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The University Daily Kansan
Monday, February 26, 2001
Annual blood drive kicks off today
By Livi Regenbaum
Kansan staff writer
The American Red Cross is teaming up with campus groups to sponsor the "Be a Hero! Donate Blood!" spring blood drive.
The University of Kansas, Interfraternity Council, Panhellenic Association, All Scholarship Hall Council and Association of University Residence Halls are sponsoring the annual drive.
Andrew Bailey, chair of the blood drive for the Interfraternity Council, said it was especially crucial to get donations during this spring's because of the a nationwide blood shortage.
"The goal of the blood drive is to receive 300 units of usable blood," he said.
The blood drive will be from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. today through Wednesday in the Kansas Union Ballroom, and from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday in the McCollum Hall lobby. Donors will receive free T-shirts and Coke products.
Jeff Sneed, donor recruitment manager for the American Red Cross, said although the American Red Cross was on the fringe of having an adequate supply of blood, there were concerns about possible future blood shortages because blood was a perishable item which could only be stored for 42 days.
"Blood shortages depend on the season," he said. "It is a concern that usage is on the rise and the criteria for donating blood is becoming more challenging. If people don't participate on a daily basis, the consequences can become a blood shortage."
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When: Today through March 2 —
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Wednesday in the Kansas Union
Ballroom, 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.
Thursday through Friday in the
McCollim Hall lobby.
Jennifer Bacani, vice president for philanthropy and community services for the Panhellenic Association, said she hoped the blood drive would help others.
"One of our goals is to get more pints of blood than in the past," she said. "The need for blood is continually rising."
Sneed said to be eligible to give blood, students must weigh at least 110 pounds and answer a questionnaire concerning criteria regulated by the Food and Drug Administration. He said blood could only be given every 56 days.
Destiny Deitch, Manhattan freshman, said she donated blood often.
"It is the best gift that you can give to someone," she said.
Dana Sibley, donor services specialist for the American Red Cross, said the criteria for giving blood required someone healthy who has never had hepatitis or heart problems.
Madelaine Marchin, also a Manhattan freshman, donates blood every year for the drive. She said donating blood was an important service in which everyone should partake.
"It could save someone's life," she said.
— Edited by Jennifer Valodez
Child care costs pose problems
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Money crunch
The one thing that troubled her was the difficulty in finding infant care. Hilltop doesn't accept infants younger than one year old, which meant Leroux Smith had to search off-campus for Braden's day care until he was old enough to attend Hilltop.
She didn't want him in a big group setting, which might not have given him specialized care. She finally found a small day care in a private home but not until after Barden was born.
Infant care simply isn't cost effective, Pisani said. Hilltop is able to serve many more children by not allowing infants less than one year old. Although it may cause problems for some parents, it keeps costs down for others.
Shelly Platz, director of Stepping Stones, Inc., said it was common for parents to struggle to find infant care. Her nonprofit day care has a one-year waiting list for infants and a two-year wait for toddlers.
It charges only what it needs to cover the bills, which adds up to $625 for infants, $540 for toddlers and $465 for four weeks for preschoolers.
tell women to tell me before they tell their husbands they're pregnant," Platz said. "I can maybe help them."
Stepping Stones is one of the few day cares in town that accepts infants. Platz said many didn't because it wasn't cost effective.
Platz said more older children must be enrolled to offset the losses incurred by infant care.
The day care actually loses money on infants because of the ratio of workers to babies. There must be three workers to every baby according to state law, in comparison to one-to-five in the toddler room and one-to-10 in preschool.
Other comparisons can be made with centers like La Petite Academy, which charges $48 to $58 for 1- to 1/2-year-olds and $480 to $500 for four weeks for preschoolers. It doesn't provide scholarships — unlike the Children's Learning Center, Inc, which offers a limited number of
Day care costs
Costs are on a per-day basis and depend on age level, family size and income. Prices increase by a dollar each day if the child does not attend five days per week. An after-school program is also available for $8 per day.
scholarships.
The center can only do so much each semester though, said Tracy Kite, administrative assistant at the Learning Center. The center charges $640 for infants, $540 for toddlers, $500 for 2-year-olds and $445 for four weeks for 3-to-5-year-olds.
Although Hiltop is similar in price to the Children's Learning Center, some students said it was too high a price to charge those a on a limited income.
