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 trawls 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. 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 breaking air holes through the partly frozen cut, but about 4:30 p.m. rescue workers found the two whales and a small breathing 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 sheered when heeded by the whales broke the surface.
As darkness fell, the whales were swimming back and forth in the channel. Officials planned to end the helicopter surveillance at
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 koway Jim Harvey, a federal marine biologist."
Haller said plans were being made in a borrow to thank the Soviets with a party, perhaps.
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 icecreamies 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
Kansas staff writer
The roof of a partially constructed building in northwest Lawrence collapsed yesterday, as workers narrowly escaped falling
Hobber said. "I've been around here 13 years, and the most I've run across was three or four."
Hoobler said the roof probably collapsed because of a loosely supported frame. The wind wasn't
Ken Stoner He didn't plan on a career in housing
Stoner, director of student housing, said he didn't waste time speculating about past decisions.
not everybody would want to relive their past, but Ken Stoner would "do it again" and take the same route that has led to his job at the University of Kansas.
"Although I got into the profession by accident, if I had to do it over, I'd choose the same profession." Stoner said. "I enjoy about everything I do. I kind of enjoy my job. That's probably one of the reasons I've staved with it as a career."
Stoner overseees the operation of the University's residence halls, scholarship hall, Jayhawker Towers apartments, Stouffer Place apartments and Sunflower apartments, where more than 6,400 students, children and faculty live. Stoner approves the housing department's planning and policy decisions that affect the cost and living conditions of these residences.
The main goals Stoner aims for each year are giving students the best value for their money and making their residences a good environment for study at the University.
"That has to be the bottom line of what we do." Stoner said.
And value has been the bottom line at KU, at least since 1983, when Stoner filled the position left by J. J. Wilson, the former housing director. Some employees in the housing department said their performances had been kept at a high level every day by their attempts to match Stoner's example of hard work.
Deb Stafford, assistant director of residential programs, said that when Stoner began his job, he insisted that the different departments of residential life, food service, and maintenance cooperate and solve problems.
Stoner, who grew up in Garden City, began to understand that balance when he was an undergraduate at Kansas State University, majoring in physical sciences. During that time he was a resident assistant and assistant residence hall director, but he said he, "had no intention of working in university housing or student affairs."
"He wants us to work together and do the best job for the students." Stafford said.
"He's one of those people who draws a balance between what is good for the student and good for the University," Morrow said.
university hospital. However, after graduation, Stoner accepted Iowa State University's invitation to work in its student housing program. While at Iowa State, he earned a master's degree in student personnel.
And Jean Morrow, assistant director of residential programs, said Stoner had kept students and the University in mind when he made decisions.
come into business.
Stoner earned a doctorate in administration and education at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where he was assistant housing director for 12 years. He said his experience at Tennessee allowed him to develop new skills and insights.
"If I hadn't received the call or inquiry from Iowa State, I probably wouldn't have come into this career at all," he said.
"There you learned the advantages of long haul planning, persistence and direction. Goal setting, vision and all those things come into play when you say: This is it, I'm going to live here the rest of my life and I want to make this a better place to be." Stoner said. "This place (KU student housing) is a reflection of me and my personality."
Photo by Sandra J. Watts
Although I got into the profession by accident, if I had to do it over, I'd choose the same profession. I enjoy about everything I do. I kind of enjoy my job. That's probably one of the reasons I've stayed with it as a career.'
Roger Stoner, assistant chairman of music, said his brother's personality had remained the same since childhood
Others have helped Ken Stoner to guide his career and develop a code of professional ethics. He said Chester Peters, dean of men and later vice chancellor for student affairs at KState, had the greatest professional influence on him because of his honesty and straightforwardness.
"He's honest and he's forthright. But at the same time he's diplomatic," he said. "Once he gets the whole diplomatic he follows on plans."
But loyalty can be tested — especially by phone calls in the middle of the night. A drunken student who had lost his residence hall room key needed help one night and called Stoner at home.
"If you don't have that in higher education, you don't have anything." Stoner said. "He never compromised himself although he remained loyal to the institution."
"I'm not sure if he understood everything I said, but I visited with the individual. Every now and then something crazy like that will happen. You ask yourself, 'Is this really my job?' " Stoner said, laughing.
Stoner attended a memorial service last year for three KU students who had been killed in a car accident. The students had lived in residence halls during the year and Stoner had tried to help one who came to him because of problems at the hall.
Unfortunately, dealing with the deaths of students that he knew and tried to help are not as unusual as he would like.
"I thought the least I could do was see the family, the roommate, and let them know that I still cared," he said. "I think it's always hardest for the people who have to deal with the outside or an accident. They are the ones tortured with all the what-if questions."
He paused, and said, "After you've done this for a number of years, nothing seems unusual."
what question?
In spite of the demands of his job, Stoner said he was content to remain in his present position. The route that led him from Knoxville to Lawrence seems to have been the right one.
Ken Stoner, director of student housing.
The Associated Press
Soviets to launch shuttle tomorrow
de Buran on an unmanned mis- this week, following months of ys similar to those that plauged muten voyage of its U.S. couart.
MOSCOW - The Soviet Union said yesterday it will launch its space
government commission set the eh for 6:23 a.m. Moscow time irday (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 s reported.
Buran" is Russian for snow, an appropriate name since first snow of the season fell this k in Moscow.
reparations for pouring nearly 0 tons of liquid hydrogen, oxygen hydrocarbon fuel into Energia, id as the world's most powerful iter rocket, are to begin today, s. said. The rocket is capable of reaching Mars. Earth orbit, and up to 20 tons to planets 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 prevent the loss of the james bond mission 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 Energiion a ch pad at the Soviet Union's onur Cosmodrome on the Cen-Asian steps of the republic of akhstan.
raternity abolish ledgeship and hazing
David Stewart an staff writer
1 Greenfield, president of the Beta Tau fraternity, 1942 Stewla, said yesterday that the ZBT me Council abolished pledgealready for ZBT chapters at a last month in Chicago.
KU fraternity will abish its j系 system after this year in use to a national anti-hazing fraternity's president yesterday.
members of the Supreme Council ieet with local BZT members in ance this weekend.
enfield said that ZBT had as this semester and would be them in the spring, could be the new system $ \textcircled{f} $ Fall 1899.
enfield said the decision was in response to a nationwide aging movement.
Wednesday, October 26, 1988/University Daily Kansan PROFILES
e message to all the fraternity that hazing is out," he said. unfield predicted that other nites would follow suit.
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Please see ZBT, p. 9, col. 6