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LBJ and innovative festivities hallmark Homecoming
Homecoming 1971 will take over the
Rice campus on the weekend of October
16th, featuring seminars, a free activity
format, and the probable appearance of
former President Lyndon B. Johnson
at the afternoon dedication of Sid Rich-
ardson College.
Since the talk sessions at last year's
Homecoming focused inward at the Uni-
versity, the theme this year, "Rice and
the City of Houston in the 70's," -will
search out Rice's relationship to the role
in its environment, including the areas
of race, religion, violence and the ur-
ban setting. There will also be an experi-
ment in dual emphasis this year with
opportunities for both clasis and college
reunions during the weekend.
OCTOBER 15th
8:00 pm
Several of the colleges are planning
programs for their alumni, those who
entered Rice under the college system
as well a® those who have recently been
assigned to a college. Richardson has
announced its Oktoberfest and other col-
leges which plan activities on this eve-
ning will contact their alumni by mail.
OCTOBER 16 th
8:00 to 9:00 am
Registration for all Homecoming ac-
tivities will take place in Grand Hall.
9:00 to 10:00 am
Dr. Harold Hyman, William P. Hobby
Professor of History, will speak on
"Love, Hate and the American City,"
an introduction to the seminar topics of
the day. Association President John
Heard, Lovett '40, will present the an-
nual alumni awards.
10:00 am> to 12:30 pm.
Four aspects of "Rice and the City of
Houston in the 70's" will be discussed
by panels composed of Rice faculty, staff,
students and alumni and selected mem-
bers of the Houston community. The
topics and their coordinators are: "Get-
ting Ourselves Together: Rice and the
Houston Black Community" by Dr.
Chandler Davidson, assistant professor
of sociology; "The Religious Commun-
ity and the City" by Rev. John Worrell,
director and chaplain of Autry House;
"The Urban Setting" by O. Jack Mitchell,
professor of architecture; and "Violence
and Life in the City" by Dr. Ralph Con-
ant, professor of urban studies in ar-
chitecture. A group of recommended
books will serve as the backbone of each
seminar.
12:30 to 1:30 pm
Sherry and lunch will be served in
each college. Last spring, in an attempt
to make alumni feel more a part of the
University today, the students and mas-
ters of the eight residential colleges in-
vited all pre-college alumni to become
members in equal standing with their
natural alumni. As with each new
freshman class, the assignments were
made by random draw, however, both
male and female alumni are assigned to
all colleges and, unless otherwise re-
quested, married alumni are assigned as
couples. Alumni of all ages and previous
loyalties, therefore, are encouraged to
take sherry and lunch in their colleges
with their student hosts and to enjoy
the interesting new perspectives to be
gained.
1:30 to 5:00 pm
The center of activity for the After-
noon Festival will be the Memorial
Center courtyard where refreshments
will be served and students entertainment
will help everyone to relax.
"Waiting for Godot," a modem exist-
entialist draima by Samuel Beckett, will
be staged in Hamman Hall at 3 pm in
place of the previously scheduled produc-
tion of "The Serpent." Roger Glade,
Wiess '67, director of the Playwright
Showcase in Autry House, will bring his
cast to the Rice campus for the occasion.
The dedication of Sid Richardson Col-
lege will be held at 2 pm on the lawn
adjacent to the college. Tours of the cam-
pus will begin every half hour in front
of the RMC. The 50th anniversary of
Autry House will be celebrated with an
open house during the afternoon di-
versions complete.
4:30 to 7:00 pm
Cocktails will be served in the RMC
courtyard.
The pre-game buffet will be served in
Grand Hall on a rotating schedule. At
the same hour the 50th reunion for the
Class of 1921 will be held in the
President's Home. The 50-year pins will
be presented by Dr. Norman Hacker-
man.
7:30 pm
Rice vs SMU in Rice Stadium.
10:00 pm
Post-game reunion parties will be held
in the homes of Houston-area alumni
by class choice.
OCTOBER 17th
10:30 am
An innovation for this years's Home-
coming will be a Garden Brunch to be
held in the RMC Courtyards. It will fea-
ture an informal forum on future alumni
activities.
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volume 59, number 6
thursday, october 7, 1971
Rice boasts four functional experiments on the moon
by CASH TILTON
On the surface of the moon
there are four experimental
packages associated with Rice
University through two sep-
arate programs. The Supra-
thermal Ion Detector Experi-
ment (SIDE) has three identical
units at the Ocean of Storms,
at the walled plain of Fra
Mauro, and at Hadley Rille. The
Charged-Particle (Lunar En-
vironment Experiment (CP-
LEE, pronounced seeply) is
at Fra Mauro. Both experi-
ments are concerned with the
charged particles emitted from
the sun and in the Earth's mag-
netosphere.
Commenting on the purposes
of the experiments, Dr. David
Reasoner, now principal inves-
tigator for the CPLEE, said
that the connection between
space science and the study of
physics on Earth is often ob-
scured by all the "flasihy hard-
ware and keen gadgets," but it
i3 still the same discipline. The
difference is that space science
deals with phenomena that oc-
cur in a system that includes
the Earth, sun and moon; an
analogy cannot be built in the
laboratory* so "we have to go
to , the mountain," and that
means the moon and manmade
satellites.
