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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.

If you would like to show your disgust with the Council of Carleton University Students Association (CUSA) you can e-mail them at:
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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.