MO ONE'S AM EXPERT
Good Term Turn-out
Hoped For by WRA
By Tina Fink
Fmi-ruld Feature Writer
"WRA’s for everybody, and we
hope to have a good turn-out for
the events this spring,” Nikki
Trump, Women's Recreation as
sociation president, has declared.
She emphasized that nobody has
to be an expert to participate in
women's sports. There's activity
for everyone.
Main intramural sports this
term are tennis and softball. There
will be individual as well as
doubles competition in tennis. In
addition, softball teams represent
ing the living organizations will
be organized for competition, she
said.
Activities IJsted
Besides the tnramural program
there are the activities of the
WRA's three major clubs: amphib
ians, field hockey and outing
These, too, are open to anyone who
is interested.
Amphibians, women's swimming
honorary, will be holding try-outs
warn, according to Sally Stadle
m*n. president. Selection for mem
bership is based upon the girl's
swimming ability and interest In
nquatlc activities.
Pageant Planned
The "amphibs'' program will be
nctive again this spring. The gala
water spectacle "Under the Big
Top” will be presented before vis
iting high school seniors during
Duck Preview weekend, April 23
tnd 24. This novelty water pag- j
•ant, played two nights during the
winter term as one of the WRA's
money-raising activities. The only
•ther source of raising funds Is the
WRA Carnival, a campus-wide
•vent held during winter term each
iear.
"If you'd like to enjoy some of
he sunshine and get a little exer
ise at the same time. Join the
lockey club," urges Charlotte
Martin, president. The teams, the
"Cascades" and the "Evergreens"
play against each other through
out the year. However, the high
point of the activity was last fall
when the girls went to the Pacific
Northwest Field Hockey tourna
ment at the University of Wash
ington. It included teams from col
leges in Oregon. Idaho, Washing
ton and Canada.
Or, there’s the outing club for
those who just like to be out-of
doors.
"We've a varied program,” says
Judy Counts, outing chairman. It
includes breakfast hikes, outings
into the mountains, weiner roasts,
some novelty hikes, and an over
night trip to the coast as the final
spring outing. Last year the club
finished their outings with a visit
to the coast which included the j
Oregon Caves and the House of
Mystery.
The club isn’t a selected group
declared Miss Counts. All that’s
necessary to join is interest and
participation.
Novices Welcome
"Interest and participation” are I
the key words to all activities in!
the WRA. Novices are welcome in!
all sports. There’s no need to be!
an xepert because women’s physi- i
cal education instructors will show!
beginners all they need to know to
have fun.
Each living organization has a
WRA representative to keep her
group posted on events. The yearly
program for intramural competi- j
tion concentrates on two sports I
each term. Activities change every ‘
three months.
This year’s program included
volley ball and bowling in the fall I
and basketball and badminton dur
ing the winter. Tennis and softball
will be played this spring.
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Koppe, April 6, to discuss the mill
race.
Clubb read a report on the Mill
race which will be turned over to
the city council for study. Wright
son said two alternative plans
were suggested in the report but'
expressed doubt that any action
will be taken by the council in
the near future.
3 To Attend
Wrightson also announced that
he, A1 Karr and Bob Summers will
attend a meeting at Southern Ore
gon College of Education, May 1.
The meeting will be divided into '
five discussion groups and plans
will be laid for the Oregon Feder- j
ation of Collegiate Leaders, con-'
vention next fall.
Sam Vahey and Janet Gustafson
reported that the rally board has
made tentative plans to select the
fall term yell king during spring
term.
Miss Gustafson also told the
senate of a tentative plan to select
the rally squad from sophomore
and junior women rather than
freshmen, so that the entire squad
would be organized when school
opens.
Any decision by the rally board
for changing the selection dates;
for yell king and the rally squad
would have to be approved by the j
senate.
Don Bonime, co-chairman for
Duck Preview, was unable to at
tend the meeting to present a
scheduled report.
Committee Urges
Preview Invitations
Students going home this East- j
er weekend have been urged by;
the Duck Preview' invitations)
committee to contact high school
seniors about the senior visitation
weekend, April 23 and 24.
Chairmen Donna Lory and John
Vazbys also reminded students to
write letters immediately to their
high school friends telling them
of the weekends activities.
