SATISFACTION
Drive Ends at 632 Pints
The large wooden brass-hinged refrigeration boxes stacked against the back wall were full. The nurses were clearing their equipment from the tables. Only nine more students were waiting as the three-day Defense Department blood drive at KU was drawing to a close.
The drive had netted 632 pints of the vital fluid.
Nick Brocker, Prairie Village
junior and chairman of the drive, said he was pleased with the turnout.
"We fell short of our 1,000 unit goal," he said, "but the problems mentions which made any extension certainly wasn't a lack of interested students. Because of limited time we've had to turn people away every day."
The center handled a continuous flow of donors Tuesday and Wednesday. However, only 50 donors an hour could be handled instead of the projected 64, which would have made possible the goal of 1,000 units of blood.
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Pickets Mock Blood Donors
A small counter-demonstration took place yesterday when a few of the members of the KU Committee to End the War in Viet Nam picketed outside the Kansas Union.
Asked about the picketing, Richard Hill, Manhattan junior, spokesman for the Committee, said, "Strangely enough some students turned up in a counter-demonstration and seemed to make a mockery of the blood drive by carrying pointless signs with flippant attitudes toward the blood drive."
The picketing, Hill said, was successful if it raised issues and focused attention on the war the U.S. is waging in Viet Nam.
Brocker said the goal could been met had the drive been extended another day. However, the Red Cross Bloodmobile and crew from Wichita had other commit- impossible.
"We are demonstrating against the war in Viet Nam. The blood
He said that in a case like this where a large number of people are involved, it is more of a political question than a humanitarian one. He cited a case in which a group of people donated blood which the Defense Department did not take, saying it does not need the blood in Viet Nam, except for civilian use.
drive itself represents the war. We understand the blood goes only to Americans and not to all those who need it," Hill said.
"If it is true that this blood is not needed in Viet Nam, then a blood drive promoted by the Defense Department for use in Viet Nam would seem to be a political maneuver attempting to rally the so-called patriotic support for the war," Hill said.
IT WILL be hurled 310 miles into space by a brand new Saturn 1B super rocket and then rammed back toward earth at 18,750 miles per hour by the Apollo spacecraft engine that in three years may be rocketing lunar explorers back to earth.
CAPE KENNEDY—(UPI)—In an ambitious Project Apollo debut, the United States Wednesday will test the rocket that some day will push three men to the moon, check the capsule that will carry them, and try out the engine that will blast them home.
Cape Schedules Test On Apollo Moon Shot
The federal space agency, in disclosing details of the initial Apollo test flight, said today that the spaceship at launch will weigh a record 45,900 pounds.
The aircraft carrier USS Boxer, four destroyers and a fleet oiler will be stationed in the South Atlantic Ocean to retrieve the scorched capsule after three parachutes lower it into the sea 5,520 miles southeast of the launch site.
The KU Concert Band will present a concert 3:30 p.m. Sunday in the University Theatre, according to Russell L. Wiley director.
The three section spacecraft, identical in appearance to those that will go to the moon in about three years, will "fly" only 39 minutes and 29 seconds.
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But, during that brief hop into space, engineers expect to prove that the Apollo heat shield can withstand 4,000-degree reentry temperatures, that the spacecraft's own 21,900-pound thrust engine will start and restart in space, and that the spacecraft's complex flight and recovery systems work.
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"There is a strong possibility of another drive later this spring or next fall," Brocker said. "The students obviously want to give, and we would like to give them the opportunity."
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"Satisfaction" was the word coming up most in student comments about donating blood.
"It's a very satisfying feeling," one said. "For once I had a chance to do something constructive, and I did it."
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"Aside from these introductory minutes on Kennedy, Schlesinger's observations on topics such as the idea of a naval blockade and the increasement of American intervention in Viet Nam were very interesting." Miner said. "I don't believe that the idea of a naval blockade could be excellent. We are operating by railroad routes which is inefficient because of their condition. A sea blockade would be better," he added.
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"I guess we're all sort of proud," said another, "proud of ourselves and of everyone else who gave."
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Students Review Schlesinger Talk
Different kinds of student reactions were aroused from the talk delivered by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Wednesday.
"I admired his education and knowledge. On the part of his talk on Viet Nam he also showed knowledge," Scott Campbell, Overland Park freshman and president of Young Americans for Freedom, said. "This does not imply, however, that I agreed with his ideas of solving the conflict. I believe in peaceful settlement. The best solution would be a settlement on the 17th parallel and on this point Schlesinger seems to agree," he added.
ON THE OTHER hand, Bob Miner, Great Bend sophomore and president of Young Republicans, said that Schlesinger's talk was centered around late President Kennedy and that "as expected he was highly praised in a 20-minute talk."
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