Spectrum, 1959-02-27

              the spectrum volume 9 university of buffalo friday february 27 1959 complete ampus overage no 16 legislature gets ub bill for reactor a bill calling for a 1,090,000 state grant to the university on buffalo tor a nuclear research cen ter was introduced late tuesday by senate majority leader ma honey of buffalo the center would he operated by üb roswell park memorial institute will make use of the re actor and center the money would come from the capital con struction fund the bill lists the pledges of 425,000 from the national sci ence foundation 250,000 from the national institute of health and 3/5,000 from businesses in the area the grant would be on a fund matching basis the bill specifies that one board membeir shall be from the state atomic energy agency with the di rector of the roswell park memo rial institute also serving on the board the center would be self supporting and a non-profit unit last year a similar proposal was vetoed by former gov averell harrlman due to a statement in his annual message to the legis lature gov rockefeller's approval seems certain a stipulation the university must meet states that they must enter a contract with the state atomic knergy agency for operation of the research center and that its facilities be available for research and training to all other state agen cies and to educational and non profit institutions within the state the bill also states that the cen ter shall 1 — provide to roswell park me morial institute facilities and serv ices as may be agreed upon in cluding making available reactot 3 doctors get research fund three university of buffalo sci entists are attempting to discover why new born animals are appar ently less susceptible to nephro sis a kidney disease than older ones the research and experi ments are being conducted at children's hospital the researchers are drs mitch ell i rubin phillip l calcaguo and phatick k mukherji their experiments are being financed by the natlonalkldney disease foun dation in their study they have injected an emulsion of normal adult rat kidney into rabbits at frequent in tervals over a two to three month period the serum from these rabbits containing antibodies the rabbits built up against normal rat kid ney was then injected into healthy rats the healthy rats got nephros i while the newborn didn't the researchers hope to report their findings to the american pe diatrics research society this spring the wn'y chapter of the kidney disease foundation will conduct a teen-agers march to raise funds for this and other re search march s commencement day produced radioactive isotopes for both biophysical and biochemical research the production of radio active metals colloids and chem ical compounds useful for diag nosis and therapy of cancer the activation of biological compounds for trace element assays in en zyme studies and for serving as a part of the laboratory for the graduate school biophysics pro gram of the institute 2 — co-operate with the state for furthering its economic expan sion through use of atomic energy by industry and through making the center's facilities and services available to private enuterprise on a reasonable contract basis 3 — co-operate with in furthering education ntfttrain-j ing in the nuclear sciences<lnclud ing personnel engaged in public ojr private activity in industry pub lic health educational or other fields 4 — conduct research in radia tion hazards and development of safety measures in the use of atom ic energy 5 — jive priority to the requests of the state for availability of its facilities and services subject to the fulfillment of pre-existing com mitments 6 — open research programs to all interested qualified persons and organizations and make the cen ter's findings available to the pub lic buffalo's need for a research center was set forth in the bill and it noted that atomic research facilities in the state are limited and that no major nuclear research reactor facilities exist in western new york the development of atomic en ergy within the state requires the early establishment of a nuclear research center in the western part of the state the hill stated but the initiation of an establish ment of such a center requires both months of planning and substan tial funds the university of buffalo has well advanced plans for a nuclear research center and is in a posi tion to proceed promptly with its construction the bill stated dr henry t heald president of the ford foundation with josef krips conductor of the buffalo philharmonic orchestra and chancellor furnas the waltz of the toreadors french comedy set for march the waltz of the toreadors a comedy by jean anouilh will be presented by the department of drama and speech on march 12 13 14 and 15 at s:3u pm the play concerns general st pe played by a n pomerantz a gallant soldier on the field of battle and of love as well his two i laughters r.steita ana siauuiu played by shelia crawford and judy geller plain of eontenanct and dull of wit quite obviouslj bore him to tears a alexander drapaues in tin role of gaston the general's sec retary is a rather priggish youtu man who suddenly discovers tin delights of love mile de st ku vertei who has kept her virtue for years following a dance with the general and who ret urns to claim him is played by nathalie hughes other members of the cast in , hele vera b green as mine si i'e harry spillman as doctor lion fant koseniary mcgrath as mme dupont-fredalne gary kilsinger as fallier ambrose and lois i aster and susi krttm as the two maids the play is directed by mrs julia ii pardee and the technical direc tor is mr irwin atkins irwin atkins set designer for the drama department's spring play shows a scale model of the set publications committee laxity cited by dorsey directory asterisk suffer by anthony drake the student publications committee which controls the publication of four major campus publications has not met once this year with the school year well in the second semester the activities of the buffalonian the spectrum the asterisk and the student directory are still undefined pend ing this committee's action the editor and managing edi tor of the spectrum and the editor of the buffalontan have beep work ing despite tho fact that they have nol been officially appointed the asterisk and the student direc tory are no longer in existence due to the committee's laxness the main difficulty is getting to gether the three faculty advisors of the committee according to the constitution one faculty member must be present in order to hold meetings despite three meetings scheduled by senate president tom dorsey it has been impossible to scrape together a quorum said mr dorsey when fac ulty members are asked to serve as advisors to student committees they should not take the responsibility unless they are willing to devote the necessary amount of time to it the three faculty members in question are dr harold boner mrs hildegarde shinners and mrs bonnie pomerantz it makes me very tired that they can't spend one evening or afternoon a month with this com mittee a majority of the student members have attended every ses sion that has been called when we experienced attend ance difficulty at the meetings i requested the faculty advisors to swbmit their schedules so that we could make plans more conven ient for them two of the three advisors did not supply any sched ule as requested continued mr i lorsey the fate of the asterisk student literary magazine is typical of the situation which resulted when last year's asterisk editor left of bee lie submitted the names of two successors to the publications committee the approval of this commit tee is necessary for their ap pointment and as the commit tee has not met the editorial staff of the asterisk was never organized therefore there will be no asterisk this year it is unfortunate that this com mittee never saw fit to meet said the ex-editor of the asterisk the university is known to the general public mainly by its extra-campus functions such as sports and stud ent publications a publication like the asterisk therefore has a cer tain amount of prestige value for t lie i'nlverslty at the beginning of this year i sent a letter to the student pub lications committee requesting them to appoint or hold elections for a replacement as they never got around to doing this the as terisk cannot be published this year he continued student members of the com mittee are evelyn l.iuer jean conn prank carberry and daniel cadra ? . heald urges preparation of specialists a leisurely pace in education is no longer sustainable stated dr henry t lleald president of the ford foundation monday in an ad dress at the university of buffalo mid-year commencement at klein hans music hall to assure the progress of a mod ern industrial nation dr heald said a university must prepare a diversity of specialists the citizen specialists for a modern industrial democracy compares to the citizen soldier in washington's day to achieve this we must have a set of values and assign priorities to them in allocating our re sources to attain these objectives generous and sustained support for our urban universities is essential dr heald declared another highlight of the univer sity s commencement program was the presentation by dr cliftord c furnas chancellor of üb of the annual chancellor's medal to an outstanding citizen of buffalo the medalist chosen this year was josef krips conductor of the buffalo philharmonic orchestra mac donald girls to honor scudder the macdonald hall girls will honor dean jeanelte seudder at a formal tea sunday at 4 pm in ihe macdonald ljuunge among those invited are chan cellor clifford c furnas all the vice-chancellors deans ahd head residents miss macdonald for whom the residence hall is named i has also been invited