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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Tuesday, Feb. 25, 1986
Red Cross wants to tap KU blood
By Lynn Maree Ross
Staff writer
KU students are an untapped resource that a local blood donor center wants to draw from.
Ann Campbell, Roeland Park senior, said yesterday that the Lawrence Red Cross Center, 329 Missouri St., hired her at the beginning of the semester to recruit student donors. Although students aren't in Lawrence all year, she said, they are a large source to be drawn from.
Matthew Stein, a Lawrence hematologist and oncologist, said getting KU students to donate blood was a good idea.
"I think that would be admirable," he said.
"I think that would be admirable," he said. Stein said that when he lived in Iowa City, Iowa, university students supplied the city, then with a population of 60,000, with all the blood it needed.
Alan Sanders, a physician and medical director of the pathology laboratory at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, said that until a few years ago the Wichita Red Cross Center supplied the hospital with blood. That arrangement was satisfactory, but in cases of emergency, blood sometimes was not available immediately.
KU students could provide the state with a blood supply, Stein said.
"It seemed like the most reasonable thing to do," he said.
Stein said that after some Lawrence doctors talked to people at the Wichita Red Cross center, the Red Cross decided to open a satellite center in Lawrence. The Lawrence center opened in August 1984.
A blood center in Lawrence was needed because more specialists began practicing medicine in Lawrence, and the need for certain types of blood components increased. Sanders said.
sanders said because blood components were
available locally, doctors could treat some patients in Lawrence instead of sending them elsewhere. Also, the supply of blood is more reliable and available in larger quantities.
Colleen Denker, a nurse at the Lawrence center, said the blood was collected, then taken to the hospital for testing and separating. Technicians test for blood type, Rh factor and diseases such as syphilis, hepatitis and AIDS.
After testing, the blood is spun in a centrifuge and the plasma, red blood cells and platelets are separated and packaged for use.
So far, she said, none of the blood tested contained HTLV-3, the antibody to the acquired immune deficiency syndrome virus.
Plasma has a shelf-life of over one year, but red blood cells only have a shelf-life of 42 days and platelets only 7 days, Denker said.
David Vance, who would become general manager of the proposed Remington Park in Oklahoma City, said the entire racing industry was facing a crisis because of a saturation of the market.
Too many horse tracks, promoter says
OKLAHOMA CITY — Pari-mutuel horse racing in the United States is choking itself to death, a spokesman for the Edward J. DeBartolo family told the Oklahoma Horse Racing Commission yesterday.
"Saturation of the racing calendar is the biggest
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problem facing the racing industry today," he said at a hearing on two proposed racing commission rules requested by the DeBartolos.
The promoters want the commission to ban any big tracks within 100 miles of Remington Park and all tracks within 75 miles. They also want no other tracks until the combined handle of Remington Park and the existing Blue Ribbon Downs tops $230 million for two years.
Vance said that of the 24 racing jurisdictions in the United States, 13 have some type of economic protection for tracks. He listed 12 states in which
race tracks have closed recently because of financial problems.
"Our most recent history presents a pretty bleak picture for racing." he said.
Opponents of the proposed rules say the DeBartois, who operate Louisiana Downs, are seeking a monopoly on racing in Oklahoma. They said the state could support several tracks.
Two legislators told the commission the new rules could be a moratorium, which would be unconstitutional.
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Two free films, "Watching Ballet" and Doris Humphrey's "The Shakers," will be shown at 4 p.m. today in Room 252 Robinson Center. The films are part of the dance history film series.
The seminar, "Is the Homosexual My Neighbor," will be presented
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