It’s blood drive time again
■ Drive organizers are on
the lookout for rare type A
negative blood, though all
types are welcomed
By Kristin Hanes
for the Emerald
Students who want to help out
the Lane Memorial Blood Bank
will have their chance today at
the University’s 17th annual
blood drive frojn 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
in the EMU Fir Room.
Senior Norine Madden, Univer
sity director of the drive, said she
expects a high turnout of stu
dents. The drive is now in its sec
ond day.
“The Northwest is very short
on blood, and I am hoping to*
break my record, which is 273
units,” Madden said. “We’re ex
pecting at least 200 students.”
Junior public policy and man
agement major Olivia Cox was
one of those student donors.
“I think it’s good to donate
blood because there are people in
need, and if I have something to
give, then why not?” she said.
The blood drive trying to seek
out more donations of the blood
type A negative, which is one of
the more rare types, said Chris
Stockdale, the donor recruiter for
the Lane Memorial Blood Bank.
“The most common blood
types are O positive and A posi
tive,” she said. One in 16 people
has A negative blood, she said,
while the ratio for people with A
positive or O positive blood is one
to three.
“We’re hoping that anyone
Azle Malinao-Alvarez Emerald
Sophomore George Pryor, a psychology and anthropology major, looks on as the
needle goes in.
with A negative blood could
make a special effort to participate
in the drive,” she said.
Stockdale said the blood bank
has a system for donation that dif
fers from other banks. Donors to
the blood bank are given credit for
the blood they give and decide
where they would like that credit
to go. Donors who give a pint, or
unit, of blood receive a credit
worth $15 that they can donate to
a specific person, donor club,
blood assurance plan or a com
munity fund.
According to Stockdale, many
students at the University choose
to assign their credits to the Uni
versity of Oregon Donor Club.
This credit system was initially
implemented to assure that blood
is available when needed without
wasting units.
“If a person is sick, then blood
can be very expensive, so credits
are a good system,” she said. “For
the donors, there is an extensive
list they can choose from when
deciding where to put their cred
its.”
Stockdale said all donated
blood goes to patients in Lane
County hospitals.
For more information about the
blood drive, call 346-3086.
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