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Would you recommend that fundraising for breast cancer be stopped because it affects mainly woman? Or that Sickle Cell fundraising be stopped because it affects blacks only.

Please read on.

Fundraiser canned on claims disease affects only whites:

Carleton University won't be holding a popular fundraiser to benefit cystic fibrosis, a student councillor confirmed Tuesday, after the student association passed a motion claiming the disease affects only white men.

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What do you feel would have happened if they had ended fundraising for breast cancer based on the same reasoning?
What do you think womans groups would do?

original web article:
http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/abc/hom...ndraiser_081125

about CF - http://www.cysticfibrosis.ca/page.asp?id=1


Regards

I can't blame them if they wanted to fund raise for a local charity but to have stopped the CF fundraising based solely on that one idea is ludicris. Political correctness gone so very wrong. They make it sound like Caucasian males are not worth their efforts, very sad.

I also heard that it strikes boys and girls about equally, but that girls generally succumb at an earlier age (which I guess would lead it to look like only men get it). "Caucasian" also includes quite a few people, not just "straight up whites".

When did diseases become politically correct? Shame on you Carlton University.

This stuff is so frustrating.

How ridiculous.

Just sad.

I have a second cousin with cystic fibrosis. I'd love for one of these idiots on the student council to give HER a call and tell her that she doesn't exist, even though she's almost 40 years old and has children of her own.

If that is the level of intelligence of their student association, they don't deserve to be an accredited college.

What a load of #%^@.

I agree, it's a crock, but student government bodies seem rarely to be particularly intelligent as a group. Remember, these are future politicians, but without the rough edges sanded off by compromise and reasoning.

I wonder what the dean of science has to say about this? Their logic behind this decision is absurb and their facts about this disease is false. It is desicions like this made by useless, overpaid adminstrators that divert any real progress in research.

If the university that I went to pulled a stunt like this, they would never recieve one cent in donations.

Guys, it's the student body. I don't think the university has much to do with it.

Since when has outrage been rational, Ken?

Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation wins.
More importantly the victims of this decease win, men,woman and children.


CUSA president Brittany Smyth said she will table a motion at the next council meeting that would repeal the decision.

Councillors don't want people to think that the annual Shinerama fundraiser was cancelled because they believe, mistakenly, that cystic fibrosis only affects a specific segment of the population.

"Because of so much confusion, students don't want people to think that that's why we didn't want to go with the cystic fibrosis fundraiser," Smyth told CTV.ca in a phone interview Wednesday. "There seems to be a lot of support among council to just go back to how it was and then open up conversations with students to see what people would like to do in the future."

Smyth originally defended the move, saying it opened the door for next year's orientation week co-ordinators to choose another charity if students wanted a change.

Smyth said the part of the motion that justifies the cancellation of Shinerma is irrelevant and only reflects the rationale of the councillor who brought it forward.

In a statement issued on Wednesday, Carleton president Roseann O'Reily Runte said that she personally regrets that the motion was adopted and said the language used to justify cancelling Shinerama was "not appropriate."



http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/abc/hom...hinerama_081126

Proof that student politicians can reverse their decisions as quickly as national politicians! Pros in the making...

Don't fault them for coming to their senses. If only professional politicians could admit errors and do 180s so quickly.

They have yet to learn the art of the cover up.

Well, it looks like they may do an about face. This thing has gotten a lot of press up here. I wonder what they learned from this experience?

They probably learned that common sense isn't too common
Mel N.