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. One 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 on 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 she uttered by the whales broke the surface.
As darkness fell, the whales were swimming back and forth in the channel. Officials snapped photos of the scene.
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 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 disappoint-ments.
Roof collapses at building site Workers escape unharmed
Please see WHALES. p. 10, col. 1
The roof of a partially constructed building in northwest Lawrence collapsed yesterday, as desolate hills and falling debris. No one was injured.
By Mark E. McCormick Kansan staff writer
Hoobler said. "I've been around here 13 years, and the most I've run across was three or four."
Hobber said the roof probably collapsed because of a loosely supported frame. The wind wasn't strong enough to have caused the
Marvin Barkis Legislator has role in KU financing
Story by Janell Good Photo by Catherine Wheeler
Marvin Barkis is never lonely while working in his Paola law office.
Visitors stop by frequently, to say "Hello" or just to wish him well in his campaign for re-election to the Kansas House of Representatives.
"I consider myself a people person," he said. "I get a satisfaction out of represent- ment."
Educational financing and property tax relief are high on his list of priorities.
ng the people of Haiti. Barkis, Kansas House minority leader, has invested 10 years of political leadership in those people.
in the past, he fought the battle to increase educational financing that later developed into the Margin of Excellence. The program was designed to increase salaries for professors and provide money for needed equipment in the classroom.
"There are more independent groups (than a decade ago) that try to control the policy-making decisions," Barkis said. "It makes it more difficult to get things done."
When Barkis first became a Democratic state representative in 1979, John Carlin was the governor and the Democrats controlled the House. Now, almost 10 years later, he is now the Republican Gov. Mike Hayden, and other Republican leaders on legislative issues.
Barkis helped lead the drive that stopped the governor's taxation plan to spend more than $3 billion on reconstruction of highways.
Besides being a political leader, Barkis shares a law practice in Paola. He said that being a politician, a lawyer and a father sometimes called for sacrifices.
"We try to maintain our involvement in the different communities of the rural county, but things really become hectic and insultative sessions begin each year," he said.
Gov. Hayden would rather invest in materialistic things, Barkis said. Barkis said he believed he offered a balance for Kansas government.
"We need these things, but we can't lose sight of what is in the best interest of the people we represent," Barkis said. "Hayden needs a counterpart, like myself, who is more interested in the people and their future."
"There is a great deal of pressure in raising a family in today's society," he said. "I try to spend as much time as I can with my family at home."
Barkis is up for re-election this year and his opponent is Republican Carl F. Gump. Gump was a state representative more than 25 years ago, but of the same rank as Barkis does now.
Barkis and his family live in Miami County on a farm three miles east of Louisburg. He and his wife, Kate, have three children, Ann, 15; Will, 9; and John, 6. Kate teaches kindergarten in Louisburg and Bucyrus.
Ed McKechine, director of public relations for Barkis, said that campaigning for office had taken on a new meaning for Barkis
"Marvin hasn't had someone run against him since his first election 10 years ago."
Marvin Barkis. House minority leader.
He said that a campaign, though a neces
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here are more independent groups (than a decade ago) that try to control the policy-making decisions. "It makes it more difficult to get things done."
sary thing, cut into a lot of time that a garden will be planned and developing laws for the next year.
MKechene said that many hours of discussion were needed to pass a bill. In the legislative session, Barkis' bargain with Republican representatives was that he would have to give them permission they passed bills that allocated more than $10 million for education and neonatal care.
“In the next session, the addition of Washburn University to the Margin of Excelsion program will be a big controversy,” Knoppe said. “I will have to vote against adding another university, because it would it be harmful to the program.”
Joe Knop, House majority leader, said that he and Barkis worked well together and that Barkis had a genuine compassion for people. Their differences usually centered on the timing and extent of an issue covered in a bill.
"There are too many groups fighting over the same resources." McKechnie said.
Barkis said he knew Washburn would put pressure on the available funds, but he thought Washburn would offer students the choice of attending a smaller university, rather than large university settings, which would focus on the focus of the Margin of Excellence program.
If Barkis' 10-year legacy ends with the election, he has a contingency plan. He will continue to represent the people of Miami County through his law practice.
And he will have more time to invest in the many visitors who (of 10 years) have been born.
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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, following months of similar to those that plagued the maiden voyage of its U.S. compart.
"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 Energy, billed as the world's most powerful booster rocket, are to begin today. Tass test, according to the growing number of 100 tons of cargo into Earth orbit, and up to 20 tons to the planets Mars and Venus.
State-run television yesterday showed the white delta-shaped Buran, with its name emblazoned in red, attached to the Energiion a launch pad at the Soviet Union's Baikounr Cosmodrome on the Central Asian steppes of the republic of Kazakhstan.
Soviet media did not say how long Buran's mission would last. If the test flight is successful, the mission could be completed. Soviet officials have not said when.
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
Soviet officials have said the first flight would be pilotless 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 abish its pledge system after this year in response to a national anti-hazing fraternity and a fraternity's president said yesterday.
Jim Greenfield, president of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity, 1942 Stewart Ate, said yesterday that the ZBT Supreme Council abolished pledges nationally 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 pledges this semester and would continue to have them in the spring, helping to new the new system during Fall 1989.
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.
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Wednesday, October 26, 1988/University Daily Kansan PROFILES
Please see ZBT, p. 9, col. 6