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large, chairman of the Millrace
committee.
The senate passed a motion by
A.SUO vice-president Hollis Ran
som to enlarge the athletic card
committee. Sam Vahey. senator at
large, was named chairman of the
committee. Committee members
are Don Smith, .Gary West and
Tom A rata, senators at large, and
Russ Cowell, junior class represen
tative.
Pictures Reported Successful
The committee will continue the
study started last winter term of
adopting some better means of
identification for athletic cards.
Vahey reported that question
naires returned from the Univer
sity of Washington. University of
Southern California, Washington
State College and Oregon State
college all indicated success with
picture cards.
Len Calvert, vice-president of
the senior class, and Marcia Cook,
sophomore representative, ' were
appointed to contact other schools
during the summer to determine
what controls are used over ex
change assemblies.
A senate committee was ap
pointed to assist Kenneth S.
Ghent, faculty adviser to foreign
students, in orienting foreign stu
dents to the campus.
Doug Johnson, president of the
Oregon Insurance society, spoke
to the senate briefly on the ASUO
group insurance plan. Johnson ex
pressed confidence that the num
ber of policies sold will increase
next year.
$6000 Paid in Claims
He said that he had discussed
the group insurance plan with
Oregon State's chairman, and that
$6000 in claims were paid to OSC
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students during the past year.
Kitty Fraser, a member of the
housing committee during the past
year, explained the work already
i done in establishing a permanent
housing committee for campus
! visitors. She told the senate that
the question needs more study.
Bud Hinkson, junior class pres*
: ident. was appointed chairman of
i the housing committee. Committee
j members are Harriet Hornbeck,
sophomore class representative,
and Light.
Summers opened the meeting by
; outlining the general duties of the
; senate.
“There are two major areas in
which we should accomplish a lot."
Summers said. He requested that
the senate take the lead in pro
moting school spirit and in stimu
lating respect for the ASUO and
its functions.
DICK TRACY, HERE WE COME
UO Does Transistor Work
by Joe Gardner
Emerald Newt Editor
Dick Tracy's wrist radio is not
entirely fantasy. In fact, it may
become a reality ns the result of
research currently being; conduct
ed on the University of Oregon
campus.
This research is in the field of
semi-conductors, a whole class of
substances which fall halfway be
tween those like copper which con
duct electricity very well and
those like rubber which don't con
duct it at all. It has been found
that certain of these semi-conduc
tors in minute sizes can be used
as transistors to replace the vac
uum tubes in your radio or TV set.
Lighter Equipment Seen
Electronic equipment of the fu
ture may be smaller and lighter
if the Oregon project and others
Campus YWCA to Join
Centennial Celebration
The campus YWCA, in conjunc
tion with the national organiza
tion, will be celebrating the YW
centennial during the 1954-55
school year.
The year-long celebration will
have three goals. They are: l»
Rededication to the purpose of the
YW; 2) Strengthening and in
creasing membership; and 3) rais
ing a $5,000,000 centennial fund.
The University YW has pledged
$1500 toward the fund.
A special YW centennial board,
composed of students and advis
ory members, has been sent up to
work toward these goals. Advisory
members are Mrs. Carl Wicklund,
Mrs. R. Grant Mortenson, and Mrs.
Hubert F. Willoughby.
Student members of the YW cen
tennial board are: Ann Erickson,
chairman; Sally Cummins, pub
licity: and Barbara Bailey. Karen
Dahlberg, Mary Rae Bergeron,
Mary Sweeney, Margaret Tyler
and Ann Stearns.
The campus YW will be work
ing with the Central Lane YWCA
on the centennial program.
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Fulbright Competion
For 1955-56, Open
Fulbright competition for gradu
ate study abroad for 1955-56 i9
now open, the Institute of Interna
tional Education, N.Y. has an
nounced.
Fulbright awards are authorized
by the State Department under
the Fulbright act and are made
entirely in the currency of the
country in which the winner studi
es. They are financed by the sale
of war surplus property abroad.
Pay for One Year
Awards cover transportation,
tuition, books and living expenses
for one school year.
