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Thursday, February 16, 2012

Schools race to register donors

The North Wind | Kristen Koehler

Northern Michigan University is participating in the annual Gift of Life Campus Challenge, in which colleges across Michigan compete to obtain the most organ donor registrants by Thursday, Feb. 23.

Two awards are presented every year based on the university to add the most names to the Michigan Donor Registry, as well as the university with the greatest ratio of donor registrations to student population.

Volunteer Center assistant coordinator Lydia Stuef said NMU currently ranks sixth out of the 18 schools competing.

“NMU won a couple years ago with the highest percentage and the plaque still hangs on our wall,” Stuef said. “All it takes for a life to be saved is registering, which can be done in less than three minutes with a valid driver’s license number.”

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