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Melanie Amodea, of the American Red Cross, monitors Leni Mass, wife of Dan Maas of Environmental Health and Safety, giving blood in Weill Hall as part of the CU vs. Dartmouth Blood Drive May 3.

In keeping with the commitment to be a "caring community," Cornell students, staff and faculty stepped up to the challenge to defeat Dartmouth College in a two-day competition, May 3-4, to get more blood donations during this year's contest, compared with last year's.

The Cornell blood drive at Weill Hall, May 3, and Hans Bethe House, May 4, resulted in 121 donations -- 46 percent more than in the two-day competition last May, while Dartmouth's donations were the same as last year's. The American Red Cross, which sponsored the competition, estimates that this drive alone will help save more than 350 lives, in addition to the many lives saved through the other blood drives held at Cornell each year.