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Compiled by Natalia Korshin
Northern Light
Alaska blood supply shortage
The Blood Bank of Alaska is experiencing low blood donations
and extensive blood use this month. The shortage of local
blood is potentially unsafe. There is less than a one-day
supply of type O-negative and less than a two-day supply
of O-positive, A-positive, B-positive, and B-negative blood
types. A national request has been made for the inventory
of blood supplies in the Lower 48, compromising the shipment
of blood from the Northwest to help Alaska. January is National
Volunteer Blood Donor Month, and the Blood Bank of Alaska
is urging people to donate blood immediately. Students who
wish to donate blood can do so Thursday, Jan. 29 and Friday,
Jan. 30 at the UAA Commons, room 107, from 11 a.m. –
7 p.m.
What not to advertise
Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the Highway Safety Patrol
and Safe and Drug-Free Schools have united with other local
entities to sponsor a statewide anti-ad campaign. The first
annual Reality Media Awards contest was announced in a January
press release.
“Are you tired of the media telling you to buy unhealthy
and unnecessary products like alcohol, tobacco, fast foods,
Botox, prescription drugs, weight loss products, bottled
water, designer clothes and chia pets?” the release
states.
The contest awards participants who create the best anti-ad
or anti-ad campaign, in six different categories ranging
from print to Web advertisement, with the theme “Through
Our Eyes.” Entry deadline is Feb. 16. More information
can be found at alaska-ipc.org or by calling 929-3939.
UAA professor awarded Harold T.
Caven Professorship
Dr. Elisha Remington “Bear” Baker IV, UAA
professor of logistics, was awarded the Harold T. Caven
Professorship for 2004. Baker will receive $20,000 that
he will apply toward extra activities and projects for students.
Baker has proposed a Web-deliverable course on systems theory
and its application to business, an upper-division business
systems course and an annual award for student work emphasizing
the application of systems theory to business issues. The
professorship was established in 1974 by Mrs. Loretta Caven
in honor of her husband, Harold, the vice president of what
is now the First National Bank of Alaska.
UAA’s art journal extends
deadline
“Understory,” the University’s creative
art journal, has extended the deadline for submissions to
the 2004 issue. “Understory” is an annual publication
sponsored by the UAA Creative Writing and Literary Arts
Department. The publication will run two contests, each
with a $100 prize. Stories, poems, photographs, or other
written and visual arts must be submitted by Friday, Jan.
30. For information on format guidelines and the address
to send in entries, visit their Web site at www.uaa.alaska.edu/understory.
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