res adieu versus Red Cross dents, I OA, 7:30 pj 7 olk Dim. !C 212,8 d.J (Continued from Page 1.) “We would not accept those cred- because all those credits mean is is End. |oney,” Swanton said. “The stu- Kennetli &nts do not owe us any money at f Coliseum, * \y a( Ji e y wanted us to accept Med. SociJ' 5 ’ an d we aren’t in that end of the isiness. , ociation, siiWe didn’t want the money. We n jj planted the blood.” She said that p, Rudder Sj , r m can t transfuse money or paper nation, Rnij^ditS. Swanton said that the Red Cross y psented AABB demands to send Kenned tllood to commercial blood banks, te Coliseunl “We were designated so many es to send blood there (a com- iin„ iiercial bank in Chicago.) This >rill Field,ifjmmercial bank was taking our ilunteers’ blood and selling it for, 8 pm. Irndness knows, as much as they ited to,” she said. Hill said that there are 1,600 in-commercial banks in the AABB s MSC2it|^ on ^ two or t ^ iree commercial links, so this was not really a prob- Rudder 401,fm. He said the commercial banks lined at the inception of the AABB p m « Id because of Federal Trade Sunday dwlonimission regulations, could not arbitrarily kicked out. “No new paid-donor banks are '“imitted. They are in disfavor,” [ill said. THE CONTROVERSY on cam- s arose because Student Gov- H /l'l| nment chose to remain with Wad- I It/ly for their 1976-77 and 1977-78 Hood drives. A Student Senate immittee had been formed to in- tiagte the two programs. The committee recommended Student Government remain "ike off# Wadle y because: inues Mil ^ Wadley is far from local in itsider oiljpg Statistics show that two per young 0i|, n t 0 f T exas a&M’s donation is ^ed locally, and 98 per cent is bes thepm e( j j n other areas of Texas and tropolta|h er states. 01111 lT / Wadley repays the processing if the blood is used in Brazos ) ^ ra ™ S *unty, but Red Cross does not. ing ofc [adley replaces the units on a two- rone basis. Red Cross replaces lits on a one-for-one basis. seling it 1 tment to| ufferinei ncestra|^ Wadley can ship parts of , 4! jood. It is possible to treat four ° ny Jtients with one pint of blood by 11 ' usu Jling derivatives to help patients y , U [living leukemia, hemophilia and Hhes S I ncer ' In fact, both Wadley and ftd Cross produce the same blood fo^nefilmponents and derivatives. ,r of meci enforcfr*^ Texas A&M donations can be ms indjocated. In the past Student Gov- incest, fftiment gave Wadley permission to ng proMstribute the credits to charity pa- reasing^nts. Red Cross cannot do this. e committee considered this an mjijej Jftogement on students’ rights, incest o would take donors away from the Wadley drive because it was scheduled earlier in the semester than Wadley’s drive and donors can only give once every 56 days. Student Government had also been granted the exclusive right to sponsor blood drives on campus by the Concessions Committee. Rick Allen, president of the Stu dent Engineers Council, ques tioned the committee’s power to grant exclusive rights to the Student Government. Bea Uvacek, chapter chairman for the Brazos County Red Cross said she thought McClure’s rationale was ridiculous. She said the quota for their drive was only 200 units, and she believed a university the size of Texas A&M could handle both drives. SWANTON DISAGREED with the Senate committee’s reasons for choosing Wadley. She said that none of Wadley’s blood is used loc ally. Spokesmen for St. Joseph’s and Bryan Hospitals said that all of their blood is supplied by the Red Cross. Uvacek said that Wadley often does not honor its reimbursement obligations, and is extremely delin quent in honoring the obligations it does fulfill. Wadley records show that 2,440 A&M credits were released to cover Aggies’ blood needs during 1976. Charity patients accounted for 1,704 of these credits. Processing fees eli gible for repayment totaled $1,830 — 61 units used at $30 each. Alpha Phi Omega’s records show that $1,470 has been reimbursed since Sept. 1, 1976. Those records do not go back earlier than this. Uvacek claimed that many people do not receive the money they are entitled to after requesting it, and many more people do not know they are eligible for reimburse ment. Donna Ferrebee’s premature baby required four units of blood in July and August 1976. The Bryan resident didn’t receive her $84 reimbursement until December; about four months after she con tacted Student Government. Susan Price, former executive di rector of Student Government, said it usually takes six weeks to process the reimbursements. Uvacek also said that Wadley often does not fulfill its replacement promises with the local hospitals. Hill said, “Every time I talk to the APO and Student Government, they say we are taking care of every thing they know about. Students are having problems because they haven’t contacted Student Govern ment.” Hank Baker of Alpha Phi Omega agrees that students do