The Montana School of, Mines
PLIFIE PUBLISHED
Vol. 5, No.4
BY THE ASSOCIfiED
STUDENTS
OF THE MONTANA
SCHOOL ,OF MINES
December 4, 1958
Chemical ·Confab H-eld MSM 'Bailies In Debate Tourney
SUBTo Provide'Chemical Recreati on
Conference Held
OnMSM Campus Nov. 22
Debaters from twenty-two col-· ., leges and universities performed in man, Columbia Ba_sm J. C:, M~nA conference on the use of X-~.)---------------the annual Columbia Valley De- tana School of Mines, Universitv With the completion 7>fthe new ,_pays as a research tool was held at planes in the crystal which probate Tournament November 14 and of Washington, North l?akota student union building, the students, the School of Mines on Saturday, 15 at Washington State College in State, W hit w 0 r ~ 1;, Wa~hmg~on here at the Mines will have various November 22. This conference en- duced each spot. Pullman, Washington. State College, PaCIfIC University, forms 'of new recreation. The build- abled the people actively engaged - Dr. Caughlan explained that in procedure, three different The meet, featuring approxim- Northwest Nazare~e, Lower ~o- ing provides for plenty of space in: in X-ray research to exchange this types of apparatus were usually ately 200 debaters, began Friday lumbia, and Yak 1 rn-a and BOIse the basement for recreation facili- ideas and make mutually helpful with the question "Resolved: that J. C.'s. ties for the students. suggestions concerning their work. used. further development of nuclear There were two levels of d,eba.te'1 That interest is great in various The simple cylindrical camera 'd s d VI The types of recreation have not weapons should be prohibited by in both men s an :w?~en I phases of X-ray crystallography in with the crystal rotating within it . . Th f dIVISIOns were been decided upon yet .. There will . International agreement." srons.. e : our .' . . Western Montana was shown by is useful for preliminary work be'th' ult 's eenior (debaters WIth three be very limited funds after the new, St u d ents, toget h er WI lac y men s . b ildilng ltd Th f " the attendance at the conference of cause the diffracted spots all come tnembe'rs from six states arrived yea r 's experience - champion), . UI h IS comp e e. ere f'ind 30, people from three units of the out on easily identifiable layer ' k zi th" 'J'unior (practice or students If t e stu dents act now to In, on campus to spea (In e SIX men sf" f d th University system and two divi- lines which determine the value of . ith 0 e or two years' experience) some w.ay 0 raismg un s ey t one of the Miller indices of the difrounds of debates. They represen - WI n hamni d could buy the recreation equipment sions of the Anaconda Company. ed: Saint Martins, SOIJther'1, Ore- a.nd wome:n's ; amp~~;n. pr:~- that they want. There will be ade-' The first speaker was Dr. fracting planes. However._because gon College of Education, Gonzaga, tice. ~ntrIe~ rom, divi m . equate room for two or three pool' Charles N. Caughlan from the of an inherent ambiguity in the Seattle University, Pacifi;: Luther- c~ampl?nshlp mendsB'lllv~lO~ v..er~ tables several card tables and a State College at Bozeman. He assignment of unique values of the an College \ University of Oregon, DICk Vincelette an 1 ur e, an .' ble i 'Th t t d th t th I h other two indices to each of the U· .' . -sit f I i th ractice flight were Suzanne ping pong ta e m one rOOm. ere s a e a e genera researc mverslty of Idaho, Umvelsl 't? m e pI' G . W 'd I is also a possibility of obtaining prograI)'l at the Bozeman campus dififraction spots on the film, resort Montana, Carroll College, Whlt- Dunlap andh ary. dende. f 1'1 two rooms in the SUB for recrea- involved an effort to determine the is usually made to the use of A coffee our an ance, 0 oW-, . , . . Weissenberg camera. . F'd y's debates was held in' tIonal purposes, If so, there WIll be complete crystal structures of the This camera contains a mask Ing 1'1 a. , , '1 bl f the CUB Browsing library for all' lI?