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Report: State lagging in female representation

By Katie Sultz

ksaltz'akykernel com

Despite an increase in the number
of female elected officials in the state.
Kentucky is still behind most of the
country. according to a report released
yesterday by Secretary of State Trey
(iray son.

Kentucky ranks 40th in the country
in the number of women sery'ing in the
state legislature. dropping from 48th

place since the 3005 Opening Doors of

Opportunity report

Les Ftlglllt‘. deputy assistant secre-
tary of state. said e\ en though the rank-
ing dropped. there are more women in

Students
come out,
support
gay rights

By .loseyMontana McCoy

ymccoy’dkykernel com

Us is celebrating the 19th
annual National (‘oming ()ut
Week with events encouraging
awareness and tolerance of the
gay community,

“(‘oming ()ut Week brings
awareness to ongoing problems
sesual minorities hay e in popu»
lar culture." said Mathias Deta-
more. marketing coordinator of
()l'Tsource. l'K‘s (iay Lesbian
Biseyual ’l‘ransgcnder Queer
Questioning Ally ((iLBTQQAi
resource center.

The center. which opened in
April. offers educational re
sources and safe spaces for sexu—
al minorities on cainpus. l)eta~
more said.

liyents in honor of (‘oming
Out Day. which is held tomor»
row and started in WKX. ha\e
gone on all w eek,

“(Coming Out Day) is a re-
membrance that se\ual minori-
ties haye to go through a strug~
gle." Detamore said,

Planned Parenthood kicked
off the week's c\ents with a lec-
ture on safe7sc\ practices on
Monday. (‘hristine Ma\well ol
the Lexington Pride (‘enter and .
'l‘ransKentucky . a state transgen~
der stipport and resource group.
discussed transgender issues last
night,

“It‘s e\citing that the uniyer-
sity is haying this." Detainore
said “We‘re starting to
some real positiye change in the
way sexual minorities are more
easily integrating in the popular
culture."

The w eck will conclude
with state Sen. l:rnesto SCHIV
sone. l)—l.e\ington. speaking
prior to a showing of the film
"The Times of Haryey Milk."
which is the story ot the openly
gay San Francisco councilman
who w as murdered in l‘lTr‘s'.

“ The more people know
about gay lolks. the less dis
ciimination there is against gay
l’s‘sll‘lc.~~ said Scoi'sone. who
came out to the public four
years ago

Scorsone. who represents
most of layette ('ounty. inclutf
ing l'K's campus. said coming
out is one of the most important
things a gay indi\ idiial can do

"(‘oming out is a wry per»
soiial decision and no one can
make that cell for someone
else." Scorsone said. "It is an llir
diyidiial decision and we ha\e
to respect that "

()l"l‘source. the (‘ats Den.
Student .‘\L‘l|\lllk‘\ Board. the
Student (‘enter Film Series and
the (lay-Straight Alliance spon»
sor the (‘oming ()ut Week
eyents,

Tonight at 8. Anthony Rapp
froin the Broadway musical
"Rent" will hold a discussion
in Memorial Hall about his ca-
reer. life as a gay man and cur-
rent issues facing sexual mi-
norities.

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some elected positions.

"We hayen't made as

sue."

for the first time in Kentucky his-
tory. there are two women sitting on
Supreme ('ourt. and
Kentucky now has 33.6 percent fe-
male representation in its courts. ae~
cording to the updated report. There
«if
women from Kentucky in the US.
Congress but an increase in the num-
ber of women in the state House of

the Kentucky

was a decrease in the number

Representat i \ es.

The low number of women in these

much
progress." Fugate said. “But the gains
we saw this time were \ery impres—

positions is not because of a lack of
yotes for women. but a lack of female
candidates. Frigate said.

"It's not that Kentuckians aren't
electing women; it's that women aren‘t
running." Fugate said. "We're not do-
ing enough to nurture young women to
become elected officials."

One reason women might not be
running for office is negative cani-
paigning. said state Rep. Kathy Stein.
[)»Lexington.

“Negative campaigning puts a
damper on anybody wanting to run for
office." Stein said. “But especially on
women because they know‘ they ha\e to
get a leg up anyway."

