Sarah Carrillo
Living Editor
Senior Adrienne Lyau is part of a new project on campus to promote bone marrow transplant donors, specifically minorities. She is hosting a bone marrow drive in the Sandbar Tuesday, Nov. 16 and Thursday, Nov. 18 from 1 to 3 p.m.
“Each day, thousands of patients are diagnosed with leukemia, aplastic anemia or other blood diseases and need a bone marrow transplant from a matching donor for a cure,” Lyau said. “Doctors say that an unrelated donor with the same bone marrow type as the patient may be found from a similar ethnic community. Out of the six million people in the National Bone Marrow Registry, less than 30 percent are minorities.”
Registration usually costs $25 to $95, but some people may qualify for free registration.
Lyau became involved with the drive through the Mavin Foundation, which works to help multiracial and transracially adopted people.
“If I have the means to help others then there is no reason not too,” Lyau said. “This program specifically aims at giving people of color and multiracial people an equal opportunity at having access to bone marrow transplants.”
For more information about the drive, e-mail Lyau at aolyau@pepperdine.edu, or visit www.marrow.org or www.mavinfoundation.org.
Senior Stephanie Andrews recently spotted actress Tea Leoni at a pet store in Malibu. Leoni was playing with her two children, who were bouncing a rubber ball in the store.
“She looked pretty different without her makeup on but still pretty, but I barely recognized her,” Andrews said. “Her kids were really cute though.”
11-4-2004