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...synthesis of element No. 106 was announced last week by a Berkeley team led by Physicist Albert Ghiorso and Chemist Glenn Seaborg, the former Atomic Energy Commission chairman who won a Nobel Prize for synthesizing element No. 94 (plutonium). The Berkeley scientists used a newly beefed-up particle accelerator called Super-HILAC (for heavy ion linear accelerator) to send nuclei of oxygen atoms barreling into another artificial element, californium. As occasional collisions occurred between the oxygen and californium nuclei, they fused and formed the heavier nucleus of element 106-but not for long. Like most artificial elements...
Shaky Ground. The Russians, led by Physicist Georgy N. Flerov, last June claimed a similar achievement using another technique: firing nuclei of chromium into lead. That produced a slightly different isotope of element 106 with an even shorter half-life of less than one-hundredth of a second. The Berkeley group was highly skeptical. Said Ghiorso: "The proof they presented is marginal. I think they are on shaky ground...
Partly because students want to save money, there is a renewed interest in communal living in dormitories as an alternative to more expensive off-campus apartments. Quite a few colleges have abolished most dormitory rules. At Berkeley, says Ben Leifer, 21, a graduate student in public health, "there are virtually no regulations except be discreet, mind your own business and don't bother anyone." Hampshire College in Amherst, Mass., permits students in dormitory suites to choose their own roommates-of whatever...
...desire for communal living, as well as the return to normality, has been chiefly responsible for the resurgence of college fraternities and sororities. At the University of California at Berkeley, which gave birth to the student counterculture with the Free Speech Movement ten years ago, the number of fraternities has risen from 24 in 1971 to 28 now; ten others want to reopen chapters that were closed in the 1960s for lack of members...
...Prudes' Palace." At most colleges, the sexual revolution is over; premarital sex and cohabitation among unmarried students are accepted as a matter of course. More recently, students at many campuses have become highly tolerant of homosexual and bisexual behavior. Among the most extreme avant-garde students at Berkeley and Columbia, it has become fashionable to have a homosexual or bisexual experience. On the other hand, at some campuses there has been a noticeable reaction against the new permissiveness. For example, one women's dormitory at the University of Michigan used to be sniggeringly called "Prudes' Palace...