The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, August 5, 1980-Page 7
Scientists begin
hunt for Loch
Ness monster

LONDON (AP) - Midsummer mon-
ster hunts have disturbed the placid
waters of LochNess since the year 565.
In the latest venture of this now-annual.
ritual, a team of naturalists left here.
yesterday to dredge the Scottish lake
with a motor-powered, 40-foot raft and
catch Nessie in a net.
"The dredging experiment is based
on the idea that if there are live mon-
sters in the loch there must also be dead
ones," said Adrian Shine, a plastics in-
dustrialist and professional diver who
is the leader of the self-styled Loch
Ness Project.
"IF WE BRING up any bones of an-
cient creatures, we shall have gone a
long way to establishing the reality of
Loch Ness monsters."
Endlessly photographed, analyzed,
explored, and just plain stared at in the
years since St. Columba first recorded
seeing Nessiteras rhomboptteryx - af-
fectionately known as Nessie - in the
sixth century, the 23-mile-long Loch
Ness will be subjected to scrutinization
by some 30 or 40 sophisticated cameras
laid out like mines ina minefield.
"Our idea is saturation coverage,"
Shine said. "It's no use messing about
any more. We have got to start sur-
veying very large areas of water in a
systematic, methodical way."
ALL -TRIGGERED simultaneously,
the cameras would photograph the
murky depths of the 700-feet-deep, mile-
wide Loch Ness by using a large, dif-
fuse screen of light against which any

intruding object - including Nessie -
can be captured on film.
Shine's team is also looking for
Nessie in the flesh.
"We shall mount a totally com-
prehensive search for skeletal
remains," the expedition leader said.
"If there has been a population of large
animals in Loch Ness for the past 6,000
years when some scientists believe the
lake first became closed to the open
sea) there should be some large dead
animals there now."
Shine's explorers will use a large in-
flatable raft powered by an outboard
motor to move slowly across the lake
with a special dredging device of a
combined sledge and net.
Television-guided and surface-
operated, the dredge will travel "up
and down, up and down, ad nauseam,"
he said.
The British expedition, expected to
cost 60,000 pounds ($141,000), will last
three weeks this summer and continue
for three years. It claims the backing of
a number of noted Britons, including
Sir Peter Scott, head of the World
Wildlife Fund.
Thousands of people claim to have
seen the beast - usually described as a
long-necked, dinosaur-like creature -
but so far, no genuinely scientific ex-
pedition has come up with anything
more concrete than shadowy pictures
of what could be Nessie or simply
murk.

Students seek housing

BILLY CARTER FOLDS a local newspaper as he leaves a motel in Americus,
Ga. after having a leisurely breakfast yesterday morning. In Washington,
the Senate panel investigating Carter opened hearings yesterday.
C arter tells hs side
of Billy-Libya affair
(Continue from~aee 19
with Iran." or three weeks. There might be
CARTER SAID "it occurred to us" something we left out. But I think this is
that Billy might be able to induce the the best way to handle it."
Libyans to help press Iran for release of The president said his brother has not
the hostages and that Billy tried. The tried to influence administration policy
-president said that approach was suc- toward Libya.
cessful in that the government of Libya He denied the White House made any
did urge Iran to free the American cap- effort to influence Justice Department
tives. He said no one could determine decisions in the investigation and civil
whether the effort would have been case that led to Billy Carter's
successful without Billy's involvement. registration, under federal law, as an
"I'm not trying to claim great things agent of the Libyan government.
about Billy's actions," the president Carter said he inadvertantly
sai. "But it happened. It'may have been overlooked a brief conversation with
bad judgment. But I wanted to help the Atty. Gen. Benjamin Civiletti on June
hostages." 22 on the question of Billy Carter's
Of the fact that the White House has registration as a foreign agent. Billy
made several changes in the story Carter received what he described as a
about Billy and Libya, Carter said: $220,000 loan from the Libyan-gover-
"WE'VE MADE some mistakes nment.
because we were in a hurry to get all Carter said he learned of those
the information out. But it was much payments only on July 15. Before that
better to get the information date, he said, he urged his brother to
out ... rather thanto stonewall for two register ass Libyan agent.

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ved basis. According to Alan Dickinson,
a prospective dorm dweller, about 10
persons began their vigil Sunday night.
Typically, students vying for the
limited dormitory spaces have tran-
sferred to the University from another
school or college. One such student.
Keith Collin, said he chose to live in a
dormitory. during his first semester
here to make the adjustment to Univer-
sity life as painless as possible.
ANOTHER STUDENT, Dave Deater,
offered an unusual answer for his
presence in the line: "My tent leaks!
That's why I had better move into a
dorm."
Many of the transfer students said
they chose to seek dorm spaces because
they were acquainted with few or no
persons here and knew very little about
the University. Some said although
they prefer apartment life, dormitories
were good places to make friends and
meet possible roommates for the next
year.
One of the few -non-transfer students,
Zaher Mansour, said, "Off-campus
housing is painful. Dormitory living is
the only alternative that makes sense."
He explained his choice was "not
economy but just simplicity."
CAMPERS WHO were first in line for
the vacant spaces had started a list of
their fellow dorm-room seekers. When

Housing Office secretaries were
presented with the list, according to one
of the early arrivals, it was rejected.
University Housing - Program
Associate Leroy Williams, who accep-
ted responsibility for rejecting the list,
said of the 89 men and 59 women who
had signed up, the office placed 42 men
and 48 women. Persons who were not
placed in residence halls yesterday will
have to return to the office every day to
try their luck again.
Williams added he has attempted to
inform students hoping to find dor-
mitory spaces about alternatives to
University housing. He said the
Housing Office "strongly encourages
students to familiarize themselves with
options other than residence halls."
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