Blood drive organizers
hope to poke hundreds
By JoshKnaub
Staff writer
Hundreds of students are expected
to willingly subject themselves to
nurses with needles today and
Wednesday in the Nebraska Union.
No, a miracle grade-boosting
serum has not been discovered. But
the annual campus blood drive could
cause literally hundreds of miracles
across the Midwest
One of those miracles is Ben
Norton of Lincoln. Norton, 8, sur
vived heart surgery as an infant
because of donated blood.
Maij McKinty, director of donor
resources at Lincoln’s community
blood bank, said Norton will visit the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln drive
Wednesday after school to witness the
kind of generosity that saved his life.
McKinty said drive organizers are
hoping to see numbers similar to last
year’s drive when more than 600 stu
dents and faculty members donated.
Nearly 80 percent of participants
were first-time donors, she said.
Organized by UNL’s Red Cross
campus chapter and the residence hall
health aide program, the blood drive is
in its 28th year.
Phlebotomists, or blood techni
cians, for the drive are professionals
associated with the Red Cross or the
community blood bank.
Deb Myatt of the Red Cross said
the UNL drive is one of the biggest
drives of the year in Nebraska. For
comparison, she said, a three-day
| community wide blood drive in
Columbus this week is expected to
draw 100 donors.
Both McKinty and Myatt said
cold weather adversely affected donor
numbers.
Myatt remained optimistic,
though.
“A lot of students are on campus
anyway, so weather will hopefully be
less of a factor,” she said.
The community blood bank and
the Red Cross will each receive half of
the blood donated during the drive.
Anne Echtemacht, sophomore
psychology and pre-medicine major
and co-chairwoman of die blood drive,
said this year’s drive was a huge learn
ing experience.
This was Echtemacht’s first year
in charge of the drive.
“Organization was the hardest
part,” she said. “You work at it, and
somehow it comes together.”
McKinty said the student organiz
, ers had done a good job.
“They are wonderful,” she said,
adding that the student leadership had
been very consistent from year to year.
Donations will be accepted from
11 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and
Wednesday in the Nebraska Union
Centennial Room and ballroom.
UNL Police say
found remains
don’t violate law
By Lindsay Young J
Senior editor
University Police found no viola
tion of federal law in its investigation of
the recent discovery of American
Indian remains in Bessey Hall.
Sgt. Bill Manning said Monday that
the remains found in the room did not
violate the Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act
Bone fragments and a tooth were
discovered Feb. 5 in Room 109. The
room was supposed to have been
cleared of all remains Dec. 21.
NAGPRA required institutions that
received federal money to inventory
human remains and associated funerary
objects, and report it to the National
Park Service by November 1995.
At the request of affiliated tribes, the
remains were to be returned. After 1995,
if more remains were found, the tribes
were to be told and may repatriate them.
Manning said the police would not
be investigating further how the
remains got into the room.
At the investigation’s start, Manning
said, he wanted to find out if the remains
were planted in the room, brought into
the room or were there when the room
was cleared in December.
Anthropology Department
Chairman Robert Hitchcock said he
would not comment on the results until
he received an official copy.
Questions? Comments?
Ask for the appropriate section editor at (402) 472-2588
or e-mail dn@unl.edu.
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