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Actually. blowing up a bridge Is not
all that exciting, except maybe from
the bridge's point of view. The
company’s name is Controlled
Demolition, Inc., and that's as good a
description of any for the job they did
yesterday at the Interstate 75 over-
pass bridge on Iron Works Pike.

To begin with, you detour the high-
way. Then dump three feet of dirt
below so the road won't be damaged,
and drill some 500 holes in the bridge

to place sticks of dynamite.

Finally, before pushing the plunger,
you block traffic over the nearby
bridge (which replaces the doomed
one) and pull everyone far away from
the site. After the big boom, if
everything has been done safely and
correctly. the ex-bridge looks pretty
much the same, except for being

"I . . broken in a few places and being a lot

lower. But then. that's controlled

demolition.

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Blood business:

Editor’s note: This is the first in a
two-part series about the "blood
banking" business in Lexington.
Tommorrow's story is an in-depth
look at Lexington‘s two commercial
plasma centers, Plasma Alliance
and Plasma Derivatives.

By JENNIFER GREEK
Staff Writer

UK students are a vay important
source to local firms that draw blood
for medical uses. And became the
commercial firms are paying for
”donations, ” the non-profit Central
Kentucky Blood Center (CKBC), at
731 S. Limestone, is losing out.

As a member of the American
Association of Blood Banks, the

about it inside on pqe 4.

branch

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today

inside

center, which primarily draws
whole blood for direct transfusion, is
prevented from paying its donors
and relies strictly on volunteer
donations to supply physicians and
hospitals in 33 Central and Eastern
Kentucky counties.

In contrast, local commercial
plasma centers like Plasma Alliance
and Plasma Derivatives pay their
donors $10 in return for a unit of
plasma that IS then frozen and resold
to large pharmeceutical companies
like Armour and Parke- Davis for
fractionalization. From the plasma

these companies will manufacture a

variety of life- saving products used
in the treatment of hemophiliacs,
leukemia patients burn and shock
victims and people exposed to

diseases such as rabies, measles,
tetanus and mumps.

Although the non-profit blood
center and commercial plasma
operations are after a different raw
material, they tap the same natural
resource, and that means com-
petition for one of the “healthiest
donor populations around,” the UK
student body.

(Any plasma that CKCB
distributes to local hospitals is spun
from whole blood. Because the body
requires six to eight weeks to
replen 'sh this blood loss, donors can
only give that often. Through a
process known as plasmapheresis,
the plasma centers remove just
plasma (which the body replaces in
about 24 hours) and tsually do so

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University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

Still misses conference,
agents claim valid contract

By RICHARD McDONALD
Copy editor
and
BOB STAUBLE
Assistant Sports Editor

The stage wasset; the supporting
cast was there —but the star was
missing.

Yesterday there was to have been
a press conference at the Hyatt
Regency Lexington and UK’s Art
Still was supposed to be the center of
attention. The conference, spon-
sored by Professional World Stars,
went ahead as scheduled. Art Still,
however, was nowhere to be seen.

It was anticipated that Still would
clear up the confusion about who will
be his official agent. Earlier this
month Matt Snell, a former National
Football League player who now
makes his living as a “player
representative” — an agait — said
Still is his client. He said they
reacheda verbal agreement early in
the past football season.

Still, though, said Mike Merkow —
an agent with Pro World — is his
official representative.

At yesterday’s press conference
Merkow said he has a written
contract with Still and welcomes any
legal challenge from Snell or his
associates.

“I’d like to clear up something
real (prick and we’ll leave it at that,”
said Merkow. “Mr. Doering (an
associate with Snell) can produce
whatever he wants to produce. You
can put us both on record as saying
this -— Professional World Stars and
Art Still have a written release from
John Doering.” That release was
signed in January, according to
Merkow.

Whether or not that release will
absolve Still from any contractual
agreements from Snell remains to
be seen. “It will be left in the hands
of an attorney,” said Merkow.

Merkow, a short heavy man with a
blown-dry hair style, silk shirt open
to his stomach, sunglasses and a
pinkie ring — couldn’t explain why
Still wasn’t there.

Before the conference started, he
said, “We wouldn‘t want to bring
this up, not this close to the draft

(the pro football draft th's mor-
ning) "

During later questioning, though,
he said Still is “away on personal
business." Tony Jeter, another Pro
Sport agent, said Still “has been
detained. . . At this present time,
we are not at liberty to say (where
Still is). Dr. Daniels and Art are
having a little conference and they
have to get some things straightened
out."

