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HIGH TEMPERATURE CHEMISTS—Paul Gilles, professor of chemistry, and Hugo Frazen, research assistant, look up data on metals that can be converted to gases.
Chemists Probing Temperature Stress
By Murrel Bland
The mechanical pen on the mass spectrometer makes a mark across a graph as a metal becomes a gas. High temperature chemists are busy working on basic research.
The scene is in the basement of Malot Hall in the high temperature chemistry laboratory.
HUGO FRANZEN, RESEARCH assistant for the department of chemistry, said this research is an attempt to determine how hard metals react when subjected to extremely high temperatures.
"We use the mass spectrometer in much of our research."Mr. Franzen said. "This device has instruments to heat the metals and to record data as the metals are heated."
Mr. Franzen told how the mass spectrometer works.
"The metal is surrounded by a tungsten filament to be heated," Mr. Franzen said.
"As the metal turns to a gas, the spectrometer records the reactions of the gas molecules."
Kent Smith, Lawrence graduate student, said the metal does not suddenly become a gas when it is heated.
"The gas is given off gradually." Smith said. "Of course, the rate that the gas is given off increases as the metal gets hotter."
Smith said that all metals give off extremely minute amounts of gases at room temperature.
"We can tell how molecules from the metal gases react at different stages," Mr. Franzen said. "This method saves time because it is precisely controlled."
MR. FRANZEN SAID that the information recorded by the spectrometer makes it possible to accomplish in a week what formerly took years.
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The mass spectrometer was purchased for $90,000. Research in the high temperature area is financed largely by the Atomic Energy Commission and directed by Paul W. Gilles, professor of chemistry.
"We aren't working on any certain project to develop a metal that will withstand heat in outer space," Mr. Franzen said. "We are interested in obtaining knowledge for the sake of knowledge. That is the purpose of all basic research."
Mr. Franzen explained why he and his colleagues are carrying on this research.
Smith said that the IBM computer in Summerfield Hall is used to compute the data that is obtained from the spectrometer.
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Mr. Franzen said that all the information obtained by the laboratory is published in journals and reference books.
"WE USE AN X-RAY device before we heat the metals to determine how they are arranged," Smith said.
"It would be impossible for anyone to build a nose cone or a missile without the information published in journals and reference books," Mr. Franzen said. "We feel we have a responsibility to continually add to this reservoir of information."
Around the Campus Debate Team Ends Concert Set Season in Texas For Sunday
The KU debate season will close this weekend with four students visiting Austin, Tex., to participate in the three-day tournament of the Missouri Valley Forensic League.
Ralph R. Tremain, Salina sophomore; Dean Salter, Garden City junior; John E. Stuckey, Pittsburgh sophomore, and Joy Bullis, Davenport, Iowa, freshman, make up the KU team.
Tremain will speak also in the E. C. Buehler Oratorical Contest, a competition named for KU's speech teacher.
Coaches in the forensic league, made up of 11 state and two private universities, voted two years ago to name the contest for Prof. Buehler in recognition of his 30 years of work in the league.
SUA Elects New Officers
New Student Union Activities officers for the 1962-63 school year were chosen last night by members of the SUA board. John Neal, Hutchinson sophomore, was elected president; Breon Mitchell, Salina sophomore, vice-president; Melinda Hall, Coffeyville junior, secretary; and Robert Bruce Null, Grand Island, Neb., sophomore, treasurer. The new officers will take charge May 1, after a training period under the direction of the present SUA officers. The new officers will be responsible for selecting chairmen to handle activities during Orientation Week next fall and planning SUA activities for this summer.
Among the major activities sponsored by SUA are the carnival, special concerts, Orientation Week special events, and the Homecoming Dance. Other events throughout the year include art exhibits, TV parties, Trail Room dances, film series, forums, and sport and hobby lessons and tournaments.
Other new officers are Betty Reynolds, Wellington junior, vice president; Katherine A. Buxton, Kansas City junior, secretary; Martha J Yonally, Shawnee Mission sophomore, treasurer; Dixie A. Luellen, Kansas City junior, house manager; Catherine L. Blede, Overbrook sophomore, social chairman; Ella M. Forrest, Kansas City, Mo., junior, freshman counselor.
Kathryn A. Wohlford, Genesco junior, has been elected president of Miller Hall.
Miller Hall Elects Semester Officers
Doreen G. Voigt, Atchison freshman, assistant social chairman; Carolyn A. Locke, Minneola sophomore, assistant house manager; M. Marcie Morgan, Baldwin sophomore, house co-ordinator; Jacqueline S. Volkland, bushton sophomore, AWS representative; and Phyllis Brown, Humboldt senior, and Patsy L. Goins, Marysville freshman, Inter-Residence Council representatives.
The KU Symphony Orchestra will present its annual spring concert at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in University Theatre.
The 85-piece orchestra will be conducted by Robert Bausian, associate professor, and will play the first midwest performance of John La-Montaine's overture, "From Sea to Shining Sea." This overture was commissioned in honor of the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy and first performed in Washington Jan. 19, 1961.
The orchestra will tour jointly with the University Concert Band March 27-30, presenting concerts in Oksaloosa, Salina, Ellinwood, Stafford, Larned, Beloit, Concordia, Clay Center and Topeka.
The orchestra also will play suites from Leonard Bernstein's "Fancy Free" and Stravinsky's "Firebird," to honor Igor Stravinsky in his 80th year.
Religious Council to Meet
Members of the Baptist Student Center are sponsoring a Student Religious Council meeting at 2:30 Sunday in the Baptist Student Union. Members of all religious youth groups may attend the meeting.
Stammler Reads Pushkin's Poetry
Heinrich Stammler, associate professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, read the poems of Alexander Pushkin at the Poetry Hour Thursday.
Pushkin was born in 1799 and died in a duel in 1837. Although he is called Russia's "national poet," the term "national" is misleading, Prof. Stammler said. Pushkin was the poetic spokesman for the Westernization set forth by Frederick the Great, who appeared to Pushkin as a "cultural hero." Prof. Stammler said.
Prof. Stammler read several of Pushkin's poems, including one in both English and Russian. Mrs. Barbara Backus, Lawrence graduate student, and Sam Anderson, instructor in German, read from their own translations of Pushkin.
Like other romantics, Pushkin's poems are often disillusioned and melancholy, Prof. Stammler said. However, he is an ultimately affirmative poet, uttering a "yes" that emerged from "his will to life," according to Prof. Stammler.
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