University Daily Kansan, September 16, 1982
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Editorial chairman of Knight-Ridder to receive journalistic merit award
Lee Hills, editorial chairman emeritus of Knight-Ridder Paperbacks Inc., is the recipient of the 1883 William Allen Award for Journalistic Merit.
Hills will accept the award in an address to be given Feb. 10, 1983, at the University of Kansas, said Del Brinkman, director of the White Foundation on behalf of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications.
"I am very pleased about the William Allen White Foundation award and look forward to being on the University of Alabama campus next February," Hills said.
plifified the very finest in American journalism. The award which honors his name is one of the most coveted in our profession." he said.
"WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE exem-
Brinkman said, "I think it's a good choice. I think this is a fine recognition of a long and fine career in journalism."
"Lee Hills is an excellent choice for the award." he said.
David Walker, president of the White foundation and publisher of the Empo-
fundation.
THE AWARD, named for the former editor of the Emporia Gazette, is given annually to an individual who exemplifies excellence in professional expedition and his country. Brinkman said.
hills received a Pulitzer Prize in 1966 for distinguished local reporting in covering the United Auto Workers' negotiations in Detroit in 1955.
Hills will be receiving the foundation's 34th award. The award was given last year to the reporting team of Robert McNeil and Jim Lehrer.
AS CHIAIRMAN and chief executive officer of Knight Newspapers Inc., Hills helped construct the merger of the Knight and Ridder newspaper group in 1974. Their 30 daily now have the total circulation in the United States.
After the merger, Hills became chairman and chief executive officer of Knight-Ridder newspapers.
Lee Hills
Legislature cuts Med Center scholarships
By VICKY WILT Staff Reporter
Kansas has a doctor shortage, state legislators and KU officials say.
The state needs about 1,500 physicians, Richard Vond Ende, executive secretary for the University, said recently. If the graduating class each year was 200, it would take about nine years to fill that need.
Beginning this year, the Kansas Legislature limited the number of new applications for Kansas Medical Scholarships to 100 a year. In previous years, the scholarship received one, said Billie Jo Burge, director of student financial aid at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
But while many people agree that there is a shortage, they do not agree that the state should help to fill that gap by providing financial aid for medical students.
THE SCHOLARSHIPS are given to medical students who agree to practice in Kansas after they graduate. The program is offered by doctors in some areas of the state.
One type of scholarship, for students who agree to work in "critically underserved areas" of Kansas after graduation, pays tuition and $500 a month, or $8,160, for each year of practice. The second type, for students who work in "underserved areas," pays only tuition. The dollar amount of each scholarship will increase next year because of a 20 percent tuition increase for all Kansas Board of Renews schools.
Half of Kansas' 105 counties are medically underserved, said Ron
Schmidt, director of health planning for the state.
Scholarships were limited to keep only the number of doctors that the state needed, said State Rep. Mike Hayden, R-Atwood, chairman of the Kansas House Ways and Means Committee.
There are 700 students in the program. When these students complete the program, he said, only 100 doctors a year will graduate in the program, enough to provide the number of needed doctors.
Limiting the number of scholarships to 100 a year also will save $377,000 this year. Burge said, and the annual savings will be $1.2 million after 1986, when all previous students in the program have finished.
THE LIMITED NUMBER of scholarships was not a problem this year, Burge said. Every student who applied was granted one. But with cuts in other programs, future scholarship funding could be tight, she said.
Without the scholarship, Tim Johns,
second year medical student, said he
probably would not have been able to
attend KU.
"I wouldn't have forgotten medical school," he said, "but the financial aspect would have been a major factor on where I could've gone."
Johans said the program's only requirement was that he serve in an underserved area for every year he received the scholarship. Hayden said this could be one reason for the program's popularity.
With the limit of 100 new schoarships, students now must meet criteria established by the administration
Priority was given to Kansas residents. Burge said.
STUDENTS ALSO must be interested in practicing primary care-general practice medicine and have financial need
A decrease this year from the normal 160 applications to 100 may be because of a stipulation that any student dropping the program must pay back the money at a 15 percent interest rate, Burge said.
