University Daily Kansan / Monday, November 14, 1988
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Poachers kill 10 elephants in Kenya wildlife sanctuary
The Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya — Poachers killed 12 elephants in a wildlife sanctuary and hacked off the ivory tusks that are selling at a record price on the world market, a government official said yesterday.
The Saturday morning slaughter in Tsavo National Park, about 220 miles southeast of Nairobi, brought to 160 men from elephants killed in Kenya since April.
The Wildlife Ministry official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the elephants were apparently in a herd when poachers opened fire. The official said the carcasses were found close to each other.
Police mounted a ground and air search for the poachers and arrested a man carrying four elephant tusks, the official said.
The killings came a day after President Daniel arap Moi vowed that the government would stop the poaching.
"This is a dangerous trend the government is determined to reverse." Moi said Friday.
Experts blame the intensified slaughter on the price of ivory, which has climbed steadily since the early 1970s and now averages $82 a pound.
Two weeks ago, 30 armed men entered Meru National Park, 140 miles northwest of Mount Meru, where white rhinoceroses, wildlife experts said. They said the
San Francisco zoo mistreats its elephants, report charges
The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — A humane society investigation has found serious problems with the handling of elephants at San Francisco Zoo its director saves.
"This is not a document for sensationalization, but one for change," said Richard Avanzie, director of the San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
The results of the SPCA's study will be turned over to the director of the zoo, the general manager for the Recreation and Parks Commission, the mayor and the Board of Supervisors this week, Avanzino said.
Avanzino would not go into specifics, but said the report was largely critical of the methods used to control the elephants, and documented serious problems in the way the animals are disciplined.
The zoo came under fire last month after Tinkerbell, a 7,000-pound Asian elephant, seriously injured a veterinary technician. The animal's mail's behavior said she was striking back for prior abuse.
In addition to the SPCA study, a panel of three nationally recognized elephant experts investigated the incident.
slaughter eliminated the species from Kenya's public lands.
Late last month, poachers slaughtered and removed the tursks from five elephants in the Tsawo reserve and from eight other elephants in the Mathews Range, 250 miles north of Nairobi.
The governmental launched an anti-poaching campaign in August, when George Muhoho, minister for
tourism and wildlife, announced the killings of 92 elephants during the previous three months.
Studies by the Nairobi-based U.N. Environmental Program show that in the past 15 years, Kenya's elephant population has dropped 85 percent. An aerial survey of Tsavo and the surrounding area found fewer than 5,500 elephants, down from 35,000 in 1974.
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playing computer games, because it was easy.
it's a great way of getting three hours credit with little or no stress. Bordman said. "It's a chance it's a good way to meet people."
Although the class is fun, Bordman said the course wasn't teaching him very much.
"I haven't learned diddy squat," he said. "That's the one class in this University that I haven't learned a thing."
Maynard Shelly, professor of psychology and the course instructor, said he taught it to be easy for students. The psychology was too substantial subject.
'I think it is an ego trip for
people to make classes difficult when they don't need to be," said Shelly. "It's immoral. It's like selling a Ford for the price of a Cadillac."
Shelly said that he made his class easy because students should not have to spend as much time studying for a psychology class as they would for an engineering class, for example.
Bordman said a more worthwhile easy class was Sociology 662, Corrections.
But not all classes are as easy as people think they are. Unusual Weather and Introduction to Jazz are two classes students said they mistakenly thought would be easy.
Mike O'Connor, Colorado Springs, Col., junior, said he took Unusual Weather because he heard it was easy, but now he is
struggling through it
"The department knew it was easy, so they changed the format," O'Connor said. "The exam questions aren't as easy as they used to be; they are detailed and complex."
Introduction to Jazz isn't as easy as people say it is, either. On the first test, Richard Wright, associate professor of music at Columbia university, instructor said that 50 percent of the class received C's and D's.
A student in the class, Kelly Bradley, Northfield, III., junior, said she agreed that many students have a wrong impression of the class.
"I don't think it is as easy as people make it out to be," Bradley said. "The first test was very difficult."
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