Scheduled for the visitors are
a “vodvil” show, tours of the
campus, group meetings with their
future professors and the Satur
day night Duck Preview dance.
Sammies Withdraw
From Float Parade
Two changes in the Junior
Weekend float parade pairings
listed in Wednesday's Emerald
have been announced by Mary
Wilson, parade co-chairman.
The changes w ere made neces
sary by the withdrawal of Sigma
Alpha Mu from participation and
the decision to have Carson hall j
participate as a unit instead of (
dividing according to floors. Miss
Wilson said.
Phi Gamma Delta, previously
paired with Carson three and four,
will be paired w’ith all of Carson,
and Phi Delta Theta, previously
paired with Carson one, two and
five, will replace SAM in the pair
ings with Alpha Phi and Stitzer
hall.
Spring Pledging Nears
End; 30 Now Signed Up
Men students who wish to pledge
this term must sign up in the Of
fice of Student Affairs by Satur
day noon. The final day for pled
ging is April 24.
Thirty students have signed up
already this term, the office of
Student Affairs announced.
Cobalt Weapon Dwarfs
H-Bomb s Radioactivity
by Associated Pres*
During the Korean War, the sug
gestion was made Unofficially that
a radioactive no-man’s-land be
created across which the Com-!
munist could not pass. That, it was;
argued, would solve everything.
Aggressors would be cooped up
behind a combination of the Great
Wall of China and the Maginot
Line.
However, the life of available
radioactivity was highly overrated.
Whatever the other aspects of the'
proposal, the experts said it just
wasn’t practical to sow radioactiv
ity on such a broad scale. Most
of the radioactivity from an atom
ic bomb, for instance, disappears
within a few minutes.
In London early this year, how
ever, an atomic physicist—Profes
Bor Otto Frisch- -speculated that
the key to prolonged radioactivity
was at hand after all. He said it
was possible with the cobalt bomb,
a conventional hydrogen bomb in
a case of cobalt metal.
Normally a hydrogen bomb
would have a case of steel. Steel
becomes only mildly radioactive in
the fusion explosion. The radio
activity disappears rapidly.
It Takes 5 Years
Cobalt, on the other hand, would
become intensely radioactive . .
320 times more radioactive than
radium. Moreover, cobalt loses
half its radioactivity in 5 years, in-!
stead of in a matter of minutes as
with many other radioactive
products.
What makes cobalt radioactive?
Bombardment by neutrons, one'
of the components of atoms, turns!
the metal radioactive. That has !
been done in the laboratory.
Cloud Brings Death
The heat of the bomb blasts;
would be calculated to vaporize the ;
cobalt. The result, so scientists see
it ... a radioactive cloud that j
would bring death wherever it
drifted.
From there on, of course, all is
speculation. No cobalt bomb has
ever been tested, and none is likely i
to be. It is considered impossible
to contain the resulting cloud.
This speculation runs to the pos
sible explosion of cobalt bombs far
at sea in such a manner that the
radioactive cloud would drift!
across the enemy homeland.
Albert Einstein said back in 1950 i
that the hydrogen bomb would'
make possible radioactive poison
ing of the world. Professor Leo i
Szilard of the University of Chi
cago has estimated that 400 one
ton cobalt bombs would do the |
trick.
Objections Raised
On the other side of the coin,
experts may point to this:
First of all, 400 hydrogen
bombs, or the materials to make
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them, probably do not exist. Nor
are they in immediate prospect.
Second, once a cobalt bomb was
exploded and the deadly cloud re
leased, It would be beyond the con
trol of the aggressor as well as •
the attacked. With a half-life of
5 years, it would almost certainly
turn against its user; it would just
be a matter of time
Poison gas was given up by the
military forces of the world not
only because it was considered in
humane, but because it’s tricky to
use, anayway.
The radioactive cloud from a co
balt bomb would move relatively
slowly, with the prevailing winds.
It would probably take a day or so
to reach the coast of an attacked
nation. It would take several days
thereafter to drift across the
nation.
That would permit a consider
able period of warning . . . far
more, for instance, than is now in
prospect were a hydrogen bomb
attack to be made directly on our
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