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Page 4 Clackamas Community College Yellow alert Type 0 blood needed by Heleen Veenstra Editor “The reason we are on alert is because people are afraid to donate blood. There is no way you can get AIDS from donating blood. We use sterile equipment, which is only used once,” said Janna Kinkade, Red Cross representative. Clackamas Community Col lege will have a blood drive, in the community center, Wednes day Oct. 28 from 10 a.m. ’till 3 p.m. Kinkade expressed she would like to see many donors, since the Red Cross is on yellow alert. Yellow alert means that only 50%-80% of the red blood order will be delivered by mid night, to supply the regional hospitals. The yellow alert was issued Oct. 5, still being short 250 units of blood. September 30 the blood supply was on red alert. The blood inventory was 800 units below the optimum level of 4,800 units. On red alert hospitals only received 50% of the blood orders. The American Red Cross needs to collect 540 units of blood each weekday and 135 on Saturday to meet the patient needs in the Northwest. Two thirds of the shortage was type O blood, which is the most used type. Type O blood is used in emergencies and given to infants who need blood. Type O blood can be used as back up for any other blood type. Out of 100 people 38.4 are O positive, which is the most common used type. “That’s what we need the most of,” Kinkade said. An analysis done by the The Pencilier ' S1-89^ University of Stanford shows that there is a 97.6% chance that a person living to the age of 72 will require a blood transfu sion. Red Cross statistics show that only 5 % of the population donates blood. "There is no way you can get AIDS from donating blood. ” All the donated blood goes through five tests, which are: H.I.V. screening (Aids testing), Hepatitis screening, Syphilis screening, type and RH factor screening’ and Antibody screen ing. Every unit of blood goes through these screenings. It doesn’t matter how often the same person gives blood, it will go through those tests each time, Kinkade said, to point out that donating blood is . not dangerous for one’s health. “We have blood mobiles go ing everyday and the blood center is open six days a week. And then we have six teams of nurses who are on the road throughout the region everyday.” The blood mobiles go around in Multnomah, Columbia, Yamhill, Washington and Clackamas county. Every cou ple of hours somebody picks up the blood collected in the mobiles and brings it to Portland for processing. “We draw blood in high schools and colleges, which are mainly the places we get our first time donors.” The first time donors are very important because young donors will see donating blood is a natural thing to do, Kinkade explained. “I’ve been working for the Red Cross for a year and a half and I’ve been doing this job for three weeks. I handle Clackamas, Yamhill and Columbia county and set up blood drives.” Before that Kinkade was a phlebotomist, the person who draws blood. The blood center is located at 3131 N. Vancouver Ave., Portland. It is open Monday through Thursday from 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Friday from 8 a.m.-3:3O p.m., and Saturday from 7:30 a.m.-l:30 p.m. Student nurses help man by Michelle Walch Staff Writer____________ Three Clackamas Community College nursing students were the first to arrive at the scene of an auto-pedestrian accident. Karen Hamilton, Marie Yager, and Sharon Wartel were coming back from Providence Hospital in Milwaukie, when they saw 26-year-old Ronald Spendahi of S.E. Portland lying on the road in front of a car. The car was driven by Mark Allen, and passengers were Michelle Moreland and Monica Allen. The accident took place Monday, Oct. 7, at 12:50 p.m., at the cor ner of Johnson Road and Lake Road, in Milwaukie. “We were coming back from Providence, when we saw a man in front of a stopped car. We covered him with our lab jackets, and asked if anyone called paramedics. We checked his pulse, respiration, and for any bleeding, and comforted him until paramedics arrived. He was in a lot of pain.” The car was moving at 30 m.p.h., and apparently Allen was watching the traffic and unaware of Spendahi, who had the right-of-way. Spendahi had a fractured pelvis from a motor cycle accident six months prior. The Clackamas County police and a Willamette Falls Hospital ambulance arrived and took him to Kaiser Hospital. Spendahi had minor injuries, and Allen was issued a citation for failure to yield to pedestrians. The Better Ball Point Pen 89' fflHr Whatever the assignment, Pilot has the formula fflr for writing comfort and precision. 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You have to look at things completely dif ferent,” said Nancy Baker on the difference of being a reporter and the college’s News Service Coor dinator. Baker, 30, was hired in September to serve as a liaison between the college and area newspapers, radio and television stations. She replaces Ken Koop- man, who resigned in June. From 1985 until her hiring here, Baker covered higher education for the “Charleston Gazette” in West Virginia. She covered education and city government for the “Chandler Arizonian” in Arizona after ear ning a Masters of Arts in Jour nalism from the University of Oregon in 1984. Baker graduated from Indiana University in 1979 with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. She worked as a paralegal and served as a volunteer editor with Amnesty International, both in Washington D.C. Baker currently writes freelance stories for “Oregon Magazine.” She interned there during the Summer of 1983. “My goals are completely dif ferent here than as a reporter. Here I work for the college. My job is to promote the college,” said Baker. She also added that she is busier in public relations than she was as a reporter. Her current work is more varied as well, Baker said. “1 have a much greater range of responsibilities,” she said, “I can learn more about publishing, advertising, and colleges.” Baker said she accepted the job here to move back to Oregon, not necessarily to leave reporting. “The college is the most com fortable environment I’ve work ed in,” She said, “I really like the people.” Financial Aid requests increase by Caret Hussey Staff Writer____________________________ You say you haven’t heard anything about your financial aid yet? This delay is due to the fact that the Financial Aid Office has received, as of Aug. 30, 1067 Financial Aid Forms; that’s 187 more applications than were handed in during the entire 1986-87 school year. Part of the reason for this in crease are the changes in Federal Student Aid Programs due to the Reauthorization of Higher Education that took place in Congress in October 1986. Some of these changes require students who apply for Guaranteed Stu dent Loans to apply for Financial Aid on a Financial Aid form prior to completing the GSL ap plication. The Federal Financial Aid funds sent from the U.S. Depart ment of Education in the form of Supplemental Educational Op portunity Grants (SEOG), Perkins loans (NDSL) and Col lege Work Study funds have not increased significantly, so students whose applications were completed from mid-August on have been placed on waiting lists for Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants and College Work Study funds. Sometimes other students decline these funds so additional awards are being made to students on waiting lists. Students are awarded on a first come first served basis by date of completed application. Money is still available from Pell Grants, Oregon State Need Grants and Guaranteed Student Loans. Students must be enroll ed in at least six credit hours to qualify. Applications for Federal Aid (FAF) and Guaranteed Student Loan ap plications are available in the Financial Aid Office. The Financial Aid Office also has scholarship applications so that students can look at funding op portunities that may not be bas ed on federal requirements. The Student Financial Aid Office is located next to the counseling department in the Community Center building. They are open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The phone number is 657-8400 ext.422.
