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University spring blood drive kicks off on campus
BY KELSEY RICHARDSON krichardson@kansan.com
The Spring 2011 Blood Drive kicks off today and will last the entire week. The blood donated will go to the American Red Cross and the Community Blood Center in Kansas City, Mo.
The Community Blood Center covers 70 counties in Kansas and Missouri. It services 75 hospitals, including Lawrence Memorial Hospital, the University of Kansas Medical Center, Children's Mercy and all hospitals in Topeka and Kansas City. The American Red Cross supplies approximately 40 percent of the nation's blood supply, according to redcrossblood.org.
"It's important to donate blood to help give back to your community," said Leann DeLong, donor recruiter at the Community Blood Center. "It's just a good thing to do."
Many donation opportunities were lost because of the recent harsh winter weather, which made travel dangerous. March and April are the college and high school donation seasons, and the Community Blood Center hopes it will be able to make up for lost donations with the help of students, DeLong said.
The goal is to collect 850 units at the blood drive this week. One unit equals one pint, and it can save up to three lives, according to redcrossblood.org.
"I sure would like to see all of the KU students and faculty, and even the community, come in and
donate so we can meet that goal and hopefully exceed it," DeLong said.
Valerie Shea, a junior from Hutchinson and president of the University's Blood Drive Committee, got involved with the group three semesters ago. Shea's main duty is to promote the blood drives and recruit students at the University to get involved. The American Red Cross and the Community Blood Center provide the supplies and take care of setting up for the event.
As extra incentive to get students to donate blood, a pizza party will be thrown for each sorority, fraternity and scholarship hall that donates the most blood. The dorms will also be participating, and the floor in each dorm that donates the most blood wins, Shea said.
The fall semester attracts around 1,000 people who are willing to donate blood, but that number drops in the spring, Shea said. The goal goes from 1,000 people in the fall to 800 people in the spring because of the lack of people who show up to make blood donations.
To be eligible to donate, you must be at least 17 years old, weigh at least 110 pounds and cannot have donated blood within the last 56 days.
"A lot of students don't see people our age needing blood, but we do." Shea said.
Emily Thompson, a senior from Topeka and member of Chi Omega, was diagnosed with Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia
on January 20, 2010. Thompson had to drop out of school for the spring semester of 2010, but came back in the fall of 2010.
Thompson received numerous blood donations from the Community Blood Center throughout her cancer treatment. She said she would not be alive today without the blood she received while undergoing chemotherapy.
"Whenever you get chemo, they knock out all of your blood," Thompson said.
Thompson received blood transfusions at Westwood Campus, a cancer treatment center at the University of Kansas Medical Center. She received regular blood and blood platelets.
Chris Neal/KANSAN FILE PHOTO
"I want to thank everyone who did donate blood so I could be here today," Thompson said. "As a 20-year-old, I never thought that I would get cancer. I'm just a normal college student in a sorority having fun with my friends, and then it hits you. It just happens."
Thompson also said it was imperative for students to realize that young people were in need of blood and not just older people.
"I asked my doctor last time I went in, and he said that out of the people that come to the clinic, almost two-thirds of them receive blood every day," Thompson said. "It's just so important to have blood products available for people, because it can save a life."
Ashley Krass, a junior from Overland Park, donated blood at last year's blood drive at the Kansas Union."I like giving back to the community and helping out,"Krass said.
- Edited by Amanda Sorell
MONDAY
KU SPRING 2011 BLOOD DRIVE DONATION TIMES AND LOCATIONS
11-5PM KS UNION BALLROOM
TUESDAY
11-5PM KS UNION BALLROOM
WEDNESDAY
12-5PM STUDENT RECREATION CENTER
2-7PM GSP HALL
1-7PM MCCOLLUM HALL
11-5PM KS UNION BALLROOM
THURSDAY
11-5PM KS UNION BALLROOM
11-5PM KS UNION
3-8PM KAPPA DELTA SORORITY
11-5PM KS UNION
FRIDAY
2-7PM HASHINGER HALL
10-2PM OLIVER HALL
10-3PM KS UNION BALL
ROOM
*A FREE T-SHIRT WILL BE GIVEN TO ALL PRESENTING DONORS.
11. 30-3PM PHI KAPPA PSI FRATERNITY
10-3PM KS UNION
HISTORY
MORE INFORMATION VISIT:
*kublooddrive.com
redcrossblood.org
savealifenow.org
Naismith's 'Rules of Basket Ball' on display
It's not much to look at.
BY ALEX GARRISON agarrison@kansan.com
It's worn and yellowing. It's deteriorating as more and more time passes since it was first typed up and pinned to the wall of a dingy gymnasium in 1891. Its typed lines have been smudged with scribles of black ink where its author desired a correction or two.
