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5) Players from the University of Massachusetts football team were on the offensive, competing to recruit people walking through the Campus Center to participate in a bone marrow donor registration drive.
Held on March 11, and now in its second year, the annual event seeks anyone willing to swab their cheek and fill out some paper work – a process which takes several minutes – to be entered into the National Marrow Donor Program Registry database of potential matches for bone marrow transplants. By the time of the drive’s conclusion at 2 p.m., the team had registered 240 people, up from around 150 a year ago, according to football team video coordinator Bill Sisler.
I took dozens of photos at the drive, which were compiled in a photo slideshow and also wrote a story for the following day's paper. The photo slideshow was posted in the multimedia section of The Collegian's Web site. (Matt Rocheleau/The Massachusetts Daily Collegian, March 12, 2009)
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