 

Stein suggested that women who
are elected to office increase their num—
bers by talking to young people about
the political process.

“Women who are in elected offices
have a responsibility to mentor and talk
to young women." Stein S‘dld. “The
more we discuss it. the less frightening
it becomes."

The report includes biographies of
female state officials. resources for
women and a database of female offi-
cials in the commonwealth. Fugate
said these tools are offered to help
young people build a network to be»
come involved at a local or state In—
el.

"Getting young women iiiy'olyed in
organi/ations in their communities can
open a lot of doors." Fugate said.

Kentuckians should want more
women in office so they can better rep»
resent all areas of the state. Fugate
said.

“There are lots of different perspec~
lives and experiences of people with
different backgrounds that need to be
heard." Frigate said, “By being diycrse.
we hope to ha\e a stronger goyern-
ment."

A full copy of the report can be
found on the secretary of states Web
site (www.sosky.goyv‘secdesk/initia-
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Ciy'l ltghb actiwsts: the Rev James Tennyson, in maroon shirt, and the Rev touts Coleman, center in white shirt, pray with students outSide the Main Building yesterday afternoon
Coleman, of Laura/rile, protested With students over Friday's Kernel editorial cartoon

Louisyillc aetiyjst
jOins ‘211‘toon protests

By Jill Luster

ilasterdkykernel corn

A crowd of about Ztl students gathered around the
Rev. Louis (‘oleman yesterday to pray about Friday ‘s

Kernel editorial cartoon.

"We come. oh (iod. to let these students know we
are here to support them." ('oleman said. "Giy'e them
the strength. oh Lord. to continue their struggle."

('oleman. a l.0lll\\'lllc preacher and ciyil rights ac-
tiyist. said he and two other acti\ ists drove

to protest the cartoon.

The cartoon. which compared [YK‘s (ireek system to
a shoe auction. is only a symptom of larger problems at

the uni\ersity. Coleman said.

He also said the campus-wide e~mail UK President
Lee Todd issued Monday night e\pressing his “strong
disagreement" with the cartoon should ha\e been sent

See Coleman on page 3

 

ilasteflQkykernel.com

['K President Lee Todd released a statement
last night denouncing campus incidents “in which
the lines of chi] discourse have been crossed."
The incidents Todd referred to have taken place
since an editorial cartoon that likened 17KB Greek
system to a slave auction was published in Fri-

day ‘s Kernel.

to UK today

UK spokesman Jay Blanton said two specific
instances prompted Todd‘s statement. One student
had a racial slur written on his dorm room door.
and a Kemel reporter was slapped while coy ering
protests about the cartoon Friday.

“Such acts will not be tolerated.‘~ Todd said in
the email “They will be fully inyestigated, and
those found responsible will be dealt with accord-
ing to rules and regulations."

Blanton said the reason the e-mail was sent
last night was because the student with the racial

w Todd decries threatening incidents

The resident ‘dLl\l\Cl' on frontrdcsk duty in

New North Hall. where Watkins liyes. filed a po-

lice repoit Monday afternoon alter two residents
told her someone had w rittcn profane language on
Watkins‘ door,

The UK police crime log said "offensive
w ords" were written on the door but did not cori-
firm what the words w ere. Maj. Joe Monroe of

[K police also couldn't confirm what was written

slur on his door. agricultural economics sopho-

more Josh Watkins. had spoken with the media

but said it was a racial slur,

"They know w ho I am. but next time it could
be something worse Watkins said.

Watkins. who was part of the group that talked
to Kernel Editor in ('hiel Keith Smiley about the
cartoon on Friday. said finding the slur on his door
scared him, as did the lact that someone saw him
in the media and lound where he ll\€(l.

"They can‘t eyen protest without being threat-
ened." Watkins said.

Kernel Assistant News Editor Blair Thomas

See Todd on page 3

Iraq-Vietnam comparison kicks off conference

By Jennifer Miles

news‘dkykernel com

A conference beginning tonight in-
\ites l'K students topiiii Vietnam yeter—
ans in comparing the w an in lraq to the
Vietnam War.

