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Wednesday, April 14, 2004 THE BATTAHi Bloody lies Sorority apologizes after members mf § urged to lie about health in blood drit By Scott Charton THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (4 COLUMBIA, Mo. —The national office of a sorority whose members were urged to lie about their health to boost turnout in a com petitive campus blood drive apologized Tuesday. In a statement from its national office in Colorado, Gamma Phi Beta said it "regrets the e-mail sent regard ing mandatory participation in a campus-wide blood drive and apologizes to the community, the Red Cross and campus.” The American Red Cross tells those who are sick or have recently received tattoos or piercings not to donate blood, both to protect the health of donors and to lessen the risk of transmitting dis eases to recipients. Sorority members at the University of Missouri- Columbia were urged by a fel low member to lie about their health. In an e-mail sent last Tuesday to about 170 mem bers of Gamma Phi Beta. have a cold. Suck it up. We all do. LIE.Recj piercings? LIE.” She added: “Even if you're going to yse|| Do Not Use My Blood sticker, GIVE ANY. WAY." Donors who have second thoughts^ donation site can discreetly attach a stickerioi| health questionnaire indicating their blood lir: don't care if you got a tattoo last week UE. I don't care if you have a cold. Suck it up. We all do. UE Recent piercings? UE. Even if you are go ing to use the Do Not Use My Blood sticker, GIVE ANYWAY. — Christie Key University of Missouri Gamma Phi Beta blood drive coordinator shouldn’t be used. Key declined tocoi Monday and referred to Gamma Phi Beta’s president, who did no diately return a call. About 3,300 units of were collected at the Miss event. The Red Crossreas sured the public that its supplies are safe, sayingij donations are routinely for safety. Gamma Phi Beta'sstai ment said the message« sent "without theconsei approval of any chaplet eer." Cathy Scroggs.aca vice chancellor, said tlie versity was investigating. “I would characterizes this time as one studentfe . overzealous.” Scraggy "But we have heardtkiw sophomore Christie Key. the chapter’s blood donation coordinator, wrote: “I don’t care if you got a tattoo last week LIE. I don’t care if you pie have felt pressured to donate blood inte past, and this certainly has caused us to wain: take a look at the whole process.” las A&M listen's ser PEOPLE IN THE NEWS CBS wins 'Jefferson Muzzle' award RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — CBS Television, which passed on the miniseries “The Reagans" amid conservative pressure, and the Martha Stewart trial judge are among this year's winners of the dubi ous Jefferson Muzzle awards for suppression of free speech. A federal judge and the Secret Service also earned “muzzles” awarded Tuesday. CBS was cited “for acts of self-censorship demonstrating both hypocrisy and an unwill ingness to stand up to public and political pressure,” the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression said in a statement. CBS also refused to air a 30- second commercial from Moveon.org, a group critical of the Bush administration, dur ing the Super Bowl, while it allowed erectile dysfunction commercials and the halftime show featuring Janet Jackson's bared breast, it said. Other muzzles recipients announced in the 13th annual edition of the awards include Baseball Hall of Fame President Dale Petroskey, who canceled a 15th anniver sary showing of “Bull Durham” because of opposi tion to the Iraq war by its stars, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins. "Although the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, and more recently the war in Iraq have created new pressures on free speech, an examination of this year's and previous Jefferson Muzzle winners reveals that threats to free expression come from all over the political spectrum," said Robert M. O’Neil, director of the center. The autonomous, not-for- profit center is associated with the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Its trustees include Judith G. Clabes, pres ident of the Scripps Howard Foundation, columnist James J. Kilpatrick, and Evan Thomas, assistant managing editor of Newsweek. Each year, the muzzle awards are handed out on the birthday of Thomas Jefferson. Recipients receive a T-shirt that depicts the nation’s third president and First Amendment advocate with a muzzle. U.S. District Judge Miriam G. Cedarbaum received a muzzle for barring reporters from jury selection in the Martha Stewart trial. An appeals court later said she erred, bub by that time jury selection had been completed. The Secret Service was cited for investigating whether Pulitzer Prize-winning car toonist Michael the Los Angeles Times:: be charged with “thread the life” of President Besf a cartoon depicting a r; By knew pointing a gun at I icever John McCain's will: stable after 1 PHOENIX (APj - McCain, wife of Sen. McCain, suffered a i stroke and was hospital; stable condition Tuesday “According to her phys the prognosis is caul excellent,” McCain saiti statement Tuesday. Cindy McCain, 49,1m small bleed in her bi her speech is mildly aW said Robert Spetzler, of the Barrow New Institute at St. Josi Hospital. He said the bleeding Ion was caused by a ru small blood vessel from a spike ol h_ pressure. McCain said he expecie: wife to be released from I hospital within a I pending test results. The 67-year-old Republican was in City on a book tour wte wife had the stroke to his Washington office. 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