The surface of the moon in-
terests the investigators for^
two basic reasons:
(1) The moon's orbit passes
through some very interesting
regions of the Earth-moon-sun
system. The Earth's magnetic
field, close to tile planet, is a
dipole function (usually illus-
trated by lines looping out into
space and connecting the poles),
but the solar wind (the ionized
particles sweeping through
space from the sun) whips the
field out into a "tilt" opposite
the sun.
Occurrences traced to the
solar wind include radio black-
outs, ionospheric disturbances,
auroras and possibly some as-
pects of the weather. Tenuous
phenomena like the solar wind
can cause such energetic oc-
currences (some of which in-
volve enough energy to supply
Houston with power for half
a day) because they consist of
plasma, i.e., free electrons and
atomic nuclei. Neutral mole-
cules are described in terms of
gravity, pressure gradient, per-
haps flow characteristics if
there are enough of them, but
when the particles are charged,
electric and magnetic forces
come into play .
So, if there is an ionospheric
disturbance in the high latitudes
detected by magnetometers
in Alaska, northern Canada
and Sweden, and at about the
same time a mass of plasma
hits the moon, sixty Earth radii
out in the "magnetic tail," in-
vestigators, with the aid of data
from satellites closer to the
Earth, can begin to locate the
origin of the disturbance and
perhaps to understand it.
(2) A second reason for the
experiments is to study the lu-
nar surface itself, with an eye
to defining the engineering
problems involved in building
baseson the moon. For instance,
when radiant energy at high
frequencies, in this case from
the sun, strikes a surface, elec-
trons are emitted. On Earth,
the atmosphere blocks out high
frequency radiation and any
emitted electrons are instantly
absorbed, but in the moon's
vacuum this is not the case.
The instruments are in an ex-
cellent position to observe the
photoelectric effect and gather
information to be used in pre-
dicting photoelectron flux. And
if electrons are constantly being
knocked off the surface, it has
a measurable electric potential.
The principal investigator for
the SIDE is Dr. John W. Free-
man of the Dept. of Space Sci-
ence. Dr. H. Kent Hills, also of
the Dept. of Space Science, is
in charge until Freeman re-
turns in May from a year of
studying SIDE data at the Roy-
al Institute of Technology in
Stockholm, Sweden.
The SIDE measures the flux,
number, density, velocity and
energy per unit charge of posi-
tive ions near the surface of
the moon in an attempt to un-
derstand the interaction of the
solar wind with a large body
without magnetic structure
(the moon). The unit includes
a crude mass spectrometer that
analyzes the ions at six levels
of mass. The SIDE left by
Apollo 12 at the Ocean of
Storms has executed over 10,600
commands since it started op-
erating in November of 1969.
The one left at Fra Mauro by
Apollo 14 has been sending
back information since Febru-
ary of this year, and the one
left at Hadley Rille by Apollo
15 last summer is the best one,
according to Hills.
Originally, the principal in-
vestigator for the CPLEE was
Dr. Brian J. O'Brien, but when
he went to the University of
Sydney, Australia, Reasoner
was brought in ais co-investi-
gator. Presently, each has inde-
pendent rights to the data.
The CPLEE consists of two
detector packages (analyzers),
one vertical, the other 60 de-
grees from the vertical. Each
is a particle spectrometer ca-
pable of measuring the fluxes
of ions and electrons with en-
ergies ranging from 50 to 50,-
000 electron volts. Measure-
ments are made in a eight-step
sequence over a period of 20
seconds. As a result of having
16 separate measurements every
20 seconds, the CPLEE team is
inundated with data. Computers
are used to cull out significant
information, but of course peo-
ple are making the final anal-
ysis.
The CPLEE is at Fra Mauro,
left there on the Apollo 14 mis-
sion. Another one was supposed
to have gone with Apollo 13,
but of course was canceled since
that lunar landing never took
place.
Both these projects were es-
tablished in the standard man-
ner. Interested groups make
their proposals to the National
Aeronautics and Space Ad-
ministration, explaining their
goal's, plans and financial needs,
and NASA then chooses those
projects that seem most useful
and have the greatest chance
of success.
Reasoner predicted that there
will be fewer and fewer projects
of this type, and that there will
be more study of already avail-
able information* All data as-
sembled through the space pro-
gram becomes generally avail-
able after one year, and in the
13 years since Explorer I was
launched, the accumulation has
been enormous.
Homans will speak in chapel series
Dr. Peter Homans, 41, a na-
tive of New York City and
graduate of Princeton and the
Virginia Theological Seminary,
will deliver another in the Rice
University Chapel Lecture
series at 7:30 pm, Thursday,
Oct. 7, in the Memorial Chapel.
His topic will be: "Otherness,
Projection and the Rediscovery
of Myth." The lecture is open
to the public without charge.
Since 1965, Dr. Homan has
>been associate professor of re-
ligion and personality at the
Divinity School of the Univer-
sity of Chicago, where he ob-
tained his doctorate in 1964.
He also has taught a Trinity
College in Toronto and at the
Hartford Seminary in Connecti-
cut.
He has published two books
and many essays on the rela-
tion of psychology and psychi-
atry to religion.
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Freed, DeBow. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 7, 1971, newspaper, October 7, 1971; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245113/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.