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Many, many thanks to the Brothers and Pledges of TEO for the
greatest Spring Week we've ever had. Special thanks to the little
sisters and J.A.R.
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Attention: Ek. Ed., Sec. Ed., EEC & SPA Majors
who plan to student teach Fall Term '76
Pi Lambda Theta Education Honorary
Invites you to attend its Spring Term
Student Teaching Forum
Tuesday, May 11, 1976
8:00 - 9:30 P.M.
in rooms 320, 321, 322 HUB
(Come rap with veterans of the Winter '76 Student Teaching experience.)
Refrigerators: your chances of obtaining a refrigerator
for next year will be greatly enhanced if you submit a
refrigerator request card before the end of spring term.
Checking Out: Be sure you check out before you
leave for the summer. Your roommate cannot check
out for. you. Also, be sure to leave your summer ad
dress on the check-out sheet so that any incoming
mail can be promptly forwarded to you.
Graduating?: Seniors needing living and storage ac
comodations during the week before graduation can
make such arrangements with their housing supervisor.
If you have any questions while you're away,
Chemical may snuff smog
The days of photochemical smog may
soon be over. No longer will you have to
feel guilty about polluting the air with
your car and no longer will massive
pollution conditions hang like a life
choking noose over major American
cities.
Here in the clean, quiet environment
of Happy Valley, Julian Heicklen,
chemistry professor and a member of
the Center for Air Environment Studies
group at the University, has come up
with a bona fide cure for smog.
The new "miracle" drug" is
diethylhydroxylamine, DEHA for fhort.
"We want to release DEHA from
helicopters and point sources on high
ways," Heicklen said. "If we can fill the
air with DEHA, we can keep the smog
away."
So far, DEHA has shown no
detrimental environmental effects and
may prove to be a major breakthrough
in air pollution control.
•Heicklen explains that photochemical
smog is set off when hydrocarbons and
nitrogen oxides that are released by
cars, trucks, factories and other sources
react with sunlight. Reactive molecules
are then created, called "free radicals."
Having an odd number of electrons, a
free radical is unbalanced; it seeks out
other molecules and reacts with them,
forming new radicals. The new radicals
in turn seek other molecules and a
chemical chain reaction is started that
soon engulfs an entire metropolitan area
in harmful fumes.
DEHA stops this chain reaction by
effectively removing these free radicals.
In the process, DEHA produces two
chemical by-products, acetaldehyde and
nitroethane.
Acetaldehyde is harmful, but the
amount produced by DEHA is much less
than the amount normally present in the
WPSX to televise graduation
WPSX-TV, Channel 3, will
telecast the Spring Term
Commencement exercises.
The delayed telecast is
scheduled for approximately
10:15 p.m. May 29.
Graduation will take place
at 10:30 a.m. May 29, in
Beaver Stadium. The speaker
will be Sarah Caldwell, ar
tistic director of the opera
company of Boston.
There will be a picnic for
Blue Band members from
3:30 p.m. to dusk on May 12 at
Sunset Park. Members should
hand in $1 to 263 Chambers
before 5 p.m. today.
The Concert White Band
will present "an'outdoo4pops
concert at 6:30 p.m. today in
the Herman G. Fisher Plaza.
,- Arts exhibits from the
"Saturday Morning Art
School," will be on display
from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. from
DEIS
Information
call or write ARHS.
Have a nice summer!
865-9982
By FRANK BRODY
for the Collegian
BEFORE YOU LEAVE!
20A HUB
photochemical smog that DEHA
eliminates. Using DEHA, then, would
result in an overall reduction of
acetaldehyde in the air.
The other by-product, nitroethane, is
harmless.
DEHA also destroys ozone, another
ingredient of photochemical smog.
Heicklen said that DEHA would not
affect the protective ozone layer in the
.upper atmosphere. It could also be
controlled so as not to cut into the nor
mally required level of ozone in the lower
atmosphere, he said.
Heicklen said that DEHA has definite
advantages over pollution control
devices now being put on cars.
First, it's about 100 times cheaper
whereas it would cost $3O to operate all
cars in the United States with anti-pol
lution devices, spreading DEHA into the
air would cost only about $4OO million
a year.
