KU
SUMMER SESSION KANSAN
49th, Year, No. 4
LAWRENCE, KANSAS
KU
Friday, June 23, 1961
Nuclear Reactor Tests Begin
Concert to Open New Season For Band Camp
The Midwestern Music and Art Camp Band, Orchestra, and Chorus will open their 24th season Sunday.
NUCLEAR FUEL MODEL—Harold F. Rosson, assistant professor of chemical engineering, holds a model of one of the 18 fuel element assemblies which are being installed in KU's nuclear reactor today. The 27-foot reactor towers behind Prof. Rosson's head.
In the past, camp members have offered Sunday entertainment to KU summer session students, parents, and local residents. Sunday's concert will start at 3:30 p.m. in the University Theatre with Clayton Krehbiel, associate professor of music education and choral music, conducting the chorus in "Cry Out and Shout" by Nysted, a contemporary Norwegian composer.
This is not a Negro spiritual, but a simple statement from Isaiah. Later this summer the chorus will present Mozart's complete "Requiem." A portion will be presented following "Cry Out and Shout." The soloists for this and for the last number of the choral concert will be selected from the campers.
The last number before the theme song is based on Massenet's impressions of a French village. This late French romantic composer was popular for his use of melodies. The orchestra will be conducted by Gerald M. Carney, associate professor of music education.
The orchestra will open the second part of the concert with the classical period—"Trumpet Voluntary" which features three trumpets. The overture to "Zampa," romantic period, is a rousing and popular light concert piece.
The combined Band and Chorus concert starting at 8 p.m. in the outdoor theatre just east of Hoch Auditorium will offer another widely varied program including a Sousa march, ballet music from Gounod's "Faust," and "Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral" by Richard Wagner. The latter will require firm support from all sections.
The band will be conducted by Russell L. Wiley, professor of band and director of the camp.
Anderson Flying To Hawaii Meet
The governor will meet his wife and three children in San Francisco and fly from there to Honolulu.
TOPEKA — (UPI) — Gov. John Anderson is scheduled to fly out of Kansas City this morning enroute to the annual governors conference at Honolulu, Hawaii.
The conference runs from June 25 to 28, but Anderson doubted if he and his family would return by July 4.
Summer Fees Due Today, Tomorrow
"I haven't had any time off since January of 1960," the governor said, "so we plan to take a little vacation after the conference."
A reminder — pay your summer session fees today or tomorrow.
You can pick up your fee cards in Strong and hand out the cash in the business office. Students who wait until Monday will be charged an extra $2. Those who wait until Tuesday will be charged an extra $4, and on Wednesday, $6. After that, a student will be dropped from school. Only way to get back then is to pay an additional $11.
By Edna Wenger
Music, Art Campers Work Hard, Play, Too
When we think of camp we usually think of vacation fun with a maximum of pleasure and a minimum of work. This is not entirely true for the Midwestern Music and Art campers.
The high school students here at KU for this six-week camp have a maximum of fun, but also a maximum of work. Their daily schedule runs like this:
From Prof. Wiley's one man effort, the camp has grown to a sixty-five member staff of management personnel and faculty. Gerald M. Carney, associate professor of music education, is the associate director and orchestra conductor. Clavton
Other divisions which have been added one by one are art, ballet, theatre and speech, and affiliated groups - the science division and the mathematics division.
Reveille — 6:15, breakfast — 7, rehearsals and classes — 8-5 with a break for lunch and dinner — 5:30. Evenings are filled sometimes with meetings, sometimes with recitals, and occasionally with free time.
This camp, sponsored by KU and held on the KU campus with its many facilities, has attracted many students to KU. It was started, single-handed, by Prof. Russell L. Wiley in 1935 with a 25 member band, all Kansans. The second year a small orchestra was added. The camp grew and about 1940 a chorus was added.
"From its inception the camp has had gradual growth in size and quality, even including this year," said Professor Wiley. "This is the best camp yet."
The art division, which was added in 1951 and is now centered in Strong, is under the direction of Prof. Marjorie Whitney. Her right arm is Arvid Jacobson, associate professor of design.
Krehbiel, associate professor of music education and choral music, is director of the camp chorus.
The ballet division, added in 1955 and located in Hoch Auditorium, is directed by Robert E. Bell, director of the Robert Bell School of Ballet, Oklahoma City, and director of ballet, Oklahoma City University.
The science division, added along with the mathematics division in 1956, is directed by Dr. R. W. Baxter, professor of botany, and the mathematics division by Dr. Russell N. Bradt.
