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University Daily Kansan, October 20, 1981
Bloody battle to assist Red Cross blood drive
By JANICE GUNN Staff Reporter
For the first time, KU and University of Missouri students will engage in a bloody battle in the Red Cross Blood Drive, sponsored bannially by the Council and the Panhellenic Association. The three-day event begins today.
Another combatant, Templin Hall, also has challenged all other KU organized living groups to have more blood up to the blood drive than Templin.
Templin's challenge is part of a campaign by the hall to improve its image on the campus, Ron Hines, hall president, said yesterday.
"We're really trying to spark more competition in the event, because in the past KU has not donated as much blood as K-State or MU." Hines said.
However, in the past, not all of the donors who signed up wait to donate. Joy Hanson, a blood drive co-chairman and Panhellenic vice president for campus affairs, said that the problem was that only eight or ten nurses worked the blood bank one time in line for their students who wait in line for their blood be taken.
In last spring's drive, the Red Cross set a goal for KU students to donate 604 pints. The event barely made its goal with 604 pints, Hanson said. Of the
students who signed up,100 did not make donations.
This fall, the goal for KU is even higher, with the Red Cross shooting for 750 pints of blood. MU's goal is also 750 pints.
While MU sponsors are taking the challenge in stride, the KU sponsors said that the challenge was helping get it interested in signing up to give blood.
Tim Powell, another blood drive cochairman and IFC's vice president of fraternity education, said the race was getting more KU students and Lawrence businesses involved in the drive.
TWO AREA TAVERNS will each donate a kg of beer to the winners in the blood drive's two divisions. The divisions are the hall division, including the halls, and the Greek division, which includes the fraternities and sororites.
Barb Morris, the MU blood drive chairman and Panhelenic service chairman, said that she did not decide to make it a race until last week.
"Not that many people know we're 'challenging KU,' Morris said, and 'it was not well advertised. The people who want to go out because they want to give blood."
The blood drive is from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. today through Thursday in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Once upon a time, when pregnant women went into labor, they sent for the local midwife to deliver their babies.
And, once upon a time, a lot of women and babies died during birth.
Obstetrician advises against midwifery
Nevertheless, midwives are once again becoming popular in the United States, and Rosemary Schepfer, an obstetrician at the University of Kansas Medical Center, yesterday told a group of female medical students there that it was safer to deliver babies in a hospital.
"From the time a woman becomes pregnant, you never know what may go wrong," she said. "Mortality drops when you bring a woman to the hospital."
SCHEFPER DELIVERED her speech, "Current Trends in Obesity" in a weekly meeting of the KU student chapter of American Medical Women's Association.
She told the audience of 20 women her home universities had become popular in the United States.
"This movement goes back to the 1960s, when everyone was doing their thing—the flower children," Schefer said. "A lot of lay people got the idea to have their babies at home with a midwife."
Unfortunately, Schepper said, not
unfortunately, that he has no clauses to be a midwife is well qualified.
"We're getting very sick babies brought in who have been delivered by
the midwives," she said. "Mothers may die of hemorrhage."
Schepfer did say that midwives could be effective if they were well-trained and willing to cooperate with a physician.
"There is a place for it, but it's not a thing to do." "It isn't a thing to body can do."
One place where well-trained nurse-midwives can be used effectively, she said, is at birthing centers, where the nurses are supervised by an obstetrician.
"As long as you have midwives capable and willing to learn new techniques, you'll be okay," she said. "On the other hand, if you have a midwife who's not very capable, you have a real problem."
GOOD MIDWIVES, she said, call a physician at the first sign of trouble, instead of waiting until they are in over their heads.
In Great Britain, she said, midwives are very well-trained, and if they run into trouble, they are able to call the doctor that are fully equipped for deliveries.
In Britain, however, the ambulances don't have to travel as far to the delivering mother's house as they have for the United States, Schenker said.
Also, she said that British midwives only delivered babies to mothers who had had a thorough check-up with a nurse. The midwives enough to deliver babies at home.
Commission addresses Penn House issue tonight
The Lawrence City Commission said it would be insight about the future location of Farm Bureau headquarters.
Commissioners are scheduled to decide whether to approve a request by the non-profit neighborhood assistance center to tear down its building and build a new one. Commissioners will receive approval from an existing plant building at 1035 Pennsylvania St. and on alternative locations for the agency.
The commission last week deferred the agency's request for a use permit to redevelop the property after some of
Penn House's neighbors said the county's tax value and should not be demalified.
There were also complaints that because Penn House's proposed single-level building was more commercial in design than the two would not blend in with the neighborhood.
BUT PENN HOUSE officials have said the design would allow better access to the building and more storage.
Goodell, director of community development, said the building had substandard wiring, heating and some structural problems.
The city's community development
goals include a 100% build-
more than 100-year-old building, gym
The commission is also scheduled to discuss revenue sharing allocations for the funding period from Oct. 1, 1981, to Sent. 30.1982.
The city's $600,000 allocation is
$182 less than the city receive in
1975.
The city received an estimated budget in June and allocated that money, but recent budget cuts forced a re-evaluation of the allotments.
But some agencies already used their first estimated allotment to receive matching federal funds, and a reduction in their city funding would mean less money from the federal government, Wilden said yesterday.
Assistant City Manager Mike Wade the land manager to make the cut, as the fairest way to make the cut.
"None of the agencies I have talked to said that this cut would eliminate their program," he said. "But some have said they will accept a length and length of what they could offer."
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Challenges all living groups (Residence Halls, Greek Houses, etc.)
TO TRY TO BEAT THE BEST!
Blood-Your Life Could Depend On It.
We say more of us will give blood during the KU blood drive than any other living group.
Sponsored by Templin Hall "Damn We're Good"
1st Annual Competitive Blood Drive
Oct. 20, 21, 22
9:30 a.m.-3:15 p.m.
Main Ballroom of the Kansas Union
Sponsored by Panhellenic and the Interfraternity Council.