Also, DEHA would not have to be used
across the whole country it could be
concentrated where the smog is con
centrated, in the big cities. DEHA gets
rid of photochemical smog from all
sources, not just cars.
In addition, car devices emit sulfuric
acid and "may actually do more harm
than good," according to Heicklen.
He further claimed that DEHA will
reduce the formation of sulfuric acid
from sulfur dioxide that's already in the
air.
DEHA could be put into use almost
immediately, whereas it would take 10
years to outfit all American cars with
anti-pollution devices. DEHA is odorless
and colorless when used in the proper
concentrations. Heicklen explained that
when the concentration of DEHA starts••
getting too high, you begin to smell
it "It's like a built-in safety device,
warning you that there's too much in the
air."
Tests are currently being made to
today until May 13 at the
Schlow Memorial Library.
The school is taught by
students in Art Education 489.
The Undergraduate Student
Government will meet at 7:30
tonight at Delta Chi frater
nity, 424 Fairmount Ave.
Collegian notes
Community Awareness will
sponsor the film "The Plight
of the American Indians: the
North American Indian"
at 8 tonight in Haller Hall
lounge. A discussion will fol
low. ,
The Penn State Magazine
Club will hold its last meeting
of the term at 7:30 tonight on
the main floor of the HUB. All
are invited.
Joanne Farr, sex therapist,
will speak on "Body Image"
at 8 tonight in Irvin Hall
lounge.
The Penn State Folk
Festival is taking place all
week. Today's events are a
women's workshop from 2 to 5
p.m. in the HUB Ballroom
and a coffeehouse from 8:30
to 10:30 p.m. also in the HUB
Ballroom.
The Free U needs summer
course leaders. Anyone in
terested come to 223 HUB or
call 863-0038.
There will be a meeting for
anyone interested in
promoting the People's
Bicentennial Commission
July 4th March at 9 tonight
across from the HUB desk.
Per F. Scholander, pro
fessor of physiology at the
University of California at
San Diego, will present a
determine possible biological side ef
fects of DEHA. We've been exposing
rats to the stuff for nine months now, at
dosages 200 times what we'd be using to
de-pollute big cities," Heicklen said.
"They've been given 500 years worth of
exposure to it and still we see no
significant problems."
The University of Texas Medical
Center is now conducting its own tests on
DEHA, trying to find out what genetic
mutations it might cause. Heicklen said
he'll know the outcome of these tests in
about a month.
Meanwhile, Heicklen has to worry
about the Environmental ' . Protection
Agency (EPA), which isn't' too en
thusiastic about his discovery. The EPA
is concerned that DEHA doesn't get rid
of carbon monoxide, an active smog
ingredient.
According to Heicklen, though, the
carbon monoxide problem is really a
"phony issue."
"Carbon monoxide isn't the main
polluting agent," he said. "In fact, the
big coastal cities have almOst com
pletely licked the carbon monoxide
problem already."
The EPA is also worried about the
dispersion characteristics fo the
chemical. But Heicklen claimed that
DEHA will not continuously build up to
toxic levels.
"When we find that concentrations are
getting high, we'll just quit pumping it
out," Heicklen said.
Heicklen is concerned about the
public's reaction to having DEHA
sprayed into the air. In southern
California, for instance, many people
refuse to allow their water to be
fluoridated. He says he wonders how
they could be convinced to let DEHA
infiltrate their air.
"Hopefully, Heicklen said, "they'll
realize that air pollution is a more
serious threat than tooth decay."
seminar, "The State of Water
in Osmotic Pressure," at 4
p.m. today in 101 Althouse
lab.
A fashion show of summer
styles, "Bikini Season Is Just
Around The Corner," will
take place at noon today in
Kern lobby.
Alpha Phi Omega
Fraternity will meet at 7
tonight in 304 Boucke. A short
Board of Review meeting will
follow.
The Folklore Society will
meet at 7 tonight in 324 HUB.
Eco-Action's final meeting
of the term will feature a film,
"John Muir's High Sierras,"
at 7:30 tonight in 319 Boucke.
Elections and petition day
organization will follow.
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of pizza given away
ight, Mon. thru Thur.
CALZONES
Ham and Cheese Tarts
2:30 on weekends
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