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By KATHY PETERS
Staff Writer
Bunki Bankaitis-Davis used to be a
ballgirl for her brothers' tennis games.
But now she is a member of the
National Women's Cycling Team.
Bankaitis-Davis, who sports a short
haircut and make-up bare face, rides
up to 5 hours daily.
Ever since the national men's coach
spotted her riding in a men's race last
summer, Bankaitis-Davis has been hit
with a headwind of change. "I went
from nowhere all the way to the top,"
she said. "This happened so fast."
As a result of the coach's tip,
recruiters placed Bankaitis-Davis on the
National Women's Team, a group of
four women cyclists whose training is
sponsored by Texan Metros Centurion
company. She will start full training this
summer, when she and her husband,
a member of the UNC cycling team,
move to Colorado Springs. There,
coaches will instruct her at the Olympic
training center.
Being chosen for the national team
was a surprise for Bankaitis-Davis. A
few years ago, she was a runner. Then,
when her ankles weakened, she was
"coerced" into cycling by her husband.
She soon ditched her running shoes for
riding gear, began competing and
became her own coach.
Now she is trying to juggle the two
roles of student and cyclist.
Hours and hours of motorpacing
(riding alongside a car), sprinting and
distance riding demand dedication. And
according to Kevin Calkins, a UNC
cycling team member, Bankaitis-Davis
definitely has persistence.
"The reason Bunki is good is that
she's just so dedicated," Calkins said.
"She's got a lot more discipline than
a lot of us who ride."
But until she graduates with a Ph.D.
in organic chemistry in May, Bankaitis
Davis' emphasis is on education. "This
is my last year," she said. "I don't want
to prolong it. Training wastes a lot of
study time."
Her academic adviser, Mike Crim
mins, said Bankaitis-Davis was deter
mined to handle studying and cycling.
"She's really a very organized person,"
he said.
The publicity that accompanies paid
athletes sometimes makes Bankaitis
Davis question her decision to race.
"God, IVe had a lot of those times
.... (questioning the decision),"
Bajikaitis-Davis said, as she rolled her
eyes. "If it were up to me, 1 would race
right here (in Chapel Hill) in men's
races. Especially lately, I've had a lot
of responsibilties."
Bankaitis-Davis recognizes, though,
that doing promotions comes with the
"luxury" of being sponsored. "You have
to balance your sanity and make others
happy," she said. "You have to learn
to say no, but you have to learn when
you can say no."
As an undergraduate at Cleveland
State, Bankaitis-Davis didn't say "no"
to sports; she played tennis and
volleyball.
But during her childhood in Cleve-
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land, Ohio, Bankaitis-Davis desire for
athletics was squelched. "1 always
wanted to be (an athlete), but never
could be," said the eldest daughter of
a family with five boys. "The attitude
was that women shouldn't play sports."
For Bankaitis-Davis, biking is a
serious sport. "The thing that gets me
so mad is that people think you hop
on, ride a bike around, and that's it,"
she said. "Biking is very much a team
sport. You have to be able to race in
a pack. A mistake lands you on the
pavement."
But Bankaitis-Davis doesn't want to
be known as a cyclist or even a chemist.
She laughed, fidgeted with her black
wristband and said that she wanted to
be "someone who's giving." She added
that she would like to give the oppor
tunities that she has had to others.
"I'd like to hit people in junior high,
especially women," she said. "Most
women don't know what they can do,
physically and mentally. Sometimes, it
just takes someone to tell somebody.
Never, ever in my life did I dream that
I would be doing this, but it's here now.
And I like it."
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By MARIA HAREN
Staff Writer
With modern science's ability to
transplant organs, serious ethical
questions arise which must be given
careful thought, said a Carolina
Symposium 1986 speaker Tuesday
night in Hanes Art Center.
. Dr. James F. Childress, a Kyle
professor of religious studies and a
University of Virginia professor of
medical education, spoke to an
audience of about 60 students on
"Ethics and Biomedical Technology:
The Case of Organ Transplant
ation." The actual donor may or may not
be the person who had signed a
donor card, Childress said, because
donor cards are not considered
unless the family agrees to the
donation.
"The term donor is applied to
those who make the decision to
donate and the source of the dona
tion," Childress said. "The living can
sue more easily than the dead."
According to law, a family has the
right to refuse the donation in court,
even if the signer had an opposite
wish, he said.
Childress said people feared that
doctors may remove organs before
actual death, or may hasten death
if an organ was needed badly
enough.
Lack of education concerning
death leads to public mistrust, he
said, and the public should be aware
that "brain death" and "death" are
the same things.
To get more donors, the medical
profession should ask the families of
dying or brain-dead persons if they
have considered organ donation,
Childress said.
Formation of a waiting list and
selection of patients for organ
transplants poses a complicated
problem, Childress said. "It's impor
tant that the public sees that the
selection and distribution of organs
is fair."
The need for the organ, the
probability of success and the wait
ing list priorities are the primary
criteria for organ reception, he said.
"Urgency is the usual choice," he
said, "but it can be used as a
camouflage by doctors to get organs
for their patients."
Age as a criteria for donor recep
tion should only be a determinant
when the chances for survival after
surgery is in doubt, he said, or if
other diseases may interfere.
A person .who has received a
previous organ and rejected it should
be questioned as a possible' receiver
before another transplant is given,
he said.
"When one has had a transplant,"
Childress said, "it decreases the
chance of success for another
transplant."
Absence of family or social sup
port should not determine who
receives an organ donation, he said,
as should the ability to pay for the
transplant.
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