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I # ? ? ?? ? ?? Nuclear war games, p. 4 j???fet>. ?&. -ase?- I ?? TfldcXy Beat thrills crowd p. 13 vLmi^ra^ tF^wkWi IpK March 30,1983 Tennis team loses p. 17 H BS 11 University of South Carolina ^ j I ::-S' :I * ? Didn't it snow last \ ? Winter seems long ago and far a Patterson Hall yesterday. The Nat 60s through Easter weekend. Scientist sa # key to incre By David Hill Science must be popularized if s< receive more money for researc world's foremost geologists said M Tuzo Wilson, one of the origi continental drift theory that geology, said the public must r portance of research and have an of research being done. "If you're going to get more m 9 you'll have to popularize science. 1 for us to find more money for research will have to be shown to he said. WILSON GAVE the keynote ad in the dedication ceremonies of US Water Sciences Center. Wilson said scientists are partly they can't get research funds. 4 'Scientists have been so co research they forget to tell the ? science." But, he said, "Scientists and eng idea of how to tell people about scie TO POPULARIZE science, Wil the American Association for the of Science set up branch societie: towns. Membership should be inex programs should be held feati speakers whose lectures the pi derstand, he said. Wilson said the public must be l about science bef ore they will supp m "Everyone knows the way to t science is not to get them to read il but to get them in a lab, doing scier FOR THAT REASON, the Toronto Science Centre, which V contains more than 400 working n enough to withstand handling by tl who visit the museum daily. The museum has more than 100 c build models and exhibits, "m Britisn Museum ana bmitnsonia w Wilson said. "We don't have a museum at al laboratory." But Wilson said the Toronto C< funding problems. - _i_~ 7 m:~-- ? week? way as Sandy Estridge (If ional Weather Service pn it f n r%Bil^l?i yo puuni lasing re 'E cientists are to ;h, one of the SOITI [onday. rfi3Cl nators of the revolutionized jn 3 ealize the imunderstanding loney it seems [ think in order research, the be valnahlp " have weal dress Monday mH?! >C's Earth and . 11 scier to blame when < trp ncerned with public about W14<p ineers have no C?P 1 r\F hn snce. ef son suggested mak< Advancement Wi s in cities and stud: studi pensive, and regi( jring popular eart) jblic can un- "T stud; mowledgeable Wi ort it. geol( each someone ticul t out of a book, eartl ice. >pjj unde University of geoj( yilson directs, ^hef lodels durable YVi he 5,000 people try t sible ;raftsmen who jviou) ore than the ^at n combined," torn; iii ... movi I, but a public . , Sam: ?ntre also has n:L\^^$w. ^Hk PhottTby Michaei Be jft) and Lisa Waites enjoy the sun in from adicts high temperatures in the mid to up c awareness search fundin unriinnn tUn ! '?> *?? *?' vciyunc i\iiuvva liit; wdy iu itdu eone science is not to get them I it out of a book, but to get th lab, doing science/ ? Continental Drift Thee Tuzo Wi T IS COMMON experience that mus< \ never been very well funded except b thy, and the wealthy usually suppor piims " lson, commenting on tendencies withii itific community, said there is a 1 rd combining disciplines. 'here is not much of a point to do geoph out geology, and it is silly to do ge( out physics. 'hysicists can make instruments. Geolo collect data. But only those with knowl th are able to utilize the data." JGINEEKING, Wilson said, is necessa e earth sciences more useful. lson also addressed the trend in geoloj y the earth as a whole. Geologists in the ed minerals or the geology of a parti< )n without regard to thp epnloav nf p ' C ? D O./ *""v v 1. he trend is to make the study of the eart y of an object." lson also talked about some of the prob >gists will face in the next century, arly in investigating "hotspots" withii i's mantle. [ESE AREAS of great volcanic act r the earth's crust are thought by s )gists to have fueled the volcanoes that lawaiian Islands and widened the Red S Ison said geologists in the next century o determine if such hotspots were res for building and later uplifting the R ntains. They will also investigate the th hotspots are eddies in the mantle, jdoes along the leading front of an air r ing across a continent. i T m/i ? ? 