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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON 40,000 Degrees Are Conferred by OSU During 93 Years THURSDAY. AUGUST t, 1SS3 Corvallis - The number of degrees conferred by Oregon State university has passed the 40.000 mark and a de gree report prepared by Assistant Registrar Eva Blackwell points up the growth of higher education in recent years. Two-thirds of the 40,268 degrees conferred by OSU since 1870 have come in the past 25 years, Miss Black well notes. And two-thirds of all mas ter's and doctor's degrees awarded during the 93 years have been conferred in the last 10 years. Two-thirds plus of all de grees over the years have gone to men, she pointed out, but women graduates are now gaining ground each year. A breakdown of the 40, 268 degree total shows 34, 695 bachelor's degres, 4,744 master's degrees, 617 doctor of philosophy degrees, 89 doctor of education degrees, 64 professional engineering degrees, and 59 honorary de grees. Degrees Conferred The degrees have been con ferred on 28,352 men and 11,018 women, the report shows. A total of 898 students have received two degrees from OSU. Despite record enrollments each year now, the record for the largest graduating class still belongs to the vet eran packed class of 1950. That year, 1,968 degrees were conferred. Last year, 1,835 degrees were conferred and the 1950 record will probably be passed next June, university officials expect. OSU, which is Oregon's oldest state-supported institu tion of higher learning, con ferred its first three degrees in 1870. It was not until 1888 that the graduating class num bered more than 10 and the number of degrees conferred from 1870 to 1900 totaled only 349. The first master's degrees were given in 1906, one to a graduate of Allahabad uni versity, India, who had come to OSU for advanced study. The Arctic tern is the cham pion long distance bird, cov ering an annual 20,000 miles from its breeding grounds in the north to its wintering quarters in the southern seas. Math Teachers to Meet in Eugene Eugene - The 23rd summer meeting of the National Coun cil of Teachers of Mathemat ics will be held at the Univer sity of Oregon Aug. 22, 23 and 24. Dr. George Polya of Stan ford university will present the opening address, "Choos ing Instructive Problems." The Friday general session ad dress will be presented by Andrew M. Gleason of Har vard university on "Informa tion Theory." On Saturday, Raymond H. Wilson of the Na tional Aeronautics and Space Administration will speak on "The Importance of Mathe matics in the Space Age." Approximately 50 section meetings are planned. There will be meetings of general interest to elementary, junior high, senior high, and college teachers, administrators and supervisors. Basic Research by Scientists May Help Control Forest Beetle C 5 Corvallis-Basic research be ing done by Oregon State uni versity forest entomologists may open the door to practi cal control of the Douglas-fir beetle, the insect which peri o d i c a 1 1 y ravages Pacific Northwest forests. The work being done at OSU has taken on new impor tance this year in the face of an expected bark beetle "pop ulation explosion" next spring due to the large amount of timber toppled by the Colum bus Day windstorm. Downed timber less than a year old is the favorite breeding place of the beetles. Although scientists will be helpless to stop next year's expected outbreak, they are hopeful that some control method can be found before Israel Repertory Group To Visit U.S. New York - IUPII - Israel's national Habimah theater, the country's oldest repertory group, will play 18 weeks in the United States beginning in February, 1964. 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Utilizing both laboratory and field studies, Rudinsky is concentrating this year on flight patterns of the beetles as well as the attractant which brings them together in a localized area. Rudinsky and research as sistants, Orlo Jantz and Gary Daterman, are studying beetle behavior in the field in a forest plot high on the eastern slope of Marys Peak. Using sampling nets, field olfactom eters and other research tools, they are studying the flight patterns of the insects and the factors which influence their movement. Through observation and use of the mechanical devices, the researchers hope to learn more about temperature, light, wind and other conditions which affect dispersal flights of the beetles from their breeding grounds to new areas. Scientists already know that the beetles will not fly when the wind blows continuously at more than 5 mph. They also know that a certain tempera t u r e Is required for flight. They are now more clearly pinpointing the necessary con ditions for the dispersal flights. Last year, Rudinsky found that beetles are drawn to new areas by an "attractive" sub stance produced by sexually mature, u n m at e d females when they first invade a new log. The attractant produced by the "pioneers" causes mass invasions of beetles in a par ticular forest area. The substance is produced by the "pioneers" only when they invade Douglas-fir. Fe males do not produce the sub stance once they mate. The power of the attractant is im portant, he pointed out, be cause it is the key factor in concentrating beetle population. Breaks Resistance This helps explain why the Douglas-fir beetle can "break" the resistance of a healthy standing tree within a few hours. Dr. Rudinsky said. Al though normally resistant to beetle invasion, the healthy Douglas-fir can be killed when large numbers of beetles re spond to the attractant pro duced by the invading pio neers. OSU researchers have been successful in isolating the at tractive substance in alcohol and then using it as "bait" in the field olfactometers to learn how long it takes beetles to react and invade. The baited olfactometers are able to suc cessfully compete with nat urally occurring attraction centers which indicates their usefulness in bark beetle control. In the laboratory, female beetles are being studied in an attempt to find exactly which part of the body produces the attractive substance. When this is learned, Rudinsky is hopeful biochemists can chart the exact composition of the substance and perhaps dupli cate it in a synthetic creation which can be used in control ling the beetle population. Companion Study A companion study, under the supervision of Dr. William Nagel, assistant professor of forest entomology, is being made of the natural predators of the Douglas-fir beetle. Eventually, Rudinsky is hopeful that the work being done at OSU will provide a practical, economical way to control the bark beetles. No practical chemical control is now possible as the insecticide docs not reach the beetle which lives under the bark. It may be possible in the future to set-up traps baited with the species attractant to lure the beetles to their death and to prevent the severe tim ber loss which comes with periodic outbreaks, he said. Resistant lo Invasion Since Douglas-fir beetles prefer freshly downed timber and healthy, standing trees are normally resistant to inva sion, forest conditions work against population explosions of the bark beetle, the scien tist explained. The competi tion for food causes many of the beetle larvae, to die of starvation before they emerge from the downed logs. However, the tremendous amount of windfall of the forest floor this year means plenty of food for the expand ing population which will emerge in the spring of 1964, he continued. 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