Vol. 99, No. 44 (USPS 650-640)
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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."
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 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 he secured the whales broke the surface.
As darkness fell, the whales were swimming back and forth in the channel. Officials found a pair of seals on the shore.
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 be Jim Harvey, a federal marine biologist."
Haller said plans were being made in Harbor to thank the Soviets with a party, put them on the agenda.
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 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
Please see WHALES, p. 10, col.
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."
Hooher said the roof probably collapsed because of a loosely supported frame. The wind wasn't
Anna Cienciala History professor retains bond with Poland after fleeing
Story by Katy J. Monk
Photo by Catherine Wheeler
A girl with long braids and piercing blue eyes squinted down the barrel of the riffle.
She had gotten it from a soldier in the Polish Army retreating from the north. The rifle had a habit of jamming, but it still worked. She lay on her stomach, practicing her shooting that September day in central Poland.
A soldier walked into the cross sights of the rifle — a German soldier. Nine-year-old Anna had never seen the enemy before, and suddenly one was in her sights.
Perhaps it was her duty to shoot him, she thought. She was not sure.
"Oh, no you don't." her uncle hissed. "They'll shoot all of us."
Almost 50 years later, Anna remembers the incident and smiles.
Anna Cienciala, professor of history.
"My uncle took the rifle away and hid it somewhere," she said. "I went to the front porch, and I talked to the soldier in German, and he turned out to be a very nice young man. I thought. I was glad I hadn't shot him."
She laughed. The incident is long past, but Poland is never far from Anna Ciencia'sIALia.
Books and periodicals about Poland and Eastern Europe fill her home: Polish history, U.S. foreign policy, "The Current Digest of the Soviet Press," "Pollykta," professional journals and on on Cienciala is a diplomatic historian, and these are
A University of Kansas professor of history, she spends hours each day reading and writing. Numerous books and articles bear her name.
Much of her work relates in some way to her country. Although Cienciaal is a naturalized U.S. citizen, those who know her think of her as "the country of my childhood," as she says.
Her father sent the family — Anna, her sister, Danuta, and her mother, Wanda — from the Polish Corridor town of Gdynia to central Poland when the invasion came in 1939. When even that became too dangerous, they fled the country.
From there, they fled across Europe to England. The Battle of Britain was raging, but Wanda and Anna and Danuta decided to keep the family together no matter what. Anna's father was in England. They would join him.
"When Poland crashed, it was a terrible shock," Cienciaal said. "Perhaps less for me than for grown-ups, because I had this kind of optimism that in the end, we were going to win no matter what."
They arrived by plane in the midst of an air raid, the woman and her two girls, then 8 and 10 years old. The family was reunited in an air raid shelter.
HIBBAM, they say. Slowly, Anna's optimism faded in the face of
In England, they waited out the war.
"At the end of the war, when everybody was celebrating Victory Day in Europe, I was crying," she said. "Because I knew that Soviet domination over Poland and Eastern Europe meant they would not be free — that we wouldn't go back home."
The war was over, but its effects
"When I was a child, I was always fascinated with old things," she said. "I used to love to hear stories about wars and uprisings. So then the war came into my life, and I saw millions of people, of course — and I was determined to find out how it happened and why.
remained powerful. Cienciaia's future in many ways was decided by it.
"Why Poland was defeated, why Germany and France and all these other countries were defeated. That was kind of why I decided to study history."
In 1948, Cienciala won a four-year scholarship to the University of Liverpool, where she studied modern European history. After completing her studies, Cienciala moved to Canada. For the first time, money was wight.
She completed her master's degree at McGill University in Montreal and her doctorate at Indiana University, always working to help pay for her education.
Although she worked to help pay for her schooling, Ciencias had to leave Columbia University in New York after a year because she could not afford to stay.
After finishing her degrees, she faced her next challenge: becoming the first woman in the history department wherever she took her classes. She then带她 to the University of Kansas in 1965.
"I had a hard time the first few years in North America. I can tell you," she said. "It was terrifying."
"I always described myself as a one-man woman liberation movement from age 5," Ciencla said at the time. I was small and I had to be just as good, if not better than, the men."
She is not complaining.
