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 Li M. 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 daybyday by the whales as they beavered when the whales broke the surface.
As darkness fell, the whales were swimming back and forth on the channel. Officials in the river said that a boat
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 said Jim Harvey, a federal marine biologist.
Haller said plans were being made in Haller to bomb 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 Sig. Ian 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
By Mark E. McCormick Kansan staff writer
The roof of a partially constructed building in northwest Lawrence collapsed yesterday, as escaped falling debris. No oo was injured.
Hoobler said. "I've been around here 13 years, and the most I've run across was three or four."
Hoolber said the roof probably collapsed because of a loosely supported frame. The wind wasn't strong enough to have caused the
Judith Ramaley Administrator driven to learn
Story by Laura Woodward
Judith Ramaley run-walks into her office,
hurriedly returns a couple phone calls,
shouts a question to her secretary, then
announces she is ready for her next appoint
She sits down in a vinyl chair, pushes her hair back and says, "Now. what do you need
Ramaley can answer questions about the University of Kansas budget, as well as explain the aspects of neurophysiology. But the University's second-in-command teams forward and says she doesn't know what she wants to be when she grows up.
I can tell you that every time I think I've just about got it together, something happens that opens up new options," she said.
Yet for someone who hasn't decided what she wants to be, Judith Ramaley, the executive vice chancellor, has made an enviable career out of academia.
Ramaley, who has a doctorate in anatomy, has marched through the university ranks. Twenty-one years ago, she was a part-time biologist in the U.S., but six years ago, she was hired for her first administrative position in the chancellor's office at the University of Nebraska.
Since then, she has pursued what she calls her first love, the late Rita Cohen. Her last life has been more than an affair.
Mother of two
It's a Sunday, and she answers the door in an outfit that would look good in the office. Her home is immaculate except for a pile of clothes she must read, which are beside her favorite chair.
Hamaye's 17-year-old son, Andrew, takes exception to the neatness in their suburban
"The thing that irritates me the most about my mom is that she keeps the house too clean," he said. "But my friends think she's nice. That's because she's like me she's crazy."
"I remember one time, Andy was not more than a few weeks old, and the babysitter called in sick and I had to teach a class," she said. "So I wrapped Andy up in a receiving blanket and stuffed him in a jerry backpack. It kind of startled my students a little, but I gave my whole lecture with him on my shoulder."
Ramaley, who was divorced in 1976, said she raised both of her sons, Andrew and Alan, a sophomore at Stanford University, to be independent.
Ramaley says she does not pass over those years as a young mother lightly.
Hold the plane
At a recent SenEx meeting, Ramley was talking to University officials about space utilization. She said she could talk for only a short time because she had a plane to catch.
"She really hasn't had much time to do the PTA thing." Andrew said.
Later, a woman walked in and whispered in Ramaley's ear. She glanced at her companion to hold the plane.
People at KU already have figured they have to wait for: Ramaley. Other than the chancellor, she is the final authority on campus.
looked at us.
We said, "Well, they can wait for me. I'm the keynote speaker."
Chancellor Gene A. Budig said, "No one works harder than Judith Ramaley."
Photos by Shauna Norfleet
Budig said Ramaley was often impatient, but he meant that as a compliment.
"She wants to get things done. 'he said'"
"You have to be a leader and a supervisor."
"You have to have a vision of what the nature can look like," she said. "Then you learn how to make it."
"An important philosophy, I feel, is that the means must reflect the end I intend"
*What is an ideal marriage?*
*How does it work?*
*Why should we care about marriage?*
The Quaker influence
At a campus planning advisory committee meeting, Ramaley was seen wiping away a tear after watching a film produced or Campaign Kansas.
"That film does make me cry," she said. "There's an extremely touching scene at the end. a young woman is graduating and her mother mouths the words, I love you. I was very close to my mother and it reminds me of the network of support and friendships that helps students get through the tough times."
Tears are usually on her agenda. She glides serenely from SenEx meetings to press conferences as easily as others eat or sleep.
'People who think the way I do can appear to be in control because they see things from a different angle.'
"The choir is all-forgiving," she said. "I don't have the time to keep my voice in shape, so if I'm not careful I will swamp out the alto section."
Ramaley went to Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. The college was founded by Dolemons.
She has two heroes who she discovered while in college. Rufus Jones is one. A theologian, Jones believed in being "centered," an inward stillness that lets one hear other people. Her other hero is Martin Luther King Jr.
Ramaley doesn't have much free time to read literature written by her heroes because of her job. But if she's not working, one might find her watching a football game with Andrew or singing with the Lawrence Civic Choir.
The Quaker influence deeply affected Ramaley who calls herself a pacifist.
The professor
A student offhandedly comments that a possibly psychotic person they are discuss-
Drawing from her knowledge about psychology, Ramaley replied. "No. She would have to be much more aggressive."
She co-teaches a Bio-Ethics class with Michael Gaines, director of undergraduate biology, on Tuesday and Thursday. The two-hour class has the atmosphere of an ancient Greek forum in Ramaley and Gaines throws out topics for discussion.
The student sheepishly mumbles that he was only making a joke.
But there is no joking about something Ramaley takes seriously.
"At first she found her intimidating, but I figure she's going through this too and we are really learning together. so she's not as afraid of her as I am," said Robert Arndt, Kansas City, Ms., senior.
Ramaley says she likes teaching because
Please see RAMALEY, p. 18
Judith Ramaley. executive vice chancellor.
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 *huttle Buran* on an unmanned mission this week, following months of lelays similar to those that plunged his maiden voyage of its U.S. counterpart.
A government commission set the aunch for 6:23 a.m. Moscow time tuesday (10:23 p.m. CDT Friday) after receiving reports from specialists following several thousand tests if the Buran and its booster rocket, he Energia, the official news agency 'ass reported.
"Buran" is Russian for snowtorm, an appropriate name since the first snow of the season fell this week in Moscow.
Preparations for pouring nearly 1,000 tons of liquid hydrogen, oxygen and hydrocarbon fuel into Energia, filled as the world's most powerful booster rocket, are to begin today. The rocket is carrying more than 100 tons of cargo into Earth orbit, and up to 20 tons to he planet Mars and Venus.
v David Stewart
insan staff writer
Soviet officials have said the first light would be pilotless to prevent accidents like the Jan. 28, 1986, explosion of the U.S. shuttle Challenger. Seven astronauts were killed in hat blast.
State-run television yesterday howed the white delta-shaped buran, with its name emblazoned in ed., attached to the Energiaion aunch pad at the Soviet Union's taikonur Cosmordeom on the Cenal Asian steppes of the republic of Kazakhstan.
Jim Greenfield, president of the ta Beta Tau fraternity, 1942 Stewt Ave., said yesterday that the ZBT preme Council abolished nationally for ZBCT chapters at a getting last month in Chicago.
Soviet media did not say how long Buran's mission would last. If the est flight is successful, a mission to Syria could be carried out. Syrian officials have not said when.
A KU fraternity will abish its edge system after this year in spouse to a national anti-hazing effort. The fraternity's president did yesterday.
Launch was originally planned for je first half of this year, but was ostponed as technical problems rose, officials said.
Members of the Supreme Council ll meet with local ZBT members in wrench this weekend.
Fraternity to abolish pledgeship, end hazing
Greenfield said that ZBT had hedges this semester and wouldntune to have them in the spring, it would begin the new system
Greenfield said the decision was ade in response to a nationwide ti-hazing movement.
"The message to all the fraternies that is hazing out," he said. Greenfield predicted that other ternities would follow suit.
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Please see ZBT, p. 9, col. 6