Vol. 99, No. 44 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1880 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Thursday October 27,1988
U.S., Soviet cooperation frees whales
The Associated Press
BARROW, Alaska — Two whales trapped for almost three weeks in the arctic ice pack were freed yesterday by Soviet and United States icebreakers.
"The whales are loose and in the channe and headed out," said Lt. Mike Haller, spokesman for the Alaska National Guard. "They looked good all afternoon. To look at them, you'd have thought they had their bag packed and were ready to head south."
Ron Morris of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and rescue coordinator said, "They're in the main lead, and I can't help but think they'll keep on
Morris, who followed the whales by helicopter, landed a little after 8 p.m. to say that the whales had moved from the final manmade breathing hole to the path the Soviet icebreaker Vladimir Arseniev cut Tuesday night.
The work to free the migrating California gray whales progressed rapidly Tuesday when two Soviet ice-breaking vessels began smashing the ice that kept the pair imprisoned. A third trapped whale is thought to have died last week.
wishles would have trouble break air holes through the partly frozen cut, but about 4:30 p.m. rescue workers found the two whales had opened a small breathable hole and were
One of the whales was bleeding enough to stain the water red.
truckin', I don't know how much more we can do."
Spectators watched anxiously for several moments, waiting for the whales to surface in the new waterway cut yesterday by the whales when she meered when the whales broke the surface.
Rescue officials were worried that the
As darkness fell, the whales were swimming back and forth in the channel. Officials noticed a large shark.
nightfall.
Scientists and others involved in the rescue might never know the whales' fate. Rescue officials decided not to put electronic tracking tags on the already stressed animals.
"A lot of people really didn't want to aid Jim Harvey, a federal marine biologist."
Haller said plans were being made in a party with the Soviets in a party, possibly last night.
Before the whales were freed, as the Soviet icebreakers drew near, the whales were "acting in a very excited manner, almost like they can sense freedom," said Sgt. Ian
Robertson, an Alaska National Guard spokesman.
By midday, the Soviet icebreakers were a quarter-mile from the line of breathing holes being cut by Americans working in the opposite direction, he said.
Later yesterday, rescuers began to use a tractor-like device propelled by pontoon augers to clear the ice cut by the icebreaker, Robertson said.
The breakthrough in the effort to free the whales caught in an early freeze came after more than a week of delays and disappointments.
Please see WHALES, p. 10, col. 1
Roof collapses at building site Workers escape unharmed
The roof of a partially constructed building in northwest Lawrence collapsed yesterday, as several people falling debsr. One was no injured.
By Mark E. McCormick Kansan staff writer
The building, at Sixth Street and Gateway Court in Gateway Plaza, was to be an office complex.
Richard Lawson, an employee of Pendleton Construction Inc., of Topeka, said he was inside the roof (al shortly after, a) m.
"I was back in the corner of the building when everybody started yelling," said Lawson, a Topeka employee and I started running for the door.
"I was going to stay in there, but I saw the floor falling and then I thought everything was going to go, so I got out of there." he said.
Lawson said fragments of the fallen roof fell behind him as he ran for the door.
Lloyd Hoobler, of Lawrence Building Inspection, said falling supports and frames were an important occurrence in Lawrence.
Hoobler said. "I've been around here 13 years, and the most I've run across was three or four."
Hoohler said the roof probably collapsed because of a loosely supported frame. The wind wasn't enough to have caused the collapse.
"This is a pretty big deal."
"it's like a domino theory because they (wooden frames) are all tied together." Hobber said.
Craig Crook, acting foreman at the site, said cleanup should take about two days. He said he could neither estimate the monetary damage nor put his finger on the cause of the collapse.
Broken framework, bunches of nails and shattered pieces of glass littered the construction site.
Inside the structure, the splintered beams that buckled from the weight of the collapse rested on top of lumber wedged between the weakened beams and the cement floor.
Jake Frakes, construction worker and Topeka resident, examines the aftermath of a roof collapse at a construction site near Sixth Street and Gateway Court in Gateway Plaza. The building was planned to be an office complex. Frake said that he was standing on the second floor of the two-level building at the time of the collapse. All workers escaped injury.
Crook said he was talking to a co-worker when the roof collapsed, missing him and the co-worker but a parked truck near the building.
