Mailer advises HIopwood winners (Continued from Page 1) where it came from; it was a gift. "I WONDER ONCE in a while if the gods don't just look down and decide they want a novel written and just choose the deliverer," he mused. In summing up the writing prospects of the student winners, Mailer said that ", nothing lifts our horizons like a bit of luck or the generosity of the gods." THE HOPWOOD winners, along with scattered members of the audience, took the opportunity to chat with Mailer in the Rackham Assembly Room after the awards ceremonies. Mailer graciously congratulated the winners and patiently spoke to enamoured fans. Brenda Flanagan, winner of the Major Drama award, was honored for her play, When the Jumbie Bird Calls. It was the first play from the School of Education doctoral student. Flanagan, the mother of three children, began writing her story of an Islamic revolution in the Caribbean after she hit a snag in her dissertation. "I decided to take a break from my dissertation and try writing this play," she said. "I didn't really know anything about playwriting, but I had a story that wan- ted to come out," she said. Flanagan, who was born in Trinidad, became inspired by her Islamic priest brother during her last visit to the Caribbean. Flanagan used a Caribbean dialect in order to convey the ethnic flavor of the piece. 200 Million People, And Only 35,000 Get to Read mibgan vatI I SUBSCRIBE NOW 764-0558 Hopwood winners The Michigan Daily - Thursday, April 12, 1984 - Page 5 Doctors set up care guidelines Arthur Versluis Novel --- $2500 Laynie Deutsch Poetry - $2200 Alyson Hagy Short Story - $2200 Brenda Flanagan Drama -$2000 Kimberly Kafka Short Story - $1500 Joseph Matuzak Poetry -$1100 Jane Kernicky Essay -$1000 Judith Kirscht Essay -1000 Kathryn Crawley Short Story - $1000 Laura Kasischke Poetry -1000 Drama - $1000 Paul Grams Drama -$800 Igor Levin Drama - $800 Julie Bernstein Drama - $800 Nan Parrish Drama -- $800 Kenneth Jakubowski Essay -$800 Maureen Megerian Essay -$800o Dennis Harvey Fiction - $800 Bradford Parks Fiction-$800 Joseph Shea Fiction -$800 Adam Davis Poetry -$800 Wendy Martin Poetry -$800 Dana MeCrossin Poetry -$800 Sebastian Rotella Drama - $600 Mark Bransdorfer Essay - $600 Carole Bernstein Essay -$600 Ted Lardner Poetry - $600 Charles Schulman Drama -$400 Deborah Montwori Essay -$400 Judith Lantz Fiction - $40U BOSTON (AP) - New guidelines by a team of prominent doctors say it is ethical to withhold drugs and sometimes even food and water from mentally deranged elderly patients who are hopelessly ill, as long as they are kept comfortable while they die. The report, published in today's New England Journal of Medicine, was prepared by doctors who gathered at Harvard Medical School. It is intended to provide criteria for physicians who must make life-and-death decisions for gravely ill patients. IN GENERAL, the researchers con- tend that doctors must always obey the patients' own wishes, but they say aggressive treatment is wronger if it only prolongs a painful death. Such treatment decisions are especially dif- ficult if patients are too sick or deranged to say how much care they want. "Severly and irreversibly demented patients need only care given to make them comfortable," the guidelines say. "If a patient rejects food and water by mouth, it is ethically permissible to withholdnutrition and hydration water artifically administered by vein or gastric tube." They said doctors can withhold an- tibiotics for pneumonia and medicine for other diseases unless the care is needed to keep the patient comfortable. THE GUIDELINES were drawn up at a meeting chaired by Dr. Daniel Federman, former president of the American College of Physicians. Among those attending were doctors from Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, the University of Virginia Medical Center, the Mayo Clinic and the medical schools at Har- vard, the University of Pittsburgh, Johns Hopkins and the University of Texas. "The idea was that if a group of prominent physicians took the lead in suggesting what is possible that these principles might become accepted among the general physician population," said Dr. Sidney Wanzer of Emerson Hospital in Concord, Mass., who wrote up the group's conclusions for publication. Wanzer said he expects the recom- mendations for withholding food and water from deranged patients to be controversial, even though such decisions are made daily in nursing homes. "These poor, pathetic beings just go on and on, and people have felt uncom- fortable in the past about not giving in- travenous fluids or antibiotics or nasogastric feeding if they quit desiring this spontaneously," he said in an in- terview. "and yet we feel that it is ethical not to push ahead with those things." In addition to the Hopwood Awards, two other honors were awarded to student writers. Nan Parrish won the Kasdan Scholarship in Creative Writing, and the Jeffery L. Weisberg Memorial Prize in Freshman Poetry was awarded to Mary^Jaklevic. STUDENTS- DO YOU NEED A FULL TIME SUMMER JOB? DO YOU LIVE IN THE CHICAGO AREA? PSI MARKETING is expanding our telemarketing sales staff to accommodate additional summer college students. In the past, our summer students have earned on the average $150.00 to $525.00 per week salary/commission during the summer. 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