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STUDENT SENATE
Finance committee advances funding for campus organizations
BY ZACH GETZ
zgetz@kansan.com
The University of Kansas Finance Committee approved $18,468 on 11 bills to be voted on by the Student Senate next week. The largest bill is to help fund the Black Student Union travel to Austin, Tex., for the Big XII Council on Black Student Government conference. The bill would allocate $12,403 for travel funds for 32 students.
It's not the first time that the organization has asked for funds from Senate, but it is more than it usually asks for because the Office of Multi-Cultural Affairs won't be providing the group with funds due to its own budget cuts, said Koga Moffor, a senior from Overland Park. The price is also more than normal because of the longer traveling distance.
Moffor is the chair of the Big XII Council on Black Student Government and said the conference is a great way to promote multi-cultural affairs with workshops and keynote speakers to help
better both individuals and the student community around them.
"It gives them an idea of what kind of programs that have worked on other campuses and speakers that can come in that have proven to bring new ideas to the campus and bring about a new understanding," said James McIntosh, a senior from Kansas City, Kan. "And it's not just about black and white. It's about other cultures as well."
It is also a way to help generate ideas of how to alleviate some of the tension and misunderstandings on campus, McIntosh said. McIntosh is a Black Student Union member and said there is still racism and a lack of understanding on campus, which is caused by a difference in background and upbringing.
"It's sometimes difficult to talk about racism on a predominately white university because a lot of time white students don't understand when something is racist," McIntosh said.
The University of Kansas hosted the conference last year, and it would look bad for members not to make the trip down to Austin, Tex.,
for the next one, Moffor said.
Mark Pacey, chair of the finance committee, voted against the bill and said it was a lot of money to allocate for travel.
"That was $500 at least going to each student," Pacey said. "That's a lot of money to send 32 students to travel. We don't fund travel through this body normally because it doesn't affect enough students."
There are some groups that do get travel exemptions, but it's usually for organizations that need to travel, Pacey said.
"It's for teams like the national champion debate team that their whole existence is to compete," Pacey said. "If they couldn't compete, they wouldn't have an organization. If BSU doesn't go to the conference, yes they are less effective, but they are still a group."
The money could fund around 24 on-campus events or bring in around 13 speakers, which could affect even more students. Pacey said.
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chair of the Black Student Union, Koga Maffort, center, a senior from Overland Park, asks for funding at the student finance meeting Jan. 27 as lames McIntosh, left, a senior from Kansas City, Kan., and Whitney Morgan, a senior from Kansas City, Kan., watch. The group needed funding to get all of their members to the Big 12 Conference on Black Student Government in Austin, Tex., this year.
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blood supply to respond to automobile accidents, heart surgeries and organ transplants. Tate said the CBC supplies 155,000 units of blood annually to hospitals that treat these sorts of traumas.
When supplies drop to a critical shortage, the KU Hospital must prioritize orders for products that are in short supply, which often forces patients to wait until the required product can be located and shipped to the facility, said Deanne
bank manager at
December and January are especially difficult because people are on holiday, Tate said. He also said that these winter months see fewer donations because of coldness, winter storms and the illnesses that go along with them. Even so, a critical blood shortage is not that common.
the KU Hospital
The KU
Hospital ideally tries to maintain a combined inventory of approximately 500 units of red blood cells, plas-
"Platelets and O-negative red blood cells occasionally fall below this threshold, but it is rare that the general blood supply drops to this
"...it is rare that the general blood supply drops to this critical level."
DEANNE STEPHENS Blood bank manager
critical level," said Stephens
ma, platelets and cryoprecipitated AHF — or frozen blood products from plasma — in inventory Stephens said. She said the center transfused an average of 77 blood products per day last year.
The critical shortage the CBC experienced last week was largely due to seasonal fluctuation and weather issues. Months like
That is why blood donation needs to be a regular process that happens during all times of the year. Many times people don't donate because
they think someone else is going to do it said Tate. When shortages do occur, Tate said the CBC utilizes the media, their database of donors and mobile drives to encourage donation.
Haley Wenthe, a sophomore from Salina, agreed, adding that sometimes people forget to consider the fact that it could be
them needing blood. Wenthe began donating as a junior in high school and since, tries to donate once every three months. She said giving blood only takes about seven minutes and is an easy way to help save someone or help a cause when other means of help may not be possible.
"It's nothing," said Wenthe, commenting on the process of donating blood. The last time she gave blood was the day she came back for school after winter break she said.
According to its website, The Community Blood Center relies solely on volunteer blood donors to meet the community's blood needs. Tate said mobile drives set up at high schools, churches or other community venues account for about 65 percent of the supply.
Just bordering the critical mark, a meter at the bottom of the CDC website indicated there was still a shortage as of Thursday. Students can find information on how to donate and where to find local blood drives on the CBC website at http://www.savealifenow.org/ or by following the CBC Facebook page.
Edited by Kelly Gibson
OBITUARY
Legendary author dies at 91
ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — J.D. Salinger, the legendary author, youth hero and fugitive from fame whose "The Catcher in the Rye" shocked and inspired a world he increasingly shunned, has died. He was 91.
Salinger died of natural causes at his home on Wednesday, the author's son, actor Matt Salinger, said in a statement from Salinger's longtime literary representative, Harold Ober Associates, Inc. Hehad lived for decades in self-imposed isolation in a small, remote house in Cornish, N.H.
"The Catcher in the Rye," with its immortal teenage protagonist, the twisted, rebellious Holden Caulfield, came out in 1951, a time of anxious, Cold War conformity and the dawn of modern adolescence. The Book-of-the-Month Club, which made "Catcher" a featured selection, advised that for "anyone who has ever brought up
a son" the novel will be "a source of wonder and delight — and concern."
in this May 11,
1982 photo, J.D.
Salinger, author of
Catcher in the
Rye, meets up with
adress Elaine Joyce to
see her performance in "6
Rms Riv Vu"; at
the Alhambra
Dinner Theater on Beach Blvd.
in Jacksonville,
Fla. Salinger, the legendary author of "The Catcher in the Rye" died at 91.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Enraged by all the "phonies" who make "me so depressed I go crazy,"
Holden soon became American literature's most famous anti-hero since Huckleberry Finn.
Associated Press
Bernanke wins a close second term
WASHINGTON — Embattled Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke won a second term Thursday, but only by the closest vote ever for the crucial post and after criticism from lawmakers for bailing out Wall Street while other Americans suffered in recession
The Senate confirmed Bernanke for a new four-year term by a 70-30 vote.
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ment specialist for Tenants to Homeowners, Inc., suggests attending a homebuyer's work shop Tenants to Homeowners offers workshops in
"He is looking beyond the house payment — just in case anything were to happen to us," Huk said. "In this economy, one of us could lose our job, and then what would happen?"
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"You really have to trust people and it's hard." Huk said.
"He is looking beyond the house payment just in case anything were to happen to us."
To learn more about the process of buying and financing a home, Hayley Travis, a 2007 graduate and resource develop-
The tax credit is also playing a large role in their house-buying decision. The two will be eligible for the credit this year if they can close on a house
— Edited by Cory Bunting
LISA HUK
2009 graduate
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before the end of June. Like Bird, Huk and Blawusch are learning about different mortgages. She said building a relationship with a loan officer is more important than worrying about loan approval.
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