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Friday, January 26, 1979
University Daily Kansan
Lawrence market slow for video tape recorders
Video cassette recorders may be the wave of the future, but most Lawrence dealers say sales are slow.
Alen Robertson, owner of Servitronics, Inc. 610, Florida St., said recently he had sold only one record in the last nine months.
"I think it's the thing to come in the future. I don't think it'll catch on right away." he said.
The video cassette recorder is a small machine that attaches to any television set. It can play pre-recorded tapes, DVDs and CDs. You can record television programs on blank tapes.
Robertson said his only sale had been to a couple with a disabled child. He said they wanted to check out videotapes for the child.
Don Harrison, home entertainment buyer for Ed Mardling Stores, said the store had sold only two or three recorders and did not plan to restock.
"In 1978, the industry fell way short of what they thought they'd be selling. The same thing happened to us, that's why we're phasing out," he said.
Harrison said that companies like Paramount Pictures had promised to make a large selection of pre-recorded music, so that only a small number of tapes were made.
People don't want to spend more than $1000 on a recorder, and not have any tanes, he said.
Video cassette recorder sales were
"They aren't fast salesmen because they're pretty expensive, $1,100 to $1,200, but we've sold four or five in the last 45 days." Scales said.
He said the people who bought the recorders ranged from a University professor to a member of a rock band.
better at Ray Stoneback's, 929 Massachusetts St., according to an employee, Joe Scales.
People who own these machines have the ability to record Home Box Office programs as well as commercial television programs.
The Hairbenders and Company, 1919
24th St., a beauty salon, uses its video recorder to instruct employees and to teach them how to respond according to Debbie Daniels, manager.
John Dennis, general manager of Sunflower Cabinetry, 644 New Hampshire St., said people recording HBO movies didn't interfere with his operation because they couldn't legally sell the tapes.
"We run tapes that show new hair care products and hair styles for the customers. The employees watch tapes of our new haircuts and techniques," she said.
Business classes learn philosophy
By GENE BROWNING
Staff Reporter
"We don't have a policy about this because it's a direct violation of the copyright law. It's a federal offence to break it, and any other program to sell," Dennis said.
The lecturer leans forward, looking at his wary audience of business students. He talks about Karl Marl's moral philosophy and stresses the importance of civil rights and justice, topics not usually discussed in an business class.
But Rex Martin is no ordinary lecturer in business. He is the Humanist in Residence at KU's School of Business. He taught in the philosohpy department until this semester.
Martin said his lectures would link ethics and political philosophy—his philosophical roots.
"One of my favorite topics is economic justice, a general topic sometimes," "People have prevailed since the beginning."
His presence in the business school is part of a National Endowment for the Humanities program. The program is in the first its kind in the country, according to Martin.
Martin speaks like a businessman, but his ideas are not typical of the business world.
MARTIN, WHO SAYS he has always had many interests other than philosophy, will be giving guest lecture at the University of Wisconsin school this semester. He is one of three KU professors, two from the humanities and one from the School of Humanities at the University, teaching in a school other than their own.
"THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS are concerned with a government of planning, with more government intervention. There is a large difference between liberty of individuals and equality of individuals," he said.
Martin said one of his goals as Humanist in Residence was to give business students a chance to learn about humanism.
He said the responsibility of the business
community to factors outside of the business world was one of the areas he wanted to explore.
"BUSINESSMEN SHOULD make considerations of politics. They should consider ways of effectiveness in other areas," Martin said. "These areas might include full employment and environmental pollution."
Martin said he would talk about Marx, who was a technical economist and moral philosopher, in his lectures. Marx, a German, formed the basis philosophy of Marxism.
"It is impossible to avoid bringing Marx into the picture," Martin said. "He had important ideas on how a society should be structured, and I was surprised to see him immoral and that sociism is the answer."
Martin said he thought rights and justice should be concerns not only for labor leaders, but for individual businessmen as well.
Martin said study of the humanities tended to be abstract. He said this was an area in which a professor from the School of Humanities could help students in the humanities.
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Martin said businessmen could teach those in the humanities about hunting for jobs and about marketing humanity. The Tate museum are concrete view of the humanities, he said.
Martin said he planned to write a book on civil rights and economic justice, both of which were crucial to his work.
He said he enjoyed teaching business classes because the program was unique.
"I would enjoy seeing how people would
laugh at other universities," Martin said,
smiling.
KANSAS CITY, Kan.—An ear, nose and throat doctor spent almost 15 years developing a machine to save his patients and a scars of minor throat and ear surgeries.
Staff Reporter
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Kirchner designed the microcathay using the concept of heat energy. The conventional tools used for ear and throat surgery are the scissors and knife known to surgeons as the forceps and scalpel. These mechanical tools are difficult to maneuver inside a throat or an ear, causing minor surgery to last several hours.
The inventor, Fernando Kirchner, a surgeon at the University of Kansas Medical Center, said he invented the machine to move worms in the larynx as the removal of warts from the larynx.
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"IF THE SURGERY is simpler and practical," he said, "the patient has less pain and the surgery, naturally, takes less time."
The microcautery has two parts, a control box and a stainless steel rod, which has a diameter of 2.5 mm.
He first conceived the idea of the microcourtyard 15 years ago and spent the next 10 years building different models of the machine. He worked solely with a friend, who had a mechanical engineer, and two years ago they built the machine that Kirchner now uses.
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By using the machine, the Kirchner Microrachyta, a surgeon does not have to cut through a patient's throat or worry accidently damaging surrounding tissue.
Within minutes the water is gone, and the hardened protein that remains will dissolve.
"It's not complicated," he said. "First we locate the cyst or wart and then we run the machine."
HE SAID HE paid for the invention himself and that it was not an expensive project.
THE HEAT travels from the electrical control box, through the rod and into the filament. When the filament touches the tissue to be removed, the tissue evaporates.
Human tissue is made of water and protein. When the water is heated, it evaporates, and when the protein is heated, it hardens.
than a quarter of an inch long, uses heat for the operation.
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"I never got a patient for the microcautery," he said, "because it is a medical invention. I did not invent it for the microcautery, to simplify the operation for the patient."
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He said there were many medical schools and hospitals around the country using the technology.
He said the machine, cost about $400 to build, was economically more practical than the laser, which is another tool for the job. He may cost as much as $30,000, Kirchner said.
it is also more economical for the patient, when it takes less time is more economical."
He told a 6-year-old girl who entered the Med Center in the morning, had several warts removed from her vocal cords around noon and left the hospital that afternoon.
ANOTHER PATIENT, an infant with a cyst on his vocal cords, would have been permanently scarred if Kirchner had not been able to use the micocautery.
Kirchner said the only way to reach the cyst without the microcautery would have been to cut through the neck. The microcautery could be used through the mouth, however, and the cyst was removed in 45 minutes.
He said the microcattery could be used in any minor surgery, including the removal of very early stages of cancer, but could not handle extensive cancer surgery.
"I DON'T WANT anyone to think this is a panacea," he said. "I can't cure everything, and it especially cannot cure cancer. It is just a practical method for removing warts or cysts without causing the patient to be in pain.
"The microcautery is still not fully developed, because I am never satisfied. I always feel that surgery could be done better, if the doctors try to be creative."
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