Vol. 99, No. 44 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 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 channel and headed out," said LT. Mike Haller, a spokesman for the Alaska National Guard. "They looked good all afternoon. To look at them, you'd have thought they had their bags 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
truckin', I don't know how much more we can do."
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.
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.
Rescue officials were worried that the
whales 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 breathing hole and were
One of the whales was bleeding enough to stain the water red.
Spectators watched anxiously for several moments, waiting for the whales to surface in the new waterway cut by daydreaming in the waterway heered when the whales broke the surface.
As darkness fell, the whales were swimming back and forth in the channel. Officials
nightfall.
Scientists and others involved in the rescue might never know the wales' fate. Rescue officials decided not to put electronic tracking tags on the already stressed animals.
"A lot of people really didn't want to be involved Jim Hewley, a federal marine biologist."
Haller said plans were being made in
the country to the Soviets with 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.
Roof collapses at building site Workers escape unharmed
Please see WHALES, p. 10, col. 1
By Mark E. McCormick Kansan staff writer
The roof of a partially constructed building in northwest Lawrence collapsed yesterday, as several people fell falling debris. No one was injured.
The building, at Sixth Street and Gateway Court in Gateway Plaza
Hoobler said. "I've been around 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.
It's like a domine theory.
AMBLER
Continued from p. 12
That system helped Ambler earn three degrees from the University of Indiana — a bachelor's degree in business, a master's degree in political science and public administration and a doctorate in educational administration.
After working on the student services staff at the University of Indiana, Ambler accepted a position at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio.
"During that time the Vietnam war protests were beginning to heat up, particularly on the big campuses like Berkeley and Indiana. So I thought, 'it's going to be good to go to an unknown school like Kent State in Ohio where maybe they were untouched by that kind of problem.' My judgment in timing was impractically bad.
"Kent was already involved in protests. Very few campuses escaped that. I was thrown into the thick of all the problems the debate and of course the tragedy that occurred."
Four students were killed during a Vietnam war protest at Kent State in 1970.
"Shortly after that tragedy in 1970, the man who was vice president for student affairs at Kent decided to leave. He was tired and his credibility was shot and I became vice president just a few months after the shooting. I stayed there until 1977, somewhat out of a commitment to help them rebuild a shattered university."
Since becoming vice chancellor for student affairs in 1977, Ambler's biggest impact may have been on KU graduates.
Ambler takes his turn at the rowing machine the KU Crew team has on Wesco beach to perform a seven day rowing marathon.
"I talk with many graduates across the country and his name always surfaces," Budig said. "They always ask about David Amber."
"All these kids will come back and make an effort to look him up." Mary Kate said. "It's really neat to follow them along, and you know you're doing something right."
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Ramaley made the transition from teaching to administration because, she says, she loves to teach but she also loves to learn. And she says being an administrator means learning all of the time.
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she is able to create a learning environment for others
"You must be willing to stay a student all your life," she said.
Continued from p. 13
The administrator
RAMALEY
The administrator Ramaley glances around her neat office in Strong Hall before she answers. She had thought about this question before.
Since she began working for KU in the summer of 1987, she has been responsible for such things as setting in place a campus planning and budget process, establishing new Regents Center in Kansas City and first international KU alumni club in Tokyo.
She takes her job seriously. When acting as executive vice chancellor, she said, "I am the University. I represent the Univer-
still has another appointment in the
But the driving force in her life is the
disease.
"Or like the caterpillar in a ditch who began to contemplate about how all those legs moved, you can stall out," she said. "The desire to learn
Although she's already gone to Topeka today to represent KU at the inauguration of the president of Washburn University, she still has another appointment after dinner.
it's late in the afternoon, and Andrew is ready to go out for the dinner that Ramaley promised.
But she tries not to think too much about what did or did not work.
"I can't imagine living a life where I wasn't asking questions and trying to answer them," she said. "The difference between me now and me 10 years ago is that my questions are bigger and more complicated and I can't answer them by myself."
sity. I speak for the University and I adoacate the University."
The desire to learn
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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 defender voyage 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 would be delayed. Soviet officials have not said when.
Preparations for pouring nearly 2,000 tons of liquid hydrogen, oxygen and hydrocarbon fuel into Energia, billed as the world's most powerful booster rocket, are to begin today. The team will carry more than 100 tons of cargo into Earth orbit, and up to 20 tons to the planets Mars and Venus.
Jim Greenfield, president of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, 1942 Stewart Ave, said yesterday that the ZBT Supreme Council abolished pledged nationality for ZBT chapters at a meeting last month in Chicago.
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.
A KU fraternity will abilis his pledge system after this year in response to a national anti-hazing fraternity and fraternity's president said yesterday.
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 Baikoun Cosmodrome on the Central Asian stepses of the republic of Kazakhstan.
Launch was originally planned for the first half of this year, but was postponed as technical problems arose, officials said.
By David Stewart Kansan staff writer
Fraternity to abolish pledgeship end hazing
Members of the Supreme Council will meet with local ZBT members in Lawrence this weekend.
Greenfield said that ZBT had ledges this semester and would continue to have them in the spring, but it also led the new system during Fall 1989.
Greenfield said the decision was made in response to a nationwide anti-having movement.
"The message to all the fraternies is that hazing is out," he said. Greenfield predicted that other raternities would follow suit.
Please see ZBT, p. 9, col. 6