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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, September 19, 1989
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Lawrence center seeks donations of safe plasma
By Stacey Smith Kansan staff writer
College students can tap into a new, quick source for money: their veils.
A plasma donor center opened yesterday in Lawrence to a waiting room full of prospective donors, including many KU students. North American Biological Inc., Lawrence Donor Center, 814 W. 24th St., is paying $15 for each plasma donation.
Scott Stanford, Midwest regional manager for NABI, said the University of Kansas was a prime reason the company decided to open a facility in Lawrence. He said he expected 50 to 60 percent of the center's donors to be college students.
Kathy McGroder, Overland Park senior, donates plasma for the first time at the new donor center.
"Our main thrust in Lawrence is the college students," Stanard said. "Most college students, especially in the Midwest, haven't been exposed to certain viruses. They're not high risk.
By 9:30 a.m., half of the chairs in the waiting area were full of anxious people. In the back room, Richard Clayton, Morrison, Colo., senior, watched the machine draw out his blood and separate the red cells from the plasma.
"I think this will be one of the best openings we've had."
When the machine completed its work, his red blood cells were returned to his system and the process was repeated until a pint of blood was collected. Clayton then received $15 for submitting to the hour-long procedure.
Clayton said he decided to donate after he read a pamphlet about the need for plasma. He said money was not a factor in his decision.
"I know they need it. And if I've got it, I might as well give it," he said. "I'll keep coming back."
Stanard said other programs would be established later that would pay up to $50 for plasma from people carrying mononucleosis antibodies or certain allergy antibodies. He said plasma with these antibodies were used to make test kits for viruses.
Prospective donors are carefully
screened before they are permitted to donate plasma, Stanard said. Applicants must have two forms of identification, and must submit to a physical and tests given by the center's physician.
Once people have been deemed safe, they may donate up to twice a week without going through any additional tests. Stanford said,
Watkins Memorial Health Center,
said donating plasma up to twice a week was not harmful, because after the blood is taken and the plasma and red blood cells are separated, the donor's body. He said whole blood, however, should not be donated more than once every six to eight weeks.
Charles Yockey, chief of staff at
students are healthy going down there, they shouldn't have any problems from donating."
"If it's a perfect transfer, you don't lose any blood cells," he said. "If
Stanard said the Lawrence center was one of 50 in a network owned by the company. It produces hundreds of different medical that are used in the medical field.
"We not only supply the United States with plasma, but we supply the world," Stanard said.
Drug war dispute may delay money for KU
West Campus research site awaits action
By Derek Schmidt Kansan staff writer
Financing for a new KU research building may be delayed because of a U.S. Senate controversy that concerns financing the war on drugs, a Senate staff member said yesterday.
The Senate Appropriations Committee on Sept. 13 approved $1 million for construction of a bioscience research center on West Campus.
Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole said last week that he expected the full Senate to debate the measure this week.
But Walt Riker, Dole's press secretary, said yesterday that a partisan dispute about financing the war on ISIS was delaying debate on the bill.
"There's some maneuvering going on with all the appropriation bills because of drug funding," Riker
said. The Democratic leadership had stalled the bills to try to get more money to fight drugs.
Money for the research center was part of an appropriations bill financing the Department of Labor, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Education and related agencies in fiscal year 1980, which begins Oct. 1.
Larry Shainman, press secretary for Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, said the appropriations bill was one of several waiting for debate on the Senate floor.
"There's kind of a backlog of these, of which this, unfortunately, is one," Shainman said.
The new bioscience research center, which would be an addition to the Higuchi Bioscience. Centers on West Campus, would house research for drug design and genetics, said Frances Horowitz, vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service.
Horowitz said the additional space was needed to relieve already crowded buildings.
The University had requested $7.2
million for the project, Horowitz said. Dole said last week that the
University would be expected to finance $2 million of that cost.
"There may be some additional action on that," he said. "We're going to watch it all the way. We have some additional plans for it. We'll do our best on this."