Dr. Harold Daniels is the chief
negotiator for Pro World Stars. He
has degrees in philosophy and
mathematics at Harvard Junior
College, according to Jeter. “Dr.
Daniek has nineplus years of ex-
perience in negotiating in the
National Football league,” Jeter
said.

Jeter, dressed in a rosecolored
suit and carrying a tweed briefcase,
was visibly disturbed when all of the
reporters questions were about Still
rather then the other Pro World
clients at the conference, including
UK’s Dallas Owens, Jerry Blanton
and Derrick Ramsey.

Handicapped sports program
hopes to increase offerings

Editor’s note:" This is the second
article in a three-part series dealing
about handicapped students at UK.

By BETSY PEARCE
Copy Editor

It is not unusual for college
students to compete in sporting
events. But when one is han-
dicapped, athletics present a special
challenge

“The beauty of wheelchair sports
is that they bring handicapped
people out and make them in-
dependent,” said Dr. Stan
Labanowich, adviser to the UK
Disabled Student Sports
Association. Labanowich is also an
assistant professor in the depart-
ment of health, physical education
and recreation.

Labanowich came to UK from
Illinois in 1975. He obtained $3,500
from the University to start a men’s
wheelchair basketball program,
which operated under the auspices
of campis recreation and han-
dicapped student services.

twice a week. For this reason, the
CKBC deals with plasma and
plasma fractions in a much lesser
quantity.)

A check with the three operations
shows most students are “paying off
their Volkswagens" (as an ad-
va-tisement in the Kernel suggests)
at Plasma Alliance in the Cardinal
Valley Shopping Center. The center,
only five months old, already boasts
600-800 donors per week with 70
percent of them students.

Tom Watts, a CKBC administrator
with 16 years of experience as a
medical technician, expressed
concern became Plasma Alliance
has “zeroed in" on the student part
of CKBC’ s donor base. According to
Watts only five percent of the 800

“UK let this happen here because
there are no similar services
elsewhere in Lexington,” he said.

The fledgling program got off to a
shaky start became of lack of
publicity, and, according to
Labanowich, “no tradition for the
disabled to get into sports."
Gradually word got around,
however, attracting both Lexington
residents and UK students.

This year’s “Wheelcats,” com—
posed of three UK students and
several alumni, won the conference
championship with a 10-2 record.

Though not as experienced as the
Wheelcats, women wheelchair
basketball players are establishing
a spot for themselves in the sports
world. UK‘s team is known as the
Felines.

Coached by Penny Barker, the
five-woman team is a diversified
group, composed of students, clerks
and an occupational therapist.

In March, the fourth national
women’s wheelchair basketball
tournament was held at UK. Five
teams participated in the largest

donors who give at CKBC each week
are from UK. (That figure doesn‘t
include staff and faculty.)

“Let’s face it," said Watts, a UK
graduate, “students have the time
(it takes about three times as long to
give plasma as it does to donate
blood) and need the money. You
can’t stifle free enterprise.

“The center used to pay for blood
when it was an accepted practice.
Since we quit in 1973, our student
participation has dropped
dramatically. Fortunately, other
segments of the community have
picked up the slack and replaced lost
donors. About 60 to 70 percent of
them are repeaters.

“That doesn't mean I wouldn’t like
to have more students giving blood

such basketball tournament to date.

In her second year of coaching
wheelchair basketball, Barker sees
this as an encouraging sign. “I feel
very confident about the way things
are going,” she said. “We’re at the
stage where things will keep getting
better.”

However, Barker would like to see
some changes made in scheduling
tournaments and other basketball
events here. “When scheduling
competitions here, we have to book
visitors in hotels," Barker said.

“One day I’d like to house them at
dorms, with the same advantages as
able-bodied conventions. It would
save money, too,” she said.

Barker and Labanowich agreed
they had been “very fortunate” with
students helping out. Both graduate
and undergraduate students have
been managers, table officials, etc.

But Labanowich would like to see
more students — ableobodied as well
as disabled — get involved with the
program.

Continued on page 3

UK students opt for paying plasma centers,
do not favor program despite benefits

here. We estimate that only 3 per-
cent of those who could donate, do."

Now in its 10th year, the CKBC
distributes whole blood, fresh-frozen
plasma, packed cells, platelet
concentrate and a variety of other
blood derivativrs to physicians and
hospitals in this area. It is replied to
be one of the best non-profit com-
munity blood centers in the nation.

