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 beaded out," said L1. 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 on."
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 breaking air holes through the partly frozen cut, but about 4:30 p.m. rescue workers found the two whales in a small breathable hole and were sharing it.
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 yesterday by the whales when the fisheries ended when the whales broke the surface.
As darkness fell, the whales were swimming as fast and forth in the channel. Officials flashed their lights.
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 be laid off Jim Harvey, a marine biological scientist."
Haller said plans were being made in
the Soviet's with the Soviets with a party,
possible 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 falling Debris. No one was injured.
The building at Sixth Street and
Hoobler said. "I've been around here 13 years, and the most I've run across was three or four."
Hooher said the roof probably collapsed because of a loosely supported frame. The wind wasn't enough to have caused the collapse.
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University Daily Kansan PROFILES/Wednesday, October 26, 1988 1
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 maiden voyage of its U.S. counterpart.
"Buran" is Russian for snowstorm, an appropriate name since the first snow of the season fell this week in Moscow.
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.
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, is launched. The rocket is capable of carrying more than 100 tons of cargo into Earth orbit, and up to 20 tons to the planets Mars and Venus.
Soviet media did not say how long Buran's mission would last. If the test flight is successful, a mission could be scheduled. Soviet officials have not said when.
Soviet officials have said the first flight would be piloted to prevent accidents like the Jan. 28, 1966, explosion of the U.S. shuttle Challenger. Seven astronauts were killed in that blast.
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 Cosmodrome on the Central Asian steppes 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
A KU fraternity will abolish its pledge system after this year in response to a national anti-hazing fraternity's president said yesterday.
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.
Members of the Supreme Council will meet with local ZBT members in Lawrence this weekend.
Greenfield said that ZBT had pledged this semester and would continue to have them in the spring, with the new system during Fall 1988.
Greenfield said the decision was made in response to a nationwide anti-hazing movement.
"The message to all the fraternities is that hauling is out." he said.
Greenfield predicted that other fraternities would follow suit.
Please see ZBT, p. 9, col. 6