With the friendly competition to see which university can donate the most blood out of the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma State University. In last years competition, OSU ended up taking it away by almost double the amount our university was able to bring in. This year is even scarier of a competition for us, because it is not only our last year in Bedlam for the foreseeable future, there also has been a huge downfall in donors since last year. With the advertising for it not being where it should, last years graduating class having half of our donors form last year, and no new participants joining the odds are not looking good at all. It is up to all of us to join and donate blood. Not just for the competition of Bedlam, but the need for blood on a day to day basis that without the donations made by us would cause so many downfalls. There has been another nearly “25%” downfall according to RedCross. It’s deeper than just a competition and the collapse of donors is definitely worrisome. We must be the change on campus that is needing to happen. People are constantly in need of blood so we must be able to keep up with the average need and not have fall offs. The blood is needed for all different kinds of people. People who just got into a car accident and are losing large amounts of blood, surgeries, child birth, cancer treatments, and so many more. Just the ones that were listed occur so often and are constantly happening in day to day life whether people realize it or not.
