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!ws the clackamas print 3 Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010 nations flood college with blood F ■ iä :.K ' Jessica Foster Clackamas Print , _ Irican Red Cross workers drew blood from Clackamas student donors at the last American Red Cross Blood Drive on campus, Oct. 27 12009. The American “ Red Cross expected 84 donors, but 94 turned out for the event. This term, the projected goal is 104 donors. * Lohn Hurlburt [Editor in Chief cord amount of blood I on Clackanjas grounds I leaving members of go’s Associated Student lent (ASG) and the I Red Cross very [-four individuals donat- I during Clackamas’ live on Oct. 27 and 28, [ASG’s original goal of I people to donate, amount of blood col- las enough to prompt hockley, Northwest high [liege representative for ■Red Cross, to raise the [goal from 84 people to I the next blood drive, the goals are set a year Ke but Clackamas’ high [or donors prompted an I His reason for doing so inple. [student government at las Community College] f goal on their last drive hue to reach for greater I said Shockley. Die Tracy, ASG public Senator for awareness, ling high from Student Bent’s recent success, sees pure in Clackamas blood I is very stoked. We I pleased with what we ne,” commented -Tracy, has is a very giving col- i we’re confident we will Inext goal.” [recent success means kt blood drive will have Rd capability for han- |ore students, including & bed for students donat- |e blood and one extra Rents donating “double reds.” The American Red Cross must raise 5,000 units of life-saving donated blood a week in order to keep up with demand from area hospitals. According to Shockley, colleges are very important to reaching these demands because often lifetime donors can be made from the experience. “Colleges are an important place for students to have the opportunity to give blood. Donors in college who experience the blood donation process for the first time are more likely to do it again,” Shockley stated. Jonathan King, a Clackamas student who has donated blood previously,, said the experience wasn’t really unpleasant and doesn’t leave giving blood in the future out of the questions. King’s reasons for giving blood in the first place seem straight forward. “I felt like it would be good to do,” King said, adding, “I was bored, and it was something to do.” Although most asked said donating blood was an overall positive experience, not every one will leave the linen-covered American Red Cross donation bed feeling great. In fact, one bad day can scare some donors from ever coming back. Student Brandon Bradach says he used to give blood until he experienced the potential down side to his good intentions. “It felt like the needle was scraping the inside of the vein,” Bradach said. Bradach mentioned that he never informed the person'tak ing his blood of the pain, which he admitted may have led to an extension of the pain. Even though some individu als have gone through a bad time while giving their blood away, many local Colleges and high schools have been donating this resource that money can’t create in increasing proportions. Shockley did not comment as to why more people are donating bloodi However, enrollment has recently skyrocketed at higher learning institutions statewide which may be a factor in why these institutions are bleeding more for the common • good lately. Individuals can donate Hood in two ways. The first and more tradi tional way is to draw blood out of a person and put it into a bag to be shipped to the blood bank and tested. The blood taken from this method is called “whole blood,” and the process takes just a few minutes. Extracting “double reds” is the second way to donate blood. With this method blood is taken from a person, the red blood cells are separated from the white blood cells and then the white blood cells are put back in the body. This method yields a red blood cell concen trate that would leave vampires salivating. Donating double reds gives twice as many life-saving red blood cells as whole blood does while leaving the donor feeling less drained. The extri cation process, however, takes longer. Pumping out a pint of blood for someone else to use isn’t for ’everyone. For a myriad of reasons some cannot or will not donate blood, but even if a person is incapable of donating blood, Tracy says, there are still plenty of opportunities for them to help during the blood drives. On campus volunteers will be needed in order to run support roles for the drive. A minimum of an hour is required to volunteer but those interested can volun teer as many hours as they like. 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