Lourdes Olivares, Lawrence graduate student in Spanish, spends almost a third of her salary on day care for her 3-year-old, Gabriela. Each month, the divorced mother pays $352 to Hilltop while making $992 as a teaching assistant at the University. She said she has become disillusioned about her return to college.
"I was under the erroneous impression that KU and Hilltop were here to help us," Olivares said.
To alleviate the crunch many students are feeling, Hilltop and the Graduate Teaching Assistants Coalition have united to find a solution. They hope that the University will assume some of the bond's burden, which would allow Hilltop to reduce prices.
"We are looking at different ways to get more scholarship money for parents." Pisani said.
Edited by Sydney Wallace
Candidates promise clean campaigns
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"We're getting a lot of good ideas," Bankston said.
Mills and Browning said minority recruitment and retention would be one issue they would focus on. Mills praised the work of Marlon Marshall, student body vice president, on the issue of minority recruitment and retention.
"I think Marlon is doing an excellent job right now," Mills said. "But I think this is going to take more than a year to accomplish. I think a lot of students' voices aren't really represented here on campus, and that's a big problem."
In light of campaign problems last year involving stolen signs and newspapers, Bankston said she was going to do everything in her power to make sure her coalition ran a clean campaign.
Delta Force will hold its kick-off party Thursday at The Bottleneck, 740 New Hampshire St. Holstein, The Draft, The Times and Mo-Sys will all be playing. Doors will open at 8 p.m., and there is a cover charge of $5.
"We're just going to document anything we see and give it to the elections commission," Browning said. "We never have and we won't respond when we're the target of things like that. We've always run a clean campaign."
"We spent a lot of time making sure that we could trust the people we're going to run with," she said. "I'm confident that there won't be any problems, and we'll adhere to the code."
Browning expressed similar sentiments.
Writing to document anything we
VOICE will hold its kick-off party at 9 p.m. on Friday at Abe and Jake's Landing, 8 E. 6th St. Bankston said some bands would play at the party. However, they not been announced. Both events are 18-and-over.
Saferide needs student drivers
By Amanda Beglin
writer@kansan.com
kansan staff writer
Edited by Melinda Weaver
Being a Saferide driver doesn't just mean hauling around students who have had one too many at the bar. Students can find out for themselves by applying to be a driver.
The Lawrence Bus Company is accepting applications for weekend and evening drivers for Saferide, a car service that escorts students from campus and the Lawrence area to their homes.
Saferide operates every night between 10:30 p.m. and 3 a.m., said Glen Stottlemire, Lawrence Bus Company night supervisor.
Saferide is hiring new drivers because several drivers left during winter break all for reasons unrelated to Saferide, Stottlemire said.
Stottlemire said drivers were most in need for Friday and Saturday evening shifts, the busiest nights of the week. Seven drivers now work this shift.
Brian Long, McPherson senior and Saferide driver, said weekend drivers needed an average of 20 minutes to arrive to a caller once they heard a dispatch.
"there's times when there's not enough people to work the shifts, so not enough cars are running," Long said. "Then it takes sometimes up to half an hour and we can't field all our calls."
Stottlemiire said applicants must be 21 years old and have a clean driving record. The Saferide cars, communication radios and gasoline are all paid for by the Lawrence Bus Company.
The starting salary is $6.35 per hour.
Training to drive for Saferide is rather easy,
Stottlemire said.
"We do a little paperwork, give you a handbook of rules, do one or two hours of on-the-job training, and you're off." Stottlemire said.
Long, who has worked for Saferide for three years, said there were many common misperceptions about the service.
"Most people think we just drive drunk people home, and that couldn't be further from the truth." Long said. "In three years of driving, only one person got sick in my car. And I didn't clean it up. A supervisor did."
Long said Saferide drivers would take passengers who approached the Saferide vehicles rather than calling for a ride, and sometimes would pull over in cold weather and ask students if they needed rides to their homes.
Long said a lot of caffeine and a talkative personality helped him get through his shifts.
"With a positive attitude, this can be a lot of fun," Long said. "I've had so many conversations with culturally diverse people. I've talked to people from Russia and Kenya."
But there is one passenger Long wishes he could drive.
"I keep waiting for Chancellor Hemenway to call," Long said. "I want to take the Chancellor to his home. That's my goal."
For more information about being a Saferide driver, contact the Lawrence Bus Company at 842-9638 between 5 and 10 p.m. Monday through Friday.
- Edited by Sydney Wallace
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