I guess white people, and males are not as important as everyone else?
Is it any wonder so many of our politicans are stupid? When we have student groups like this as the training ground?
All people are important. White, black, green, plaid. As are both sex's. God....get past race, religion and gender folks, it's not that hard.
Students fire back in CF charity flap
By AEDAN HELMER, SUN MEDIA
The Ottawa Sun
Carleton University student Marissa Hofteizer, center, walks with Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Regional Director, Nadine Imbleau-Redman, right, while participating in a fundraising demonstration on campus one day after the Carleton University Student Association (CUSA) overturned a decision to cancel the Shinerama fundraising campaign which benefits Cystic Fibrosis, Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008.
OTTAWA -- When the Carleton University Students' Association voted to scrap a popular cystic fibrosis fundraiser because the disease "only affect(s) white people, and primarily men," Christine Skobe was shocked.
But the Carleton student, who was diagnosed with the degenerative disease when she was 12, isn't getting mad. She's trying to get even.
Skobe and 25 other students marched through campus yesterday, collecting donations for the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CCFF) in an impromptu fundraiser.
"As a person who has cystic fibrosis, it's unacceptable for my school to be like this," said Skobe.
"I can honestly say that the donations that have come from Shinerama and other CF fundraisers have improved my quality of life, and it's terrible that my school wants to stop supporting that because it's helping me live."
Nadine Imbleau-Redman, regional director with CCFF, said the widespread media coverage "hasn't been all that bad for CF."
"It's given us an opportunity to re-educate the public to allow people to truly understand how devastating a disease it is, how widespread it is and that it is the most common fatal genetic disease among young Canadians," she said.
But as CUSA moves into full damage-control mode, a student coalition is forming on campus to impeach CUSA president Brittany Smyth and councillor Donnie Northrup, the student who wrote the controversial motion to scrap Shinerama in favour of "a new broad-reaching charity."
Coun. Kailey Gervais circulated a petition calling for Smyth and Northrup's resignations, and collected more than 500 signatures in two hours.
According to CUSA policy, 1,250 signatures are needed to impeach Smyth, while 90 science students are required to sign the petition to force Northrup, who represents the faculty of science, from office.
"If the students feel they need to remove two people from office to show the world that we are responsible and that the students can take action and be heard, then that's what needs to be done," said Gervais.
Gervais also wants to reform the political process at council, saying the motion tabled by Northrup allowed "no time for research and no time for consultation."
"Because we did not talk to our constituency, we acted unilaterally at that table and that's incorrect for council," said Gervais.