3.  SHORT TERM ATTRACTING MORE INTEREST

     A total of 17 courses will be offered in seven academic
areas to the University's first short-term Summer Session,
May 18-June 12, according to Dr. Stanley Wall, director of the
Summer Session. "Although the short term is designed prima-
rily for students already on campus, to give them more flexi-
bility in their academic programming, the session is open to
all qualified persons," Dr. Wall said. Students already have
shown a keen interest in the session. A maximum of four credit
hours may be earned during the four weeks, although most courses
provide only three hours credit. Each three-hour course will
meet two hours each day, Monday through Friday. Laboratory
courses will meet for longer periods. Courses offered are math-
ematics, one course; history, seven; sociology, two; speech,
one; statistics, two; home economics, three, and library science,
one. Dr. Wall said the number of students attending the regular
Summer Session (June 15-August 11) has been increasing each year,
andabout 5,500 are expected to enroll for the fairly extensive
course offerings. Deadline for new students to apply for the
regular (summer) term is May 12 (for the short term, April 17).
Several two and four-week short courses also will be offered by
the College of Education during the eight-week session, and a
number of superior high school juniors will be enrolled for six
hours' credit under a special program.



4.  DR. GRAY STUDYING CHEMICALLY-INDUCED GENETIC CHANGES

    A $26,886 grant from the National Instituted Allergy and
Infectious Diseases will underwrite basis research into chemi-
cally-induced genetic changes by Dr. Thomas C. Gray. The
initial grant supports the first year of a three-year study
called "Mutational Analysis of the amiA locus (gene) of Diplo-
coccus pneumoniae." Dr. Gray will explore the mechanisms of
hereditary change caused by chemical action on the DNA (deoxy-
ribonucleic acid) molecule--carrier of information on which
hereditary traits are based. Diplococcus pneumoniae is a para-
sitic bacterium present in most animals. It was the original
source of information on DNA's function in heredity. Hereditary
factors (genes) determine the amount of resistance or sensiti-
vity of individuals, bacterium or human, to particular substances.
"A deeper understanding of a single gene, isolated and observed
in bacteria," says Dr. Gray, "will add to the general fund of
genetic and bio-chemical information."