Sunday, November 30, 2008

Ottawa university boots cystic fibrosis from charity drive

Ottawa university boots cystic fibrosis from charity drive:
"OTTAWA -- The Carleton University Students' Association has voted to drop a cystic fibrosis charity as the beneficiary of its annual Shinearama fundraiser, supporting a motion that argued the disease is not 'inclusive' enough.

Cystic fibrosis 'has been recently revealed to only affect white people, and primarily men' said the motion read Monday night to student councillors, who voted almost unanimously in favour of it. ..."
There are some very useful links on the right sidebar of this article which demonstrate that the assumptions in the student council motion are false.

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