Vol. 99, No.44 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISED SINCE 1830 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAKAR
Thursday October 27,1988
U.S., Soviet cooperation frees whales
The Associated Press
BARROW, Alaska — Two hawks 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 heard 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 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 yesterday by the whales when he entered the whales broke the surface.
As darkness fell, the whales were swimming back and forth in the channel. Officials said the water was so dark that they
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 said Jim Hilton, a federal marine biologist.
Haller said plans were being made in harrow to thank the Soviets with a party, PIEK.
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 Korean staff writer
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."
Hoohler said the roof probably collapsed because of a loosely supported frame. The wind wasn't
James Muvskens. dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
James Muyskens
New liberal arts dean adjusts to KU and to small-town life
James Muyksens chides his family for working too hard.
"Whenever we get together, I criticize them. Life is too short to be so busy," he said.
Getting his start at Central College in Pella, Iowa, 28 years ago, he has dedicated his career to studying and teaching philosophy. From 1971 to August of this year, he taught at Hunter College in New York City, helping administrative and scholarly duties.
In talking about his family, the new dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences pinpointed a problem that has followed him again in Westcourt to the East Coast and back again.
Now, his time is consumed by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Kansas. On Aug. 1, Muskys officially replaced Robert Lineberry as dean of
Since Muyskens moved to Kansas this summer, life has been anything but placid. Getting to know the administration, faculty and students of the largest school in the University has proved to be no small job. Furthermore, he has had to develop an acumen for the complex problems facing
"the last two years at Hunter were so busy; I thought it would be better here," his wife, Alda, said laughing, realizing her misjudgment.
Story by Grace Hobson
Some of the weightier issues Muxsken must battle include balancing the college budget, recruiting top faculty and improving the quality of the undergraduate program.
"I's fair to say he has taken on the most difficult job in the University," said James Carothers, associate dean of liberal arts and sciences.
After, a dear wants me that he's come to him, he went to them," Carothers said. To make time for that lengthy process, Muyksens said he took home more work. Muyksens has met with each department, but he said that some faculty would say he hadn't responded quickly enough to some departmental requests.
the college.
"For such a hard worker, he's a very calm and pleasant person." Carothers said.
And the boyish-looking man of 46 is handling the pressure with ease.
On the contrary, faculty are enthused from their meetings with Mmuskens.
One of the first duties Muyksen tackled was meeting each chairman of the 50-plus chairs.
"He is sincerely interested in the needs of students," said Wil Linkelug, chairman of the college.
"Often, a dean wants the chairs to come to him, but he wants to them." Cormorants said.
Photo by Stephen Wade
The students are the driving force behind Muyskens' hard work. He described himself as a teacher first and he missed the student interaction he had at Hunter.
"At Hunter, I was a professor," Muskskens said. "Here, I don't have the contact with the students. I really want an understanding of the KU student."
Muyksens has met with some students within the departments and with Student Senate, but he said he had not met nearly as many as he would like to meet. Next week he will teach Western Civilization and hopes to teach an introductory philosophy course.
Because of his speciality in philosophy and ethics, he said he thought teaching was especially rewarding because of the potential good he could do for students.
"When talking about ethics, important questions are asked that could effect their
Pam Holley, student body vice president,
with Muyksen's commitment to students
"He's very easy to talk to from a student's perspective," said Holley, Topeka senior. "He respects student opinions and is very interested in how students see the college."
A manifestation of his concern for students and the University is his push to
"I believe you end up with a lot better education for everyone if you have diversity," he said. "We have social concerns as educators that higher education should be based on the dynamics of society, because of the dynamics of society, education is less available to minorities."
increase minority recruitment. Coming from racially diverse Hunter College, Mussens is aware of the need for a racially balanced atmosphere.
"We must all be sensitive to how it feels for minority students to come on a campus of predominantly white students," he said, and advertising KU's office of minority affairs.
At home, Muyksen seeks to get away from the stress of trying to solve the college's problems by playing tennis, watching college sports and spending time with his wife and teenage son, Jonathon. His oldest son, Nathan, is a freshman at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va.
He said the adjustment from New York City, population in the millions, to Lawrence, population roughly 50,000, was one of his greatest achievements. It is a cohomone at Lawrence High School.
For Alda and James Mukesken, their upbringing cleared the way for the drastic meal.
Please see MUYSKENS, p. 19
The Associated Press
Soviets to launch shuttle tomorrow
MOSCOW - The Soviet Union said yesterday it will launch its space
title Buran on an unmanned mis-
sis this week, following months of
sims similar to those that plaged
maken voyage of its U.S. coul-
nt.
government commission set the ieh for 6:23 a.m. Moscow time irday (10:23 p.m. CDT Friday) r receiving reports from special- following several thousand tests ea Buran and its booster rocket, Energia, the official news agency s reported.
reparations for pouring nearly 0 tons of liquid hydrogen, oxygen hydrocarbon fuel into Energia, sd as the world's most powerful ster rocket, are to begin today. The rocket will bring bylying more than 100 tons of cargo Earth orbit, and up to 20 tons to planets Mars and Venus.
viet media did not say how long an 'mission' was mission last. If the flight is successful, a mission twocosmonauts is to follow, but et officials have not said when. et officials have said they will be plucky to prevent dents like the Jan. 28, 1986, opsonion of the U.S. shuttle Challenger-Seven astronauts were killed in blast.
Buran" is Russian for snow, an appropriate name since first snow of the season fell this k in Moscow.
ate-run television yesterday ved the white delta-shaped in, 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 akistan.
unch was originally planned for first half of this year, but was poned as technical problems e, officials said.
University Daily Kansan PROFILES/Wednesday, October 26, 1988
raternity abolish ledgeship and hazing
in Greenfield, president of the Beta Tau fraternity, 1942 Stewive., said yesterday that the ZBT men Council abolished pledgementally for ZBT chapters at last month in Chicago.
David Stewart an staff writer
KU fraternity will abolis its gee system after this year in one to a national anti-hazing fraternity's president yesterday.
members of the Supreme Council meet with local ZBT members in rence this weekend
enfield said that ZBT had
ges this semester and would
mute to have them in the spring,
and give the new system
*m* Fall 1989
eenfield said the decision was in response to a nationwide hazing movement.
he message to all the fratern-ies that hazing is out," he said. enefield predicted that other nrites would follow suit.
Please see ZBT, p. 9, col. 6