The CKBC is governed by the
Fayette County Medical Society and
its Board of Directors is comprised
of Lexington (bctors. As with all
blood and plasma centers — paid or
volunteer— it is regulated by the
Food and Drug Administration and
rountinely inspected by the FDA‘s
Bureau of Biologics.

Continued on page 3

 

SUMMER WILL BE FULL OF MUSIC AT UK. The UK Summer Sound
concert series, featuring a variety of musical styles, begins June 7. Read

local

rm: t' N“ If \TION (‘ "1' RC“, BEADED BY the controversial Rev. Sun
Mymg Moon of Korea is planning to expand its operations with a Lexirgton

Dan I-cfferman a Californian who serves as the churchs national
missions coordinator was in Lexington this weekend examinirg sites near

Moon has been accused of brainwashing hundreds of youths. which has
spawned court battles over custody of the “Moonies.”

He also has been accused of using the 35,000-member congregation to
lobby for the continued U .8. military support ofSouth Korea. which Fef~

ferman denied.

state

AN ADMINISTRATIVE HEARING WILL NOT BE HELD as scindlled
today on the question of whether the Kentucky State Police officer selection
process discriminates on the basis of sex, according to State Police Corn-

missioner Ken Brandenbwgh.

Instead. the admin istrativelaw judgein the case will rule on the record as
submitted by the Kentucky Human Rights commissionBrandethtgh said

yosterda y .

Ilinging on that decision is repayment by the state of several thousand
dollars in federal Law Enforcement Assistant Administration grants.

The LEAA already has suspended the award of a $95,000 federal grant for
Kentucky state police crime laboratories pending a ruling in the case.

weather

A NICE DAY TODAY BUT NO Ill-:AT with highs in the low 60s. Clear and
not as cold ton'ghtwith lows in the low (Os. Mostly sunny and a little warmer

tomorrow with highs in the low 70s

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editorials 8: comments

Sleye Bollinger David Ilibbills , Gregg Field
Editor in Clue] Sports Editor Richard McDmald
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Ihck Gabriel - ether
Managing Editor “0b Stauble w: Tiufce
Assistant Sports Editor Co y E dlton
mamas (Hark py
Assistant Managing Editor Walter Tunis
_ Arts 1: Entertainment Editor David O’Neil
Charles Main
Editorial Editor PM" ”Mu"
Nell Fields
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Office Tower Blues
'Racism is racism,

pregnant is pregnant’

Item: Kentucky’s Council on igher
Education begins debate on whether
Kentucky State University has a
right to life.

Item: A black high school senior
visits the University of Kentucky,
uncertain if he wants to enroll. In-
formed of the University’s speical
services for black students, he
searches for the Office of Minority
Student Affairs. He finds it at the
bottom of a narrow flightof stairs, in
the dingy basement of a building
erected in 1898. The reception room
is so small that two people cannot
approach the director's office at the
same time. This second office is
large but there is a sense of the
perpetual crouch — a low ceiling
made even lower by a maze of ex-
posed pipes overhead.

Item: A black woman and a white
woman apfly for an apartment in 3
Lexington complex. The white
woman is shown two apartments
and told one will be available in a

week. No application fee will be
required. The black woman is shown
no apartments, told no apartment
will be available for a month, and
informed that there is a $260 ap
plication fee.

Racism is an emotionally-chared,

all-inclusive word. There is no
vocabulary for fractional racism or

minor racism. Racism is racism;

pregnant is pregnant. People do not
want to be called racist, do not think
they are racist, and get defensive
when they hear the word. It is
always practiced and perpetuated
by others. If you don’t think you
have racist feelings, don’t read any

further.

For dime still with me, consider
the pasm‘danmd by Kentucky
State swarms! for Higher
Education. It brings joy to the heart
of a conmisseur of Catch-22. After
decades of inadequate state funding,
the school is criticized for
inadequate programs. After letting
the physical plant run down, the
state ponders whether it will be cost-
effective to build it up. After all but
labeling the school a second-class
citizen in its “Mission Statements"
for higher education, the Council
can’t understand why KSU has
trouble competing for Kentucky
students. And when KSU goes
outside the state to fill its
classrooms, the Council thrashes
around, intending to teach the school
a lesson by' making its ad-
ministrators come hat in hand to

plead for survival.