The number of students defaulting is hard to determine because the program is so young, Burge said, but about 50 percent have defaulted. She said she attributed this to the fact that students only had to pay back one year of the scholarship money. The amount was $7.500 plus 10 percent interest.
KU's scholarship program is necessary to both the students and the state, Johans said.
Johans said his class members were not inclined to drop from the program.
"From the student's viewpoint, medical school tuition is outandaway expensive. No one can out and out and buy it," he said. Some sort of loan system." he said.
THE SCHOLARSHIPS are not a free ride, Johans said. The projected cost for the 1982-83 school year — including tuition, room and board, books and necessities — is $11,000. Johans' scholarships cover $18 of that.
The people of Kansas also need doctors to stay in the state, Johans said. The people are paying for the medical scholarships through taxes, and they should have the benefit of doctors in their communities.
The cost of his medical education, if Johans had to borrow the money and pay it back at 15 percent interest, would be $120.000.
In the past, the College of Health and Sciences has had to request additional
funding from the Legislature because the college underestimated student participation.
Debate over the necessity of the program followed and some legislators had objected to the program, saying students were using the scholarships as a cheap method of financing their educations.
Johans she boresaw the quality of medical care deteriorating without a patent medicine.
"MEDICAL EDUCATION will go back to the wealthy. If the loan cuts continue, a percentage of lower to middle class people will not be able to fund tuition. The medical system will lose on a lot of qualified people," he said.
The effects of the scholarship program have not yet been felt. The program began in 1878 and the first student finished his education, now finishing their residency programs.
Some legislators also feared a surplus of doctors if the number of students in the program continued at the same level.
Hayden pushed to start the scholarship program in 1978. Historically, he said, 70 percent of the Med Center graduates have left Kansas to practice in other states. Kansan's tax dollars were paying for their education, he said, but the tax payers were not receiving care from them.
KANSAS has been below the nation in physician manpower, Schmidt said, but in the past two years has seen an increase in physician manpower. Now, there are 100 physicians coming to Kansas, compared to between 58 and 100 in the past. Schmidt said.
"We're still underserved in comparison to the nation as a whole, but we're not."
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Miss America accused of carving way to title
By United Press International
NEW YORK — The new Miss America, Debra Suremba flickers, yesterday denied a report she went through "extensive cosmetic surgery" to help her win the title, but said she had minor injuries to correct a "breathing disorder."
"I had a deviated septum, a breathing disorder that all of my sisters had and had corrected, and that's all I had done," said Maffett. "My nose is even still crooked — they didn't have to break the bone or anything."
Maffett, 25, in New York for photography sessions and to help with next year's Miss America pageant, denied a surgery to enhance her chin and cheeks.
"IN CERTAIN PICTURES, the nose looked a little different," said Maffett of her 1980 surgery. "In other words, it looks like he was in person, it doesn't look any different."
The Dallas Morning News, quoting Texas pageant officials, reported yesterday that Maffett had "extensive cosmetic surgery" before competing in California. She won her Miss America title competing as Miss California.
Gary Jordan, executive director of the Miss Texas Pagent in Fort Worth.
Texas, said cosmetic surgery is not against the rules of the Miss America pageant.
"BUT DEBBIE has had extensive cosmetic surgery since she last tried our pageant," Jordan said. "She had her nose done, her chin and I'm not sure what else. It wasn't that she was an unattractive girl before she she was beautiful. Now she is a wonderful girl. She worked hard and she deserved to win."
Maffett said, "I did very well in pagements before."
She said the statement by Texas pageant officials was "sour grapes."
Maffett, who lived in Cut and Shoot,
Texas, moved to California in 1981.
"The only thing I can think is that they're a little perturbed their girl didn't win and I did."
"I find this almost funny," Maffett said about the publicity on her nose. "I'm getting a lot of extra publicity, so bad publicity that there's no such thing as bad publicity."
THE NEWSPAPER quoted pageant officials as saying the surgery gave Maffett, who failed in 12 efforts to win a major pageant in Texas, the "California look" that won her the Miss California and Miss America titles.
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