ucsc λφε highlights donor shortage

In keeping with a philosophy that sees it fielding teams named (no joke) the Banana Slugs, the University of California at Santa Cruz publishes a newsmagazine (“City on a Hill Press”) in lieu of a student paper. It provides this enlightening article on national Asian fraternity Lambda Phi Epsilon’s latest event to promote bone marrow donorship. While there are never enough organ donations for all, there’s evidently a critical shortage of the Asian-ancestry donors necessary for successful transplants in Asian recipients. This was abjectly illustrated to the UCSC Phi Lams when one of their brothers died while waiting for a match. Since then — nearly a decade ago — the cause has been their crusade, and this is only the latest in a long series of events.