Vol. 99, No.44 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1880 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 them 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 who were caught a small breathing hole and were charging.
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 and then dispersed when the whales broke the surface.
As darkness fell, the whales were swimming back and forth in the channel. Officials paddled toward them.
nightfall.
Scientists and others involved in the rescue might never know the wahales' fate. Rescue officials decided not to put electronic tracking tags on the already stressed animals.
A lot of people really didn't want to know, said Jim Harvey, a federal marine biologist.
Haller said plans were being made in Harrow to think the Soviets with a party, including Mr. Grosso.
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
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 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, but he was down.
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Norberto Salinas, professor of math.
Norberto Salinas
Blindness not a barrier for professor
Story by Craig Welch
Norberto Salinas disagrees with the old advice that there is no substitute for a good book.
Robbed of his sight by a rare, unidentified disease at the age of 10, Salinas will never read a great novel, a short story or even the exercises in a textbook. Yet, this 48-year-old native Argentinian has published more than 50 research papers while coordinating and instructing Math 115 and Math 996 as a professor at the University of Kansas.
"I wanted to prove to myself that even if you have several handicaps, like being blind or speaking with an accent, nothing can impress in the way of what you want to do." he said.
Salinas came to KU in 1972 from the University of Michigan because he wanted to find a community that would accept his handicaps without allowing them to interfere with his effectiveness as a teacher. He said the communication barrier that he had felt in other places because of his blindness and strong Spanish accent was not as
Photo by Jeffery Johnston
Salinas said that his love of math, some specialized equipment and a supportive family were all as responsible as he was, for the success he had achieved.
prevalent at KU
For example, Salinas admits that research is a driving force in his life. When he is not teaching, he devotes his spare time to researching mathematical principles.
"We math people are so crazy that instead of going to movies, we'd rather stay home and play."
"It is sometimes difficult to portray to the general public the importance of mathematical research. There are literally thousands of things being produced every day that are factors of this research, so obviously it is understood by somebody." he said.
Salinas has received almost $250,000 in grants in the last 10 years to carry on his research in space operators and functional analysis.
Please see SALINAS, p. 16
The Associated Press
University Daily Kansan PROFILES/Wednesday, October 26, 1988
Soviets to launch shuttle tomorrow
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union said yesterday it will launch its space shuttle Buran on an unmanned mis-
this week, following months of ys similar to those that plauged maiden voyage of its U.S. couart.
3uran" is Russian for snow m, an appropriate name since first snow of the season fell this k in Moscow.
government commission set the
eh for 6:23 a.m. Moscow time
urday (10:23 p.m. CDT Friday)
r receiving reports from special-
following several thousand tests
e Buran and its booster rocket,
Energia, the official news agency
reported.
reparations for pouring nearly 0 tons of liquid hydrogen, oxygen hydrocarbon fuel into Energia, as the world's most powerful rocket, are to begin today, said. The rocket is capable of reaching 215 miles per Earth orbit, and up to 20 tons to planets Mars and Venus.
viet media did not say how long in 'mission would last. If the flight is successful, a mission two cosmonauts is to follow, but et officials have not said when vit officials have said the first i would be pilots to prevent the loss of their life in the dissolution of the U.S. shuttle Challen-Seven astronauts were killed in blast.
ate-run television yesterday ved the white delta-shaped in, with its name emblazoned in attached to the Energiaon a ch pad at the Soviet Union's ionur Cosmodrome on the Cen-Asian stepses of the republic of skhstan.
unch was originally planned for first half of this year, but was poned as technical problems e. officials said.
raternity abolish ledgeship, nd hazing
David Stewartian staff writer
KU fraternity will abolish its ge system after this year in onse to a national anti-hazing ement, the fraternity's president yesterday.
m greenfield, president of the Beta Tau fraternity, 1942 Stewwe. said yesterday that the ZBT em council abolished nationally for ZBT chapters at a ting last month in Chicago.
embers of the Supreme Council meet with local ZBT members in rence this weekend.
eenfield said that ZBT had gis this semester and would inure to have them in the spring, would begin the new system
eenfield said the decision was e in response to a nationwide having movement
he message to all the fraternis that hazing is out," he said. eenfield predicted that other rrites would follow suit.
Please see ZBT. p. 9, col. 6
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