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Last week's bone marrow registration drive to find a tissue type match for Alan J. Kuo '85 has come and gone, and most observers (including the editorial staff of this newspaper) have rightly congratulated drive organizers and the Harvard community for their outpouring of sympathy and support. The organizers no doubt had all the right intentions in putting together the drive,; and it would seem inappropriate to criticize an event recruiting potential bone marrow donors that. Yet th drive was conducted in a manner that seemed to contradict the very spirit of giving...
...sure, there would not have been a bone marrow registration drive had it not been for the urgency of Alan's condition. Alan suffers from chronic leukemia, and his doctors have told him that he has one month to live. Flyers on campus and Alan's personal plea on his Web page detailed the accomplishments of his academic and professional career, and how much Alan means to his friends and family. Since Alan's likely tissue type match will likely be Asian, the drive pushed to register Asian donors. Promotional posters singled out the Asian community, and volunteers distributing flyers...
...worst consequence of the drive's exclusive recruitment effort is that someone who turned their back on the registration drive might have been a tissue type match for a person in need. In fact, Alan's perfect tissue type match might not even be Asian. This is not entirely implausible: one of the two individuals found to be a near-perfect match, possessing five of Alan's six antigens, is a white woman...
...heart goes out to Alan, his family and friends--I cannot even begin to imagine the desperation and grief they must feel. The Chinese Students Association, Alan's friends and other drive organizers deserve the utmost praise for scrambling to organize the two-day event during the hectic start of the school year. The drive would not even have materialized without their initiative and hard work. And their vigorous recruitment and promotion attracted 580 individuals, 85 percent of them Asian, to register in the NMDP-numbers well beyond anyone's highest expectations...
...Samoa. Behind them the rain forest rises to the pinnacle of a long-dormant volcano. Beneath the thatched roof, a gaggle of children intently watches the proceedings. The teacher is Salome Isofea, 30, a young healer who is demonstrating her art. The man opposite her, a Westerner named Paul Alan Cox, is no ordinary student. He is a botany professor and dean at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, a world specialist in medicinal plants and, far from least in this exotic setting, the paramount chief of the nearby village of Falealupo. To people here, he is known as Nafanua...