The issue in all of the items cited is
institutional racism. Not overt
racism, for that is obscene, violent

in Kentucky will quickly ascertain experience of a TV camera zooming
thetrue nature of UK’s commitment in on your private parts. But sym-
to maintaining a university for all bols can be either positive or
the people. No one actually con— negative, healthy or unhealthy. The

spired to allocate that basement swastika isasymbol;sois theeross.
office; the staff simply wasn’t Positive symbols alter institutions

considered important enough— becasuetheychangeperceptions.As

within the institution -— to merit the perceptions change, people
better facilities. Whether intended discova' their need to believe in the
or not, the message to the substance behind the symbol.
prospective student is: Blacks at UK UK has a problem, like Lexington,
are keptin their place. Literally and and the state, became it has few
symbolically, 35 in Ralph Ellison’s positive symbols of integration;
Invisible Man, that place is un- there are few symbols became the
derground. institution has not committed it-
Keeping one’s place is also what self — faculty, administration and
the KSU-higher education council students .- to the idea of a
hassle iS all about. The COthil. SO meaningfully integrated university.
far as I can tell, is in favor of in- The problem is in both the adjective
tegrated education and increased and the noun. A university is
opportunity for minority students. recreated each time a class meets.
But they would also like KSU to All the rest — class schedules,
disappear. Sitting directly under the registration, debt service,
nose of the legislature, the school is sororities, faculty clubs, basketball
a reminder of an overtly racist teams - are bric-a-brac.
educational system that ended only Black students in Kentucky should
20 years ago, and a discriminatory havethe option of attendinga school
method of funding carried forward where they will constitute a
to the present day. majority. But if they wish to attend a
The council’s attempt to deal with school, like UK, where they will be in
KSU's “insubordination” — a minority, they have a right to
Kentuky State enrolled 10 percent expect that “minority” does not
more out~of~state students than the mean invisibility — their support
Council permits —- reflects a seldom facilities placed out of the way and
expressed public perception. There underground, their cheers for the
is something vaguely troubling basketball team restricted to the
about KSU, something unsettling bench and stands. Above all, they
that most whites can’t identify. It is have a right to expect that the
an unconscious, unarticulated profound and magic process of
feelingthat BlaCkSi a minority in the university creation occurring when
state‘s population, should also be in their professor enters the classroom

minority situations in an integrated does not always arise from a white.

educational system. presence.
The Council’s actions threaten to

O
deny to black students the op- Finally , they have a right to ex-
portunity to attend college, in a pect that the university will not s
majority environment. Many black search for faculty became'they aré‘ st

 

 

 

Letters to the Editor

 

 

In trouble

I think this is the time for a foreign
student to say something.

tuition would be increased, I said to
myself, “you’re in trouble again.”

I don’t think it’s fair to increase
the tuition in every year. Last year
(spring) it was only $605, and next
fall it will be$900. Andl think it’s a Using them planes stinks while a list of local lawyers and tran-
shame to say that UK is the our kids’ education sinks!
cheapest me around this area. Thank you Governor Carroll for cheer you up, but they are concerned
Maybe they are right, but UK doingaway with the bonus system in with maintaining good relations with

doesn’t have as good facilities as the Kentucky.

Michael E. Garnett

Planes stink

types of wastes. Energy should be without the inconveniencesof search
our concern year-round, not just ina warrants. Dealers increase their
pinch. profits by informing on their
customers. Pre-trial detention is
lenghy. Four months in a French

The daylsaw that the out-of-state Business and Education junior jail will pass quickly, but in Spain or

Italy count on a year.

American consulates cannot loan
money, pay bail, provide counsel or
intervene to speed up the legal
process. They can, and will, provide

slators and visit from time to time to

local officials and wary of getting

The harrison Ccounty school involved in the troubles of another

Last year, after the $145 increase, board fired 36 teachers, cut school busted American. As Nixon said to
nothing was improved. I’m not supplies, increased kids in kin- theindicted Watergate conspirators,
supposed to ask what they did with dergarten to 50 a teacher and ccut it you’re on your own. A traveller does
the money, or where it went. Also, down to half a year, dropped driver not pack his legal system in his

_ they shouldn’t increase the old~ trainingandthat-is mlyaafowitllinesrstitcaler \-~In'~manyffcoll_ltljies
tudents’ tuition, too. Those .new that have been dine to keep our ‘probable’e‘atise’ls not neccessary
udenEs Will be charged $900, but school going, much more is coming. before search and siezure, one may

students do not want to searcli an afraid of HEW guidelines, but the old students should be charged It sure must be nice to sperd be detained without being charged,
entire campus for a black face In a becasue black: faculty members $750. I think that’s quite enough. $800,000 of tax money on a new plane and bail is not recognized at all.

