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Blood Drive~~~ 19l :oc Plng Jar Itn Brook -By Mitch Horowitz certainly took a big cut, probably didn't, said Patrica Teed, vice presf- D..1- .a-^ n-s The stcock market's "Black Monday' droppingf almost 25 Dercent. s ald ny ingnue mance Members of the Student Blood Services ,are working to recruit donors for their fall .blood drive, fighting students' fear and apathy as well as a continuing Hati an Stu-- dent Organization (HSO) boycott. HSO members, who called for a boycott of the 1987 spring blood drive, plan to continue their protest against confidential question -and answer pamphlets which the federal government requires all blood drives to hand out The pamphlet states that blood of people listed in risk groups will only be used for laboratory tests and not transfusions. Among the groups identified is "persons from Haiti, Zaire, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, -Kenya, and Tanzania who have entered the U.S. after 1977." (Statesman, April 9, 1987) Members of the HSO. who were not availa- ble for comment, said last spring that state- ,ments in the pamphlet were "prejudicial" and should be removed. "'We had meetings with [ the HSO]J and some people from high up in Long Island Blood Services, but it was highly unsuccess- ful," said Karl Nyberg, co-vice president of Stony Brook Blood Services. Both Nyberg and Laurie Sindoni, also a co-president of Stony Brook Blood Services, said they think that the boycott deterred fewer than 20 peo- ple from the spring drive. "'I think student apathy is our biggest (continued on page 5) esiat Tain B3y Mary Lou Ln TeSuffolk district attorney's office has opened an inves- tigation into the Public Safety possible misuse of phone taping according to Pich Lazio, assistant district attorney.
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