The panel discussion titled "Vietnam
lessons and Iraq Parallels Reflections
by Vietnam Veterans" marks the begin
ning of the Making Sense of the VietA
nam Wars Conference. which draws
scholars lrom across the nation.

Though the conference is aimed at
educators and Vietnam War experts.
panelist Peter Berres. a Vietnam veteran
and the assistant dean of the (‘ollege of
Health Sciences. said tonight's presentav

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tion is geared toward college students.

"My feeling was we ought to ha\e
something tin the conferencel lor stu~
dents." Berres said.

Lien-Hang Nguyen. an assistant his-
tory professor who organi/ed the con
ference. said the eyent is unique because
it gathers top scholars in the field of
Vietnam War history but also \eterans
and politicians. including fomter Demo»
cratic senator from South Dakota and
presidential candidate (ieorge Stanley
Mc( ioy'em.

“The conference is about the chang-
ing perceptions of and the yarious per~
spectiyes on the Vietnam War and the
historical lessons we can draw from that
war for the present war in Iraq Nguyen

said.

Fiye Vietnam \eterans will make up
the panel: Berres. Phil Desimone. hhltr
rian Robert Topmiller. attorney Henry
Watson and ('harlie O'Neill. a psycholo—
gist and associate director of l'K‘s
(‘ounseling and Testing Center.

“We come from very different
backgrounds professionally. but of
cotirse we all share the experience."
Berres said.

The speakers are expected to ex—
press their opinions on what lessons the
US. leamed from the Vietnam War.
what lessons the country still needs to
learn and what students need to know to
better understand the lraq war. A ques
tion and answer session will follow the

presentation.

Berres said there will be a broad
range of opinions represented. both cone
seryatiy'e and liberal.

(ieoi'ge Herring helped plan the
eyent and studied the Vietnam War dur-
ing the 30 years he worked at [K before
he retired.

“The conference is being held here
because this uniyersity has a long tradi»
tion of scholarly interest in southeast
Asia in general and the Vietnam War in
particular." Herring said

The conference begins with the pans
el tonight from 7 to 9 in room 106 of the
White Hall (‘lassroom Biiilding and will
continue through Saturday.

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turned out. the (iood Luck
(‘huck star. 26 who recently
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('ash Warren. 28. after a brief

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Usher & Tameka —
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and the fashion stylist are "tak-
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marriage is. It takes work." But
it brings big rewards. he adds: “I
love her so much. She definitely
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With four kids (twins John—
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”The fact of the matter is that the
L'niyersity of Kentucky looks at the
Kentucky Kernel the satire way it looks
at The (Louisy ille) Courier-Journal. the
Lexington Heraldleader and various
neys's stations." Blanton said.

After praising tlte effort of Us stir-
dents to protest the Kernel cartoon.
Coleman and about lll students went to
Todd's office in the Main Building to
deliver a letter calling Todd‘s response
to the Kernel cartoon “no more thari a
mere slap on the hand "

Todd v\ as not in his office because
he \\ as out of tovyn on the state“ ide See

UNICVERTSTTYW or {EWCKY
CR'ME REPORT ,,

UK Police reports
from Oct 2. to Oct 8.

QoLEMAN

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Continued frorh page l

sooner. .
"That's a day late and a dollar
short." Coleman said. "It should have
been there from the beginning.“

Todd has not ayailable for corti—
ment by press time. but L'K spokesman
Jay Blanton said Todd wanted to talk to
Kernel Editor in Chief Keith Smiley be—
fore sending the e-mail.

Blanton also said LTK does not
have the authority to pull any of the

told police she was slapped near the Patterson ()f—
fice Touei' as she followed protesters frotii the
(irehan Journalism Butldirig to the Free Speech
Area \\hile covering the demonstrations Friday.
l‘homas declined to file a police report.

Monroe said the unoei'sity has increased secu—
rity all oy er campus after the protest of Friday‘s
cartoon. He also said that the police department is
actiyely conducting an inyestigation iitto \y ho van—
dali/ed Watkins" door.

