Flag Run Kicks Off Olympics Exhibit ?\ ceremonial Olympic Flag run fiom downtown Winston-Salem to SciWorks ill kick off the opening weekend of the Olympic memora bilia exhibit, "Olympic Champions: 100 Years of Glory," sponsored by Sara Lee Corporation. Come cheer on local athletes as they carry the flag from Winston Square, down Cherry Street to University Park way, then up Hanes Mill Road to SciWorks. The run will begin at Winston Square with A.D. Frazier Jr., chief operating officer of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG) presenting an Olympic flag to Mayor Martha Wood, which will then be carried to SciWorks by a variety of individuals and groups, including Olympic hopeful for the U.S.A. bobsled team. Randy Jones, East Forsyth High School champi onship in the upcoming Special Olympics with Wake Forest Univer sity Athletes. As part of the outdoor ceremonies at SciWorks, the Olympic flag will be raised and will remain flying until the exhibit closes in mid-May. Other organizations participating in the opening cere monies include the Mt. Tabor H i jjh School Band, the Carver Keynotes and the Carver Color Guard. The ceremonies will conclude v\ith Wilma Rudolph, Olympic gold medalist in track and field, declaring the exhibit will be at SciWorks April 19 - May 16. The exhibit fea tures memorabilia (medals, pins, uniforms, equipment, photographs, etc.) from each of the modern Olsmpic Games - from the first Games held in Athens. Greece in 1K96 to the upcoming 1996 Atlanta Games. Sara Lee Corporation is one of the top national sponsors of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. SciWorks is located at 400 Hanes Mill Road off U.S. Route 52 and is accessible by the SciWorks WSTA bus. Route 10-B. For more information about the Flag Run, contact Valerie McFadden, Sci Works' Development and Market ing director, at 767-6730. NIAID Funds Effort to Improve Transplant System The first collaborative project to better define the system used to match transplant donors to recipi ents in the African- American popu lation has begun, funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and coordinated through the American Society of Histocdhipatibility and Immunogenetics of Lenexa, Kan. "This project is very important because, in addition to the benefits to transplantation, it will provide information vital to improved understanding and treatment of immunologic diseases in the African American population," says ?, Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of NIAID. Each year, the lives of thou sands of Americans are prolonged through organ transplantation. However, for African Americans, who comprise nearly one-third of patients awaiting kidney transplants, the chances of receiving a trans planted organ are less than one fourth that of whites. The trans plants that do occur among African Americans are more likely to be rejected, in part due to the lack of available information about match ing donors and recipients. Histocompatibility testing or tissue typing compares antigens known as human leukocyte antigens (HLA) found on white blood cells. This test provides an opportunity to assure that donors and recipients are as well matched as possible. At least 110 HLA antigens exist. The chance of finding some one with identical antigens ranges from about 1 in 70,000 to less than 1 in a million. If a potential donor and recipient match in all but one antigen, they are considered a good pair. More thart 50 laboratories rep resenting 11 geographic regions across the United States have been selected to participate in the collab orative effort. Researchers will obtain blood samples from 500 African- American families to be recruited in proportion to the num ber of African Americans residing in the 11 regions. The specimens will be tested to obtain important HLA-reluted infor mation. A cell repository also will be created and specimens will be stored for the scientific community to use in future studies. Results of this NIAID-funded effort should be available in the fall of 1994. "In addition to providing essen tial information," says Andrea A. Zachary, Ph.D., chief of the Trans plantation Section Division of Allergy, Immunology and Trans plantation for NIA1D system, o aspecls of transplantation immunol ogy that may be particular to or more problematic in African Ameri cans and on the genetic basis for diseases that disproportionately affect this population." Due to the lack of information about HLA in African Americans, studies of its role in certain autoim mune diseases, where the immune system attacks the body's own cells because it mistakes for foreign cells, have not been as productive in African Americans as in other groups. A higher rate of these dis eases. such as lupus erythematosus and insulin-dependent diabetes, along with hypertension cause African Americans to have more cases of end-stage kidney disease, increasing their need for kidney transplants. NAACP's Afro- Academic , The NAACP's Afro- Academic, Cultural. Technological and Scien tific Olympics (Act-So) is an acade mic Olympics for students in grades Mary L. Peeler, executive director of the NAACP, emphasizes that ACT-SO is designed to encour age and inspire African American youths towards excellence in acade mic and cultural pursuit. The state NAAC^heWP^tetrict ACT-SO competitions on April 17. The eastefn district competi tion was held at Morton Hall at the I'niversity of North Carolina in Wilmington-. The western district competition was held at Johnson C. Smith I'niversity in Charlotte. Over 200 .students displayed their talents and skills during these two district competitions. First. Second and Third place \\ inners of the district competitions will now compete in the statewide ACT-SO competition on May 15 at 1 1 a.m. - 3 p.m. at the A. H. Ander son Conference Center at Winston Salem State University. These competitions are free and Cultural, Olympics Time to Register for ? Kindergarten Children who will be five on or before Oct. 16 are eligible to attend public kindergarten in the fall. Please call your school to enroll. Kindergarten Orientation/ Preschool Assessment testing is now taking place at the elementary schools. Call your school to find out the time and date. II" you do not know your child's school assignment call the Pupil Assignment Office at 727 20 1 3 to find out what your child will attend. fRA WN A I CORPORATION BORROW BUY OR BROWSE UNIVERSITY PARKWAY COLLEGE PLAZA CENTER Quick Cash Loans ; .Jcwlrry ? TV ? VCR Repairs Mi >Nt?AV SATURDAY ? <*-<1 - SUNDAY 1 -? 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