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Wednesday, August 31,1988AThe Battalion/Page 9 k University’s president doubles itsjs thrill-seeking polar explorer union, house \i;| Teaini Labor an el, ;o decidti 1 John pi'esenni 1 would on ora )r ins DALLAS (AP) — Robert Rut f ord, elow-key president of the Univer- ty of Texas at Dallas, doesn’t come toss as a risk taker. Bright, busi- sslike and reserved, yes, but not a rill seeker. But beneath Rutford’s staid exte- lofis the soul of a polar explorer. Rutford, 55, is an adventurer of 5 first order. He spent a year in ^bidding Greenland — and en- ed it. He’s been north of the Arc- Circle seven times. And he’s been |) Antarctica 10 times, to study the rozen continent’s geology and revel i its stark beauty. “It is a very beautiful place, but iot very forgiving,” Rutford said at isoffice. “You don’t want to make lanv mistakes.” others an hom ed pain ce ontoii port plant Bild a said at It !The trips began in 1959, when etting to Antarctica from the Wed States was often a weeks-long ndertaking. Only a handful of sci- |itists had the mettle to brave the anstant light of an Antarctic Slim ier — when the temperature can to 40 degrees below zero Fahr- heit — let alone the unrelenting larkness of winter. But Rutford hospitali lent eagerly, sensing the opportuni- no oneijes such a place off ered a young ge- leadinMPgkt. “,At the time I got involved in Ant- ctic researcli, tfiere was practically tthing known, so anything you did commati 1S a tuajor contribution to knowl- tg teams Ige,” Rutford said. “It was a combi- Lt. Col. the a uni were: and too' moveiM ten thect to repom tains oil lie crash ,000 peoj n thebffl stem, i# eftist Gr« erstootp Sealed ng. Then accident ban on i 1 were he foy said officials who Tuesday were looking for the driver after he slipped away from a U.S. Cus toms inspection lot. The 2,735 pounds of cocaine, rom peijB^th an estimated street value of family® I 11500 million, was found Monday vening at the Hidalgo port of ntry concealed in the roof of the rig’s box trailer, of ficials said. A sniffer dog aided in the sei zure, said Billy McFarland, chief Customs inspector at Hidalgo, a border city in the Rio Grande Valley across the Rio Grande from Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mex ico. “The inspector didn’t like the looks of the trailer, he brought the dog over and he (the dog) alerted us to the presence of drugs,” McFarland said. Customs inspectors then drilled into the top of the trailer and found the cocaine in five- CE ouse jleClu iatti’s louse 1120 nation of science and exploration that was unique.” Rutford opened a map of the Ant arctic on his desk and pointed to where he had done some of his re search: The Ellsworth Mountains, rising more than 17,000 feet; the Ross Ice Shelf, beneath which Rut ledge and some of his colleagues were astounded to find life, in the form of tiny, shrimplike creatures: the Soutli Pole, first reached by Norwegian explorer Roald Amund sen in 1911. He lived for months in huts with wooden floors and walls made of Fi- berglas-insulated canvas. It was light all the time, and, characteristically, Rutford wanted to work all the time. “The difficult thing to remember is that your body can’t keep up with the sun,” Rutford said. “You can’t work 24 hours a day. You have to structure your time — otherwise you’d go and go and go until you dropped.” Although he has not been to the Antarctic since 1984, Rutford keeps abreast of scientific developments there and is helping the State De partment draft a 16-nation treaty governing any future use of the con tinent’s resources. Rutford and other scientists sus pect major oil and natural gas re serves lie beneath the thick ice, and they want to make sure any drilling is strictly regulated, to protect the nearly pristine environment. “It will give a little bit,” Rutford said. “Nobody really knows how much it will give.” His concern is understandable. For Rutford, Antarctica is a place of wonder and innumerable mysteries. Take the discovery of fossilized glos- sopteris, a fernlike plant native to tropical or semitropical climates: Does this suggest that Antarctica un derwent a striking climatic change, or did the land mass move? Such questions intrigue Rutford, and he would like to help answer them. Rutford credits his father and grandfather for his appreciation of the outdoors. As a teenager in northern Minnesota, he eschewed skiing, instead snowshoeing so he could get deeper into the woods, far ther from the beaten path. “That," Rutford said, “was before snowmo biles ruined everything.” A graduate of the University of Minnesota, Rutford held teaching and administrative posts at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minn., and the universities of South Dakota and Nebraska before coming to UTD in 1982. Although it might seem an odd place for a cold-weather adven turer to land, the science- and busi ness-oriented institution suits Rut ford perfectly, he says. He is able to do research and still lead a re spected, albeit small, institution. Bob Lovitt, UTD’s vice president for business affairs, believes Rutford bis Ant:iretie foravs in nnri Officials discover cocaine in trailer HIDALGO (AP) —More than a ton of cocaine was found con- in the roof of a truck tra- inch-deep hidden compartments stretching the trailer’s entire 45- foot length and 10-foot width. “We had to peel the entire top of the trailer off,’’ McFarland said. , To the naked eye, he said, the trailer appeared to be empty. Customs officials said it was the second largest land seizure of co caine at a U.S. port of entry on the Mexican border, surpassed only by the seizure last September of 3,589 pounds of cocaine at El Paso. While stacked up awaiting transfer to the U.S. Drug En forcement Administration, the 2,735 pounds of cocaine occupied the space of a medium-size auto mobile, McFarland said. The driver, however, walked away from the scene undetected, he added, and officials Tuesday were working to determine the ownership of the vehicle. An arrest was expected, Mc Farland said. Treasury rejects tints for currency design Pink greenbacks made lots of peo ple see red. So the T reasury rejected fancy tints and other radical changes in the nation’s currency and settled on a couple of minor changes to thwart counterfeiters. New greenbacks will sport a secu rity thread that has the denomina tion embedded in it and the letters USA running vertically through it. The words “United States of America” will be printed around the portrait, although you’ll need a 7- power magnifying glass to read them. You should see the new' bills in the next couple of years. Existing currency won’t be re called. Goins may also be in for a face-lift of sorts. The mint will redesign the back sides of all coins over the next six years if legislation before Congress passes next year as expected. The presidential lineup — Lin coln, Washington, Jefferson, Roose velt and Kennedy — won’t change. 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Rutford was in the boat that tra iled his son in the swim from Dover to the small French town of Wissant in 10 hours, 44 minutes. “I really wanted him to be there,” Kris Rut ford said by telephone from Lincoln. “A lot of times they discourage you from having family on the boat be cause they might be overprotective, but I wasn’t worried about him. I do think he was a little bit nervous.” Robert Rutford recorded the event on film, as would any father. On his office wall is a map of his son’s course. “During the whole swim, I don’t think he said 15 words,” Rutford said admiringly of his son. “He was in great physical shape, but he was also mentally ready. The thing that impresses me is the mental part of it.” The Great American Gar Sale: You may see automakers monkey ing with incentive programs or scal ing them back, but they won’t go away, auto analysts say. For one thing, you’ve come to expect rebates and cut-rate financing. 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