Since Monday night. L'K police officers haye

tron of Huguelet Avenue
and Rose Street at 2 35
(3 TT‘.

Alcohol intoxication re-
ported from Samaritan
Hospital at 557 a or.

Oct. 2 Theft of bike reported
from the Johnson Center
at 4 4i p or

Kemel's funding. as Coleman said the
university should consider doing. be-
cause the newspaper is independent of
the university.

Panel: US. should 1‘ ‘spect rising; leftist governments

ilaster@kykerne| com

About 75 people gathered last night to
discuss LLS. and Latin American relations
since the rise of leftist govemments in Cen~
tral and South America.

The lecture. “Latin America: Riots iii
Democracy.” is pan of Latino Week and is
sponsored by the Latin American Student
Organization.

Speakers Charles Davis. a political SL‘lA
enee professor. and Ridvan Peshkopia. a
part-time political science instructor. dis.
cussed the role of leftist governments over
the past 30 years. Leftist governments in
Latin America are generally eoncemed with
the interests of the vyorking class and indigc~
nous people.

“I think what the LES. should do is re—
spect lLatin American leftist governments)
policies if they go against the political inter—
ests. even security interests. of the LS.
Davis said.

Blue bus tour. The group talked vyith
Todd's chief of staff. Doug Boyd. in--
stead.

been patrolling residence halls. Monroe said. ()ffi
cers. each assigned specific dorms. will walk

through halls the rest of the neck. and the need to
patrol \\ ill be re-e\aluated oy er the weekend.

l)a\ is and Peshkopia also discussed conr
cerns “ah the rise of leftist go\ernments.
the role of labor unions and i'iots iii l.atin
America.

LASO President Zulcma llernande/ said
she y\ as pleased at the lecturc's high turnout
because this type of merit helps spread mv
formation about Latin America.

"I think a lot of people are ignorant to
the Hispanic culture." said llernande/. a
marketing and merchandising apparel and
textiles senior "I think ignorance brings a
lot of conflict and misunderstatidirig."

Since this is the first year the lllmenr
ber organi/ation has planned an event this
large. the \s'cek required a lot of effort. ller-
nandc/ said.

"it‘s been \ei'y challenging because
\ye‘re a small organization." llernandc/
said. “But it‘s \ery reuarding."

Tomorro“ l.AS() \\lll
('apoeira dance performance at ll-Rll ant
iii the Martin Luther King. Jr. (‘ultural (‘L'lti
ter.

spitttsot‘ d

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linslat ed AlTlL‘dllS brought (lipoeii‘a. a
misture of figlititig and dancing. to Bra/ii in
the l7th century In (Itpoeira. participants
form a circle. take turns play mg instruments.
siitgiiig and sparring in the center of the Cl!"
L‘lL‘.

’l‘omorroys’s performance “ill be fol—
loued by a question atid ansyyci' session
about the dance style. Hernande/ said.

l'K's Hispanic population is the target
audience of this y\eck‘s events btit all are
\selcome to come arid loin the group. Her-
nande/ said.

“We \\ ant them to kno\\ there‘s an orga-
ni/atioti on campus for them." llet'nande/
said. “You don't lime to be Latina. you
don‘t lime to speak Spanish." Hernandc/
said, "You ~iust lime to be enthtisiastic and
hiding to yyork."

l.AS() meets c\et'_\ other Thursday at "
pm. Students \\ ho \\ ant to attend a meeting.
or loin the Latino American Student ()rganii
lation. cart c~mail llernande/ at
flor/her'tif" yahoocom

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By Jay Price and
Mohammed Al Dulaimy

McClatchy NEVTspapers

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contractors escorting a convoy
shot and killed two women
Tuesday afternoon in central The
Baghdad. police said. lraqi lntc»
rior ministry officials later iden-
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\s hite

cial said the firm was “thing to
compensate the laniilics ol the
\ictims and had begun an tltlc‘l'r
ital investigation.