The $1 million approved last week represents part of the remaining $5.2 million cost. Riker said he could not conclude whether the $1 million represented a final appropriation or a step toward full financing.
Grad senators seek options after boycott
By Lara Weber Kansan staff writer
About 20 graduate students meet last night to discuss their options after a graduate student boycott of Student Senate was announced last week.
James Muir, coordinator of the Graduate Student Council and the graduate senator who announced the boycott, said he called the meeting as a way to reach a possible consensus of what the graduate students wanted to do.
At the last Senate meeting, mum announced a graduate student boycott of Senate. He said that graduate students wanted more control of the money graduate students generated with their student activity fees and that undergraduate senators did not understand the concerns of graduate students.
Muir said there were four options for the graduate students. One, they could do nothing and accept what happened to them in Senate. Two, they could fill the remaining 12 of 14 graduate seats on Senate. Three, they could seek a referendum to request a new system for allocating fees to graduate students. Or four, they could support a total boycott and form an autonomous graduate senate.
Mary Kelly, Overland Park graduate student, said she supported a move toward total autonomy.
"Undergraduates just don't understand the graduate students' concerns, nor should they be expected to" she said. "There's a lot of differences. If we had a separate body, more graduate students would be interested."
A final decision was not reached, but the group decided that organized action was necessary. A graduate assembly, consisting of graduate representatives from each academic department will review a Senate financing analysis and other information about the problems voiced by graduate students.
Geological survey works below Kansas
By Travis Butler
Kansan staff writer
This article is the second in an occasional series.
The Kansas Geological Survey is concerned with everything under the sun - as long as it is underground
"Our mandate is to study and report on the state's geologic resources," said Rex Buchanan, assistant director for public affairs.
The survey, which occupies the Moore Hall, Hambleton Hall and Dartmouth buildings on West Campus, provides a number of services for state residents.
"On the one hand, we're a division of the University," Buchanan said. "But on the other hand, we're looked on as a state agency by many people."
People at the survey study how the
People at the survey work with other state and federal agencies, private companies and individuals in cases of fulfilling its mandate, he said.
The survey is an independentlyfinanced division of the University,he said. About 60 students work at the survey.
"Our primary areas are oil and gas exploration, groundwater studies and geologic hazards," Buchanan said.
geologic layers in Kansas were layered. These layers once formed and now hold oil and gas deposits, he said. This research helps people locate where deposits might be found.
People at the survey also have done numerous studies on groundwater, Buchanan said.
"Water problems have been a major concern in Kansas since the early 2010s," he said. "It continues to be a major issue, both in quantity and quality."
Groundwater is found in the space between particles in some rock formations, Buchanan said. Eighty-five percent of the water used in Kansas comes from groundwater.
The biggest groundwater aquifer, or reservoir, in the area is the Ogallala formation, he said. It stretches across much of the western third of Kansas and parts of Texas, New Mexico, South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska and Oklahoma.
"I've its porus rock that holds a lot of water," Buchanan said. "There's about the same amount of groundwater in the Ogallala as in Lake Huron."
But the water table, or the depth at which water can be found, has dropped significantly in the past two decades, he said. This makes it
harder to pump, and has cost farmers more money.
People at the survey are looking also at groundwater quality problems, Buchanan said.
Researchers have been sampling 1,250 wells in a study of water quality in the Ogallala and other unconsolidated aquifers, said Larry Hathaway, senior scientist at the geological survey.
"Using that (information), people could go out and look at how it (water quality) changed since then," he
said. "Oil and gas exploration, for example. It produces a lot of brine, and in the past the disposal was done in surface brine ponds. It contaminated parts of the water table."
Buchanan said the study also was concerned with geologic hazards. Researchers do studies on earthquakes and sinkholes, he said.
Related to all of these efforts is the survey's mapping program, Buchanan said. People have put the maps published by the survey into a computer data base.
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