending out invitations to the many universities and colleges on the invitation list.
Next the committee sends out entry blanks to the schools, both in the university-college class and to the more than 300 Kansas high schools invited each year.
Meanwhile, subcommittees are planning the down-town parade that is one of the top events of the two-day period and selecting a queen for the day from KU and other Kansas college representatives.
In the final hectic week the committee records all entries, makes out the program, assigns numbers, and completes a myriad of other duties just in time to put in two long days at the scene of the relays.
Here is where the many hours of work come alive as the meet unfolds. Problems arise, to be sure, but there's always someone around to jump in to solve the situation.
The committee members act as recorders, spotters, help various officials, the press row, and perform any other job that comes up.
It isn't easy to get on the committee, either. The meet directors and senior managers screen the many applications by grades, experience, interest, and the like before they choose the final eight freshmen each year.
Many find the work takes too much time from their other duties, or for some other reason decide not to stay on the committee. That's why each year a smaller number come back until only one or two are left by the senior year.
It's sure to be just as good as the others in the past, rain or shine!
This year's two managers, Ed Taylor, business senior, and Jerry Brownlee, college senior, will be completing work on their fourth Kansas Relays.
the others in the past, rain or shine! Besides the actual work on the track meet, subcommittees plan the annual relays parade through downtown Lawrence, select the relays queen, and help with publicity and seeding of individuals in preliminaries.
This year the relays parade promises to be one of the top events in the history of the KU carnival. More floats have been entered by organized houses and downtown merchants than ever before. In the past the floats for this event have been some of the finest seen in the Midwest.
the queen committee selects the queen and her attendants from representatives of all Kansas colleges, plus those of other Big Seven schools.
The committee's final job, and most pleasant, is stuffing away the meal given at the awards dinner several weeks after the relays. Senior managers as a rule receive a relays watch, while the under-classmen all get relays medals.