L'nity officials in Dubai and
Iraq couldn‘t be
comment late Tuesday.
“omen.
Christians. \yere traveling in a
Oldsmobile
four—yehicle

shield of car.
t's‘a‘c‘ltetl lot‘
both Iraqi
bchltttl lltc‘

con\oy at about manning

A man at a gun portal in the
back of the last arrttoi‘ed \ehicle
began shooting an automatic
\\eapoii into the hood and “ind
Then
guard leatted ottt of a door and 48.
did the same. police said.

Betueen them. they
about .Tll times. said llamed :\ll.
an Iraqi policcrrtan \y ho \\.is
a checkpoint at the

said.

Killed here the driyei‘.
(ieney a .lalal :\llll“.lllll\. about 30.
art employee in a church. and
another {\lai'ani Atyanis Manouik. about

The \yomen suffered multi-
ple gunshot yyounds to the head.
Anti'anik \\as also hit iii the
chest. said officers at a nearby
police station \yhere their car

fired

Resources Group.

A Unity cxecutiyc called the
ministry after the shootings to
apologize. said Gen. Abdul Ka—
reem Khalaf. a ministry
spokesman. The company offi—

11—15 pm. when it stopped for
traffic. police said, Someone in
the convoy fired a small flare To—
ward the car to “am the driyer
to stop. the police said. The dri-
ver slammed on her brakes and
skidded about lll yards.

shooting site. The car “as about
‘5 yards from the armored \ehi-
cles “hen the shooting started.
he said as he sllt)\\r.‘tl iournalists
the skid marks.

"There \y as no reason at all
to shoot at these \sonien." he

\\ as moy ed after the shootings.

A boy riding in the back seat
of the “hire sedati suffered otily
minor initiries. btit panicked and
ran after the shooting. and police
couldn‘t liiid him.

Oct. 2

Oct. 2

Oct. 2

Arrest for alcohol intoxrca-
tron at Martin Luther King
Boulevard at 6 48 p m

Theft of cell phone report
ed from WT Young Library
at .7 l9 p n.

Arrest 'or disorder regard
no a drugroverdose pa»
tent reported from Samar
ltan Hospital at 9 33 p o

loiterent exposure report
ed from the fourth floor of
WT Young library at 754
a rrr

Theft of “pike reported
horn New North Hall at
4 07 p 'p

Theft reported from the
Johnson Center at 643

p or

Drag and TTTilTllllatla use
reported from Klrwan Towv
er at ll 35 p or

Theft of iPod and cell
phone reported from KlT'
wan Tower at 322 p rn

Theft of wallet reported
front the Oswald Building
at b 50 p or

Tlrir‘t of wallet reported
‘rorr the Johnson Cerite'
.it ‘0 ‘9 p Tl:

Ar'est after a pursuit re,
ported on the corner of of
llnnors'ty Drive and Chop
or flow: at 2 38 a ”n

Theft r: laptop reported
‘rorn a car in E lot on
Sr‘ol' Street at 5 1r o To

Or .a and marijuana use
reported from Haogln Hall
at 77. ll a "l

Alco rol automation re-
ported from the corner of
.la'r‘: Street and Jefferson
Street at l 54 a or

Alcohol intochatlon re
ported front the intersec

Theft of a black 2000 Jeep
Cherokee reported from
Parking Structure No 3 at
7 32 a rr:

Theft of UK TD from be
tween the Johnson Center
and Kira/an I reported to
UK Police Department at

4 59 p m

lriiury accident reported
from Samaritan Hospital
at 54f p in

Arrest for DUl reported
from Rose Street and fast
Maxwell Street at 6 10

p 01

Theft of cell phone report-
ed from WT Young Library
at 7 44 p n:

lcohul intoxrcation re
ported from the Veterans
Affairs Hospital at l 22
a TTT

Arrest for alcohol lotomca»
tron reported from Bland-
rng Tower at 22f a m

Arrest for alcohol intoxrca-
tron reported from UK
Hospital at l2 l p or

Theft of textbook reported
from WT Young Libraw at
l2 lb p in

Theft reported to UK Po
lice Department at 5 29
p to

Assault reported from
Donovan Hall at 648 p in
regarding an assault be
t‘. leen Haggai and Dona
van at 4 30 a in

Theft of i reert Pontiac
Grand Am reported from
the Tnnkhoiiser Bllllillllg at
TD. 39 p m

Compiled by staff writer
Alice Haymond from reports
at UK Police Department

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[Item | Wednesday. October 10,200]

 

 

 

 

31521199 $521!!
McClatchy Newspapers

WASHlNU’l‘ON .. In the
next few weeks. engineers at Ar-
gonne National Laboratory. 25
miles outside Chicago. will iii-
stall the first pieces of a machine
that will have more than triple the
sPCcd of the world‘s fastest com-
puter.