Jarek Piealkiewicz, professor of political science, has known Cienciaal since they were in graduate school. He speaks of her as a warm person with a terrific sense of humor, an independent soul, a teacher devoted to her students and to her scholarship.
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"History has been my passion, everything, my life," she said.
Ken Dickinson, Lawrence senior, has come to respect Cienciala's knowledge through a course she taught about communism.
"The thing that impresses me is the massive amount of detail she has in her mind," he said. "She obviously has tremendous insight, that part of the world and all of its problems."
Cienciella sprinkles her classes with jokes now popular in Eastern Europe and with wartime anecdotes. Somehow she always manages to laugh at what she has seen or heard, a characteristic that Piekalkiewicz calls a defense mechanism.
A Pole who fought in the Warsaw Uprising, Piekalkiewicz can empathize with that trait. His admiration for Cienciala is obvious.
"She is so very Polish," he said. "Always ready to defend Poland and Polish history. And so willing to teach about Poland. She is very passionately devoted to that part. One of the students said, 'If anybody criticizes Poland, she bristles.'"
Cienclia's research has taken her back to Poland and to Eastern Europe several
times. She was in Czechoslovakia in 1968 on the eve of the Soviet invasion; she regrets that she couldn't have stayed to see the action.
She first returned to Poland in 1959, research for her thesis. She has been busy writing.
She made her last trip there in 1979-80. Solidarity was about to burst into life.
"This is where my timing was off," she said, almost wistfully. "I would have had an unforgettable experience."
She does not regret missing the darker side of Poland: repression of the citizens, martial law.
"I don't know if I would like to move back," she said. "I think I would like to be able to move around. I'm sort of an internship at a church, so my heart, perhaps, than the other countries."
"But things are changing. The whole of Eastern Europe is in an uproar. Russia is changing. . ."
She had been born into a moment of change.
An agreement in 1919 had left Gdansk with its own government between the two world wars — not German, not Polish, but a free city.
The ravages of the Second World War changed that, changed everything for Poland. She has always hated what happened to her country in the war.
"I want to see it free." she says.
What I'd like to see, "show"
That is what she wants for Poland. That is all.
The Associated Press
Soviets to launch shuttle tomorrow
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union said yesterday it will launch its spaceuttle Buran on an unmanned miss.
this week, following months of ys similar to those that plagued maiden voyage of its U.S. court.
government commission set the och for 6:23 a.m. Moscow time urday (10:23 p.m. CDT Friday) r receiving reports from special-following several thousand tests ie Buran and its booster rocket, Energa, the official news agency reported.
3uran" is Russian for snow, an appropriate name since first snow of the season fell this k in Moscow.
reparations for pouring nearly 9 tons of liquid hydrogen, oxygen hydrocarbon fuel into Energia, as the world's most powerful rocket, are to begin today, a said. The rocket is capable of reaching Mars and Earth orbit, and up to 20 tons to "nets Mars and Venus.
viet media did not say how long his mission would last. If the flight is successful, a mission two cosmonauts is to follow, but et officials have not said when. viet officials have said the first it would be pilotless to 28 October 1986, ossion of the U.S. shuttle Challen-Seven astronauts were killed in blast.
unch was originally planned for first half of this year, but was poned as technical problems *e*. officials said.
ate-run television yesterday ved the white delta-shaped an, with its name emblazoned in attached to the Energiaon a sch pad at the Soviet Union's onur Cosmodrome on the Onc-Asian steps of the republic of akhstan.
raternity abolish ledgeship, and hazing
David Stewart san staff writer
KU fraternity will abilis its gee system after this year in sense to a national anti-hazing to a fraternity's president yesterday
m Greenfield, president of the Beta Tau fraternity, 1942 Stew-ave, said yesterday that the ZBT remee Council abolished pledge-nationally for ZBT chapters at a last month in Chicago.
members of the Supreme Council meet with local ZBT members in trence this weekend.
reenfield said that ZBT had tges this semester and would lume to have them in the spring, and he added the new system no Fall 1899
reenfield said the decision was le in response to a nationwide hazing movement.
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The message to all the fraternis that hazing is out," he said. reenfield predicted that other errites would follow suit.
Please see ZBT. p. 9, col. 6