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Wednesday, October 3, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
KU Fencing Club presents a Mixed Foil Invitational Tournament Saturday October 6
Entry Fee: $2.00/person USFA membership required. Held in Upper Gym of Robinson. Registration at 9:00 a.m. Competition begins around 9:30 and ends around 3:00 p.m. Spectators are welcome!
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John Wallis, an electronic technician, uses a soldering iron to repair a frequency counter used in the physics laboratories in Malott Hall. The equipment was damaged during a power outage last month.
Wired
Xerox copier to replace presses
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — Xerox Corp. said yesterday it would revolutionize offices by hooking desktop computers to print on paper and that it would replace office printing presses.
Xerox said the device would put the power of high-quality printing and binding of many-page documents within reach of anyone with a computer. It also will allow users to "scan in" paper documents, or transform them into computer code, so they can be stored and altered electronically.
Xerox said, are companies that need to produce many types of high-quality documents or specifications, such as those for computer contracts and technology concerns.
"This is a huge market for Xerox," predicted Paul Ahlair, president and chief executive of the Stamford, Conn. based company. "We have torn down the walls that separate documents from electronic documents."
The 14% foot-long machine, called DocTech, is part of Xerox's new marketing strategy under which it
Among potential corporate users.
calls itself "the document company."
Xerox said DocTech will allow companies to turn out offset-quality copies 25 percent higher than offset printing presses and in one-fifth the time. The DocTech can print 135 pages a minute and scan in 23 pages in the same time, and perform both functions at once.
Xerox said DocutChi contained the processing power of a large mainframe computer to perform its advanced functions.
Suit filed on racial violence
The Associated Press
The $10 million wrongful death suit goes to trial Oct. 8.
PORTLAND, Ore. — A lawyer who won a $7 million civil judgment against a Ku Klux Klan faction is going after another White supremacist group with a lawsuit on behalf of the Ethiopian who was beaten to death.
Three skinheads confessed to beating Mulugete Seraw, 27, to death with baseball bats on Nov. 18, 1988.
The lawsuit contends Tom Metzger, the founder of White Aryan Resistance, incited the killing by sending agents to a Portland skin-ning school with messages of hate for Blacks and whites. Metzger denies the charge.
The lawsuit will be argued by Morris Dees, a lawyer for the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center. He won a $7 million civil judgment three years ago against the United Kisans of America after two Klansmen from Mobile, Ala., killed a 19-year-old Black man.
The case has drawn threats from a White supremacist group, the Holy Church of the White Fighting Machine of the Cross, who warned "all concerned to drop the lawsuit in Portland. Ore."
Seraw was attacked by Kenneth Mieske, Kyle Brewster and Steven Strasser, members of East Side White Pride.
Mieske admitted he killed Serap because he was Black. He pleaded guilty to murder and racial intimidation, Brewster pleaded guilty to manhandling and racial intimidation, and Strasser pleaded guilty to man-slaughter.
New device gives lower-limb amputees feeling
The Associated Press
transmit sensation to the brain.
OKLAHOMA CITY - Ampateurs who wear artificial feet can sense the floor with a new electronic device, developed by a company here, that made its national debut yesterday.
The Sabolich Sense-of-Feel System was developed by John Sabolich, president of the Sabolich Prosthetic & Research Center. It was demonstrated on the ABT-CTV program "Good Morning
The system uses small pressure transducers implanted in the artificial foot to signal electrodes in the socket of the prosthesis. The electrodes in turn stimulate the skin of the limb stump and
The $1,400 electronic system is powered by a standard 8-bit battery and can be used by any battery-matching device.
"It's the most incredible thing," said Holly Howard, an above-the-knee amputee from Tyler, Texas, who is one of 20 people testing the device so far. "It's a big opportunity 10 years, I can feel my foot and know where it is."
Souch said the invention he first conceived of eight years ago might also have the potential to reduce, and even eliminate, so-called phantom objects who feel discomfort as if from the missing limb.
"The brain really likes to have information from the floor." Sobel said. "When it doesn't have information from the floor, the nerves sort of dangle. And that increases phantom pain and doesn't let the person know where their foot is on the ground."
William N. Harsha, an Oklahoma City orthopedic surgeon, said that he had not known of the system except in the research stage and that John Saboch had been in the forefront of that.
"I would think it would be of great benefit," Harsha said. "It would enable the patient to know where his foot is when he is walking, going up and down the stairs."
ENROLLMENT
Advising for Spring 1991 Main Enrollment begins Oct 22, 1990
ARE YOU READY?!?
★ Advising-Expectations and Responsibilities
If you are a new student and have any questions or concerns, plan to attend RE-ORIENTATION, a new program offered by the Office of New Student Orientation. Each session will cover:
★ The Enrollment Process
★ Academic Resources and Assistance
Oct. 8 Liberal Arts and Sciences and Applied English Center
Oct. 9 Liberal Arts and Sciences
Oct. 10 Liberal Arts and Sciences
Oct. 11 Liberal Arts and Sciences
Oct. 15 Fine Arts
McCollum
Oliver
GSP-Corbin
Ellsworth
Hashinger
Oliver
Kansas Union
Oct. 17 Health, P.E., and Recreation Oct. 18 Liberal Arts and Sciences
Time: 6:30-7:30 p.m. Each session is open to all new students for specific questions about the Re-Orientation program call New Student Orientation, 864-4270
MAKE UP YOUR OWN MIND.
Wednesday
Free T-Shirt with a demonstration
Oct 3rd Kansas Student Union 5th Floor
(913) 491-9339
Systems Plus
AMIGA.
11026 Metcalf Overland Park, Ks 66210
Wednesday
8:00 am
to
5:00 pm
Fax (913) 491-0591