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Page 2 The BATTALION Wednesday, November 10,1993
Only 2 more weeks "til Bonfire
Amy Browning/The Battalion
Senior Brown Pot John Williams of day. Wednesday marks the beginning
Ozona, evens off the tops and bot- of Push, when Bonfire stack will
toms of logs at Bonfire site on Tues- worked on 24 hours a day.
Sperm donors
give helping hand
to infertile couples
Tommy Huynh/The Battalion
The Fairfax Cryobank in Bryan helps infertile couples con
ceive and gives donors the opportunity to make some money.
By James Bernsen
The Battalion
Some A&M students are
earning money while helping
local couples with infertility
problems.
The Bryan branch of Fairfax
Cryobank provides a variety
of services to the local commu
nity, including serving as a
sperm bank.
Edward Fugger, program
director of the national office,
said approximately one in five
couples have some type of in
fertility problem, and depend
ing on the severity, there are a
wide variety of treatment
methods, including artificial
insemination. This procedure
involves implanting a fertil
ized egg into a woman.
Sometimes, if the man is in
fertile, the couple will go to a
sperm bank to obtain usable
sperm.
Guy Stone Jr., laboratory su
pervisor of the center, said
about 99.9 percent of the sperm
donors are college students.
"There is probably a typi
cal stereotype of a sperm
bank, which is like a plasma
bank where just anyone can
come in and donate," Stone
said. "In reality, more than
95 percent of the applicants
are turned down."
Donors must be between 18
and 35 years of age and must
undergo an intense three- to
four-week screening program
designed to find traces of ge
netically inherited diseases,
such as cystic fibrosis. Stone
said. Donors are also tested for
HIV I, HIV II and Hepatitis,
among other diseases.
Even after the donor is ac
cepted into the program, each
sample the donor provides is
tested and can be rejected for a
variety of reasons.
The men then donate at
least once a week for six
months, and are paid $40 for
each acceptable specimen.
Stone said the center also
conducts genetic paternity
testing for local medical and
legal needs, as well as a wide
range of genetic testing.
David Forrest, A&M pro
fessor of animal science, re
cently toured the local facility
with a graduate class in An-
drology, or male physiology,
to see some of the new tech
niques being used to collect
and freeze semen.
"The main benefit of this
type of facility is in terms of
making alternatives to couples
interested in pursuing possible
reproductive technologies to
allow them to have children
when there is a fertility prob
lem," he said.
Stone said the recent con
cern raised with genetic engi
neering because of experi
ments in cloning are unwar
ranted, and not applicable to
Fairfax Cryobank's work.
"Anyone who comes here
and sees what we do would
have no problem," Stone said.
"We aren't trying to pro
duce superhumans, we're just
helping people who have in
fertility problems."
Stone said insemination is
much cheaper than adoption
or in vitro fertilization.
Fairfax Cryobank has been
in operation for eight years,
and the Bryan location has been
in operation for four years.
A&M fraternities, sororities celebrate Greek Week
By Andrea Taormina
The Battalion
A&M students can "share the experi
ence" this week as Aggie Greeks get to
gether to celebrate Greek life and give
something back to A&M.
Greek Week is five days of activities
promoting Greek life on campus. The Or
der of Omega, a national Greek honor so
ciety made up of leaders from fraternities
and sororities, sponsors the week.
Holly Hortenstine, a member of the
Order of Omega, said she and other
members of the fraternity have spent sev
eral months planning for this week.
The theme for this year is "Share the
experience." Hortenstine said they
chose this theme because they wanted to
share the experience of Greek life with
everyone.
"We wanted to show that we're Ag
gies first," Hortenstine said.
The major events this week are the
Greek picnic on Wednesday at Rudder
Fountain from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., the
Greek Games from 3-6 Friday afternoon
at Duncan Field and the awards banquet
on Sunday at the Hilton.
Meredith Drees, who supervises
Greek Week, said Greek Week promotes
awareness of the importance of helping
others.
Drees said the week helps portray
Greeks in a more positive light because
they are raising money for a charity or
ganization.
This year's profits benefit the John J.
Koldus Foundation. Drees said this orga
nization was chosen because Koldus, a
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