By next summer. it will be
able to perform a duadrillion
that‘s 1.000 trillion or
l.lKltlJKllljllltl_(l(l(l.(l(l(l calcu-
lations per second lts maker.
IBM. says it would take a tower
of laptop computers a mile and a
half high to match its power.

This speed demon is called
the Blue (lCIIL‘rl), It‘s the succes-
sor to [BM‘S Blue (iene 1.. the
current world champion. Blue
(ienetl. edged out a Japanese sti-
percomputcr. the Earth Simulator.
for the top rank in 2004.

The latest machine in the
Blue (iene series is "another step
on the llL‘\L‘t'~Cn\llltg iourney to
apply more compute power to the
problems at hand. said l)a\c

LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY/MCI
The unusual slant to BIueGene/t s cabinets is a necessary tlESlgtl element to keep cooled air flowrng properly
around each cabinet s 2,000vplus processors

Competition heats up for world’s '
fastest supercomputer

Turek. IBM‘s \icc president for
supercomputing.

A supercomputer's blinding
speed makes it possible to sol\'e
complex problems in science. en—
gineering. the enyironment. in—
dustry. finance and national sectr
rity from the atomic to the cos-
mic leyel. Turek said. It can inod~
el the actiyity of electrons in an
atom. and simulate the birth and
death of the uniyerse.

The fastest stipercomputcrs
are made tip of hundreds of thou-
sands of small. i'elatiyely lote
power mieniprocessors linked tor
gether. lzach processor is .tsv
signed a small part of the o\erall
task.

Blue (iene l’. for e\amp|c.
will liaye 884.7% processors.
Each “1“ ha\e about the power
of the Pentium 111 chip. which
powered personal computers in
the 1990s, Together they can
mo\e mountains of data.

In comparison. Blue (icne 1.
has 131.072 processors and per-
forms 280 trillion calculations
per second.

A minor difficulty. e\perts

say. is the need for new software
., the code that tells a computer
system w hat to do . to manage
and coordinate such a \ast horde
of processors chugging away at
the same time.

“When it comes to parallel
computing, software is in a state
of chaos." said Timothy Mattson.
a senior research scientist at Intel.
the computer chip manufacturer
based in Santa Clara. Calif. "The
biggest problems are with the
software. not the hardware. We
really don‘t know what w e‘re go-
ing to do.”

To meet the challenge. some
supercomputer designers are tak-
ing admin-age of the software and
hardware tised in \ideo games.
w hich are noted for their superb
graphics and real—time respon~
siyeness.

Such a hybrid system. named
Roadrunner. will be installed at
the Los Alamos National Laboras
tory in New Mexico next year. Its
main task will be to check on the
safety and reliability of nuclear
weapons.

 

Headless walruses in Alaska
' could be poaching-related

By Alex DeMarban
McClatchy Newspapers

ANCHORAGE. Alaska l)o/ens of w al~
rus carcasses missing their heads and \aluable
tusks have been disco\ered on western Alaska
beaches in recent weeks. and federal wildlife
authorities me trying to figure out whether they
were killed illegally.

Investigators flying o\ er Norton Sound
beaches east of Nome counted 7‘) walrus car-
casses in about a 404ni|e stretch between Eliin
and Unalakleet. said Steyc ()berholt/er. a spe—
cial agent for the l'S. liish and Wildlife Ser»
\‘ice in Anchorage.

Large numbers of headless w alruses hay e
washed ashore in the area before. but this is the
most inyestigaiors haye seen in at