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CLICK! POP! CHUNCK-UHN! Photography...It sounded so exciting. 'Reporter' also had a somewhat romantic ring to it--Woodward and Bernstein, Pentagon papers, Tom Wolfe, Americana. But 'photog' is even better. Like a reporter, you get a press pass complete with a photo, an official looking masthead, and the Crimson president's signature on it (even if the signature was forged by the managing editor, as mine is). You get to go to all the same newsworthy events and you don't even have to talk to anyone. Just chunck-ubn, chunck-ubn, chunck-ubn. When it's all over...
...exciting and ominous prospect, but the trouble with fusion reactions is that they are not self-starting; uranium fission is. When a sufficient amount (critical mass) of U-235 is assembled, a single, slow-moving neutron can start an atom-splitting chain reaction in it and make the whole chunck explode. Light elements are not so accommodating. Their atoms must be slammed together violently to make them group into larger atoms and yield energy...
Graduation left the team with only three veterans, Captain Johnny Cobb, Chunck Seelbach, and Bert Ingley. Unfortunately for the team, however, an early season injury to Ingley laid the star up for the year...