postition of authority. They want an bring skills and intelligence and

About the five days of no classes: while our kids are forced to live in

I also wish to note that Koontz’s

environment where a black expertise to a campus once judged can we get our tuition money back ignorance due to your mixed up recommendation to save money in
priorities. It’s a shame my two kids London by by trespassing for the

cheerleader is not an anomaly. They by its negative symbols (an all-white for those?
especially want an environment basketball team, a socially

I’ve been in several states in the and thousands of others will have to night in an abandoned house and the

where there are many positiveblack exuberant student body) and therby U.S., and I think Kentucky is the suffer while you provide your kids next day to spend $175 in Paris fora

role models — black faculty — labelled a white country club.
rather than only a few.

The traditional black colleges people in teaching positions at this d
have provided a majority of the black university. There are approximately

0 pay more and learn less.

more discriminative state. What’s with a plane to and from college and prostitute is not only against comon

There are at present only 14 black wrong with us foreign students? We take over 100 trips flying your sense but offensive to me because
friends and family all over the Koontz deals with women the way he

Most of the Americans think that country atacost of $200 an hour. You deals with dope as “goods” to be

PFOTESSlonalS alld blaCk leaders in 500black students enrolled, less than they are grand and full of grace; if said you use the planes to keep your bought by dollars.

the country. Julian Bond went to a 3 percent of the UK student body. you are, why not be friendly and family closer and to go on vacations
with. Did you think when you going abroad should not only

became governor your work would disregard Koontz’ tips but watch out

black college; so did Thurgood Whyis this so? Partially became the show us?
Marshall, and Martin Luther King. hiring of qualified black faculty has
Andrew Young graduated from not been made the number one u e s a n ,

M a h m o o d take less of your time? How do you

Morehouse, the late Whitney Young .priority of the university, partially b u s i n e s s j u n i o .- thinka person feels watching hard-

from Kentucky State.

many whites, though few will admit court,

it. If KSU receives equivalent The university now supmrts a
funding with white schools, might it black literary magazine, Callaloo. It
not produce a generation of leaders is distributed nation-wide, and in rai

became the state’s black students
And that evidence is what disturbs can see who leads the Cats onto the

More waste

With a recent $35 (19113! tuition A lot of folks like myself can’t even
53. a 10 percent housrng increase afford a decent running car to keep a

earned tax money being used to fly
your kids back‘ and forth to college
while our kids get an inferior
education? Sure makes you wonder!

and easily identified. The Ku Klux who will refuse to equate minority Africa and Europe. Callaloo has a and a $300 rise in the out-of-state close family but we manage without
Klan harassing black school status with inferior opportunity? distinguished group of contributing tuition, can we afford to once again the taxpayers’ airplanes. My four

children in Jefferson County is an What if some of those out of state editors, one of whom recently won waste
example of overt racism. Lexington students, many from northern cities, the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. It is a

energy? _ _ year old son and seven year old
hat the coal strike Is over. daughter along with my wife and I

realtors telling a white man that he fail to understand the way of life in positive symbol becarse it reflects why should UK go back to its old personally thank you Governor
' can pay 10 percent down for a house, the bluegrass? What if they begin to the substance created by its editor, wasteful ways? I’m positive that the Carroll for for cheating Kentucky

but asking a black man, with an sue Lexington apartment owners? Dr. Charles H. Rowell, when he UK students
With less lighting in the classroom education and a chance for a decent

identical credit rating, to pay 18 These questions are not asked enters a UK classroom.

pacent down for the same house is

opmly; they sit on the subconscious, Such a positive symbol, however,
an example of instituitonal racism. waitng for some form of must be balanced against basement

and faculty can live kids and parents out of a decent

buildingcorridors. Why do we need governor. When you stated
the corridors around campus ill “P education in Kentucky is your

The black man can still buy; he just displacement — a symbolic ar- offices and the hard facts of faculty like daylight, not just at night but number one priority 1 take it you

needs more money.

