For students on their way to classes, a bus with workers from the Indiana Blood Center were in their way.
Adam Cooper, committee service chairman for Theta Chi fraternity, said the fraternity planned at the beginning of Spring Semester to have a blood drive because each member was required to do four hours of community service.
Theta Chi fraternity and Kappa Delta sorority advertised the blood drive by making signs and posters around campus tables in the Atrium to advertise the event, he said.
Cooper said 32 people gave blood but a little more than 40 people came to the bus. Those who didn't give blood were turned away for not meeting requirements necessary to donate blood, he said.
The fraternity advertised the drive for two days and its goal was to get 32 people to donate, he said.
Cooper wore a blue band after giving blood and has been donating since he was 17, he said.
Because the Indiana Blood Center had four people taking blood, donators were asked to give at another blood drive the fraternity would have at a later date, he said.
Cooper said in the fall, his fraternity would run a larger blood drive in Pruis Hall. That drive would have 10 people taking blood, so they will not have to turn people away, he said.
Crystal Johnson, field representative for Indiana Blood Center, said the center needed to gather 550 units of blood a day to supply 60 hospitals in Indiana.
There could be an urgent need for blood because of accidents and surgeries, she said.
Johnson said it was important for college students to participate in blood drives because they had a greater understanding of community service.
"Students are always in the mind set of being in the solution of problems," he said.
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