KU prof says there's water on the moon
There's water on the moon, a University of Kansas professor says—perhaps enough to help astronauts return to earth.
"Don't get me wrong," Prof. Edward J. Zeller, a geochemist, says. "There aren't any swamps, and no one is going to get his feet wet walking on the moon."
But of the top few inches of lunar rock, Dr. Zeller estimates, several per cent could be water. Astronauts might be able to boil the water out of the rock using the sun's energy.
ZELLER TALKED with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) officials about his theory, and discovered NASA is not worried about providing the few pounds of reusable drinking water the astronauts will need. But NASA is concerned about providing sufficient fuel to get astronauts back to earth.
Because water is made of hydrogen and oxygen, both of which make excellent rocket fuel, astronauts might be able to break water into the two elements and make fuel.
The water on the moon, Dr. Zeller believes, is the result of a chemical reaction caused by the solar wind, a stream of particles from the sun. The scientist calls the particles "protons," which are nothing more than the nuclei of hydrogen atoms.
Search for dean stops temporarily
The search for a new dean of students at the University of Kansas to replace Dean Laurence C. Woodruff may be suspended while the role of the dean in today's university is reconsidered, Provost James R. Surface, chairman of the search committee, announced.
Dean Woodruff is retiring next June from administrative duties at the age of 65 to return to fulltime teaching.
The committee appointed to search for a successor to Dean Woodruff has recommended to Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe that the search be suspended while new ideas are considered which have been suggested in the development of Centennial College and in the planning for the four additional "colleges within the College" which will be initiated next fall.
THE SEARCH committee believes that it will be able to describe more accurately the duties of the dean of students and to examine with more understanding candidates for the position when the new program for administering the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences freshmen and sophomores in smaller colleges has been implemented and the University has gained more experience with the arrangements and relationships involved.
Centennial College is administered by a director, who is an assistant dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and by an assistant dean of men, an assistant dean of women, and an assistant registrar. The College handles all of its own counseling, advising, and registration, and much of its own academic affairs.
The search committee is composed of Donald K. Alderson, dean of men; Aldon Bell, assistant
Less suicides
NEW YORK—(UPI) - Atomic jitters and space age tensions, or not, fewer Americans are killing themselves these days than 25 years ago, according to writer John Brooks in his new book, "The Great Leap."
Brooks says that in 1940 there were 14.4 suicides per 100,000 population. Since 1945 the rate has stayed close to 11.2, he says, deducing from this that "we can stand the strain of living in the nuclear age, with its threat of extinction better than might be expected."
dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Clark E. Bricker, professor of chemistry; Margaret Byrne, professor of speech and drama; James K. Hitt, registrar and director of admissions; Donald E. Metzler, associate dean of the School of Engineering and Architecture; Emily Taylor, dean of women; and James R. Suface, provost and dean of faculties.
The protons hit the oxygen-rich lunar surface, jar oxygen atoms loose and react with them. The result is water.
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"MOST PEOPLE have thought of the solar wind in terms of radiation damage," Dr. Zeller said.
"They've overlooked the chemical reactions."
Zeller believes he duplicated the reaction in the laboratory when he bombarded glass with protons. Glass is a silica compound, with a close chemical resemblance to what science thinks the lunar surface is like.
He discovered the glass had more water trapped inside after it was bombarded with protons. Tripling the radiation tripled the water.
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