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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
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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.”
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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
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PHOENIX (APj -
McCain, wife of Sen.
McCain, suffered a i
stroke and was hospital;
stable condition Tuesday
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the prognosis is caul
excellent,” McCain saiti
statement Tuesday.
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small bleed in her bi
her speech is mildly aW
said Robert Spetzler,
of the Barrow New
Institute at St. Josi
Hospital.
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was caused by a ru
small blood vessel
from a spike ol h_
pressure.
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hospital within a I
pending test results.
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Republican was in
City on a book tour wte
wife had the stroke
to his Washington office.
He was with her at the
tal Tuesday morning.
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