University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, January 15, 1992
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New help for strapped students
Book by KU grad offers financial aid tips he learned firsthand
by Jenny Martin Kansan staff writer
Shane Hills wants to make college easier for others than it was for himself.
The 1988 KU graduate has written a book titled, "To Hell With Putting Your Kids Through College — Teach Them How To Do It Themselves." The book tells students and parents how to maneuver their way around the high cost of a university education.
Hills, who paid his own way through college, said it was difficult.
"It would have been easier if I had known what I was doing," he said. "I know what I am."
In his book, Hills gives firsthand advice on how to get through school as a financially independent and self-reliant student.
"I wrote the book with the market of middle-class families in mind," Hills said. "I aimed to allay the sense of guilt and anxiety parents felt over figuring out how to pay for their kid's education."
Hills said he believed in self-reliance. He said young adults would
be stronger and more successful in life
if they put themselves through school.
"To teach this kind of responsibility to young people is a provocative concept, but one that is thought by many to be important," he said.
grams, Hills' beliefs have been confirmed by a flood of calls from interested parents and students. Hills said.
As a guest on radio talk-show pro-
Hills said his book was different from other college aid books because he related his experiences candidly, making his practical advice interesting and funny.
"It's the first book of its kind that comes out boldly and says that kids need to be self-reliant and that being self-supportive is a very reachable goal," Hills said.
Hills said that reaction to the book had been positive and that he had received fan mail, including one parent's comment that it was about time someone wrote a book telling it like it is.
Jillian Moreno, general manager of Borders Book Shop in Overland Park, said the store had carried the book and that it was popular and sold out quickly.
"Parents came in drove for the book," she said. "They all thought it was a great idea."
"To Hell With." . is currently available only through mail order.
Hills said he put himself through school by joining the Air National Guard, painting houses, free-lance writing, managing apartments and selling used rugs. He is now working in California with a credit union, runs his own company called The Idea Man Inc. and continues to write.
"I still have people calling about how I put myself through college, kids who are frustrated and don't know how to help themselves," Hills said. "At first I would counsel them, but the calls are numerous and so now I just send them a copy of the book."
Hills said he referred callers to a section of the book called "Shane's deluxe formula for putting yourself through college," which offers several ways to relieve financial stress including advice to adopt an attitude of frugality and self-reliance.
"To Hell With..." is available for $9.95 (postage paid) from Kenney Press, Box 274, King George, Va. 22485. Although not available currently in stores, Hills said the book would be sold locally by the middle of this year.
Breast implants safe, Dow study says
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Dow Corning Corp., rebutting allegations the company rushed its silicone gel breast implants to the market without adequate safety tests, released an independent review Monday concluding the product is safe.
The studies "establish that Dow Corning Wright's breast implant products are safe and effective," said Dr. Albert C. Kolby Jr., a former Food and Drug Administration official who led the analysis.
The memos and other documents, reported in Monday editions of The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, indicated that animal tests were done before the product went on the market in June 1975 but that the implants were inserted in women before the results were in.
He said internal company memos that questioned the safety of the implants and the company's testing procedures were not scientific data but internal discussions that guide and advance product develop-
Robert Rylee, head of Dow Corning's health care businesses, said that the company continued to comply with the moratorium but believed scientific data supported the product's safety.
The information also indicated that none of the animal studies put silicone in or under the animals'
Kolbye and the five other scientists on the review team analyzed the same studies that were submitted to the FDA last year. The agency last week asked physicians to stop using the implants amid fears that they may cause cancer and immune-system disorders.
Kolby, who was assistant bureau director for toxicological sciences in the FDA from 1972 to 1982, said his team conducted its review from mid-September through mid-December.
Rylee said the timeline for the studies was recon-
"We had a crash program," Thomas Talcott, a former materials engineer who quit in protest, told the Journal. "Dow Corning didn't have a soft-gel product on the market ... We wanted to beat the device legislation so that our products would be grandfathered (given an exemption)."
