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Two San Jose JCs suspend blood drives

Abstract:
The San Jose Evergreen Community College District became the second educational entity, along with SJSU, to ban blood drives based on the FDA's ban on gay male donors.

The district's board of trustees adopted the resolution Tuesday night unanimously. The decision is effective immediately, said district chancellor Rosa Perez....

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Garret

posted 3/12/08 @ 3:52 PM PST

Why is it that "for the sake of public safety" a university can ban people from riding their bicycles in certain places on campus, but the same university cannot ban those who have statistically shown that they pose a threat of death to the recipients of donated blood?

To be honest, I'd much rather be run over by a bicycle than to die from donated blood.

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