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April 23, 1986
Volume 8
Issue 28
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MSC prof wins Pulitzer Prize Rose Jackson News Editor
Denver Post reporter and MSC journalism professor Louis Kilzer, one of a five-member team, has won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize Gold Medal for Public Service. The Pulitzer was awarded Thursday to the Denver Post for a series of stories published from May through November of 1985 that ". . . shattered the national myth that thousands of American children are kidnapped and murdered by stangers every year. "The series caused several missingchildren's organizations to revise their inflated estimates of kidnapping and harm and led to a congressional hearing on the issue and a national reassessment of the problem," according to the April 18 edition of the Post. According to the Post, 24 people worked on the project, but Diana Griego, 26, and Kilzer, 35, did the lion's share of news gathering. Deputy Metropolitan Editor Charles R. Buxton Jr. was the supervising editor•on the project entitled "The truth about missing kids." "Follow up reporting by Kilzer and (reporter) Norm Udevitz exposed a Denver fond-raising operation that was soliciting money on behalf of a missing-children organization but giving little of the money to the charity. Authorities eventually shut down the soliciting agency. Post City Editor Vikki
Porter supervised the project," the Post article stated. Kilzer and Griego also won the George Polk Award for the series earlier this year. In a March 3 interview with The Metropolitan, Kilzer explained why they decided to pursue the story. "Diana was on a routine assign-
ment-a feature about putting micro dots in kids' teeth so they could be IDed when stolen. It struck her that this solution was a bit much." During that same interview, Kilzer said he went into journalism because " ... what else can one do with a philosophy degree?" Kilzer graduated cum laude from
Yale University in 1973 with a bachelor of arts in Philosophy. For the next four years, he worked for the Triangle Review in Fort Collins, Colo. In 1977, he was hired by the Rocky Mountain News, and, in 1983, he went to the Post. This is Kilzer's first semester at MSC. He teaches Introduction to Journalism.
Senate dumps general studies changes Robert Mook Reporter
A proposed amendment to revise MSC's general studies criteria was rejected - 24 to 22 - by the Faculty Senate last Thursday. The general studies amendment would have created three basic levels of study. • "Freshman skills," which would require the student to complete six credit hours of freshman composition and three hours of mathematics within the first 30 hours of the student's enrollment. • "Exposure to disciplines," which would require the student to take three hours of history, and six hours of arts and letters, social sciences and natural sciences. These courses were to be completed within a student's first 60 credit hours. • "Critical analysis and synthesis,"
which was to be a three-hour "senior experience" that would vary depending on the department of the student's major (i.e. an internship, or a seminar). The proposal emphasized liberal arts courses more than the current general studies program, which allows the student to choose from a broad range of curricula. · Opinion in the Senate split over the senior experience requirement and a lack of basic computer and speech courses. "Today's society requires computer competency," marketing professor Richard Leventhal said. Earlier this month, the curriculum committee published a commentary that addressed some of the questions about the proposal. According to the commentary, the curriculum committee was "not convinced that the general value of work
with computers matches that of work with language and mathematics which, after all, are the tools of thought ... the computer serves only to intesify the powers of language and mathematics." The committee also eliminated a speech requirement because "Metro's Department of Speech is too small for the load that such a requirement would generate." The committee said it made a commitment to eventually require speech and a laboratory science course when it became feasible. Ken Keller, of the curriculum committee, said he was disappointed with the defeat, but he believed there would be some kind of general studies revision within the next few years. "Somewhere down the line the majority will agree on some kind of program," Keller said. D