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...panel members emphasized that the risk of contracting an AIDS infection from donor blood is quite remote. "You have a greater chance of dying from the anesthesia," noted Dr. Richard Aster of the Blood Center of Southeastern Wisconsin. Stanford University Statistician Lincoln Moses estimated that about 120 AIDS-infected samples slip into the blood supply each year, out of a total of 12 million units donated. Since each pint donated can be split among two or three recipients, as many as 360 people could receive AIDS-infected blood each year, though how many will develop the disease is unknown...
...experts read their reports in Paris, AIDS continued to make news in the U.S. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times last week, President Reagan suggested that Americans could avoid the risk of contracting AIDS from transfusions by storing their own blood for emergency use. Although all donor blood in the U.S. is screened for AIDS contamination, one undisputed case of transfusion-borne infection was reported two weeks ago. A donor gave blood so soon after the homosexual encounter that infected him that his body had not yet produced the antibodies the test is designed to detect...
...keep track of these efforts Harvard spent $1.5 million this year on the College Fund. Although "major gifts," which amount to more than two-thirds of total donations, are cheap to get since they usually involve one donor's decision to give, the thousands of smaller alumni gifts in the annual drives cost the development office much more for solicitation efforts, says Reardon. And the cost of raising money...
...central development office orchestrates a system of advising to bolster the poorer schools' fundraising efforts, which will now be headed by William Boardman. The advisors will attempt to enlarge the poorer schools' donor constituencies and provide administrative help, Reardon says...
...development office is now scrambling to find the right donor. The undying fame of getting one's name on a house, "isn't going to do it by itself," says Reardon. The University's top fundraiser says he hopes that alumni will "sense this real opportunity to bring that cluster of houses into the programs and educational opportunities all other houses have...