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Event promotes bone marrow donations Student-run organization offers opportunities for students ‘to save someone’s life’ Victoria Wright Staff Writer With registration for classes keeping students on their toes and causing slight breakdowns, giving five minutes to spit on a cotton swab offers a greater reward than having the perfect spring schedule. The “Give A Spit About Cancer” event was held in the Panhellenic Building lobby Monday evening. University of Tennessee Dance Marathon, a studentrun philanthropy organization, hosted the event to recruit possible donors for Be the Match, an organization that matches donors to people awaiting bone marrow transplants. The registration process to be a donor was simple. Students filled out applications, then swabbed the inside of their mouth against their cheek with a cotton swab. The swab was then placed inside an envelope and sent off to a donor database for possible matches. Taylor Gautier, Dance Marathon vice president and senior in psychology, said registry drives such as this are perfect for the fast-paced college student. “I just know how lazy college students are,” Gautier said. “This is the easiest way to help people. All they’re doing is spitting on something and waiting to see if they can be used.”
On average, about 1 in 540 people find a match for bone marrow transplant, yet only about 2 percent of Americans are on the bone marrow registry, according to an article in USA Today. Gautier said that if matches aren’t found, patients who suffer from bone cancer are not able to make new bone marrow, and in worst-case scenar-
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Protests continue across nation The Associated Press LONDON — Some of the latest developments in the Occupy protests: NEW YORK Flanked by police scooters, about two dozen Occupy Wall Street protesters started a two-week walk from New York to Washington on Wednesday. The activists left Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park, marched past the World Trade Center site and boarded a ferry to New Jersey. They plan to walk through Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland and arrive in Washington by Nov. 23 — the deadline for a congressional committee to decide whether to keep President Barack Obama’s extension of Bush-era tax cuts. Protesters say the cuts benefit only rich Americans. Michael Glazer, 26, an actor from Chicago, smiled as he boarded the ferry across the Hudson River, cheered by supporters shouting, “Thank you!” Walking in well-worn boots, he said: “I’ve had these for years and years, and they’ve served me well for many miles of marches.” They hope to pick up other participants along their 240-mile march and have likened the effort to long-distance walks during the civil rights era. They say they’ll overnight by camping or at volunteered accommodations. Among those seeing off the Occupy marchers was Rabbi Chaim Gruber, 42, the self-appointed “resident rabbi” of the New York protest. “Anyone need a sleeping bag?” he asked the group, handing over two — along with a bag containing shampoo and extra socks. BRITAIN Police cleared away more than 20 tents set up in Trafalgar Square as thousands of students marched through central London to protest cuts to public spending and a big increase in university tuition fees. The march was not directly linked to the Occupy movement, but participants had planned to link up with a protest camp outside St. Paul’s Cathedral. They were stopped by lines of police in riot gear. Police said more than
2,000 people took part in the march, which set off from the University of London at midday with chants of “No ifs, no buts, no education cuts.” Organizers estimated the crowd at 10,000. About 4,000 police officers were deployed along the route. CALIFORNIA An Oakland man says a police officer shot him with a rubber bullet or beanbag while he was videotaping last week’s standoff between law enforcement and a small group that took over a building and lit fires after a day of peaceful anti-Wall Street protests. Experts in police use of force who reviewed the footage Scott Campbell captured say it appears the volley was unprovoked and inappropriate, the Oakland Tribune reported Tuesday. In the video posted on YouTube, Campbell, 30, is heard calling, “Is this OK?” to a line of riot gear-clad officers. He told the newspaper that he was asking if his distance from them was adequate because an officer had asked him to step back. A firearm held by an officer then is seen going off, followed by Campbell’s yelps of pain. The Oakland Police Department also has been criticized for wounding an Iraq War veteran during an Oct. 25 skirmish. City spokeswoman Karen Boyd said Tuesday that anyone who thinks they witnessed improper police conduct is encouraged to make a report with the police department’s Internal Affairs division or Oakland’s Civilian Police Review Board. Officer Johanna Watson, a department spokeswoman, said Campbell’s allegations already are being looked into. TEXAS Eight protesters at a downtown Houston park were detained Tuesday evening after an altercation with police. Police spokesman Victor Senties said six people refused to remove a tent that violated a city ordinance and were advised by their lawyer to comply with the police request but said they wanted to be arrested. Two more protesters confronted officers, ignored orders to step back and were charged with failure to comply with a lawful order.
It may hurt for a while, you
may be sore for a week, but you
know you’re doing something that’s going to save someone’s life.