"It was quite a boom," Crook
said. "We had our backs to it, and we turned around when everyone started yelling."
Some of the broken roof beams rested on the bed of the truck.
Jake Frakes, another worker at the site, said he and another worker were on the second story of the building where the roof started to sway.
"The plywood shiffed this way and then away," said Frakes, of Topka. "We stayed up there in hibernation. It wouldn't fall back on us."
Dukakis denies Bush's remark on gun control Democrat shrugs off polls says they won't control race
The Associated Press
PUEBLO, Colo. — Democratic nominee nomenia Michael Dukaiks campained among Hispanic voters yesterday, shrugged off discouraging new policies and accused him of baloney" about gun control
Dukakis met with Hispanic leaders in Denver the morning after a 90-minute appearance on ABC-TV's "Nightline" program, then flew to
PRESIDENT
Pueblo in southern Colorado for a large outdoor rally
"The pollsters are not going to call this election." Dakikas said. "It's people that are going to be voting. We can't."
Dukakis again accused Republican rival George Bush and his allies of producing "noise pollution" and distorting the Massachusetts governor's record on such issues as gun control.
Dakukis has found himself on the defensive about gun control during nearly every visit to the West, where the National Rifle Association has been broadcasting commercials charging that Dakukis would disarm gun
"They're afraid if the smog clears from all the noise pollution that they have been laying down, people will realize that they don't understand average American families." Dukakis said.
- Dukakis says he does not oppose gun ownership by hunters, sportsmen and homeowners protecting their lives and property, but he wants to deny them to criminals.
"Jack Kennedy said, here in Colorado in 1960. 'No attacks, no attempt to discredit me, no attempt to discredit America.' " Dukakis said, evoking the name of the late president who defeated Richard Nixon in that election.
"Yes, it has been a campaign of distortion and mirepresentation," he said. "The latest one is gun
"I hope you'll take that word back to your friends and neighbors. These charges are a lot of ballet, and I hope you'll tell them that," he told about 4,000 people outside the Pueblo courthe as stood next to a large hot-air balloon.
For the second straight day, Dukaix was greeted by dismal newspapers by leading newspapers.
Please see DUKAKIS, p. 8, col. 4
By Candy Niemann Special to the Kansan
No notes Prof only wants students to read and enjoy
Pacing across the tile floor of his out-of-the-way classroom in Smith Hall, Dennis Quinn is absorbed in the feelings of my suspicion. I wonder that classical literature evoke in him.
Quinn does not let students take notes in his class. Nor does he encourage analysis
Instead, he wants students to learn the text and enjoy literature.
"It ought to have an effect on your soul," said Quinn, professor of English. "It is supposed to move you. Many teachers are too busy analyzing it to feel its true nature."
Quinn was one of three professors who began the integrated humanities program at KU in the 1970s. Then, the literature course was worth five credit hours, and was a part of Pearson College, a college within the College of Liberal Arts and Arts. Quinn's course is called Humanities 104, is worth three credit hours and is taught by Quinn alone.
Quinn's excitement for his characters has not waned. He frequently interrupts his pacing to read and reread passages to him, imploring them to share in his passion.
An office full of well-worn classes is the product or teaching Greek literature for 12 months. (Barnard)
His short, stout body, wispy silver hair, deep facial lines and striking dark eyes with brows that often slant upward composing the look. One of the adventure novels he teaches.
With the coming of 20th century technology, Quinn said, teachers have had a tendency to try to teach everything scientifically. This may be appropriate to some disciplines, but in the humanities it is unproductive or even harmful, he said.
"It poison people's tastes for poetry, music, art and philosophy, which the ordinary college student should enjoy," Quinn said. "When students have to look deeply into the structure of a work, they lose the primary purpose of the literature: its emotional value. Most students don't realize it or if they do, it is for the wrong reasons."
Mack Sutton, professor of English, has audited several of Quinn's classes.
Dennis Quinn
"It is in vogue to teach literature critically." Johnson said. "Quinn is at the other extreme that he leaves out the literary genre, and mystery that the literature evokes."
Michael Johnson, chairman of the department of English, said Quinn's style served as a counterbalance to the method of thinking emphasized by some teachers.
"He is a lively, provocative teacher," he said. "He makes his students think, show, and learn."
