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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 breaking air holes through the partly frozen cut, but about 4:30 p.m. rescue workers found the two whales that were caught a small breathing hole and were shaved in.
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 they heared from the whales broke the surface.
As darkness fell, the whales were swimming back and forth in the channel. Officials planned to end the helicopter surveillance at
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
marry Jim Hewald, a federal marine
biologist.
Haller said plans were being made in
thank the Soviets with a party,
possible links.
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
Please see WHALES, p. 10, col. 1
Workers escape unharmed
By Mark E. McCormick Kansan staff writer
The roof of a partially constructed building in northwest Lawrence collapsed yesterday, as several people were falling debris* no one was injured.
Hoobler said. "I've been around here 13 years, and the most I've run across was three or four."
Hobble said the roof probably collapsed because of a loosely supported frame. The wind wasn't strong enough to have caused the
Gisela Dreschhoff After war-torn youth, scientist finds comfort in Antartica
Gisela Dreschhoff, courtesy assistant professor of physics and astronomy.
Story by Cindy Harger Photo by Laura Husar
Living in a small hut in the friid conditions of Antarctica to do scientific research may not seem like an ideal Christmas gift. And Dreschoff, it is "better than a vacation."
it will be extremely comfortable this year," Dreschhoff said. "Some days will even reach about 30 or 40 degrees Fahrenheit."
Friends and colleagues of Dreschhoff, courtesy assistant professor of physics and astronomy, know that she doesn't let students learn about what she loves — science.
"She has a great love for science, knowledge and learning. That is a big part of her drive and her interest in life," said Joanne Turner, a friend and colleague from 1978 when the research worker as a project officer at the National Science Foundation.
"I learned early on that one thing belongs to you and cann't be taken away, and that is what I did."
born in Germany in 1938, Dreschhoff grew up in the turbulent atmosphere of World War II.
"I learned that land doesn't mean much
bank accounts don't mean much."
Dress up.
She has vivid memories of fleeing cities and bands of the humper that struck the country.
But Dreschoff said she didn't dwell on the war. Instead she said she thinks about how fortunate she and her family are for coming out of everything alive.
"our lives are so easy and so fantastic, you can't compare it to them," she said. "I do feel bad for my parents, because they young and had their dreams shattered."
However, Dreschhoff said her parents remained optimistic and lived by the motto "You make it happen."
"Your health and your education, that's what's important," Dreschhoff said.
"I'm in the very lucky situation of being able to do that exactly what I want to do. Droffshoe said.
Her honors include a group achievement award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for work done on the Apollo project and an award from the National Science Foundation in 1979 for her work in Antarctica.
She said her parents were of great support to her through college and into her career in
- Dreschloh's love for science has earned her great respect from the science communi-
Dreschoff has been published often and is currently co-editing a book. She also holds a patent on a procedure that puts identification markings on diamonds.
Dreschhoff attributes her success to always doing the best she can.
"People have a duty to make the most of themselves," she said. "I don't mean making money as the primary goal, but as a person and intellectually. In the long run,
that is the only satisfying thing."
Zeller has known Dreschhoff for about 20 years. They have worked together on many projects at KU, nationally and internationally, including radiation studies in Antarctica, which they have been participating in for about 10 years.
"She makes one terrible mistake in that she won't tell you how important she is," said Ed Zeller, KU professor of physics and astronomy.
But despite Dreschhoff's accomplishment, he know why she say Dreschhoff work hard.
The calendar in Dreschhoff's office in Nichols Hall features photos and maps of Antarctica. When she takes it off the wall and flips through it, she remembers the beautiful scenery as intriguing penguins and explorers exploring Antarctica. She doesn't mention the danger or the cold.
"You find out what people are really like when you live with them in Antarctica," Zeller said "she likes the difficult circumferential tolerates very bad conditions with gusto."
Zeller said the studies in Antarctica sometimes meant camping for days in barely accessible regions. Often they had to fly in dangerously windy, ice conditions looking for possible geological research areas on steep slopes on the mountains.
"She's not afraid of anything." Zeller
I learned early on that one thing belongs to you and can't be taken away, and that is what you learn.
- Gisela Dreschhoff
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said. "She makes no concessions to difficult life."
"She's a joy to work with," Zeller said. "She has very strong opinions, so in that sense, if someone doesn't agree with her, she can be persuasive because she isn't going to change her opinion."
Dreschhoff received her doctorate in physics in Germany and came to work in the United States in 1967 at Zeller's invitation to an a number of government research grants.
Her colleagues said that Dreschhoop hasn't let the fact that she is a woman stop her from succeeding in the traditionally male-dominated field of science.
"She should be a great inspiration to women students," Joanne Turner said. "Not a lot of women have achieved the professional status she has.
"She has taken her place as a scientist but has also remained a woman. She has never been without a partner."
Dreschoff said that she had been lucky not to have experienced discrimination because she was a woman. She says her husband has given her an advantage over U.S. women.
scientist, and a physicist."
"I think I had a huge advantage. In Germany, a high school education means learning everything so you have a choice when you go to the university," she said. "I was prepared to take everything from language to physics.
"As a girl in the states, you do experience discrimination. You're brainwashed to believe that you are not supposed to be educated in everything (like shop or science)."
"I believe that if you learn early on that you can do anything, you can."
Dreschhoff has based her work at KU since 1971. She is co-director of the radiation physics laboratory and is a member of the KU Women's Hall of Fame.
"She is very much into her work. That's her whole life." Zeller said. "She is complex."
Dreschloff isn't married, and said she doesn't have time to read or listen to Mozart, one of her favorite composers, very much. "You should feel as if she is missing out on anything."
"I can't imagine anything better than what I have." Dreschhoff said.
University Daily Kansan PROFILES/Wednesday, October 26, 1988
Soviets to launch shuttle tomorrow
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union said yesterday it will launch its space shuttle Buran on an unmanned mission this week, during months of jevles similar to those that plugged in their denoyage of its U.S. counter-attack.
"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 Energa, the official news agency Tass reported.
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, according to NASA, 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 go on without further effort. 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 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.
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.
Fraternity to abolish pledgeship end hazing
A KU fraternity will abolish its pledge system after this year in response to a national anti-hazing campaign. The 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 nationally for ZBT chapters at a meeting last month in Chicago.
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 pledged this semester and would continue to have them in the spring, but will introduce 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 fraternies is that having is out." he said.
Greenfield predicted that other fraternities would follow suit.
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