Both newspapers cited documents from around 1975 showing the company was in a hurry to develop the silicone gel breast implant because of competition. Congress was expected soon to exempt from safety tests those medical devices that were already on the market.
establish that Dow Corning Wright's breast implant products are safe and effective."
The company formed a task force to develop the product in five months, and animal tests began in January 1975, according to minutes of task force meetings. But samples of the implant were inserted in women early the next month, according to the memos cited by the Times and Journal.
structured based on "isolated sentence fragments from internal memos."
a memos are not scientific data. They are a printed record of one side of a two-way conversation," he said. "To base any conclusion on the safety of silicon carbide, we need to know that memos is nothing short of intellectual dishonesty."
He repeated the company's contention that no sci-
entific evidence has shown the implants to be unsafe.
Dr. Albert Kolby Jr.
former Food and Drug Administrationofficial
Rylee said Dow Corning knew in 1975 that more research was needed. He also said the company knew at the time that silicone bled through the implants.
The stock of the two companies that form the Dow-
Corning joint venture was pummeled Monday in response to reports about the internal documents on the implants.
The FDA, in calling for the moratorium last week, said it would reconvene by mid-February an advisory panel to consider new evidence that has emerged from two court cases and other sources recently.
The panel said in November that Dow and three other implant makers had not submitted sufficient safety data on their products. But it said the data should remain on the market while safety is continue.
"That was generally understood," he said. "But neither our nor our colleagues believed this phenomenon was a safety issue, nor do any of our subsequent studies show this to be a safety issue."
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Corning Inc. shares were hit especially hard, tumbling $10.12 1/2 to $68.87 1/2 in heavy trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Shares of Dow Chemical Co., a much larger and more diversified company than Corning, fell 871 1/2 cents to $63.87 1/2.
An estimated 1 million to 2 million American women have received implants. About 20 percent are for reconstruction after surgery and the rest are for cosmetic purposes.
Dow Corning Wright is a leading maker of breast implants.
Japan annexed Korea in 1910 and invaded China in 1937.
"comfort centers" in China.
The FDA had no comment on any of the developments Monday.
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The newspaper said the documents, found in a defense agency library, showed the Imperial Army controlled recruitment of women, mainly from Korea, then a Japanese colony, and
Asahi said Yoshiaki Yoshiba, a his-
ter professor at Chuo University in
Tokyo.
Japan denied official involvement in the wartime prostitution operation when three Korean women, who said they were forced to serve as prostitutes in China during the war, sued the government last month seeking damages.
lenged Japan's longtime official assertion that the wartime government was not involved in forcing women to serve as prostitutes.
The government long had claimed that private Japanese enterprises were responsible for the wartime prostitution.
Korean historians say the girls, many of them teen-agers, were forced into prostitution from 1938 until 1945, first by the Japanese government and later by private Japanese enterprises under contract with the government.
Japanese admit to WWII prostitution rings
The documents were confiscated along with others by the Allies after Japan's defeat in 1945 and were kept in the United States until Japan in 1958, the newspaper said.
The nationally circulated Asahi newspaper, in a report Saturday, chal
Japanese officials have acknowledged that the wartime government coerced abducted Korean women into prostitution.
One plan calls for Japan to raise money from private sources outside the government, the source said.
beginning tomorrow, according to Seoul officials who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Japan may consider compensating victimized women who can be identified, said a Japanese diplomat in Tokyo, who also spoke on condition of anonymity.
Most of the so-called "comfort girls" were Korean. Prime Minister Kichi Miyazawa will apologize to South Korea for her abducting and detaining the women.
The issue was revived after a large Japanese newspaper reported Saturday on recently uncovered documents describing how the Japanese army coerced young girls, mostly Korean, into sex with soldiers during World War II.
TOKYO — The Japanese government is now admitting what it long denied — that the nation's army procured tens of thousands of prostitutes for its soldiers during World War II.
The Associated Press
Chief Cabinet Secretary Koichi
Kishida knowledged the army's
relationship to him.
Miyazawa and South Korean President Roh Tae-woo will discuss the matter in Miyazawa's visit to South Korea
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