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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Tuesday, Nov. 5, 1985
Calendar confusion solved
Book store prints directory
By John Williams Of the Kansan staff
The quest for that perfect calendar is a difficult task with the wide selection offered by the Oread Book Shop.
But a new calendar directory is available to help in the search.
The "Calendar Shopper's Directory," compiled by Wendy Roberts, a calendar buyer for the book shop, lists more than 300 calendars that the bookstore sells now or will sell in about a month for Christmas.
Bill Getz, supervisor of the book shop, said yesterday that the directory was compiled to inform customers of the calendars the book shop carries and as a reference while Roberts is on vacation for the next couple of weeks.
The directory will come in handy because of the popularity of the calendars during the Christmas season, Getz said. The calendars are more popular this year than in other years.
"Calendars have been a staple item for 10 to 12 years; they are popular from around August 1 through Christmas to April 15," he said.
The calendar directory is indexed into 25 subject areas and includes the title, publisher, format and the price of each calendar. Subject categories are specific, such as American Indians, food and wine, Kansas and pinups, and generic, such as humor, sports or fine arts and design.
Getz said Roberts probably spent about six hours putting the list into a computer. Compiling the list was a building process as she selected which titles to buy from the publishers.
"She makes choices of which calendars to buy based on her judgment of what is current or popular." he said. "She has been doing this sort of thing for a few years so her judgment is fairly sound."
Some of the calendars the book shop carries traditionally have been best sellers, such as the Sierra Club calendals. The Sierra Club calendals have sold well at the KU bookstores for about 10 years, Getz said.
The Oread Book Shop carries poster, engagement, book, wall and page-a-day calendars, Getz said.
The School of Architecture and Urban Design calendar is the most popular calendar at the book shop, he
said. The long, skinny, wall calendar is published as a money making project for the school and costs about $1.50.
Most calendars at the book shop are issued only once and are usually associated with movies and movie personalities, such as the Jerry Hall pin-up calendar. Others, such as the J.R.R. Tolkien and Far Side calendaries, are published two or three times and will disappear as popularity declines, he said.
The male pin-up calendars also are popular with female buyers this year, he said. The book shop offers eight calendars that feature men, while only four are devoted to women.
Getz said certain art calendars were popular every year.
"People buy many of the art calendars as a source of prints at a cost that is significantly less than the cost of the prints sold separately," he said.
Getz said that copies of the calendar directory would be available to any customer upon request and also could be sent by campus mail if people call asking for them.
Dirty work
Mark Mohler/KANSAN
A construction worker for R.D. Andersen, general contractor of the St. Lawrence Catholic Center, 1631 Crescent Road, cuts stone to be used for the exterior walls of an addition to the center. The worker was cutting stones yesterday afternoon.
Watkins lab receives chemical analyzer
By Stefani Day Of the Kansan staff
The laboratory at Watkins Memorial Hospital recently received a new chemical analyzer that will combine the functions now performed by several machines, the laboratory supervisor said Friday.
'Most equipment here is 12 years old or more. These are very old machines.And you're tied to that machine for five or six minutes with that one test.'
Anita Brown, lab supervisor, said the new machine would be used to automatically perform 13 different tests that now are done manually. The chemical analyzer tests blood for different chemical elements, such as glucose and cholesterol.
- Anita Brown
lab supervisor
Watkins Memorial Hospital
Although most of the tests already are done at Watkins, Brown said, the machines are old and a technician has to run each one. With the new analyzer, one person can do the work that now requires two or three people.
"Most of the equipment here is 12 years old or more," she said. "These are very old machines."
"You're tied to that machine for five or six minutes with that one
With the old machines, each test must be analyzed individually Brown said.
test," she said. "Then you put in the next one."
Although the new analyzer runs only one type of test at a time, she said, it can test many samples in one run.
"It should help us get reports out faster," Brown said. "And that's what it's all about."
The machine will be ready for use in about a month. Before it is ready to analyze specimens from patients, it must pass quality tests.
"You just don't say, 'All right, I know how to work the machine. Let's get with it,'" she said. "We have to make sure everything is working properly. And we have to run a quality control of about 20 tests on each one
of the elements before we can even start to do patients."
The quality control tests are being used to train the lab technicians on the new machine.
Because Watkins is such a small lab, Brown said, all the technicians must be familiar with all the machines. She said that although she usually assigned technicians to a specific department, either chemistry, hematology or microbiology, they worked in all of them at some time.
Ray Walters, assistant director of business at Watkins, said the new chemical analyzer was part of a new
"We decided the lab was outdated in its equipment," he said. Walters said David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, had cleared the purchases.
program to modernize the laboratory and the hospital in general.
"We were urged by him to ungrade." Walters said.
About $100,000 will be spent on machinery for the lab, he said.
Walters said a part of each student's fees, apart from the student health fee, was earmarked for new equipment.
"It's a thing that has to accumulate to become a significant size," he said.
"It's been building up to the point that we can purchase needed equipment."
The next addition to the lab, a blood cell counter, will arrive in six to eight weeks. Brown said. Watkins is accepting bids for the counter now.
The blood cell counter will combine five hematology tests that now are performed separately and are time-consuming. Brown said.
Representative mulls gubernatorial contest
The Associated Press
AUGUSTA — U.S. Rep. Bob Whit-taker, R-Kan., said yesterday the response of state party leaders to his decision to consider seeking the Republican nomination for governor in 1986 has been "very enthusiastic and very encouraging."
The Associated Press reported over the weekend that Whittaker was contacting party officials to determine whether a gubernatorial campaign by him was viable in the wake of adverse publicity about Attorney General Robert T. Stephan, who has been regarded as the frontrunner for the GOP nomination.
Whitaker said the report prompted calls from a dozen party people, two of whom the 5th District congressman described in an interview as being "in the top echelon."
Three top-ranking Republican officials who asked not to be identified told the AP they believe Whittaker should run for governor and that he
would have a good chance of winning the primary election next August.
The troubles dogging Stephan has a result of a sexual harassment lawsuit, which was brought against him by a woman who formerly worked in his office, have caused several prominent Republicans to consider seeking the GOP nomination against Stephan — including Secretary of State Jack Brier, Senate President Bob Talkin, House Speaker Mike Hayden, Sen. Fred Kerr and Pittsburgh businessman Gene Bickell.
In addition, some believe former Gov. Robert F. Bennett, who is a supporter of Stephan, might be persuaded to allow an investigation if Stephan were to withdraw.
"I have not made any final decision," Whittaker said. "But, yes, I have been contacted by a number of key Republicans from around the state and I've followed that up and made some contacts on my own. I want to touch bases with as many of them as possible."
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