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Mother has dead son’s
sperm frozen
1COLD SPRINGS, Nev. — A
casino cocktail waitress is
keeping alive her hope of having
a grandchild by freezing the
sperm of her dead son, who shot
himself last week playing Russian
roulette.
“I told them I have to get my
son’s sperm. It’s the only way I
can be a grandma,” said his moth
er, Pamela Reno, in an interview
Thursday. She said she wants to
find an egg donor and carry the fe
tus herself.
The sperm was harvested at
Washoe Medical Center in Reno
on Friday as Jeremy Reno, 19, was
kept breathing on life support sys
tems. He died later that day.
‘‘They got three vials,” said
Reno, 38. “Nobody can believe I
thought of it.”
Dr. Russell Foulk, who helped
harvest the sperm, said in an in
terview that it won’t be used for
procreation until a number of eth
ical and legal issues are ad
dressed.
“We’re kind of in new ground
here,” Foulk said, referring to the
harvesting of sperm from dying
patients. “We’ve not had the abili
ty to do this until recently. I’ve
heard of scattered reports. It is a
request that is becoming more
and more frequent among trans
plant physicians.”
Reno, a single mother, has
worked at the Circus Circus casi
no for seven years since moving
to Reno with her only child from
San Jose, Calif., in search of a bet
ter paying job.
Beta Theta Pi closes
Oregon State chapter
2 STILLWATER, Okla. — Na
tional leaders of the Beta Theta
Pi fraternity have closed three
chapters, including one at Oregon
State University.
Beta Theta Pi said Thursday its
chapter at Florida State Universi
ty in Tallahassee was voluntarily
closing because of dwindling
membership.
At Oklahoma State University,
officials announced the closure of
the Beta chapter as they were be
ginning a formal disciplinary in
quiry into allegations of a chapter
hazing incident involving alcohol
abuse.
And the Oregon State chapter
was closed Sept. 22 after under
graduates didn’t meet minimum
expectations of the university, the
fraternity and alumni.
The house of the 75-year-old
chapter was forced to be sub
stance-free and a majority of re
turning members elected not to
live there, officials said. There
are two other Beta Theta Pi
chapters in the state — at the
University of Oregon and
Willamette University.
Balding Barbie starts
$200,000 lawsuit
3 BALTIMORE — A Barbie doll
is at the center of a lawsuit in
which a Canadian collector
claims a rare 1960s version of the
doll she bought over the Internet
arrived with a severe case of
chrome dome.
Janice Amundson, a Barbie col
lector, said she bought the doll in
March from a Maryland woman
for $1,800.
“When she opened the box that
was delivered in the mail, she
found that the doll's hair had got
ten brittle and was falling out,”
said Joseph Hovermill, her
lawyer. “It was not in the near
mint condition she’d been led to
believe.”
Chunks of hair were missing,
he said.
Lori Maddox, who lives in
Somerset County, sold the doll
and said Amundson tried to dye
its faded hair, causing the hair to
fall out.
“It was in perfect condition
when I mailed it to her, and I have
pictures to prove it,” Maddox said
Wednesday. “If anything hap
pened to that doll, it was either
caused by Mrs. Amundson or an
act of God.”
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