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First copy FREE; additional copies 1 $ “Limelight” opens in Alexander Gallery See Page 4 iln dependent, student - run kamas Community College, Oregon City, OR newspaper ------ Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008 Volume 41, Issue 11 II Kyle Steele Clackamas Print Klotchy Creek Giant ekes in a stoim, and its branches ate brought to Clackamas in hopes that some of the tree can besalvaged Kyle Steele The Clackamas Print Emily Watters Clackamas Print Top Right: Students in the grafting class search for cuttings from a tree on campus during their grafting class Monday, Feb. 4. Top Left: Instructor Bruce Nelson looks over cutting samples in one of the greenhouses. The cuttings will later be used as grafting practice for students. The wind was just too strong on Dec. 3,: 2007, so strong in fact that it toppled the nation’s largest Sitka Spruce near Seaside. Klootchy Creek Giant, as it’s also known, was considered dead when the top 125 feet of the once-200-plus-foot behemoth fell to the ground. Please see HISTORIC TREE, Page 3 îxual orientation prevents male student from giving blood Straight Alliance. “Anyone that is having unprotected sex is by MSM, or a subgroup of these potential donors, is as safe as blood from currently accepted donors.” susceptible.” Matthias said, “They have planned to maintain those policies “It perpetuates a stereotype that all gay men have HTV and that HIV is a gay man’s problem,” Burnell added “These even though current blood-testing technologies have improved healthy, young men that get tested are constantly reminded that and will continue to maintain them until new information becomes available.” they are not accepted and they are thought of as diseased” Although Knudsen succeeded in organizing yet another Knudsen considers himself a responsible individual and draws offense at the stereotypes that have developed over the blood drive this school year, and will organize one again, the success is a complicated one. years. •tor inKhief “I’d like to give blood,” he said. “I like coordinating it, and “People still think that gays are promiscuous and sleep around” Knudsen said “I’m in a committed relationship. I don’t I am glad I am doing it because I like helping people; but at the my people who give blood regularly know that going sleep around I don’t do that” same time, it just reminds me that I can’t do this. h the American Red Cross screening process can be like According to Clare Matthias, spokesperson for ig through hoops. the Pacific Northwest Regional Blood Services, the line people who donated blood at last Wednesday’s American Red Cross has been imploring the Food iated Student Government blood drive and Drug Administration (FDA) perhaps surprised to find out that they - which creates the guidelines by tot eligible to donate for a variety of rea- which the Red Cross abides - to hdividuals who have recently visited a loosen restrictions for blood donors “ They could c foreign country or taken a prescribed for quite some time but to no avail. save so many ition, for example, may be unable to “They check the blood They 'ood check every unit of blood” more lives if ters, like ASG Public Affairs Officer Knudsen said. “They could save they let gay so many more lives if they let gay Knudsen, who organized the blood iis term, are very aware that they cannot men donate. ” men donate.” ute simply because of their sexuality, The FDA’s Web site has released Mitch Knudsen eel mat it’s inappropriate and ridicu- an official statement in response to ASG Public Affairs 'lûffldsen said. “Lesbians and hetero- questions regarding the eligibility Officer ; can still get HIV and STDs. It’s not of men who have sex with other ;ay STD; everyone can get it” men (MSM) as blood donors. It i : bfood donor eligibility guide for the reads as follows: «Red Cross states that the organiza- ‘TDA’s primary responsibility 11 not accept blood from any male who has had sex with is to enhance blood safety and protect blood recipi r male after 1977. There is no mention of restrictions to ents. Therefore, FDA would change this policy only if jrals who have engaged in male-female intercourse or supported by scientific data showing that a change in Genyva Laubach Clackamas Print -female intercourse, regardless of any precautions taken, policy would not present a significant and preventable Student leadership adviser Michelle Baker waits patiently is ridiculous that these men can’t donate,” said English risk to blood recipients. Scientific evidence has not yet as she is prepped to give blood Wednesday, Jan. 30. tor Carol Burnell, who is the adviser for Clackamas’ Gay been provided to FDA that shows that blood donated 7DAregulation about sexuality stops ‘ Clackamas blood drive organizer, tch Knudsen, from donating egan Koler
