tuesday, december4, 1979
daily nebraskan
page 7
Director proposes blood program for UNL students
By Kathy Stokebrand
The public relations director for the Community Blood
Bank said she would like to see a different program estab
lished on the UNL campus to protect students better than
the present blood donation system does.
With the bank's family-student program', the students
would not have to replace every pint of blood they use
from the blood bank.
With the present system, Gloria Devoe said, the blood
bank joins the Red Cross for a portion of its campus
blood drive. This is to replace the blood used by univer
sity students in blood bank-supplied hospitals that .ire not
members of the blood bank. The first such joint drive on
campus was last spring.
All hospitals in Lancaster, Seward and Cass counties
only are supplied by the Community Blood Bank, Devoe
said. Because many students are from elsewhere, few of
them are members of the Community Blood Bank.
When non-members enter a hospital in one of these
three counties and require a transfusion, they must re
place or find someone else to replace each pint of blood
they use.
In the blood bank's family-student program, students
are asked to voluntarily donate one pint of blood per
year. All students at UNL would then be covered for any
amount of blood they required without having to Teplace
those pints used, in this three-county area.
Nebraska Wesleyan University and Union College .are
among local colleges that have a program in conjunction
with the blood bank, Devoe said.
The blood, bank had 14,000 families participating in its
program, she said. One person in the family is asked to
donate one pint of blood per year to cover everyone in
the household. If someone cannot donate but wishes to
join they may find a substitute to donate for them.
Although anyone who needs it is given blood, Devoe
said those who are not members of the bank will be asked
to replace the units they used.
Replacement is not a legal, but a moral requirement,
she said.
The replacement system was adopted April 1. Until
Rinne: ASUN no longer representative
By Barb Richardson-
University Students for Educational Development
should not expect-help from ASUN in its efforts to get
students to attend the December 1 5 regents meeting, a
member of USED said Monday.
'They've been able to chalk up a few victories and now
they are not willing to do anything else," Tim Rinne said.
"It bothers me that there are no ASUN people here,"
Rinne said. "I feel like ASUN is no longer representative.
USED plans to distribute leaflets on student fees and
flyers urging students , to attend next month's regents
meeting, he said. ,;.... ; ,
He told the group that student control of student fees
is almost non-existent and most students know .nothing
about student fees. " r
Rinne said the library issue is not finished because the
library may close in future years.
A problem still exists this year because student work
ing hours have been cut, books are not being shelved and
it takes too much time to check out books, he said.
"It bothers me that there are no ASUN people here,"
Rinne said. "I feel like ASUN is no longer representative,".
Rinne said that he talked with members of the Univer
sity Program Council to arrange open forums on minori
ty concerns, but Rinne said minority groups at UNL were
reluctant to participate in the talks.
He said because of lack of -time and fear of misrepre
sentation the minority groups did not agree to participate.
He added that there is a chance for the forums if the
groups change their minds. .:
"They are mostly concerned about how you people
(USED) got interested in their problems and why USED
would want to do anything," Rinne said. He thought that
was one of the reasons the groups have been reluctant, he
said. . ;. , .
Mary Tate, a member of USED, said that she thought
that if the minority groups did not want USED's help
then USED should not speak for the groups.
Tate said that the Women's Resource Center would
probably not be interested in the forums "because they
know their funding is guaranteed for another year and
they don't want to aggravate men."
. "We shouldn't force other people to act if they don't
want to do it " Tate added. vt ,
then a replacement fee for the units was used, of about
$32 per unit. Now there is no cost for the blood itself,
but there are processing, cross-matching, and administra
tive fees.
Records are kept showing whether individuals have re
placed the blood they have used or if someone else re
placed the blood for them.
; ; Thus far, she said, the new replacement system has
worked well. -
Twice each month the blood bank joins Red Cross
blood drives across Nebraska to replace blood used by
members of the Red Cross areas in blood bank-supplied
hospitals. A lot of blood is required by the Lincoln hos
pitals because of the large amount of open heart surgery
done here and the presence of the St. Elizabeth burn cen
ter, Devoe said. .
The blood bank sponsored by the Lancaster Medical
Society has had trouble making ends meet, Devoe said. It
receives no money from taxation and is self-supporting.
Its only income is the processing fee for transfusions.
UNL Iranian
faces deportation
One Iranian student at UNL will face a deporta
tion hearing on either Dec. 10 or 11, according to
the district U.S. Immigration and Naturalization
Service director.
Dennis Holm district director for the INS office
in Omaha, said only one of the 193 Iranian students
at-tflL had "overstayed his time."
Holm said the student will appear at a deporta
tion hearing. He said the Iranian student would have
to show just cause for him to be able to remain in
the United States.- Holm said the presiding judge
would then determine whether to allow the student
to remain in Nebraska.
Holm refused to give the name of the Iranian
student to ensure him protection, he said.
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