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

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PRESIDENT SPROUL ' S PICNIC The President ' s picnic, attended by approximately 7,000 students. was just one of the many tokens of tribute offered President Sproul in this his twenty-fifth year as president of the University of California. Highlighting the picnic was a humorous speech made by President Sproul himself. In it he lamented his inability to know each individual student personally, as he had done in his earlier years when the University was so much smaller. Oski, the Glee Club and Senior Octet. and drill teams from each of the ROTC departments made up the entertainment. While President Sproul. his wife. his mother and the various speakers sat upon a raised dais, the students of the University clustered around on the grass of the North Field. Presentations made to the President during the program were: a plaque from Publications board, a gavel from the ASUC, a Golden Bear blanket from the Big C society, a beer mug from Men ' s Residence association and Interfraternity council, a silver cigarette box from Panhellenic and Women ' s Dorm association, a baton from the band, and life memberships-in the University Glee Club and Baton. Mrs. Sproul was made an honorary member of Treble Clef.

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PRESIDENT ' S RECEPTION Enclosed in the new undergraduate ' s blue envelope is Pre sident Sproul ' s invitation to the Reception for New Undergraduate Students. All students receive this invitation once during their years at Cal; some students, when they are seniors, receive invitations to attend again as hosts and hostesses. Other students manage to attend every reception. Some of these find invitations hard to obtain. but others have it worked to a system. A good time is had by all except perhaps when students wait in line out in the cold to shake the hands of Dr. and Mrs. Sproul and Chancellor and Mrs. Kerr. Of course, this is slight incumbrance compared to the thousands of hands the Sprouts and the Kerrs have shaken. always with a smile and warm word of greeting. When the new student arrives he is directed to the cloak- room or upstairs where he is asked fill out a name card. Once he has gone the receiving line he is greeted by either a senior man or woman. They partake in mild chatter and the new student is then introduced to another new student. The round then begins and by 12 o ' clock everyone is ready to return home. especially the ladies in high heels. All in all it can be said that the affair is a huge success. A testimonial to this effect is the fact that students return year after year. • et Pt ■ I • I ' N:NINgirA LISIPs - ' 73

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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.