To emphasize the artistic aspects of literature, Quinn tests on content rather than analysis and retrains from imposing his views of the work upon the class.
"Nine times upon ten, the ideas impposed upon students by their teachers have no real value," he said. "They (students) are coached to give eccentric ideas that may have no serious bearing on us, and nothing is worth it. They are in no position to judge it. We simply ought to read it and allow it to have its effects on us."
Quinn, who has won the Hope Award and the Bernard Fink Award for teaching, has been teaching Humanities 104 for 15 years and is now leading me reads the texts to remain enthusiastic.
Quinn's reasons for banning notes from his classroom are both practical and personal. Because he does not include outside data such as names, places and addresses, he does not no lecture material for students to memorize. The material is the literature itself.
Also, Quinn says, listening has become something of a lost art, and not taking his line seriously.
"The classics have a permanent vitality," he said. "Every time I read them, I see new things. They contain an endless store of wisdom and validity."
"Note taking does not cultivate memory," he said. "We write things down so we don't have to remember them. We use notes as a crutch."
Mathew Gabbard, Topeka freshman,
enjoins not having to take notes.
"When I was a student, I was overwhelmed with explanations," he said. "We rarely talked about the literature itself, we always talked around it. When we did discuss content, it was broken down and I couldn't understand a poem by taking it apart."
"I really learn to focus my attention, sometimes, but I write down some things every day."
Quinn cultivated his unique teaching style after seeing what was missing in his own education at the University of Wisconsin.
Gabbard said that Quinn's style was effective.
"It helps you to make up your own mind rather than having someone tell you. That's one of the main benefits of the "class" he said.
Mike Lorey, Hastings, Neb., junior said
his class just finished reading Homer's "A
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."
"I really learned to appreciate the book because when I read it, I could just enjoy it. I didn't have to worry about looking for symbols." Lowry said.
Quinn just wants his students to get to know the literary characters better.
"It's just like life," Quinn said. "When you "it's a pleasure to know someone, you just want to be around them and converse with them. There is no need to be profound, just to enjoy each other's company."
The Associated Press
Soviets to launch shuttle tomorrow
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union said yesterday it will launch its space shuttle Buran on an unmanned mission this week, following months of delays similar to those that plagued the US naval voyages of its U.S. counterpart.
A government commission set the launch for 6:23 a.m. Moscow time Saturday (10:23 p.m. CDT Friday) after receiving reports from specialists following several thousand tests of the Buran and its booster rocket, the Energia, the official news agency Tass reported.
"Buran" is Russian for snowstorm, an appropriate name since the first snow of the season fell this week in Moscow.
Soviet media did not say how long Buran's mission would last. If the test flight is successful, a mission could be launched within days. Soviet officials have not said when.
State-run television yesterday showed the white delta-shaped Buran, with its name emblazoned in red, attached to the Energiaion a launch pad at the Soviet Union's Baikonur Cosmordeom on the Central Asian steppes of the republic of Kazakhstan.
Preparations for pouring nearly 2,000 tons of liquid hydrogen, oxygen and hydrocarbon fuel into Energy, billed as the world's most powerful booster rocket, are to begin today. Tass said. The rocket is capable of reaching Earth orbit, and up to 20 toiles to the planets Mars and Venus.
Launch was originally planned for the first half of this year, but was postponed as technical problems arose, officials said.
Soviet officials have said the first flight would be piloted to prevent accidents like the Jan. 28, 1986, explosion of the U.S. shuttle Challenger. Seven astronauts were killed in that blast.
Fraternity to abolish pledgeship end hazing
Jim Greenfield, president of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, 1942 Stewart Ave., said yesterday that the ZBT Supreme Council abolished pledged nationally for ZBT chapters at a meeting last month in Chicago.
A KU fraternity will abolish its pledge system after this year in response to a national anti-hazing fraternity's president said yesterday.
By David Stewart Kansan staff writer
Members of the Supreme Council will meet with local ZBT members in Lawrence this weekend.
Greenfield said that ZBT had pledges this semester and would continue to use them in the spring, but they have the new system during Fall 1899.
Greenfield said the decision was made in response to a nationwide anti-hazing movement.
"The message to all the fraternities is that hazing is out," he said. Greenfield predicted that other fraternities would follow suit.
Please see ZBT, p. 9, col. 6