University of California Berkeley - Blue and Gold Yearbook (Berkeley, CA)

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USC RALLY Spirit runs high during the fall semester and rallies are usually well attended, rain. fog and chills notwithstanding. Very often rallies are followed by a University dance and the rally before the USC game was no exception. The crowds headed toward the Greek theatre that Friday evening could hear the early arrivers singing and shouting. As more and more people filed in through the check-gates the songs could be heard farther and farther away. Strains of the drinking song and others floated up through Strawberry Canyon. The favorite ones were as usual led by the yell leader and the pompon girls but spontaneous outbursts of Hey, Bears, beat the Trojans could also be heard. Since the rally ' s primary function was to raise spirit for the game next day. Coach Lynn Pappy Waldorf appeared along with the team captains. Someday Pappy may get two sentences said before the roars of approval drown hint out. The master of ceremonies at the rally was Harry Lieberman, leading member of the CC Laugh society. which meets at noon on the Campanile steps. The Rally was followed with a (lance in Stephens Union. Portions of the Axe-revue were presented during the intermission at the dance.

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DISCOVERY OF THE ANTIPROTON A new era of nuclear research may have been inaugurated at the University of California this year, with the discovery of the proton. A measurement of its mass and charge has been made by its four discoverers : Owen Chamberlain, associate fessor of physics; Emilio Segre. professor of physics ; and Clyde Wiegand and Thomas Ypsilantis, physicists. This discovery reinforces and solidifies the current theory concerning the atomic nucleus. The antiprotons are not a part of the atomic nucleus itself ; they are born and live outside the nucleus, as the result of some high energy nuclear event, such as the collisions resulting from the bevatron ' s bombardment of targets. Experimentation on the antiproton was only possible after the construction of the bevatron. The discovery climaxes the many years of research by scientists of the University ' s Radiation laboratory. Confirmation, by visual observation, of the antiproton ' s existence came a short time afterward. Observation was the result of the cooperative work of the scientists at the University of California and the University of Rome. The Rome group actually saw an explosion created by all antiproton on a photo-emulsion plate. Because anti- protons are so scarce there is no known way of using the energy released.

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ALL-U WEEK END On Friday, October 28, the annual All-U week end got on its usual boisterous way. This year the UCLA campus assumed the responsibility of hosting the festivities. Though the meeting of the eight campuses of the University at some member campus is a regular occurrence, this year ' s confab had the additional purpose of honoring President Robert Gordon Sproul on his twenty-fifth year in office. Events got under way with the All-U meeting on Friday morning. At this time the President spoke and the queens were crowned. In the evening three happenings kept the students occupied. The first of these was a parade over which the President presided. It included sonic 50 floats from various groups, based on the theme The C Around Us. Next came the rally featuring skits from each of the University cam, uses and the yell leaders of each group. A dance in the women ' s gym completed the evening. At midnight the float winners were announced. On Saturday came the Cal-UCLA game, the high point of the week end. After the game the week end officially ended and among wails of sorrow the representatives of the Berke- ley campus returned home to bury their heads in their books.