Bone marrow drive to be held this week

_{Students looking for another way to give back to their community can do so by heading to the bone marrow drive Thursday.}

_{The drive will run from 11 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. at the main gym of Memorial Field House. The drive is sponsored by the IUP athletics department and will be overseen­ primarily by the football program, according to Jim Smith, IUP’s assistant football coach.}

_{Campus athletic teams have been urged to participate, and coaches hope student athletes will spread the word to the rest of the student body. This is the drive’s second year on campus, Smith said.}

_{The first drive had a turnout of around 500 students, which exceeded organizers’ expectations. Smith said they ran out of self-test packets for prospective donors. Smith said that no bone marrow is actually donated at this event. The drive is a preliminary screening to put students on the National Bone Marrow Registry.}

_{Each student will be given a self-screening packet to take a sample from his or her own mouth with a cotton swab. These cotton swabs are then packed up and sent to a lab.}

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