Institutional racism is often ex- motive for behavior, the reason membershavebeen hiredthis year?

ticulation. It is the unexamined recruiting. How many black faculty during the day also?
There are many other foolish. know you don‘t mind using them

meant your kids’ education. We

tremely subtle (apart from most behindthe reason,which contributes There are plenty of excuses, but so wastes of energy around the planes as you wish but we want our
Lexington realtors, whoare about as to institutional racism. Killing off long as there remain explanations University. Twice as many lights tax money spent the way we wish
subtle as Soupy Sales) and it is often KSU would bury a lot if liberal guilt; rather than actions, negative rather are lit in the restrooms as needed. and that is on our kids‘ education in
papetuated by well-meaning in- if it were incorporated into UK it than positive symbols, UK, Constant-flush urinals in the least- Kentucky.

dividuals. It is admirable, for would be easy, instant integration. Lexington and the state of Kentucky used restrooms. Over-heating and

example. that UK has created an Before this gets too oblique, let us will continue to be perceived as overc
office of Minority Student Affairs, dealclose to homeBasement offices institutions that keep people in their

and hired hard—working people to and cheerleaders are admitteldy place.
staff it.Solongas this staff is kept in only symbols. No woman, white or

POPCORN

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ooling in the dorms and Eli Simpson

buildings. Whole C y n t h i a n a , K y .

Koontz 'hip'

buildings brightly lit at night when
only one or two classes are being
slave quarters, buried in the black, should want to invite the Robert Ileinenway teaches English h
basement of one of the oldest sexual objectification that comes at l'K and occupies one of the
buildingson campus. black students with checrleading. the demeaning lllessiest offices in Patterson Tower.

The University and students could
both save by correction of these

One can understand why Timothy
B C Koontz took the oppurtunity to claim
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] has transcended the bomb of law,

social convention and good sense. He
is hip and now we know it. But one
cannot understand why the Kernel‘s

|Ymsr1mldn1hnvecmsosoolatter editors gave him space for
"m" "'~;,,. _ -, , spreading such misleading in-

formation.

Doing (hugs in Europe, even in
Amsterdam, is a gamble where the
odrh are bad. European law en-
trocement agaicies are not blinded
by the American dollar — an article
of currency no long: almighty, by
the way. Police make busts in public
facilities and even in private
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In conclusion, I think students

so they don’t fall in the “hip” trap of
Koontz’ idea of having fun in
Europe. I don’t see the point of going
abroad to get stoned, drunk and laid
when you cab do the same in
Lexington. I suggest that, trite as it
may seem, going to Europe might
mean for some students and people
to establish meaningful relation-
ships with Europeans and learn to
look at oneself and one’s values in a
critical perspective. I don’t think
Koontz, unfortunately, ever got to
this stage.

A I b a 0 r s i
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newspapers I have never en-
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they print for the readers‘ en-
joyment, but this dude takes the
cake. I find it hard to believe that the
letter you printed last week with his
signature under it was real.

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friends in my apartment building
about it. Is it real or not? Perhaps
I‘m making an unworthy assump-
tion, but the whole thing sort of
smacked of Charles Main’s
demented sense of humor. I wouldn’t
pm something like that past him,
either. ls Eli Simpson another fic-
titious weirdo from the back of his
drug-tainted mind?

Akcgof beer is on the line here,so
please tell us. And while I‘m
thinking about it, is John Cooke a
real pix-son, too, or is he merely
another schizophrenic manifestation
of your strange Editorial Editor?

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CK BC loses in student donor market

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“By pooling our blood
resources from 33 counties
and keeping operations
centralized, we can afford to
keep the price of blood low,
charging hospitals only a
$27.25 processing fee for a
unit of blood and $10 for
plasma.”

Became CKBC is the only
supplier of blood in this area,
low inventory can be a
problem. “We‘ve never run
completely out," Watts said.
“There are times when our
supply does drop dangerously
low and we have emergency
blood drives. Hospitals
cooperate by canceling
elective surgery. We have a
natural ”agreement that they
don’t look elsewhere for
blood."

However, area hospitals do
obtain plasma fractions from
different sources at varying
costs — among them CKBC,
the National Hemophiliac
Foundation and large
pharmaceutical companies.

Watts explained why the

center went all-volunteer five
years ago. “For quite awhile,
paid blood has been
associated with post-
transfusion hepatitis. This
isn’t necessarily true, if the
donor population is carefully
selected (as our’s was prior to
1973) but many centers
weren't doing this. As a result
of the bad publicity, the
American Association of
Blood Banks thought it best to
phase out blood-for-pay
altogether.”

Since then, Watts said, laws
have been enacted in Illinois
and California that require