University Daily Kansan
Thursday, April 6, 1978
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Kinko's makes own copy market
By RUTH SHERMAN
Staff Writer
When Brent Schlender became angry at the cost of photocopying, he sat down and
The letter was to Kinko's, a California-based copying chain which copies material for $3 \frac{1}{2}$ cents a page. Schlender asked the chain to open a store in Lawrence.
To Schlender's surprise, Kinko's president wrote back, asking Schlendier to open a store with the chain's financial backing.
"The name kind of scared me away at first," Schellenberg, 23, said. "I didn't know what kind of people I was getting in with." She was a very serious art major looking for a job, I took it.
SCHLENDER GRADUATED last spring and Kinko's joined in September at Nindh
Schlenker sind, "People will charge you anything they can get for a service. Kinko's is a great place," he said.
these guys were making. I feel kind of like a crusader in that way."
Although Schlender originally thought that the competition was too stiff for Kinko's to be successful, he now thinks that Kinko's business is much better than the business of other Lawrence承包服务。
"We are not out to run anyone out of business," he said. "I think that what we've done more than anything is to create our own market."
ONE OF the ways in which Kinko's done this, he said, is through a service offered to him.
Through this service, instructors of classes that use required reading material print the books in the class and Kinko's Kinko's copies the material and sells it to the students. Schlender
The response to this service has exceeded expectations, Schlender said. Kinko's has handled material for 22 classes this semester.
Kinko's market includes a wide variety of customers. Schlender said.
Kinko's has done copying for such disparate groups as the American Nazi Party, the John Birch Society, the Unification Church and gay activists.
"WE HAVE a hardcore core of copy addicts who come in all the time," he said. "They are some of the most unusual people you'll ever meet. That what's making it so great."
Dealing with such customers can be difficult. Schlender said.
"Everybody's thing is the most important thing in the world, and you have to remember it."
Sentiender now works about 10 hours a day. However, he is hoping his three employees will be able to handle most of the tasks, and he begins work on a masters in journalism.
Schlender was formerly an editor of the Cottonwood Review, a national creative
State considered for missile sites
By LYNN BYCZYNSKI
Staff Writer
Some areas of western Kansas are suitable for nuclear missile launch sites, Frank Wilson, head of environmental sciences in Kansas Geological Survey, said Tuesday.
Air Force spokesman announced last week that Thomas, Logan and Gray counties in western Kansas were among the first to undergo investigation for storage of MX missiles.
MX missiles are long-range nuclear weapons that are accurate within 250 feet of the target.
The three counties under consideration by the Air Force, Wilson said, had geologic formations suitable for the storage of hydrogen. But many have been providing information since last
summer to technical consultants studying the areas for the Air Force, he said.
STORAGE BUILDINGS for the nuclear weapons would be horizontal tunnels 20 miles in length and 20 to 30 feet below the surface, with low water tables for the storage sites.
The three western Kansas counties being studied by the Air Force have areas that are underlaid with an Ogala formation, which is a mixture of sand and gravel. The Ogala formation in those areas would be deep enough to house the tunnels. Wilson said.
The number of sites needed for the MX missile system also strengthens the possibility that Kansas could be one of the areas selected. Wilson said.
THE AIR Force plans to place 300 of the thermonuclear missiles at six sites, he said.
Each of the 300 missiles would contain 14 independently targeted warheads, where are the sections of the missile that contain the charge.
The amounts of land that would be needed for each of the six sites would require a low population density in the area. The three sites considered are sparsely populated, considered for the sites are sparsely populated.
The biggest threat posed by the nuclear missile launch sites would be the possibility of radioactive fallout in the event of a nuclear strike on the sites. Prevailing westerly winds would carry fallout to the radiation centers of the Midwest, Wilson said.
"THE WHOLE concept of this missile system based on the idea that the enemy would attack first," he said.
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KINO'S able to keep its costs down.
Schleicher said, because the simplicity of
Kinox is more convenient.
Schlender had no business experience prior to opening Kino's, and he said he thought that the business simplicity was due to factors that offset his lack of experience.
Kinco's will be buying a new Xerox copying machine in August which will include the following:
"There are about three days out of the week that it's a real struggle to get away from it, and you have that kind of thing to keep out. You have to expand or get out of the house."
KINKO'S ALSO will be remodeling the store's interior soon. Schleider did the original interior, he said, with "K-Mart bulletin boards and a lot of orange paint."
The cost of expanding and remodeling will not cause Kinko's to raise its prices, Schlendner said. Prices will be raised only if the price of paper rises significantly.
Although Kinko's encourages its managers to buy their stores from the chain, Schlender said he was not planning to do so in the near future.
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