– Katie Christian, sophomore in communication studies, on “Give a Spit About Cancer”
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ios, die. Recently, a daughter of a UT athletic department employee received a bone marrow transplant through the registry in September. “It’s a pretty small chance that you do get matched, but it’s a pretty big deal if you do,” Gautier said. Ethnicity plays a huge role in matching patients,
Gautier said. Matches must be an exact make-up for donations, such as 30 percent Italian and 70 percent black. Currently, donors with mixed ethnicities and minorities are most needed. Sophomore in communication studies Katie Christian registered at the event, despite having little knowledge of the donation process. “I looked into it because a lady that I baby-sat for had cancer and needed a bone marrow transplant,” Christian said. Donors are often concerned about the pain of giving bone marrow, though Gautier said the process is nothing to be anxious over. Donors can either give through a blood transfusion or undergo out-patient surgery using general or regional anesthesia. Bone marrow is then taken from the back of the pelvic bone. Donors may feel soreness for a few days in the procedure area, but nothing too daunting. “It may hurt for a while, you may be sore for a week,” Christian said. “But you know you’re doing something that’s going to save someone’s life.” Traveling expenses for the donation process are paid if a match is found. Individuals are not forced to donate if they are matched, but Gautier said the reward of saving someone’s life is worth it. “They’re not obligated, but when you get a call asking to save someone’s life, it’s going to be hard to say no,” Gautier said.
Concert proceeds to build school chances for students to see an artist of Graham Colton’s caliber in Knoxville and certainly not for only $7.” Thursday night the Give Haiti Give Haiti Hope has hosted severHope club is hosting a benefit conal events over the past year to raise cert for the Haiti Outreach program. money and awareness for the Haitian Titled “Breaking Ground at village of Boucan-Carré, including a Southbound,” the event will raise fashion show hosted in February. The money to help a priconcert on mary school in Thursday will be a Boucan-Carré, first for the club. Haiti. “The entire “Because it’s the club has been foundation that chilworking hard for dren need for educathe past couple of tion where their months to plan knowledge begins,” the concert,” Diamond Rayborn, Sharbel said. “It freshman in agriculhas been a collecture and club memtive process to ber, said. make this event a A volunteer nonsuccessful and fun profit organization, one.” the Haiti Outreach The February Program has estabfashion show and lished a hospital, a the upcoming conclinic and several cert will finalize schools within Haiti the club’s annual over the past 12 spring and fall years. Based in semester events, Knoxville, the Haiti and the club Outreach Program encourages stuwas officially estabdents to attend lished in 1999 at both events. Sacred Heart “As a service Cathedral and has club, we want extended to include everyone to feel many different included and feel schools, businesses like they are a speand churches around cial part of the the area. great work we are “A unique aspect doing in associaabout the Haiti tion with the Outreach Program is Haiti Outreach that since its incepProgram,” Sharbel tion, it has always said. been a 100-percent Students can volunteer organizalearn more about tion,” Margaret the student-led Sharbel, advertising Give Haiti Hope chair and events club and about the coordinator for Give Haiti Outreach Haiti Hope, said. Program by visit• Photo courtesy of Graham Colton “We as Give Haiti ing the club’s webHope club feel com- Graham Colton will be just one of many artists featured at “Breaking site and Facebook Ground at Southbound,” a fundraising concert put on by the Give Haiti fortable donating page. Meetings for Hope club, benefiting a primary school in Boucan-Carré, Haiti. our funds to Haiti the UT chapter of Outreach Program because we know that every penny Sweetest Sleep by Jared Henderson the club are held every Tuesday at will be spent for Haiti, not paying and The Mountain Kings. Student 6:45 p.m. in HSS Room 566. “Of course we also think people overhead or salaries for people in tickets are $7 and general admission tickets are $10 and can be purchased should come (to the concert) because Knoxville.” The Give Haiti Hope club contin- online at the event’s Eventbrite page, it is an amazing cause, and their ually works closely with the organiza- on the Pedestrian Mall or at the small contribution will make an incredible impact,” Riley said. tion, raising money and awareness event. Doors will open at 7:30 p.m. “First of all, the simple entertain- “Coming to this concert is allowing about the country and the needs of its people. It says that the money raised ment value of the event will be huge!” you to take part in giving a young stufrom the benefit concert will have a Riley said. “There aren’t many dent in Haiti a chance to succeed.”
Deborah Ince
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large impact on Haitian students. “For only $100, the Haiti Outreach Program can support tuition, school supplies and uniforms for a primary student for one school year,” club president Katie Riley said. Hosted at Southbound in the Old City, the benefit concert will feature artists such as Graham Colton, The