Stanford Report, October 29, 2003
BY BARBARA PALMER
"CHLOE VERY MUCH NEEDS YOUR HELP," wrote GORDON CHANG, associate professor of history, and VICKI SANDIN, parents of 21-month-old CHLOE CHANG, in an e-mail appeal for their daughter, who is battling leukemia and urgently needs a bone marrow transplant donor. Chloe is a primary focus of Lambda Phi Epsilon fraternity's annual Asian American Donor Program Typing Drive, scheduled from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday and Friday at the lawn near White Plaza. Chloe is of Asian and Western European descent and lives with her parents at Castaño House, where they are resident fellows. There are relatively few biracial or Asian potential donors in the registry maintained by the National Marrow Donor Program, which matches unrelated donors to patients. All are invited to participate. "Anybody could be a match," Chang said. If you plan to come to the drive, please send an e-mail to jvinyard@ stanford.edu with "AADP" in the subject line and include a one-hour time span during which you plan to arrive. Donors should be between the ages of 18 and 60 and will be asked to sign consent forms and give a blood sample. More information about the drive is available at http://stanfordlambdas.com/aadp/. Additionally, an account to help fund the drive and for medical expenses has been established. Send donations to the Chloe Chang Fund, c/o Asian American Activities Center, Old Union Clubhouse, Stanford, CA 94305-3064.
FULL AMNESTY -- NO QUESTIONS ASKED -- awaits the person or persons who swiped two signs from a set of new Burma Shave-style signs that recently were installed on four of the most-traveled routes into campus, said ROBIN ROLLS, transportation demand management coordinator. (The high traffic routes are along Galvez, Serra and Bowdoin streets and Stock Farm Road.) The signs, which Rolls will switch out each week, were intended as a light-hearted reminder of the advantages of alternative transportation, she said. ("Remember daydreaming / on your way to school? / Now you can do it every day / by joining a Stanford carpool," reads one four-sign series.) "I'd love to get those two signs back," she said. "It was supposed to be fun for everybody." Rolls' office is at 340 Bonair Siding.
ABOUT 100 FACULTY, STAFF AND students -- wearing red "Stanford Cares" T-shirts -- raised nearly $15,000 for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation at the "Walk to Cure Diabetes" on Oct. 19 at Shoreline Park in Mountain View. Among them was CHRIS LION, a faculty support assistant in the Graduate School of Business, who single-handedly raised $2,600. His strategy, Lion said, was to wear "Ask Me About Diabetes" stickers every day and then to tell colleagues about the walk when they did. The Business School came through, he said.
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