To be eligible for a Fulbright
award, a graduate student must
be a citizen of -the United States,
have an accredited college degree,
know a foreign language and be
in good physical condition. Final
selection of grantees is made by
a board of foreign scholarships ap
pointed by President -Eisenhower.
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Fulbright adviser at the Univer
sity is K. S. Ghent, associate pro
fessor of mathematics. Folders de
scribing overseas study awards
may be secured from him.
Competition for the 1955-56
school year ends Nov. 1 of this
year. Oct. 15 is the closing date for
application to study in New Zeal
and.
Under the Fulbright program.
3500 U.S. students have studied
abroad since 1947 when the pro
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like it across tlio nation arc suc
cessful. In addition to being small,
transistors arc important because
they would eliminate filaments,
which get hot and burn out eas
ily. Transistors would also last
years, whereas many vacuum
tubes last only months.
The Oregon project In the field
of semi-conductors is operated un
der a grant awarded last month by
the U. S, Army Signal Corps. It.
T. Ellickson, head of the physics
department, is in charge of the
project. Working with him are I’.
A. Goldberg, assistant professor of
physics, and three graduate stu
dents James T. Nelson, Jeremy
P. Taylor and Herbert Mathews.
Hum Worked A Year
Ellickson actually ha* been
working on the project here for
about a year. Previous to the
awarding of the army contract,
he worked with a grant from the
University's graduate school. In
1952 he was on leave for six
months working at the University
of Chicago on a closely related
problem.
There are only two pure ele
ments that seem to behave well as
semi-conductors, E 11 i c k s o n ex
plained. These are silicon and ger
manium. However, certain com
pounds of other elements also act
as semi-conductors. Much of the
research is with such compounds.
Oregon Works on ('otii|Miiinds
The specific ar«a of the Ore
gon project is with compounds of
tin and magnesium. Both are good
conductors of electricity, but when
formed into compounds they lose
their metallic properties and be
come semi-conductors'
Researchers at other colleges
and universities across the nation
are working on different com
pounds. When the work at Oregon
on tin and magnesium is comple
ted, the researchers will next tac
kle compounds of magnesium and
silicon.
No Dingy Hideouts
Gone forever, apparently, are
the days of the alchemists when
scientists worked in dingy, secret
rooms. Work on the Oregon pro
ject is carried on in a large and
well-lighted room in the basement
of the Science building. A clut
tered hodge-podge of equipment,
which somehow makes sense to
the physicist, fills the room.
Work revolves around an induc
tion furnace, but don't think of
the furnace as a huge brick oven,
glowing with white hot coals. An
induction furance is actually a
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copper coll protruding from n rr»
ther complicated piece of much*
incry. It. was built by graduate
students for considerably leas
than $.'br)00, the commercial price
for such a piece of equipment.
Heated and Cooled
A carefully weighed amount of
tin and magnesium Is placed In a
graphite rod, which Is then Insert
ed In the coll for heating to tem
peratures of up to MOO degrees
; fohrenheit. After the compound is
I removed from the furnace, it i.i al
lowed to cool. The researchers
then must make a series of rneas
I urementa to see if the product pos
sesses the desired properties.
Preparation of the compound is
S by no means haphazard, nor do
the researchers proceed on guess
work. Much paper work must be
done before each experiment.
There is a very substantial amount
I of theoretical knowledge on the
subject, according to Ellickson.
Although results can be predicted
In the office, they must be proved
In the lab, he added.
Work In General Field
Actually the Oregon project
does not deal with translators, but
rather with the general field of
semi-conductors. These pinhead
aired replacement.1! for vacuum
tubes are being produced at such
commercial laboratories as Gener
al Electric, Radio Corporation of
America and the Bell Telephone
company. Much of the early work
in this field was done by Bell,
which continues to lead in the
field.
A prediction for th<- future? In
dications arc that the electronic
industry is Just getting underway
with the development of the tran
sistor, El lick son said. Hearing
aids, raidos and television sets of
the future may be revolutionized
as the result of their use.
But for now, EUlckson and his
associates are Just trying to learn
as much as possible about semi
conductors.
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