Really, it's just two pieces of cheap typewriter paper, with 13 simple rules to a made-up game and posted "for the boys to learn."
Museum.
Today, it's not much to look at, but it's a piece of art, a piece of history, and a part of a myth. It's a document, despite its humble beginnings, that's changed the world.
A press conference was held Friday at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak Street, Kansas City, Mo., to reveal James Naismith's Original Rules of Basketball, an exhibit apart of the Booth Family Collection.
It's James Naismith's original "Rules of Basket Ball," that was unveiled Friday at the the
"It's an important American cultural document because the creation of the game was the blending of the physical, academic and spiritual," said Margi Conrads, the new exhibit's head curator.
That game, of course, is basketball, a game played and adored by millions around the world. The game and its creator — the Canadian-born Naismith, the University of Kansas' only coach with a losing record — is talked about in grandiose terms.
Naismith came up with the 13 original rules, many of which bear little to no resemblance to the rules of college basketball today, in Springfield, Mass. He posted them to a wall in the YMCA where he was working, and, seven years later, took the still-new game to
"We're here today to celebrate the talent, ingenuity and creative spirit of Naismith, a genius entrepreneur," said Julián Zugazagoitia, the Nelson-Atkins' director. "Few games have been invented rather than evolved — this document is the birth certificate of a game that's changed the world."
Lawrence, where the original document sat in a drawer in his house on University Drive.
More than 120 years later, Naismith's descendants sold the two pages for more than $4.3 million, a record for sports memorabilia, in a New York auction. The winning bidders were David and Suzanne Booth, long-time donors to the University. The losing bidders included the Smithsonian.
Since then, the Booths have spoken enthusiastically about bringing the historic document back to the University. It wasn't written here, but this is its home, David Booth insists — Lawrence is basketball's home.
"It was in Lawrence that Naismith really made the game," Booth said at the press conference. "The rules don't belong in Springfield — there's a McDonald's on the spot where that YMCA was, there's not tradition there."
Booth and others spoke proudly about the tradition felt here.
economic impact the creation of basketball has had on the whole world ... it's just a story that deserves to be told."
"The inspiration Naismith had and continues to give is astounding," KU athletics director Sheahon Zenger said. "To think of the socio-
Edited by Samantha Collins
JAMES NAISMITH'S ORIGINAL RULES OF BASKETBALL
WHEN: Now until May 29
WHERE: Main gallery at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak St., Kansas City, Mo.
COST: free
For more coverage of this story, check out KUJH's newscast today at 4 p.m.
MUSIC
KU competes for Snoop Dogg concert
To advertise for its new game Bulletstorm, EA SPORTS is sponsoring a competition to bring Snoop Dogg to a college campus. The contest is conducted entirely on Facebook and has 1,400 schools from around the U.S. competing.
Mark Rissien, a senior from Overland Park, has been voting every day for the past week, and is up to about 18 votes. "I've seen him before and it's a great show," Rissien said. "I don't know if he has openers or anything, but it would also be really cool to have someone like B Double E or another student open."
Students can vote daily on the Facebook page, "Bring Snoop Dogg to KU!!! To get more votes you can participate in different things like watching a short video or buying the game.
KU is currently in 14th place and has until March 15 to get more votes. While KU is still a ways from the top, Sammy Greenberg, promoter for the event, says we still have one
advantage.
"Our spring break is late this year. All the other schools are going to be gone the last week of the competition, so while they are gone I can still promote and get more votes."
Greenberg said the top ten haven't changed much, so it will be tough to move up from here. EA SPORTS doesn't give out any of the numbers so it is hard to tell exactly how many more votes we need. But in three days we went from 26 to 14, so there might still be a chance.
If Snoop Dogg does make it to Lawrence, Rissien says he hopes we can get pictures of Snoop sporting a JayHawk jersey.
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CRIME
An individual was arrested March 2 for interfering with police duties after trespassing into Allen Fieldhouse and running from officials.
The theft of a 2011 license tag decal from the Irving Hill parking garage was reported March 3. The loss is valued at $20.
ON THE RECORD
An individual standing at 11th and Mississippi at 2:35 p.m. on March 5 asked the driver of a 2009 white Dodge Durango to turn down the vehicle's music. The driver left but then returned and pointed a gun at the individual.
An individual in possession of drug paraphernalia was arrested February 26 at Ellsworth Hall.
A computer valued at $750 was taken from KK Amiini Scholarship Hall Feb. 22. The case is open.
Paint was taken from Regier Scholarship Hall Feb. 24.The loss is valued at $240.
Jonathan Shorman