The Michigan Daily - Monday, November 6, 1989 - Pape 3 U-M, OSU out for blood as battle begins today by Karen Akerlof Daily Staff Writer Bumps and bruises from the Michigan-Ohio State University rivalry won't be a problem until the Nov. 25 football game, but the blood will start flowing today. Michigan and OSU today begin their annual battle to collect blood for the American Red Cross. The Big Ten rivals are competing to see which school can collect a larger percentage of the blood needed by their regional hospitals. During the next two weeks, members of the University's Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity and the Red Cross will encourage students to provide blood for the 70 hospitals in southeastern Michigan. The Michigan campaign is one of the largest blood drives organized by the southeastern Michigan Red Cross during the year. Neal Fry, the regional Red Cross representative, said about 10 percent of the blood needed in this area is raised in the two-week drive. The Red Cross decided seven years ago to use the Michigan-OSU football game as a rallying call for a blood drive. Though Ohio State boasts more than 50,000 students compared to Michigan's 35,000, Michigan has won the battle five times. Fry attributed Michigan's success to the superior quality of Michigan's students. "We think the University of Michigan students are a lot slicker, a lot brighter," she said. The goal of the Blood Battle is to collect 7,000 pints of blood, said Alpha Phi Omega drive co-chair Debi Corti, but she said all of this won't come from University collection sites. Other regional collection sites will allow donors to add their pints to Michigan's count, and earlier Reserve Officer Training Corps and faculty drives will also be included in the final tally. Corti said this time of year was traditionally one of blood shortages. In addition, the southeastern Michigan Red Cross has been sending blood to Northern California to aid earthquake victims, creating an even JOSH MOORE/Daly Guerrilla theaterS Members of the Latin American Solidarity Committee act out the results of the death squads in El Salvador on the Diag Friday. Organizers deem first ever Parents Weekend a success Nov. 13-17 12-5:30 p.m. Michigan Mon-Fri Union greater need for blood donors. Michigan students are typically enthusiastic about the drive, said Corti, but this year Michigan will have to try even harder to win. "OSU really wants to win," she said. "They have been going all out to win the trophy back. We have to be even better." The University will be the largest blood collection site in southeastern Michigan. Fry said anyone who weighs more than 110 pounds, is between the ages of 17 and 66, and is in reasonably good health can donate blood. The process takes about an hour, and the donated blood will be regenerated by the body in about 48 hours. by Ian Hoffman Daily Staff Writer The parent invasion is over. The first annual Student Alumni Council-sponsored Parents' Weekend concluded its three-day stint Sunday. More than 4,000 parents, students 0 and siblings participated in the weekend's activities. The planners of Parents' Weekend deemed it successful. "It was unbelievable," said Alyssa Altman, an LSA senior and co-Project Director of Parents' Weekend. "We haven't heard a nega- tive thing yet." She said she hoped the weekend would start a University tradition. Saturday's pre-game tailgate party and pep rally highlighted the weekend's activities, said LSA se- nior Beth Straub, the other project director. University President James Dud- erstadt made a surprise appearance at the tailgate. In his 10-minute speech, Duder- stadt referred to the "Michigan Fam- ily" and introduced his wife, Anne, as the "Michigan Mom." More than 3,000 people attended the party, held in the Track and Tennis Building. The pep rally also included in- structions for singing "Hail to.the Victors" and using the Maize and Blue pom-poms that were handed out to everyone who attended. Parents cited many reasons for at- I THE LIST What's happening in Ann Arbor today tending the weekend activities. Milton Siegel, father of LSA first-year student Robert Siegel, said, "I come from an Ivy League school, but I prefer to think of myself as Michigan. This was just an excuse for me to come." Parsla Mason, the mother of LSA senior Christopher Mason, said, "I don't think we've ever missed anything at any of our chil- dren's colleges." Other events included open houses hosted by the University's undergraduate schools and a Sunday morning brunch. LSA Dean Edie Goldenberg spoke to about 300 people at the LSA open house, held in the Union Ballroom. Goldenberg described Parents' Weekend as a "two-way street." "We need to hear what the parents think we are doing right and wrong, and we need to tell the parents about the goals we are trying to achieve," Goldenberg said. She discussed the importance of a liberal arts education and the wealth of opportunities available to University students. The brunch was originally sched- uled to be held in the Michigan League, but was expanded to both the Union and the League to ac- commodate the larger-than-expected parental participation. Despite the weekend's successes, the organizers plan some changes for next year. "We need to change regis- tration next time," Straub said. "There were some problems because we did not have our registration packets pre-packaged." 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