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Blood: Drive competition aims to reach 1,100 pints
service, said the University had hoped to collect 1,100 pints of blood. He said the goal was based on the amount of past drives.
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Last spring the Community Blood Center drive collected 486 pints, and the Red Cross drive collected 423 pints.
The blood collected during the University blood drive will go to hospitals in Lawrence, Topeka and the Kansas City area, said Amanda Storm, donor recruitment representative for the Community Blood Center.
She said that to donate, students must weigh at least 110 pounds, be older than 17 years old, have waited at least 56 days from last giving blood and have not gotten a tattoo or piercing in the last 12 months.
Anne Chu, Fort Dodge, Iowa, first-year law student, said she was looking forward to giving blood this year.
Chu said she had tried to give blood her freshman, sophomore and junior years but was turned down because she had received a new piercing within a year of each blood drive.
She said she thought she would be eligible to give this year, though.
"I think it's something that everyone can do, and it isn't something that takes a lot of time to do." Chu said. "It's a fast way to help others."
Other participating universities include the University of Oklahoma, Wake Forest University, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Michigan State University.
The University blood drive sponsors include the Community Blood Center, the American Red Cross, the IFC, the Panhellenic Association, the All Scholarship Hall Council, the Association of University Residence Halls and several area businesses.
Students with questions can contact the Panhellenic Association at 864-4643 or the Community Blood Center at 843-5383.
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Swisher steps up for Haskell
Special to the Kansan
Karen Swisher never imagined she'd someday be working and living in Kansas. Nonetheless, the self-titled "proud North Dakotan" found herself taking a six-month job to develop a teacher education program at Haskell Indian Nations University in 1994.
By Leah Shaffer
The program would become the first of four bachelor's degrees offered by Haskell. After developing the program, Swisher became its chairwoman.
Three years later, Swisher was hired as interim president of Haskell, and in May 2000, she officially became the first female president of the university.
Swisher is originally from Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota. She considers her roots to be very deep.
"My great grandfather was one of the signers of the Constitution of North Dakota." Swisher said.
She earned a bachelor's of
science in elementary education from Northern State College in Aberdeen, S.D., in 1964. After teaching elementary school for a couple of years, Swisher returned to Northern State and received a master's in elementary school administration in 1974.
"It itkes some getting used to," Swisher said. "Think of everything that I am responsible for — keeping it all in perspective."
Michael Stewart, KU graduate student and copresident of First Nations Student Association, said Swisher was the first recipient of last year's Crystal Eagle Award for Indian Leadership.
With more than 1,000 students, Swisher is president at a time when Haskell has reached an all-time high for enrollment. She credits that increase to the gradual realization that Haskell is expanding into a high-caliber university.
"I think that there is an understanding that Haskell
is a four-year institution," she said. "As more of our students graduated, we get more information out there about what Haskell has to offer, which is a really high-quality educational experience."
The other four-year degree programs are American Indian studies, business administration and environmental science.
Swisher said Haskell faced an array of new challenges, which includes adding more research components to the ever-present chase for more money.
"I hope to see the university grow to achieve full university status," she said. "And that means adding a research component. Our vision is to become a national center for Indian education."
Swisher continues to work with KU administration to ensure that transferring Haskell students feel more welcome on the Hill.
"I can tell you that the top administration is very aware
of Haskell and very supportive of us," she said. "We get a lot of support from KU in a mentoring sense."
George Godfrey, Haskell's vice president of academic affairs, said Swisher was aware of and in tune with student opinions.
"She's a very patient lady, and she certainly wants to have input from different sectors of the university," Godfrey said. "She has been very effective in furthering the relationship with KU and she has been very effective in developing a strong relationship with the Lawrence community."
Donald Fixico, KU professor of history, said Swisher was more than adequately facing Haskell's challenges.
"She is a role model to Native Americans, especially women, due to her strong beliefs in higher education," Fixico said.
Contact Shaffer at 864-4810
Senate supports gay scouting rally
Bv Luke Dalev
Kansan staff writer
John Roth, co-director of Queers and Allies, said he was pleased that the upcoming PROMO Pride In Scouting Rally received the support of Student Senate.
A resolution passed at Wednesday night's full Senate meeting supporting the rally, which will be from 3 to 5 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 7, at Hyde Park in Kansas City, Mo., in front of the Eagle Scout Memorial.
Roth said that the rally deserved the support of
Queers and Allies and Senate because the gathering promoted alternative options to the Boys Scouts of America — a group that does not allow homosexuals to serve as scout leaders.
"I hope it has a positive impact," Roth said. "The rally is meant to raise awareness that Boy Scouts practice discrimination against homosexuality."
Roth said that he hoped the rally would provoke worthwhile discussion and have a positive outcome.
Galen Stoeber, Garden
City junior, said that he had been in Boy Scouts but quit before he turned 18.
He said even if he wanted to be a scout leader, he couldn't because of the Boy Scout's policy against allowing homosexuals to serve as scout leaders.
"What they are doing is wrong," Stoeber said. "If someone wants to be allowed, they should be."
He said he was pleased that Queers and Allies and Senate decided to support the rally. He said he hoped that positive things would
result from the public gathering.
"I would like to see that there are Eagle Scouts out there who can admit they're gay," Stoeber said.
At this weeks' Senate meeting, Stan Handshy, Queers and Allies senator, said that he appreciated the work that Boy Scouts did in the community but that the group should not be allowed to discriminate against homosexuals.
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