University Daily Kansan
Friday, February 15. 1980
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KANSAN Police Beat
A KU student reported the theft of a radio and a tool box Wednesday from a pickup truck parked near his apartment. The loss was estimated at $79.
A KU student was arrested yesterday and charged with aggravated burglary. The student, Ais S. Polson, 1940 Hearwoodbrook, was arrested on Monday for a $5,000 bond. Police said Polson was arrested by an off-duty Lawrence officer and was awakened by a prowler early yesterday.
KU Police assisted a heart attack victim Wednesday at the KU basketball game at Allen Field House. Richard C, Foster, Topeka, collapsed while watching the game. The police brought from the field house to a Topeka hospital where in satisfactory condition.
Med school interest rate debated
A University of Kansas official yesterday denied charges from a state senator that students have been taking unfair advantage of the state's medical scholarship program.
The official, Richard Von Ende, executive secretary to Chancellor Archie R. Dykes, testified before a Senate Ways and Means committee that he raised medical students' interest charges on tuition from 10 to 25 percent. The charge against the school not taking advantage of the scholarship.
The scholarship program pays students their full tuition plus $60 a month if they agree to practice medicine in Kansas an offer of $25,000 per year for the scholarship. Persons who decide not to practice in Kansas repay the money given to medical school at 10 percent interest.
ABOUT THREE-QUARTERS of Kansas medical students have taken advantage of
the scholarship, at an annual cost of $3.38 million to the state.
State Sen. Mike Johnston, D-Parsons, said he introduced the bill to prevent students from using the medical school scholarships as loans.
However, Von Ende said, "I think that in the long run it will produce the results the Legislature hoped for when it enacted the law." He added that it encourages students to stay in Kannas.
Johnston, who sponsored a bill last session to repeal the medical scholarship program, disagreed.
"Ten percent interest is just too low by too low's standard. The direct effort to improve the impression, as students that the buy-out provision is only for cases when circumstances beyond a lot of opportunity arise."
THE PROGRAM is just liberal on its face," he said. "Medical students just view it as a loon program. We're not going to let them be convinced of this program when we passed it."
"We shouldn't view ourselves as a bank to
loan money conveniently to students. Those students are clever. I'd be in that program too if I were a medical student."
MEMBERS OF THE TITLE committee indicated that they would support a proposal to increase the interest rate, but many said that 25 percent was too high.
Johnson agreed that the 25 percent rate would be the major obstacle to the hill's passage, but added that any raise in the interest rate would satisfy him.
Presidents' Day closes post office
Lawrence and Douglas County offices will be closed Monday in observance of Presidents Day. There will be no postal mail to the city and post office will be closed.
Classes will be held as usual on the University of Kansas campus. Lawrence schools also will hold classes. We offer banks plan to close during the day.
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