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

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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.

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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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VIRUS SYNTHESIS The 512 pieces of the tobacco mosaic virus have been taken apart and reassembled. Simple as this sounds to the layman, it marks a great step in biological research and another first for the University of California. The intricate experimentation which led to the partial synthesis was conducted by Heinz L. Fraenkel-Conrat. associate research biochemist, and Robley Williams, professor of biophysics, both of the University Virus laboratory. Partial synthesis has been clone with many other compounds, but this is the first time it has been done with a self-duplicating system like a virus. This step may lead in the future to the formation of new viruses or the recombination of exi:tinir one:. esisigs•••• ' ... Such an advance in the fiekl of viruses gives hope of similar steps in the field of genes and chromosomes. the agents of heredity; viruses and genes are the same size and composed of the same materials. It may be possible in the future to synthesize viruses which give immunity. but are incapable of carrying disease. It seems to reduce the study of viruses to the level of a complicated chemical problem. %Vitale new fields of research have been opened up, as the mystery of viruses has been diminished. Th scic inc: ent flui of for hoz to