University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 18, 1990
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KJHK staff did not sell albums, manager says
By Sandra Moran
Kansan staff writer
Promotional albums apparently belonging to student-run radio station KJKH do not appear to have been sold by any members of the staff, the station's general manager said yesterday.
"It's not a station practice," said Tim Mensendiek, KJHK general manager.
Several promotional albums with KJHK call letters were sold to Lawrence and Kansas City
Anne Winter, owner of Dirt Cheap Recycled Sounds in Kansas City, Mo., said she had purchased several promotional records in the past two years from people who said they were from KJHK.
he was cleaning the KJHK music library and getting rid of duplicates and records no longer played at the station.
A few people who was in town they were from India.
The most recent case was from a man who said
Mensendiek said that the station considered the sale an isolated incident and that station management was investigating the matter.
"We're just making sure that it doesn't happen," he said.
Cathy Thiele, promotional coordinator for Columbia Records, said that selling promotional albums was a common, but illegal, practice.
However, representatives from other commercial and non-commercial stations said it was not common practice.
"KLWN and KLZR would never think of doing that," said Brian Schiel, program director for the
two stations. "Not only is it illegal, it's unnecessary."
He said duplicates usually were given away as part of a promotional campaign.
Simon Rose, promotions director for KCOU at the University of Missouri-Columbia, said the student radio station did not sell promotional albums.
"We don't do that," he said. "If anyone was found to贮 it, they would be fired."
He said the practice was illegal and against the station's policy.
non's policy.
Greg Phillips, operations manager at KDVV in
"If we wanted to sell it, we couldn't," he said.
Med Center's vest makes diagnoses of heart disease easier
By Steve Bailey Kansan staff writer
A new device at the University of Kansas Medical Center will make it easier for physicians to diagnose when patients need complicated treatment for coronary artery disease.
The device, called the Capinete Vest, will allow physicians for the first time to trace not only the heartbeat but also the functioning of heart and how strong it is pumping, said Kirkman Baxter, assistant professor of diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine at the Med Center.
Baxter said the Med Center was the only hospital in the region using the vest. The vest has been approved
"With the vest, we are able to track how the heart is pumping for an extended period of time," Baxter said. "It also allows us to obtain this information while the patient continues everyday activity."
by the Food and Drug Administration.
"We have had it up and running for about a week now." Baxter said. "The closest facility now using the vest other than here is at Loyola in Chicago. We are fortunate that we have been able to get our foot in the door early in this area of treatment."
The Med Center has evaluated five patients with the vest in the past week, he said.
The process begins when a tiny amount of radiation, less than that in a normal chest X-ray, is injected into the patient to tag red blood cells. The heart is observed through a gamma camera to check for irregular pumping patterns and heart damage.
The vest is then strapped onto the patient for a two- to four-hour period to record activity during periods of
change in pumping volume.
The vest straps around the chest with Velcro fasteners, and a data recorder on the vest is suspended over the left ventricle of the heart. The vest weighs about four pounds and allows complete left-ventricular evaluation of patients.
"We have the patient do some routine exercises such as walking and climbing stairs while wearing the vest," Baxter said. "As the heart rate increases with the exercise, the volume of blood pumping also should go up. If it does not, we know there is a problem."
Baxter said the device would be useful in detecting silent ischemia, which is decreased blood supply to the heart; arteriosclerosis, which is hardening of the arteries; and the effect of medications on the heart.
The vest also will reduce the number of unnecessary cardiac catheterizations. In this process, a hollow, flexible tube used to install or withdraw fluids, called a catheter, is inserted into a large vein in the leg and threaded through the veinous system into the heart.
"The vest greatly cuts the risks and hospitalization involved with catheterization," Baxter said. "It is a very safe and painless type of examination and will be useful for looking at patients pre-operatively."
Ralph Robinson, professor of diagnostic radiology, said treatment with the vest was relatively inexpensive when compared with the cost of catheterization and other clinical treatments.
Communism won't survive in E. Europe, speaker says
"A full heart catheterization would cost about $5,000," Robinson said. "The cost of testing with the vest would be about one-tenth of that, or about $500 or $600."
By Sandra Moran Kansan staff writer
Events in Eastern European and Soviet countries are happening so fast there is no time to be astonished, a former arms talks coordinator said last night.
Kenneth Adelman, former director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, said he was optimistic about Eastern European countries, pessimistic about the Soviet Union and nearly euphoric about the United States.
Adelman, a syndicated columnist, spoke to about 70 people last night in Woodruff Auditorium.
"Now is an exciting time to look at world issues," he said. "You hear the sound of ice cracking everywhere."
He said Eastern European countries were emerging from communism and developing into legitimate democratic countries because there was no alternative.
"There's a death-defying leap that these countries are taking from communism to capitalism," he said. "The one thing the government needs from its country is legitimizing. That legitimizing is given through free elections."
Adelman said East Germany would survive with help from West Germany, as would Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland. However he expressed little hope for survival in Ukraine, Bulgaria and the Soviet Union.
He described Gorbachev as a "zippy kind of guy" who was a refreshing change from former
Soviet leaders.
"It was nice to see a Soviet leader who could talk by himself, walk by himself and breath by himself," he said. "We really didn't realize what a transformation figure he would be."
Adelman said Gorbachev's transformation had succeeded mainly in destabilizing the Soviet Union,
"He hasn't been able to deliver the goods in terms of making the economy better for the average person," he said.
Adelman said he thought Gorbachev eventually would be removed from office.
He said the successor would be someone who saw Gorbachev as a man of vision and who would take that vision and put it into action.
The ideas of democracy the United States was built on are present throughout the world, he said. It is what will be used to help create new European democracies.
"With this day of technology . . .
there is no way to put a barrier on
ideas," he said.
Knuef el of Lawrence said he did not agree with Adelman's optimism about Eastern European countries and pessimism about the Soviet Union because the two were so closely connected.
However, he did agree that other countries looked to the United States as a role model.
"The United States is a place of last refuge for ideas," he said.
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