Jack Brooking of the theater staff is director of the theater and speech division, which was added in 1957.
The campers this year come from 40 states, including four students from Hawaii. They all represent the top students from their home towns. At final count the band personnel totals 230, and the orchestra 100. The chorus had to be limited to 180.
Although many more are taking
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Tests Begin Uranium Fuel Elements To Be Installed Today
By Ron Gallagher
KU's nuclear reactor will be loaded with radioactive material and brought to criticality for the first time today.
The reactor is housed in the new home of the University's radiation biophysics training program and the environmental health laboratory recently constructed north of 15th Street and west of Naismith Drive.
The 27-foot-high swimming pool reactor was designed and installed by the Research Laboratories Division of Bendix Aviation Corp. Although this is the only reactor ever built of this specific design there are a large number of reactors of the swimming pool class in the United States.
The design of the reactor utilizes water as a radiation shield which places it in the swimming pool class. The water, which is periodically delonized by special purification equipment, is contained in a 6,500-gallon aluminum tank in the upper part of the 305-ton concrete and steel structure.
Harold F. Rosson, assistant professor of chemical engineering, said it probably would take most of the day to load the reactor because of the extensive tests that have to be made during the process.
The uranium material, which will provide the fuel for the reactor, comes alloyed with aluminum and is fashioned with 18 separate fuel element assemblies about two by three inches square. Each of the 18 long aluminum boxes contains thin sheets of the uranium-aluminum alloy separated so water can flow easily between and around the radioactive material.
The reactor will not reach critical state until all 18 of the alloyed containers have been inserted in the core of the reactor. Nuclear physicists define the critical state as the point at which the neutrons produced by the reactor and the neutrons absorbed by the reactor are in balance.
The uranium fuel will not be taken from the reactor once it has all been inserted in the reactor core. The power the fuel produces will be controlled by neutron-absorbing control rods.
The fuel is on loan from the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC).
Prof. Rosson said some of the first things that will have to be done will be to test the characteristics of the reactor. This will involve measurements on the effectiveness of the control rods and neutron flux distribution within the reactor core and coolant tank, as well as other points at which samples might be exposed.
He explained that is necessary to make these measurements so it can be determined where a sample would have to be placed within the reactor to be exposed to a certain amount of radiation.
Asked about the possibility of a nuclear accident occurring through some malfunction of the reactor, Prof. Rosson said:
"It would take six or eight individual equipment failures occurring all at the same time in order to cause the reactor to fail."
He said that even then it would be impossible for an explosive accident to occur.
Three people were killed recently when a nuclear reactor in Iowa went out of control.
Prof. Rosson said the Iowa reactor was of an experimental design, "The basic difference between that reactor and the one we have is that this is a reactor built for student use and is of proven design with all sorts of safety devices," he said.
The reactor will be used primarily by graduate students for research and laboratory instruction. Russell Mesler, associate professor of chemical engineering, will be in charge.
The reactor itself, not allowing for the cost of the building, cost $146,-000. The AEC furnished $100,000 of this amount and the remainder was paid by the University.
The reactor will have an AEC power license of 10 kilowatts. The design of the reactor would permit a higher power rating but more power is not needed for student use.
No Classes July 3
There will be no classes Monday, July 3, according to George Smith, dean of the University. This means that students will be able to enjoy a four-day vacation, since there won't be any classes on the fourth of July either. Classes resume on the fifth.
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — (UPI) — An organization of college conservatives became the hottest issue at the opening session of the National Young Republicans Convention this week.
GOP Youth Split On Conservatism
A faction of delegates charged that the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) organization was trying to take over the important Republicans College Service Committee (CSC). The YAF opponents said the group advocated "absolute or ultra-conservatism."
The national chairman of YAF, Robert M. Schuchman of New Haven, Conn., said his organization "does not intend to control the CSC."
Schuchman, a Harvard University law student, said the YAF, "as the national conservative youth organization, numbering over 25,000 young people of both political parties in its membership, will continue to promote the conservative cause at the grass roots . . . and on the campus. It will not interfere in the internal affairs of the Young Republican National Federation."
A wide open blast at the Kennedy Administration marked the opening session of the Young Republican's convention.
Mrs. Clare B. Williams, assistant chairman of the Republican National Committee, said the Administration looks on government as a "giantic candy store with a bottomless piggy bank."
Mrs. Williams said President Kennedy during his campaign "made 500 promises and seems to be repudiating at least one a day."
The job of College Service Committee chairman will be decided along with the national chairmanship in elections tomorrow before a wind-up banquet speech by titular party leader Richard M. Nixon.