Spectrum, 1958-10-17

              complete ampus overage the spectrum no 4 volume 9 university of buffalo friday october 17 1958 rally to spark homecoming football dedication ofjjhall dance set the 1958 homecoming weekend will officially begin to night with a pep rally at rotary field megaphones cheer sheets and a bonfire will aid the cheerleaders in arousing the needed enthusiasm to cheer our team on to victory this rally is important because the bulls will be facing one of the midwest's small college football teams famous for its aerial circus students will meet in front of the tower at 7:15 pm friday afternoon from 4-6 there will be an open house at sherman hall an exhibit on the medical profession will be shown all stu dents faculty and alumni are en couraged to see this renowned ad dition to the school of medicine judging of the queen candidates takes place tonight the 32 can didates for homecoming queen will be judged by richard a slg gelkow dean of students marian farrel marian k farrel school of charm john okienewski as sistant director of norton tom dorsey president of the student senate the decision of the judge will be announced in norton union after the rally saturday afternoon at 2 the homecoming game will get under way during the half-time show the marching band will form a heart in which the queen's cor onation will occur as well as a welcoming speech by chancellor furnas the homecoming dance truly the biggest in yean will be at the westwood country club from 9-1 tickets are 2.50 and may be purchased in the norton lobby or at the dance music will be pro vided by benny small and his eleven piece orchestra this prom ises to be one of the finest events of the school year still a hard row to hoe for reactor by anthony m drake the university of buffalo has received a grant of 425,000 for the construction of its nuclear reactor but it's stiu going to be a hard row to hoe before ub can start raising its own home-grown radioactivity the award from the national sci ence foundation brings to slightly over 1 million the total now avail able for construction of the nuclear research center but there's still about a quarter of a million dollars to go when the reactor is built it will be of the swimming pool variety which consists of a u235 contain ing cylinder submerged in a pool of water said raymond ewell vice-chancellor for research in past projects he added the metal cylinder which measures a bout 4 to 6 feet across and is from c to 20 feet high has been immersed in a pool which may be 20 to 30 feet in diameter üb's reactor will be properly speaking a tank reactor which is merely a smaller version of the pool type at the base of the reactor will be tubes leading to the uranium containing cylinder into which may be placed materials to be irradiated all the science departments on cam pus haye arranged itineraries of re search for use when the reactor is constructed the reactor will emit gamma i iya and neutrons and its applica tions are scientific instructional and industrial the use of gamma rays for food preservation may be studied and brain tumors of certain types may be destroyed by placing the patient's open brain under the tube from the reactor and exposing so diseased tissue to the radiations another application particularly in medical research and therapy consists fry the fact that it will now be possible to produce short-lived radioactive isotopes by placing such elements as phosphorous potas sium lodine or lithium in the re actor and rendering t)iem radio active as some of these isotopes have half-lives of from % hour to 2 or 3 hours it is absolutely neces sary to produce them at the site where they will be used what happens if the reactor blows ip it won't according to dr ewell but if it should the building housing it is so constructed as to be able to completely contain the explosion one of tha main problems to pro cess in this much publicized re search project is money partly be imse of lack of sufficient funds 1 which situation was not aided by governor harriman's veto of the h million state grant and partly because of new economies in con traction which have been discov ered through construction of a re ai tor in austria the old design for ' b'g reactor was dropped and is now undergoing its second or third rp vision the new model may be as much as % million dollars less ex tensive than had formerly been an one will wear a silver crown queen — and 31 losers station wbfo ready to broadcast on campus the new ub radio station wbfo is ready and waiting to swing in to action only a few minor dif ficulties equipment-wise must be smoothed out before broadcasting begins probably within the next four weeks under the supervision of jack mettauer program di rector the station has been running a series of dummy shows the dummys which are broadcast only within the station itself are being used to orient new engineers and announcers and also to work out ideas for the shows them selves the equipment for wbfo was supplied by the electrical engin eering department and consists of a console tape recorder a turn table and of course the various microphones chief engineer john waugh hopes that eventually they will be able to obtain another turn table to facilitate the all-music shows among the shows planned are campus carousel a resume of campus activities a show of din ner music several disc jockey shows jazz in commentary the poetry room and a series of pro grams to be put on by the music department it is hoped that even tually several dramas will be broad cast wbfo will be broadcasting five nights a week from 6-9 pm and it is hoped that these hours will be extended over the weekends the station will be f.m broadcasting at 88.7 mega cycles and by next term should be doing am in the dormitor ies as well the station is licensed by the federal communications commis sion for a ten mile radius that in cludes the entire city of buffalo and probably moßt of erie county the station is run entirely by a staff of students many of whom have not had any prior experience in the radio field positions on the at the mike in wbfo studio staff are still open and there is a particular need for engineers if interested you may contact jack mettauer at the station in baird hall most of the shows are done live which provides a real challenge for those concerned an opportunity for the novice to gain valuable experi ence in radio work the executive board of wbfo consists also of john romer sta tion manager and jim vetter business manager in the words of mr mettauer wbfo should provide one of the cultural out let that seems to be lacking on the ub campus robert thurston spectrum rated 1st class again the spectrum was notified this week that it had been awarded a first class rating by the associa ted college press for the second time in two semesters judge duane andrew commented favorably upon the spectrum's work last year your staff cer tainly does a fine job with features — the criteria of an outstanding newspaper weekend schedule friday 4-6 p.m — sherman hall open house 7:15 pm — pep rally at rotary field • baturday 10 am — sherman hall dedica tion 11:45 am — citation luncheon norton 2 pm — football rotary field 4:30 pm — alumni tunk fac ulty club 9 pm - 1 am — homecoming dance westwood country club kampus karnival slated oct 31 dance planned the annual kampus karnival at ub will be held this year on oct 31 admission for the event will be 50 cents the evening's festivities will start in the tower dorm at 7 with a jazz concert featuring dick fadale then it's off to norton for the start of the karnival at 8 at 8:30 the pegs water ballet will perform in the clark pool the evening will be climaxed with a dance in norton from 10 to 1 mu sic for the hop will be provided by the windjammers deadline for application for booths is oct 20 and should be put in box 38 in norton all those received after this deadline will be charged with a late fee the theme for this years karnival is the carni val general chairman of the commit tee is cliff shisler doug rhodes brenda bifilow hack segman gordon kliese and bob weirick are also serving on the committee the proceeds of the kampus karnival for the past six years has gone to the world university ser vice wus which is supported by the student christian association doug rhodes publicity chairman of the karnival-has urged all stu dents to support this event to the utmost global awareness and the ac ceptance of mutual responsibilty for a common destiny has never be fore so seriously confronted a stu dent generation as ours . . . wus prides itself in supplying the world with action which is concrete di rect and effective this unites the universities of the world and fos ters healthier understanding ters healthier understanding students meet dean siggelkow about 350 students crowded into millard fillmore lounge wednes day afternoon to attend a recep tion for dean of students richard a siggelkow and mrs siggelkow alao in the receiving line were student senate representatives tom dorsey president marie sac coma ndo vice president joyce english secretary and jim mc pherson treasurer 3 new positions on union board three new members were added to the union board monday the position of music committee chair man will be assumed by dorcas de munn recreation committee will be headed by jim riley and the mixer committee will be under the chairmanship of ron geswickl the union board also announced that today will be the last day for silver ball committee applications they may be picked up at the candy counter and submitted in room 265 continued on page 2