The Homecoming Central Committee of the Student Alumni Leadership Council whole-heartedly supports the efforts of the ISU Blood Drive and blood drive committee. We realize the importance of blood donation and are glad to include blood donation as an aspect of the greek portion of the Homecoming competition.

I am unclear on how other competitions include blood drive, but Homecoming Central requires greek pairings that are made up of at least three chapters to have 50 percent of the total pairing participate in the blood drive by donating their blood or time. We feel that this requirement is reasonable due to the overwhelming importance of blood donation. Also, we routinely have chapters within Homecoming pairings reach 100 percent participation.

We realize that blood donation is not for everyone, which is why the requirement for Homecoming is only 50 percent of each pairing. However, we strongly urge all students, faculty and staff to consider blood donation this week, and we applaud those who do so without the promise of Homecoming points.