Thursday, November 14, 1991
Behrend donates over 60 pints
of blood for annual Blood Drive
Congratulations: Cathy Eck, health and wellness coordinator,
presents Brian Patten, vice president of Tau Kappa Epsilon, with their
award for bringing in the most blood donors during this year's Blood
Drive. Rob Pfendlerahe Collegian
Bob Saucrs got stuffed
Slammed.
Beaten
Before the blood drive, Saucrs
challenged Behrcnd students to
donate more blood than he could
run. Saucrs claimed he could run
a mile for every pint of blood
donated.
And the talc of the tape:
Behrend students with 68 pints of
blood in eight hours, Sauers with
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60 miles in 12 hours
But Saucrs is glad students
beat him because "the challenge
was an incentive for them to
donate more blood, and I'm glad
they did."
Over 121 Bchrend studenis and
staff donated (luring the event,
which was sponsored by Tau
Kappa Epsilon and Sigma Theta
Chi.
Twenty-seven organizations
The Collegian
competed in the blood drive, with
TKE topping the list with a 183
percent donation rate (students
and staff could donate blood in
the name of any organization
they wanted to).
Alpha Phi Omega came in
second with 48 percent, and both
the Lion Ambassadors and the
Society of Human Resource
Managers tied for third place with
30 percent.
World
United Nations -- A Western proposal
that would have the U.N. appoint a senior
official, with a $5O million fund at the
ready, to coordinate world disaster
operations is under fire from Third World
countries, who claim the plan is a pretext
for Western nations to meddle in their
affairs. The plan was introduce - d by the
Western nations, who provide the bulk of
disaster aid, because they felt the U.N. has
handled recent operations poorly.
Belgrade, Yugoslavia -- The 43-day-old
siege of Dubrovnik intensified Tuesday and
the Yugoslavian army stepped up shelling
on this port city. The city's 50,000
inhabitants have been trapped without
water, telephone and electric services since
Oct. 1, and arc reported to he running low
on water, food and medical supplies.
Elsewhere in the country, federal forces arc
pushing Croatian forces hack on many
fronts.
Moscow -- President Mikhail Gorbachev
said yesterday that President Bush called to
warn him about a possible hard-line coup
well before the actual event, but told him
not to worry. "There were all sorts or
warnings flying about in those days," said
Gorbachev. "President Bush called to warn
mc, but I told him not to get excited, that
everything was okay." President Gorbachev
made the comments during a news
conference Tuesday announcing a book
about the failed coup.
Nation
Washington -- Congress and President
Bush have moved closer to an agreement on
unemployment benefits for the long-term
unemployed. A $5.1 billion plan, designed to
pay for itself through increased taxes on
some high-income sources and deduct ions
from tax refunds for unpaid student loans, is
close to approval from both camps. Some
analysts say the president is ready to agree
to the proposal in order to blunt charges
that he is unconcerned about domestic
issues. Legislators hope to have the hill to
the While House by the end of the week.
Washington -- A bill designed to divert $1
billion from the military budget to aid for
the Soviets appears dead in the water, the
victim of a spat within the Democratic Party
and the growing public perception that too
much money is spent overseas and not at
home. Democratic power brokers Rep. Lee
Aspin and Sen. Sam Nunn failed "to fully
consult with colleagues about their plan."
More importantly, said staffers, the duo
failed to anticipate the backlash against a
plan that would retrain Soviet Army
officers instead of out-of-work Americans.
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