Carleton drops cystic fibrosis from Shinerama Drive :(

[jernst]

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=992946

Coming from WLU where shinerama started, I'm pretty disappointed.

[S_Grimm]

Thsi is what happens when people try to get involed in "politics".

As the saying goes, "S*** flows downhill."

[Dan]

The saddest part here is that there are some rumors that there student government dropped it becues they claimed it only effected "white men".

A\V @ 26th November 2008, 11:39 am wrote:

Thsi is what happens when people try to get involed in "politics".

I have been involved with university politics before and only manged to piss off the hole engenering department


If university's keep doing things like this Lakehead is going to start looking normal

[S_Grimm]

the whole engenering department? where was this at? and what exactly did you do???

[md]

Dan @ 2008-11-26, 12:26 pm wrote:

The saddest part here is that there are some rumors that there student government dropped it becues they claimed it only effected "white men".

A\V @ 26th November 2008, 11:39 am wrote:

Thsi is what happens when people try to get involed in "politics".

I have been involved with university politics before and only manged to piss off the hole engenering department


If university's keep doing things like this Lakehead is going to start looking normal

Not rumor, reported fact. They dropped it because they were told it only effected white men and they felt that they shouldn't support research that only effects one group. I have a feeling they support breast cancer research... This is why political correctness is a bad thing.

[Dan]

md @ 26th November 2008, 3:15 pm wrote:

Not rumor, reported fact. They dropped it because they were told it only effected white men and they felt that they shouldn't support research that only effects one group. I have a feeling they support breast cancer research... This is why political correctness is a bad thing.

In there defnece it is rather hard to stop group think on board of directors for such orgigsations epstaly where there are extream influences from special intreset groups. It's very easy to get cought up in one way of thinking and only seeing the issue from one view point. It would be intresting to see the minuites from what ever meeting it was they decied this in.

[rdrake]

Dropping support for a disease because it only affects white people? This is a joke, right?

It's like dropping support for sickle-cell anemia because it mostly affects black people.

[Zeroth]

Here's my challenge for you: count how many breast cancer posters, ads, commercials you see. Then count how many you see in the same time frame for prostate cancer. Funding for diseases is inherently politicized. Plus, you know, breasts are beautiful... men really aren't. Next time someone hits you up for donations to breast cancer ask if they take money for prostate cancer as well. Ask them if they say no, why not? Just as many men are affected... but because of less awareness, more suffer.

[Clayton]

Of the people I know here at Carleton, a very high percentage of them are angered (at a minimum) by this choice. Just as md and rdrake have pointed out, there are all kinds of things out there that require research, but only show up in a mostly core group of people. My personal opinion? It's complete and utter bullshit.