Vol. 99, No. 44 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PU BISISHED SINCE 18&8 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVIRRITY OF KANSAKAS
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. 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 man-made breathing hole to the path the Soviet icebreaker Vladimir Arseniev cut Tuesday night.
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 breathing hole and were sharking it.
Rescue officials were worried that the
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 yesterday when the whales heered when they broke the surface.
As darkness fell, the whales were swimming back and forth in the channel. Officials said the whales were "very frightened."
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 told Jim Harvey, a federal marine biologist.
Haller said plans were being made in Barrow to thank 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
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 workers narrowly escaped falling
Hoobler said. "I've been around here 13 years, and the most I've run across was three or four."
Hobler said the roof probably collapsed because of a loosely supported frame. The wind wasn't strong enough to have around the
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs.
David Ambler Commitment to students is key to vice chancellor's work
David Ambler took the second hundred meters of the KU Crew marathon on Wescoe beach, rowing the team toward its goal of a world record.
It was typical of David Ambler, showing up to help students achieve a goal.
Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, oversees a division responsible for most non-classroom activities — everything from admissions and student records to minority affairs and Watkins Memorial Health Center.
It also showed that, in one way or another,
Amberler is not a job or academic career
student. *University of New York*.
"I suspect when you look at all the different kinds of activities our staff provides and the kind of contacts that gives them with students, that there are very few people who aren't affected by Student Affairs." Ambler said.
Ambler, in typical low-key style, does not take credit alone, but speaks in terms of "my division."
In Amber's eyes, his division has more responsibility than the day-to-day administrative work of operating University services.
"I like to think of my division as being responsible for attempting to enrich the environment and the climate on the campus so that students can grow and develop both in and out of the classroom." Ambler said. "We all recognize that learning doesn't stop
Story by Daniel Niemi
"It's very easy to hide behind the stacks of paper on your desk or the number of meetings you are constantly running to. But, we have to keep our priorities straight and try to maintain as many regular contacts as we can."
"The University is as concerned about their growth as an individual and a citizen as we are about their developing particular academic skills they are studying."
"I think we all like to think of ourselves first as teachers. Those 'of us in Student Affairs work even harder in that role because we're not automatically recognized as being teachers because we don't participate in formal classroom activities.
at 5 o'clock when the students leave their last class of the day.
Part of that concern knew Ambler in the classroom, where he teaches a course in music.
"He's always the same," said Chancellor Gene A. Budig, "In control."
Despite the sometimes hectic job of running to meetings and keeping priorities in mind, they are a great source of stress.
"I've never seen him rushed," said his waist. Mary Kate Ambler "He's always说的we."
Anthur's coolness, however, fades slightly when he talks about students and education.
"He really has a good sense of humor," Laura Ambler, Lawrence senior said. "He has his harcastic side. He's very down-to-earth and little bit shy, but he tries very hard not to be."
One of those students, his daughter, sees a side of Ambler others rarely do.
Photo by Dan Starling
"I don't find them lacking purpose in life or lacking commitment to things other than their own personal interest," Ambler said. "I am pretty high on the current generation of students. I think they will do well. I am encouraged by them."
If Ambler is shy, he hides it well. He is not besetting about starting a new job in the company or interest.
Mary Kate Ambler said her husband was an unabashed advocate of students.
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"A lot of times I will be critical of something that relates to student behavior, and he'll say 'they're learning' or 'they're very inexperienced'," she said.
"He genuinely likes young people. Some people just kind of tolerate young people. He
Ambler takes more interest in at least one KU student — his daughter, Laura, an advertising and political science major. She is a freshman at Arizona State University.
"My father always cared about making sure my sister and I became our own
"When you are dealing with people, there's a lot of facets of student life you can't handle."
people," Laura said. "He is very insightful and is always willing to listen. I think he would do that for any student at KU."
Mary Kate Amber acknowledges that her husband may not always be as involved in students' lives as he would like.
Ambler's commitment to students and public education stems in part from his own experience as a student.
"I saw that public education opened up all kinds of doors for me in terms of much better quality of life than my family was able to enjoy," he said. "I wanted to work in that system and make that kind of opportunity available to other people."
Amber's father worked as a laborer in the oil refineries in the industrial northwest area of Indiana and his mother worked as a teacher in the district, primarily to send their children to college.
"I've been a strong advocate of public higher education being an avenue by which we make educational opportunities available to the masses. I strongly believe one of the ways this country has maintained its economic and social mobility possible. And we've done that primarily through our good system of education."
Please see AMBLER, p. 18
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 similar to those that plugged the maiden voyage of its U.S. co-commart.
A government commission set the aunch for 6:23 a.m. Moscow time saturday (10:23 p.m. CDT Friday) after receiving reports from specialists following several thousand tests if the Buran and its booster rocket, he Energa, the official news agency Fass 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 to Syria could 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. Hydrogen is being carried more than 100 tons of cargo into Earth orbit, and up to 20 tons to the planets Mars and Venus.
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.
State-run television yesterday showed the white delta-shaped Buran, with its name emblazoned in red, attached to the Energiaon a launch pad at the Soviet Union's Baikonur Cosmorodrome 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.
Fraternity to abolish pledgeship end hazing
A KU fraternity will abolish its lodge system after this year in response to a national anti-hazing effort. The fraternity's president and yesterday.
By David Stewart
Cansan staff writer
Jim Greenfield, president of the Beta Eta Tau fraternity, 1942 Stewart Ave, said yesterday that the ZBT supreme Council abolished pledge nationally for ZBT chapters at a meeting last month in Chicago.
Members of the Supreme Council will meet with local ZBT members in awrence this weekend.
Greenfield said that ZBT had ledges this semester and would continue to have them in the spring, but it will be the new system during Fall 1983.
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"The message to all the fraternies is that hazing is out," he said. Greenfield predicted that other raternities would follow suit.
Greenfield said the decision was made in response to a nationwide anti-hazing movement.
Please see ZBT, p. 9, col. 6