-0re space aval a e or recrea- f our organo-me til' a IC compoun d s within it so that spots from only to g-et better ac-, tion. Methyl Vanadate, tertiary butyl Participants one layer line are recorded; these quainted. .'A t f·Irs t I't was h ope d th a t a vanadate, ethyl titan'ate, and nickel are then spread over the whole Trophies were awarded to t~.e' small bowlin~ al.ley could be h~d .in tris-ethylenediamine sulfate. film as a result of a synchonized The lOii'iiagre'ement for the con- winning team in ea,chlclass. Paclt- the SUB. ThIS Idea was .s'oon dIS-, These particular compounds are movement of the film parallel to struction of the stu den t union ic Lutheran captured both the covered not to be practIcal. The of interest because each of the the axis of rotation of the crystal. bUilding has arrived. The agree- men's and women's championships. loan was not big enough to have' central metal atoms is a transition of such a diftnent, which 'is drawn up by the Pacific University took the wo- even one or two lanes in which to, element, and the nature of the The interpretation Housing and Home FinaIlce ~gen- men's practice and the Univ~rsity bowl. Als? the noise fr?m the pins chemical bondin.g of transition ele- fraction pattern is more difficult than that of the simple rotation cy, contains all the necessary stipu- of Idaho took the men's practice. and bowlIng balls would make a ments is not yet completely under- crystal pattern but it is unamlations governing the construction lot of nO'ise in abuilding of this, stood. 'I biguous. of the SUB. These, stipulations insize. ,_ In describing the various steps in Finally one may use a precesclude such things as the building Pool tables are very expensive. a complete structure determinasion camera which gives a direct fees and other guarantees. Among Even card tables and ping pong, tion, Dr. Caughlan stated that the picture of the reciprocal lattice' of these are income from this buildtables would tax the immediate first step was the p'reparation of a the crystal althoug'h it might be ing, the dormitory, and interest The Mineral Club took an all- available funds of the students and, single crystal of the material. considered to be a mechanical monfrom othe,r s·0 u .1' c e s which ar,e day field trip on Veteran's Day. All' also those funds which will be left This might be likened to the old strosity 'as it depends upon a pre:necessary security. of the members came back with over from the general loan. If we: recipe for the preparation of rab- cessional ,motion (something like This loan agreement will go bequite a variety of ro.cks to add to want these kinds of recreation in. bit stew: first, catch the rabbit. In that required to keep a hula-hoop fore the State Board of Education their growing collectIOns. : our ,new SUB, we should start no,w' other words,. Dr. Caughlan ex- up) of both the crystal and the for approval in January or FebruThe club members visited an old' to organ.ize and roraise funds to: plained that the crystals of these film. One can, thus, read off the ary. When it is approved by the amethyst mine first and everyone, purchase our new recreational compounds were so sensitive to Miller indices directly from a preBO~d, advertising for bids will collected a few ame'thysts.' Several' equipment. moisture that they had to be cession camera picture by visue.! begin. Bids have to be advertised inspection. very good and unusual s~mpl~s' once a week for three I consecutive were taken. Danny TrboVIc~, m, Such a camera costs in the , !~~m:tiic~ac~~::?~:t~~a~;~~~~S:~d Weeks before the bids can be called. Room 319, has one that he w~ll .he: the crystals sealed off in glass cap- neighborhood of $3000 and there It will be January or February beglad to show to anyone who IS m-, , illary tubes "untouched by human are p'robably not more than two fore bids are called and contracts dozen of them in existence. teres ted. " hands." • for construction are let., Then, as The second stop of the day was; Dr. Caughlan po,inted out th!'