THE BATTALION MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1981 Page 7 National College senior builds H-bomb plastic model Christif :30 p.m, Srownstoasi nwithSani : main hfc >r. Romantti Thursday i: • Vandiver a iulttingaii ige. Scoff Zaj ocial meelisj ig tavorited The final push VICE: Vh* sting folb This student seems to be swamped with work. During dead week, students will be very familiar with this sight. Papers are due in many classes, and final next week. AND DR! tebels Citizens, court argue over nativity scene le- price youli ig down inf : Secretary Wefeelproj lace to pul track. Weir t will begin It United Press International PAWTUCKET, R.I. — About BO people put up a nativity scene In a private park Saturday, car ing on a 40-year tradition that a HIS, District Court order reatened to break. The nativity scene has become [rallying point for citizens in this Iv of 76,000. U.S. District Chief Judge iaymond J. Pettine ruled in November that the nativity scene puld no longer be part of the city- ( lied display of holiday decora- ms he cause it was an unconstitu- [onai endorsement of religion. “Government may not assist in ic fight to keep Christ in Christ- ■as," Pettine said in the 84-page decision in which he ruled the residentL»Rtivity scene a religious symbol. admini' *| u , c ,jty |, as appealed, entual reco'f* American Civil Liberties ing to thc9 ^ n i ()rt ' j n Rhode Island had chal- v jobless. ■ n g ec l the scene, claiming the ci- vorkers and ill s use of tax dollars for the dis- runt of Nova | inomic tre» I wauautJHi.. _ rate for let! I A VI igh since tW | p l * beg., k | /\ mericcin Werewolf in London TODAY 7:45 9:45 play violated the First Amend ment prohibition of government sponsorship of religion. To continue the holiday tradi tion, the Citizens Committee to Continue Christmas raised money and bought the scene’s 14 aging rubber figures from the city. Paw tucket retained the right to buy them/back if the 1st Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in Boston de cides it can use the display until the issue is decided. Oral arguments will be heard Thursday on that request. Carolyn Palo, 27, and her hus band Robert, 32, supplied the two trucks that carried the figures from their storage garage to the downtown park. * T wanted to see them go up no matter what. Even if private citizens had to do it,” she said. “Christmas isn’t Christmas with out a nativity scene.” United Press International WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — A college senior said Saturday he has designed a model of a hydrogen bomb by using declassified gov ernment documents and other material. Today he will lecture professors and students on how to build the real thing. Albert R. Stoner, 21, an astro nomy major at Lycoming College, said he will lug his model into a classroom and describe “the actual workings of the thing and design of it.” The project is one of two that Stoner must complete in order,to graduate next spring. T will he detailing how you could build one, and I’ll also be giving a list of where you could procure materials for it,” he said. Stoner said his model, which is made of plastic foam and shows the inner workings of a bomb, is three feet high and two feet wide and looks sort of like a missile rounded at the top. Stoner, of Altoona, Pa., said he is opposed to nuclear weapons and hopes his presentation will help others understand the bomb’s destructive power. “It’s a terribly scary weapon when you know this thing is actually real, he said. “The whole thing is mind-boggling and I am against their construction and pro liferation. By giving my talk, I hope to make my little community aware of it. ” Out of curiosity, Stoner began research as a freshman. He said a controversial article on how make an H-bomb, published in 1979 in The Progressive magazine, en couraged him to work on his own design and to improve on the bomb explained in the article. Stoner said that one of the bet ter documents he obtained was the Los Alamos Primer, a publica tion prepared in 1942 by the gov ernment to be distributed to the atomic scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project. “They ground out 30 copies and handed them out to scientists in New Mexico,” he said. “In the late 1960s, they were declassified. I got a copy from Drexel Univer sity.” Drexel University is in Phi ladelphia. He said he obtained details on the bomb’s trigger mechanism from Penn State University and that discussions with Lycoming fa culty members provided other in formation. Stoner, who has a 3.1 grade point average, said disseminating information about the bomb does not pose a threat. “It takes gifted physicists, sci- , entists and engineers to get thejj whole thing to work,” he said.' “Any person or groups just 1 couldn’t go ahead and build one without millions of dollars at their disposal for equipment.” Stoner said his project is applic able to astronomy because “the reaction that allows the hydrogen bomb to function — that is, fusion — is the driving nuclear force in stars. Our sun runs by the same process that the hydrogen bomb does, except that the sun is a con trolled type of hydrogen fusion. ” Richard Erickson, Stoner’s pro-1 ject adviser and chairman of i Lycoming’s department of astro- I nomy and physics, described; Stoner as a good but not excep-! tional student. “His academic performance is variable,” Erickson said. “He does well in some courses, not so well in others.” But he said that Stoner is well-read and has a “better background of knowledge than the average college student.” oooooooooooooooo xnxaccsxx CAMPUS >What happened! >to him should ^happen to you. •am, umlreds ofi ngineering 1 id. icricanssp® much of it leason. Tk t an e ve, ' I, II. •arentss y toys are® id, must P” rsight thaU ( cy or cofl mplisk : toy safe icted wiA of Ameritf dnesson® and sug " ■ing of 1 ure they®! Sen. . and his '*] } an eff^ ingress to jrmatioa ;******** . 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