More university political correctness...

Submitted by David on Wed, 2008-11-26 00:26

I must admit that I'm mildly surprised that SFU wasn't the culprit.

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.

(From the National Post)

In related news, breast cancer and prostate cancer occur at roughly the same rates in Canada and about the same as far as survivability is concerned. Of course, there's 10x as much funding for research into breast cancer research as into prostate cancer.

Here's another equally crazy story from a second Canadian university:

Two weeks ago, Queen's announced the hiring of six "intergroup facilitators" who will live in residence halls with students. According to the university, the facilitators will "address issues relating to social identities." One of their methods will be intervening in students' conversations involving controversial issues or offensive language.

(Excerpted from the McGill Tribune)

Comments

David

Wed, 2008-11-26 00:48

Another amusing aspect to the Carleton story is that it seems that they were incorrect in their statement about the limitations of the disease to white males. The Globe and Mail cites the head of the Canadian Cystic Fybrosis foundation as affecting men and women equally, and applying to basically all ethnic groups - albeit less common in black or east asian populations.