University of California Los Angeles - Bruin Life / Southern Campus Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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CYCLOTRON LABORATORY Authosized Personnel Only

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On October 1st, 1965, UCLA hosted the 1st National Student Film Festival. Sponsored by the Graduate Student Association and the National Student Association, the Festival presented the ten prize-winning films chosen from a field of 35 finalists representing 22 schools, colleges and Universities. Divided into four categories (Fiction, Documentary, Animated, and Experimental), UCLA filmakers took six out of the ten awards given. The entries were judged by a panel of five professionals: Ernest Callenbach, editor of Film Quarterly; Pauline Kael, film critic for Vogue, Life, Holiday, the Atlantic Monthly and the New York Times Book Review, and editor of I Lost it At the Movies; Denis Sanders, film producer; Elliot Silverstein, director of Cat Ballou ; and King Vidor (Chairman of the Jury) established director whose list of credits includes A Duel in the Sun. It was easy for anyone who attended the Festival that night, to detect a sense of pride and excitement in what UCLA student filmakers were doing. For, as Pauline Kael puts it, American-produced films are so uninteresting now. That ' s why there has been very little relationship between film produced by students and professional companies. Because of this situation, the American film industry has begun to imitate student films. Perhaps UCLA is at the of growing movement.

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UCLA has had a working cyclotron since 1948. But since 1960 a 50 million electron volt sector focusing cyclotron has made the nuclear physics training program at UCLA nearly unique in this country. During its development plans for a conventional electrostatic deflector were being followed when studies showing the feasibility of accelerating ions in cyclotrons were published. Such a system uses a thin foil strip to remove the extra electron from the which because of the reversed curvature of its orbit, leaves the cyclotron. This process, it is separate from the acceleration process, is 99.5% efficient. Due to the potentialities of the technique, the UCLA group concentrated on its development. All planning, construction and revision of the present instrument has been done at UCLA. Through all stages, graduate have played an important role. Under graduates, too, have been able to work with the cyclotron. Cost restrictions necessitated simple for the cyclotron. But it is because the machine itself is relatively uncomplicated that undergraduates may operate the control Safety precautions, however, are the one phase in which no expenditures are cut. With any the instrument automatically shuts off. This makes the use by both experienced and inexperienced staff members feasible. The cyclotron is also completely safe for the campus and community in general. Although the instrument itself is small enough for members of the staff to lean on, it is surrounded by inches of steel and several feet of concrete. Daily radiation readings, taken on the outside of this housing structure, regularly register less radiation than is given off by an illuminated dial of a wristwatch.