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KUMC may gain new dental school
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While discussions of a dental school at KU Medical Center have been ongoing since 2011, the idea has gained traction this year. Members of the Kansas Board of Regents are scheduled to discuss the idea at their monthly meeting in September.
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Gov. Sam Brownback announced a plan to begin developing a school of dentistry in his State of the State address earlier this month, a move that higher education professionals say is sorely needed.
Since 1964, Kansas has been able to send at least 21 students a year to dental school at the University of Missouri-Kansas City with in-state tuition. In exchange, Missouri architecture students receive in-state tuition when studying at the University of Kansas and Kansas State University.
Kansas, one of 14 states without a dental school, remains reliant on neighboring states for dental education.
However, while Kansas sends 21 students to UMKC nearly 500 architecture students from Missouri study in Kansas, according to Dr. Daniel Thomas, a periodontist and a Regent on the Board of Regents.
The addition of a dental school at the University would mark a great change for the University and for Kansas.
"There is a significant dental shortage in Kansas, especially in the rural and other underserved parts of
the state," said Natalie Lutz, communications director for the University Medical Center. "A new dental school dedicated to the needs of the State of Kansas would help meet these needs."
Today, of Kansas' 105 counties, 95 are dentally underserved. Thomas said.
There is a significant dental shortage in Kansas, especially in the rural and other underserved parts of the state."
Natalie Lutz University Medical Center communications director
Thomas said that if the legislature were to authorize the creation of a dental school at the University, it would not be this year because architectural drawings and other preparations are needed first.
Additionally, the task force looked into buying
However, talks of new dental programs have been going on since 2004. Because of the lack of dental students practicing in Kansas, a taskforce was formed to increase the number of dentists practicing in Kansas and an Advanced Education in General Dentistry program was formed at
Yet, the program has only 30 total graduates, and only six stayed in Kansas.
Originally, the school was to be added to Wichita State University, but it was later changed to the University of Kansas Medical Center to save cost and utilize the medicine-related curriculum already in place, Thomas said.
Wichita State University Thomas said.
As a result, in 2011, the Board of Regents established an 11-member task force, chaired by Thomas, which sought to increase the number of students sent to dental schools and to establish a dental school in Kansas.
seats for students at other universities in addition to UMKC, but no such action ever took place.
A possible location for the dental school at the Medical Center is the Dykes Library, which could be connected to the new Health Education Building that is set to be completed in June.
A dental school would help to alleviate many of the healthcare problems that currently plague the state.
For example, Thomas said that in 2011, it was reported that 57,000 Kansans live in "dental deserts," which are areas over 30 miles away from the nearest dentist. In that same year, over 17,000 dental-related emergency room visits were recorded, Thomas said.
Additionally, while there are over 1,400 licensed dentists in the state, Thomas said this number is deceptive.
According to Thomas, over half of Kansas' dentists are over 50 and many license holders are retired, work part-time or practice across state lines. Furthermore, nationally,46 percent of current dental students are females,who will, on average, spend less time practicing than their male counterparts throughout their lives, Thomas said.
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gents in December, gives no details beyond restating the law's provisions that weapons may be allowed in any building without adequate security measures.
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The law, with the fouryear exemption for universities and hospitals, passed with large, bipartisan majorities in 2013, and some of the legislators who backed it see no reason to modify or repeal it.
Sen. Ty Masterson (R-Andover), who sup-
Voters last year ousted two dozen of Brownback's conservative GOP allies from the Legislature, giving Democrats and moderate Republicans more power.
Some rural legislators who've backed gun-rights measures in the past have even started to backpedal because university faculty and students have been
so vocal. House Majority Leader Don Hineman (R-Dighton) voted for the 2013 law and isn't yet saying whether he'd support a rollback.
Other supporters of the bill said students, faculty and staff should have the option of defending themselves with guns while on campus. They have a powerful ally in Gov. Sam Brownback, who signed the 2013 measure and other gun-rights bills and said he remains a strong supporter of gun ownership rights protected by the Second
ported the 2013 law, said the Kansas State accident shows that a university's ban on concealed guns "does not stop weapons from being on campus."
In a brief interview Wednesday, Brownback acknowledged the concerns on campuses but added, "It's a constitutional right."
Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
"There are two sides to the debate, absolutely, and I'm sympathetic to both points of view," Hineman said.
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The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Libya, Yemen and Sudan. The order also indefinitely bars any person fleeing from war-torn Syria to the United States. Ninety-two students from the seven affected countries attend the University, according to data from International Student Services.
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"The countries that Trump banned in his order show no evidence of terrorist action in the United States. It seems backwards and the argument feels invalid," said Stanci Soderstrom from Lee Summit, Missouri, who attended the protest with her 14-year-old daughter Keely Soderstrom.
Protesters begin a march around the Terminal C to draw attention to their message of frustration.
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Although there are no individuals detained at MCI, protesters still found the airport backdrop to be a beneficial place to use their voices.
"Uniting here like this is a really good way to feel better individually and to show others, especially immigrants and refugees, that Kansas City is safe," Madeline Elliott, from St Louis, Missouri, said.
Ayla Yousef, a student from Overland Park, attended the protest as an opportunity to be involved in history.
Trump's executive order included a preference of re-admission to the United States for immigrants who practice the Christian faith. Emily Taylor, a protester from Overland Park, believes this is contradicting.
"We don't want this to be the next chapter in our history books and we look back and regret everything we've done as a nation," Yousef said.
"I want to take a Christian stance on this. To show that
The MCI protest is similar to those held across the country, including at JFK Airport in New York City and DFW Airport in Dallas.
even as a Christian, I recognize that this is something that's wrong. People being banned from a country goes against human principle and kindness." Taylor said.
"We're not afraid of people coming in. We're not afraid of immigrants. We're not afraid of the poor. We're not afraid of Muslims. We're not afraid of women. We're not afraid of anybody because Kansas City is where it's at and the people here are the best in the country," James said.
Also in attendance was Kansas City Mayor Sly James who spoke to protesters using a megaphone toward the end of the protest.
The Facebook group where the protest plans originated showed a total of 881 individuals attended the event, though about several hundred people were at MCI
at the height of the protest.
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