1?. - i > 1 lauu piaiscu uat geology siuaeni son and her fossil find near Bate?l>urg. See "Sciance," f ?gj 'And that's W Tl KS ft fl I IV sv " to spe By Leslie Potesh Ml Walter Cronkite, CI correspondent, will be the commencement exc ~cise i|j| USC President Jam^s announced yesterday. j?f| Cronkite, who has often llfl "the most trusted man in Bit a^so receive an hoi torate of humane letters. mIkI Cronkite was to visit U 1980 as the guest speaker a Kappa banquet to hone members and to award I Hollings an honorary degr CRONKITE WAS unabi j the banquet, however, be< aborted rescue attemj American hostages in Ir |?g speak by a direct tele connected to the Russell fc tgl address system. The former anchor managing editor for Evening News with Walte sieppeu aown irom DOin 1981 after 19 years. He haj host of the CBS scienct 1 ?' series, "Walter Cronkite's per which began in 1979 presented as a summer from 1980 through 1982. During his journalist Cronkite has covered W? disasters, nuclear < presidential tours, social national elections and spa< i He has been host of ma IU programs such as "You A W "Twentieth Centur "Eyewitness to History." PROMKITF. WAS hnrn f Tfl ? * lu in St. Joseph, Mo. His f, em moved to Houston, Texas. While in junior high decided to become a jour reading an "American : jrJst story about a foreign corre After graduating from ISOn in 1933, he attended the U Texas in Austin and studi 3ums science, economics and y the worked part-time for I t art Post as campus corres a sports announcer for a n the station and as a state capi rend *or Houston bureau of Howard newspaper chain. Vqipc He dropped out of colleg )logy year to wor^ full-time for t "Covering the state capi gists more exciting than studyi edge science," he told Look n 1964. "Besides, I neve classes, so I got awful grac ry to After working at the Pos he joined KCMO radio Kansas City. He then woi past for \ykv ra(jio station in lular before taking a job \ ntire Airwavs in Kansas Citv h the HE RETURNED to joi 1939 when he joined the U IprnQ . icuia wire service. P^r" Cronkite was one of i tne correspondents to be ac U.S. forces in World V ivity covered many of the w ?ome battles, such as the Battle built Atlantic in 1942 and the F ea> Bulge in 1944. will He was a participant ;pon- Flying Fortress bombing ocky Germany. He also parachi eory Netherlands with the 101 likp Division and waded asho nass Allied troops at Normand) After the war, he staye Sara to establish UP bureaus the Netherlands and Luxei 6 HE WAS the chief UP ie way it is..." tfalter Cri ak at gra Sen. Ernest i T ee. le to attend :ause of the Dt of the ; an. He did iphone line j louse public man and [ the "CBS r Cronkite" positions in : ?since been , i magazine x. Universe," and was V mini-series dent at the lie career, Nuremberg ?rs, natural chief in Mos< explosions, Returning upheavals, 1948, he w< le flights. reporter for ny network radio station ire There," When the ] y" and 1950, he joint overseas bu Washington ^ov. 4, 1916, Cronkite t amily later the national in the firs school, he presidential nalist after covered m Boy" short conventions spondent. since then, high school niversity of HE FOF ied political television w< journalism. American p< the Houston article for T nnnHf*nt ac local radio "Televisioi tol reporter ground bet theScripps- politics," politician w ;e his junior highest Hoo he Post. achieve offic tol was a lot with it. And ing political the best chai nagazine in the public inf r went to He anchor les." the "CBS E\ t for a year, Cronkite" 01 station in minute progi :ked briefly to 30 minute* i Oklahoma exclusive in vith Braniff John F. Kenr Cronkite 1 occasionally iirnalism in ting. Among nited Press his directior grain sales the first September l\ credited to /ar II and HE FOLL m a uiajur part repun t of the North which totale lattle of the the first segi with the stai in the first escalated int ; raids over campaign < jted into the apparently u st Airborne history." re with the His two r r. according t d in Europe Marvin Bam in Belgium. the Waterci tnbourg. substantially Americans. ' correspon wasaconsidc onkite I - dilation BoSfcyi1 ^ , % lis _ :EJ j gfc, flare1 /alter Cronkite i war crimes trials in and then became bureau :ow. to the United States in ;>rked as a Washington a group of midwestern s. Korean War broke out in sd CBS, hoping to be sent t he "never got out of > y leaded CBS coverage of nominating conventions it nationally televised campaign m iy52. He nas ost national political and national elections IETOLI) the impact ould eventually have on )litics when he wrote an heatre Arts in November n will force a middle ween personality and he predicted. "The ho can command the per rating is likely to e and the power that goes once in office, he stands tice of being able to keep nrmArl " ed the first broadcast of rening News with Walter n April 16, 1962. A 15 am then, it was extended 3 on Sept. 2, 1963 with an terview with President iedy. las also been involved in investigative reporhis work in this arpn ic i of the investigation of to the Soviet Union in m. OWED this with a two>n the Watergate scandal d 23 minutes. He began ment on October 27, 1972 tement: "Watergate has o charges of a high-level of political espionage nparalleled in American eports on the scandal, o broadcast historian att, 'tor me tirst time put ate story clearly and ' before millions of In broadcast terms, it irable act of courage."