Monday, September 21, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 3
Adam Carola and Dr. Draw Pinsky answer questions from the press after an hour of questions from the nearly sold-out Lied Center audience Friday. The hosts of MTV's Loveline are touring colleges with the show. Photo by Eric B. Howell/KANSAN
Hosts try to inform and entertain
total number of tickets sold or how much money SUA had lost on the event until Monday morning. He estimated SUA had lost about $1,000.
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Gaston said that planning an event like Loveline was risky because of the possibility of failure, but he was concerned more with providing the students what they wanted.
"When Dr. Drew and Adam came out, the energy was just there," he said. "It's a great example of how SUA works. We did exactly what we wanted to do, and it's quite obvious that we appealed to the masses."
Students attending the show said they agreed that Dr. Drew and Adam relaxed the crowd by breaking the ice early.
"They were really matter-of-fact, and I think it's better to be straightforward about topics like this," said Katie Hackett, Oklahoma City freshman.
Amy Duffer, Lawrence freshman, said she doubted that the crowd would have been a near sellout if the speaker were a political or authoritative figure.
"If we bring informative speakers, yeah, they'll teach us something, but they'll bore us," Duffer said. "I wouldn't come if it were an authoritative figure speaking, not on a Friday night."
The crowd of students greeted the MTV celebrities with a round of applause when they took the stage. Carolla addressed the crowd in his introduction.
direction.
"I never went to college," Carolla said. "I see you out there — you're drunk, you're stoned and you're having sex — I'm envious."
Carolla addressed the issue of Loveline being informative versus entertaining and said that the show had high viewer ratings because it had both.
"We use information as a form of entertainment," Carola said. "You could watch Jeopardy!"
and you learn a few state capitals and you watch some guy with a bad toupee jump up and down."
Carolla said that the campuses that he and Dr. Drew traveled to were similar because all college students had the same problems.
"I've been amazed that over and over, in front of God and their peers and everyone, young people get up and ask the same damn questions," Carolla said.
Dr. Drew and Carolla said they found patterns in the questions that young people ask that allowed him to assess their situation in a matter of minutes.
"People are animals, like any other animal on the planet," Carolla said. "If you want to know the traits of polar bears, you study about a hundred of them. You see how they mate and migrate. If you want to study humans, you just need a certain percentage of them. Everyone likes to think they're individual, but we all operate under the same rules emotionally."
Local organizations compete for blood
Kansan staff writer
By Sue Franke
Depending on which organization students give blood to, their donations may or may not help friends and family in Douglas County.
Kansas Blood Services, conducting a drive today through Thursday at Allen Field House, supplies blood to Lawrence Memorial Hospital. The organization serves 10 counties in northeast Kansas.
American Red Cross Blood Services, which also seeks donors on the University of Kansas campus, sends its blood donations outside the Douglas County area. It will have a blood drive on the KU campus from Oct. 5 to 9.
"We support the collection of blood and give it wherever it is needed the most," said Michelle Jantz, executive director of the Douglas County American Red Cross Blood Services. "I hear a lot about blood not staying in Douglas County, so I ask people, 'Are all your friends and family located in Douglas County or do they live in other areas where the blood we provide could save their lives?'"
She said that competition for donors is a relatively political issue and one that American Red Cross Blood Services tries to avoid.
"We do need donors," she said. "The bottom line is that even if people go to another organization to donate, we want people to give blood."
Adriane Evans, director of community relations and recruitment for Kansas Blood Services, said she hoped that the competition for donors never got to the point of turning people
BLOOD DRIVE INFORMATION
Cindy Schmidteler, recruitment and marketing specialist for Kansas Blood Services, said students donating blood today through Thursday needed to meet the following criteria:
Be weigh a minimum of 110 pounds
Be in general good health
Eat a meal six hours before donating blood Drink plenty of fluids before and after donating blood
- Not have received a tattoo within the past year Donors are asked a series of questions about current medications they might be taking, lifestyle and general health. Schmideler said students stopping by Allen Field House this week should allow 45 minutes to an hour for the process. One unit of blood will be taken.
"People have a choice of who to give blood to, but they need to be aware of whether their donations are going to their friends, families and co-workers in Lawrence," Evans said. "We have been the sole blood supplier in Douglas County since 1991."
"The average person has 10 pints of blood, so we're not taking enough to harm someone in good health," she said.
Kansas Blood Services just became part of a larger nonprofit blood center. The Community Blood Center of Greater Kansas City
off and causing them to stop donating. So far, she said, her organization has met the needs of Douglas County and the surrounding areas.
announced Friday that it acquired the assets of Kansas Blood Services, which will maintain its collection sites in Topeka and Lawrence.
Both Kansas Blood Services and the American Red Cross Blood Services rely solely on donations.
Tracey McCalley, Mission Viejo, Calif., senior, is volunteering at the blood drive this week and said she would be giving blood for the first time.
"I've always wanted to give blood but I have been a swimmer and couldn't donate blood while in training," she said. "I think donating says a lot about a person — you're definitely doing it to help someone or save someone's life."
Jantz said that the American Red Cross did not sell blood for profit but that American Red Cross Blood Services attracted more donors when it provides incentives, such as free T-shirts.
Kansas Blood Services will be giving away movie passes from Hollywood Theaters, 3433 Iowa, to students giving blood this week. Evans said if people received money for donations, the blood given may not be safe for its recipients.
A time exists between a small incentive and payment for a donation, Jantz said. Incentives for blood donations are regulated by the Federal Drug Administration.
"When financial gain is involved, people might be less than honest," she said. "For example, a person may not be truthful as to whether it's really been a year since he or she had received a tattoo."
Evans said that only 5 percent of the United States' population donated blood each year.
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