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Wednesday, October 2,1996
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Red Cross blood drive taps veins to bring trophy to KU
John Head / KANSAN
Two students participate in the Red Cross fall blood drive at the Kansas Union Ballroom Additional donation centers are located in Ellsworth Hall and Oliver Hall. The blood drive continues through Friday.
Volunteers and coordinators at the American Red Cross fall blood drive are hoping students will donate enough blood by Friday to bring the blood drive trophy to Lawrence.
By Andrea Albright
Kansan staff writer
Judy Greene, blood services coordinator for Douglas County, said Kansas State University competed with the University of Kansas in the spring and fall drives. K-State has had the trophy for five of the last six semesters, she said.
at Ellsworth Hall and Oliver Hall. Donating blood takes about an hour.
"The trophy goes back and forth between KU and K-State." Greene said. "K-State has it right now, and we want it back."
Claxton said his goal for this week's drive was 750 pints of blood. Last fall the KU blood drive produced 630 pints of blood while K-State had 685 pints.
Claxton said Kansas would be more competitive if it weren't for another campus blood drive each semester.
J. P. Claxton, Hutchinson senior, is coordinating the drive. It will run through from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday in the Kansas Union Ballroom. In addition, there will be centers to donate from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The athletic department will sponsor the Kansas Blood Services drive Oct. 29-30 at Allen Field House, dipping into a pool of donors that can not give blood more than once every 56 days.
"One of my goals is to coordinate this drive with the athletic department, or separate them 56 days," Claxton said.
Esther Klaassen, Red Cross team supervisor, said she expected 140 donors each day and that all of the donated blood would remain in Kansas
and Oklahoma.
This week's drive is sponsored by the Interfraternity Council, Student Senate, the All Scholarship Hall Council, Panhellenic Council and the Association of University Residence Halls. Eighty local businesses donated gift certificates for meals, compact discs and tanning sessions to be raffled off to blood donors, Claxton said.
Claxton said students living in the residence halls were a blood resource that could be more efficiently tapped.
This is the second semester the blood drive will have donation areas in residence halls, Claxton said. He said making the donation centers more accessible to hall residents would increase the amount of blood that was donated.
"If 10 percent of the people on Daisy Hill donated, we'd be halfway to our goal," Claxton said. "There's a lot of people out there willing to help."