not know enough about their blood program and how to apply for reimburse ments. “We’re going to put on a big cam paign to straighten this out next fall,” he said. He said the people who donate know the procedure, but other students don’t know any thing about the blood program. Despite the Senate committee’s report, there is no difference in the types of blood components and de rivatives Wadley and Red Cross produce. Both produce cryoprecipi- tates, for the treatment of hemophilia; platelets, for leukemia patients; Serum Albumin, to com bat shock; Gamma Globulin, for prevention of measles and infectious hepatitis; and others. Swanton said the right to distrib ute credits to charity patients through the credit system is ques tionable because someone pays for the blood product anyway, whether it is Medicaid, Medicare or private assistance. She said that any non profit organization that could afford to give blood away wasn’t non profit. Hill said that to be tax-exempt under its non-profit state charter, Wadley must have charity pro grams. He said that Texas A&M students have brought charity pa tients to Wadley’s attention and “have been very helpful.” A Red Cross spokesman claimed the AABB is so ineffective that some hospitals are accepting direct ship ments of blood from the Red Cross. Methodist Hospital in Houston is one of these. Though spokesmen for the hospital deny receiving blood from the Red Cross, blood replace ment records show that at least 114 units of blood were shipped to Methodist in 1975-76. These units fulfilled blood re quirements of University President Jack K. Williams, A&M student Terry Miller, and Dr. William M. Scott, employe of the TTI depart ment at A&M. Dr. Williams used 28 units of blood while undergoing heart surgery at the hospital. Red Cross records show that it replaced 25 of those units and Wadley replaced the remaining three. Dianne Mc- Glaun, director of Donor Services at Wadley, claims that Wadley re placed the entire 28 units. Rosalyn Guess, in the Methodist’s blood donor department, could not locate the hospital’s records of Williams’ lan $5,0 six chili the onf ii father j jThey added that, as residents of azos County, students were pro- |cted automatically under the Red oss plan. By allowing Wadley to kndle the blood drive students are so protected under Wadley’s pro report id inc() |t ®The Red Cross earlier had plied to have a campus blood n of init| r ' ve ' n cooperation with the Stu- e-timej 611 * Engineers Council. The re- goes onPest was denied by the Conces- jj scm si ns Committee, the University eery cori>mmittee that reviews requests to of guiltPicit or sell on campus. The request was denied on a rec- mendation by Fred McClure, ay incemgo Student Body President. A ,i|lC pleClure said the Red Cross drive as her!) encours the ro!(| Mo THIS SUMMER COME HOME TO RICE 4NM Full credit Rice University Summer Program Houston, Texas 77001 call (713)-527-4019 W. M. Rice University admits students of any race, color, and national or ethnic background. t Hi :s p > •• PHOTOGRAPHERS NEEDED!!!!! The Aggieland ’78 is currently accepting portfolios and ap plications for photographers. To apply simply submit a MAXIMUM of ten (10) black and white 8x10 or 11 x14 MOUNTED photographs. All photos are to have name of photographer, address, and phone number where you can be reached during the sum mer. DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING IS MAY 30, 1977 No color transparencies, or prints PLEASE. ALL PHOTOGRAPHS WILL BE RETURNED WITHIN SIXTY DAYS AFTER THE MAY 30 DEADLINE. SEND PORTFOLIOS TO: EDITOR, THE AGGIELAND ’78 Reed McDonald Building Room 216 College Station, Texas 77840 blood needs. Williams was unavail able for comment. Guess denied that Methodist re ceived blood shipments from Red Cross. Pressure had been put on hospi tals that received Red Cross blood in violation of the AABB’s regu lations, a Red Cross spokesman said. One hospital in particular was told they would have to get out of the AABB if they ever, accepted another unit of Red Cross blood. A new national agreement be tween the AABB and the National Red Cross is being negotiated this week in Washington, D.C. Swanton said she doesn’t know exactly what the new agreement will foe, but “it won’t be like the old one.” “We know that our Red Cross na tional office has said, under dire threats from all 57 administrators and chapter chairmen, that we will never get into a system again where we ship credits or where there’s any indebtedness built up,” she said. Robert Harvey, newly-elected Student Body President, said there’s a chance both groups will have blood drives on campus next year. A committee to research that possibility will form in September. THE BATTALION Page 11A WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1977 PEACE CORPS TICKET TO EXPERIENCE j CAMPUS OFFICE Agronomy Bldg. 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