University Daily Kansan, April 6, 1983
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Semiannual drive ends Friday Red Cross looking for blood
By WARREN BRIDGES Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
They come to the University of Kansas looking for blood.
They file out of manned vehicles and into the Kansas Union Ballroom to accept donations from University students and educators.
Today through Friday, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., donors may give their blood to the American Red Cross to help those who may need it in the future, an official of the KU Panbellene Council said yesterday.
Diana Zarda, the council's vice president of campus affairs, said the semiannual blood drive, sponsored by Panbellenic and the Interfraternity Council, should collect about 800 pints of blood by Friday.
JO BYERS, EXECUTIVE director for the Douglas County Red Cross, said that after the blood was collected, it would be sent to a regional distribution center in Wichita. From there it will be
distributed to 159 hospitals in Kansas and Oklahoma.
Byers said the blood had a shelf life of about five weeks and that after that time, it would be made into plasma and other materials.
Zarda, Shawnee sophomore, said that to recruit helpers, as well as donors, posters were put up in the fraternities and sororities.
Although the drive is sponsored by IFC and Panhellenic, she said, it is a campus-wide effort.
Byers said that as a token of appreciation, the local Red Cross organization was presenting plaques to the University, Panhellenic and IFC.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, accepted the award for outstanding achievement.
BYERS SAID THAT BEFORE the blood was taken, applicants were asked to answer about 15 questions about their medical history.
Some of the questions include whether the applicant has had hepatitis, respiratory problems or heart conditions, she said.
In addition, an applicant who has had dental work in the past several weeks and was given Novocain should wait to give blood, she said.
Applicants also must be at least 17 years old, have normal blood pressure and weigh at least 110 pounds.
"AND, OF COURSE, WE prefer that there be no alcohol in the blood, either. I don't know if it would hurt anything, nor does it affect the donor more than the recipient."
"A lot of it is psychological," Byers said. "If the donor gets plenty of rest the night before and is not hungry when he comes in, everything is fine."
Fainting, which is caused by anxiety about donating blood, most often occurs for first-time donors, Byers said.
Byers said that her organization had been involved with the University since the 1850s and that this particular blood drive had been going on for about nine years.
"We've had a long-term friendship with the University," she said. "And the students give blood for all the right reasons — to help other people."
Course choice broadened for B.G.S.
By DAVID POWLS
Staff Reporter
The College Assembly voted yesterday to add 111 courses to those that students can use to fulfill the world need. The new program will be the bachelor of general studies degree,
At the meeting, Chris Christensen, chairman of the committee on undergraduate studies and advising, and James Drury, professor of political science said he had additional courses needed to give students more courses to choose from when they were completing the B.G.S. culture requirement.
About 50 people attended yesterday's meeting at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union, not enough for a quorum, which requires 91 members. However, no assembly member called for a quorum, so business continued.
AT LAST MONTH'S MEETING, discussion on the culture requirement ended when a member called for a quorum and not enough members were present.
The world civilization and culture requirement is designed to expose students to cultures other than North American.
Christensen, whose committee rec-
ommitted courses to be added to the previous culture requirement list, said that before last year, students had to take language courses. East Asian courses, classics courses or African studies courses to meet the requirement.
Last year the assembly added 15 courses from other departments to the curriculum.
Most of yesterday's additions were from the department of history. Other departments whose courses were added to the list included geography, history of art, political science and religious studies.
"IT'S HIGH TIME THE College had a lengthy list for this requirement." Drury said. "Only four of the 15 courses approved last year to fulfill the requirement were offered this semester."
Opposition to the addition of these courses came from Jeanne Stump, associate professor of art history, David Dineen, professor of French and Italian, and Gerald Mikkelson, associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures.
Stump argued that History 434 should not be included on the list of approved courses because it was about. World War I and American culture, and did
not emphasize other_world_cultures.
The assembly later voted to delete that course_from its_list of acceptable courses.
Dineen also objected to the list of courses to be approved because some had ties with English culture.
TO MEET THE CULTURE requirement, students in the B.G.S. degree program must take four courses that deal with one non-English culture, that do not change curricula each semester, and that are not about an individual unless that individual represents an entire culture.
"I can't see the forest for the trees," Dineen said. "I don't see how students could learn about other cultures by taking these courses."
Mikkelson said, "If we are asked to include some English-speaking cultures, we are modifying the original intent of the requirement.
"If we accept this list, we reinforce the notion that students can understand Chinese culture, for example, without knowing and using the Chinese language."
Christensen said no modern English culture courses were included in the list and that only courses dealing with the Irish, British and Indians were included.
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Spring Formal Rush, 1983 will begin on Friday, April 8, 1983 at 5:00 p.m. in Strong Hall, Room 300. For additional information please contact the Interfraternity Council, 120B Kansas Union, 913/864-3559.
NOTICE: There will be an informal, informational meeting on Wednesday, April 6, at 7 p.m. in the Big Eight Room in the Kansas Union. It is not mandatory to attend this meeting to go through rush, but it will answer any questions that you may have about Formal Rush. Also, you may register at this meeting.
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