[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

I see. It's okay to lie, if it means your sorority gets bragging rights on how many pints of blood collected.

[tiamat]

Great.

Might as well throw in LYING about intravenous drug use and whether or not you have unprotected sex.

GREAT way to spread hepatitus and AIDS.

They ought to be flogged.

[adam_az]

University code of ethics?

What do you wanna bet that the "womyn" who wrote the email is a lib?

[prairiebreeze]

"I dont care if you got a tattoo last week LIE. I dont care if you have a cold. Suck it up. We all do. LIE. Recent peircings? LIE."

Ms. Key is simply imitating the morals and actions of her role models the DNC.

Prairie

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

As if we didn't have enough to worry about with the safety of the blood supply........

[goodnesswins]

Wasn't it x42 who sent tainted blood (from Arkansas prisoners) to Canada in the 80's???? She's just following her role models. Give her a break..../sarcasm.

(P.S...I have a friend who has HEP C because of TAINTED blood for open heart surgery she had done in (I think) the early 80's....The chick in this article should be tried and convincted of attempted manslaughter or whatever legal term is appropriate.)

[jtminton]

We have the blood bus come by our office twice a year and we can go and donate. So, there was a big long line, plus a bunch of other people filling out paperwork inside the bus, plus the people actually giving blood. I went back in that little room where they ask you the embarassing questions (I guess they are only embarrassing if you have the wrong answer!) and I OF COURSE answered them all correctly. They took my blood pressure and it was too high to give blood. So the 'nurse' opens the door and yells to the front of the bus to another 'nurse' that she "really needed her to come down here, we're having a problem", which of course caused an immediate silence and got everbody's attention. So another 'nurse' comes into the room and takes my BP and it's too high, so she says I can't give any blood. I tried to convince her that it seemed rational that letting some of the blood out would relieve the high BP, but to no avail.

You can only imagine how hard it was to walk out of that bus with everybody staring and thinking that I had answered one of THOSE questions wrong?

[Charles Martel]

Here's a pic of the girls involved. I have no idea what the housecleaning equipment and chemicals might be references to. Of course, they might've been cleaning the sorority house and spontaneously posed for a group pic. Happens all the time.

Sprinkle a bit more Carpet Fresh, girls... your competitive nature may be without peer, but your moral decisions really stink.

[mtbopfuyn]

So, what's to be done with all the blood? Let's hope it's been screened well but do they screen for everything? If not then it should be dumped. That lying little twit should be kicked out of the sorority and there should be an investigation of her classwork since she's a known liar and cheat and pull any scholorships. Hmm, wonder if the scholorhip folks know about this? Then Guinness should ban them as a group and individually from ever entering their book. Finally, Miss Key should be charged with attempted murder and at least be sentenced to community service at the local treatment clinic. One more thing, a good public dosing al la prom in "Carrie" would finish her off nicely.

[doubleA]

Which one in the photo is Christie Key?

[jackibutterfly]

"Members of a sorority were urged to lie about their health to qualify as donors in a 'competitive' blood drive at the University of Missouri-Columbia (search), a school that once set a world record for blood collection."

COMPETITIVE??? WHY in the world is a blood drive, competitive?????! Unbelievable!

[Stellar Dendrite]

it's ok, they just lied about blood.


btw, here is a story for you guys (im sure you've seen it..but just a reminder)

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32688
Blood drive canned due to 'gay' discrimination
College students say federal AIDS guidelines not fair to homosexuals

[gorush]

Lying bloodsuckers...there's a journalism school there, too. Coincidence...I think not.

[Paleo Conservative]

Who do you sue if you receive a tainted unit of blood from a student who lied?

a) the student?
b) the parents of the student?
c) the president of the sorority?
d) the president of the university?
e) the president of the local blood bank?
f) the president of the Red Cross?
g) the sorority?
h) the university?
i) the blood bank?
j) the Red Cross?
k) all of the above?

[Nebr FAL owner]

Every pint of blood collected should be destroyed as it must be assumed to be tainted & the frats & sororities are held up for public ridicule for felonious stupidity.

[T'wit]

Alternatively, it's OK to poison innocent people, if it wins your sorority some bragging rights.

Those blood donor rules are in place for sound medical reasons. As BLOOD TRAIL author Michael Galster points out, blood transfusions are, in effect, organ transplants -- certainly never to be taken lightly. Galster traced a scheme in Clinton's Arkansas that spread diseased blood all over the world. The prisoners, like these sorority girls, were prodded and bribed and bullied into donating. There is no telling how many thousands or even millions of lives they destroyed -- and it never ends. The contagion goes on and on.

[Osage Orange]

All units of blood collected in the U.S.A. undergo at the very least 14 different tests....mostly for infectious diseases. So, hopefully any "problem" blood would be destroyed at the collector's labs.

Now, that being said....I would have friends/family donate for me...if undergoing scheduled surgery where blood loss was anticipated.

FWIW--