University of Kansas' journalism school will award its prestigious William Allen White Foundation Medal for "outstanding journalistic merit" to PR professional and former Reagan and Bush I White House press secretary Marlin Fitzwater. Previous honorees [3] include Charles Kuralt, Bob Woodward and Molly Ivins. "Marlin Fitzwater is not qualified to receive the award," [4] protested former journalism professor and White Foundation trustee Bob Giles. Fitzwater joined the White House at the height of the Iran-Contra scandal, "making tasteless jibes about Mario Cuomo's Italian name and [later] leading the verbal attacks on Bill Clinton." [5] He worked to keep Cold War tensions high in the late 1980's and said the first Gulf War [6] defended "UN security council resolutions."