.t soon as the weather is favorable, This p,rocess is so difficult that for epidote and garnet crystals. the camera which he used is owned Two students were turned in for the building can commence. only after many months of work ~gain the members collected ~am-, making a disturbance in the Resi-: by the Bureau of Mines & Geology In order' to meet the finances, pIes of each. Some good epIdote dence Hall early Saturday llltO'l'll-: was it possible to obtain one good of the School of Mines and that he one bond cove rind the e'n til' e crystal about 0.3 mm. in diamete ... crystals were taken but the gar- ing. The HaIl Council decided the: appreciated very much the spirit atnount of $250,0"00will be issued. After the single crystal has been of .cooperation' which exists benet crystals were not too good. matter to' be a minor offense and: As s'oon as feasible, the original Amethysts are rose or purple assessed the penalty accordingly. ' obtained, th~ ne,xt step was stated tween the two units of the Univerbond will be redeemed in favor of by the speaker to consist of the sity system, enabling him to make co10red quartz and are- found more denominational bonds, of $1,000 The decision 'was then fo'rwarded, operations 0If aligning the crystal often in the crys,talline form. They use of this very valuable piece of each. The total cost of $250,000 to the Dean's office for approval. In the X-ray, ap:paratus, of recordaparatus. are valuable mainly for gem ~in be paid off over a 40-year perThe Dean responded by suspend-' mg photographically the X-ray difData from the above step may stones. . IOd. ing the students for a 'semester. ' fraction pattern, and of identifying Garnets are used for mexpen-, be used to calculate the size, shape This government loan money, alFeeling that ,this stand was too the, various diffraction 'spots on the and symmetry properties of the sive gem stones and fo'r abraSIves., though it is approved, cannot acThe name garnet comes. fro,~ thei harsh, the students in the Resi-: film with the proper families of .(Continued on page 4) tUally be acquired until the conLatin "granatus," meamng lIke a, dence Hall called a meeting. Also struction is 70 percent completed. in attendence were Dean McAuliffe 'al I 1'ha.t means that some interim fi- grain. E,pidote has no commerCI va ~e. and President Koch. ~ncing will have to be done, that The students asked that the matIS, some bank money must be bor- but makes an interesting sample I? roWed for a few months at about any rock collection. The name ep.J-: ter be returned to the jurisdiction. dote comes from .the'Greek mean- of the Hall Council. After consider5 Or 6 percent interest. The Metals Bank and Trust Fund, ing "increase," smce the base. of. ing the details, Dr. Koch anthe vertical prism has one SIde: nounced' Wednesday morning that Will be appointed as trustee in longer than the other. , the incident would be turned back ~ha.rge of paying off the debt. to the Hall Council. He also said, "We feel that it ·is' perfeetly possible to obtain a cooperative workiIlg organization' whi<;h will be able to effectively DECEMBER E 8 00 m room 216, 4 Joint Meeting of MSE and AIM , : p .. , govern the Residence Hall." : Met Building 10 Basketball, Ricks' College (here) 11 Basketball, Ricks College (he're) Hall 18 Christmas Formal (Coeds), Museum The Boy Scouts enjoyed a speech 20 Christmas Recess Begins, 12 M. given by Esfandiar Saeed on N 0JANUARY vember 12 at the Congregational 5 Christmas Recess Ends Ch1,l.rch.The topic of Mr. Saeed's 9 Basketball, N.W. Community College (here) speech was "Tlie Training of Boy 13 Basketball, Northem (here) Scouth in Iran." He discussed the 15 Basketball, Western (there) differences between the training of 19 Basketball, Northern (there) Boy Scouts in America and Iran. 30 Basketball, Carroll COlleg\(t~e~~~ge (there)
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Loan A,gre,ement f:ompleted
Mineral CI'ub Takes Rock-Hound Holiday
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Hall Council Given' Disciplinary, Case '
Coming Events
Sae~d Speaks
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Basketball, N. W. Commu~/ C~llege (there) Basketball, N. W. Communl Y Basketball, Western (here)
Mr. Saeed is from Tehran, Iran, L. to R.: Dr. Charles N. Caughlin, College; Ralph I. Smith, Mines; Dr. and is a graduate student in Min- Douglas V. Keller, Mines; Dr. John Hower, University; Dr. Jack Wehreral Dressing. enberg, University.