Is Cystic Fibrosis REALLY a White Mans Disease?
Ottawa Ontario’s Carleton University students have decided to pull out of a Canada-wide fundraiser that provides close to $1 million a year for Cystic Fibrosis research, given false information that the disease “has been recently revealed to only affect white people, and primarily men.” The Carleton University Students Association voted Monday night overwhelmingly in favour of choosing a new charity to support during its orientation week in September, in lieu of Shinerama, which raises money for the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. The student govt’s motion to drop the Shinerama fund- raising campaign from Orientation Week was worded as: Whereas Orientation week strives to be inclusive as possible, and Whereas all orientees and volunteers should feel like their fundraising efforts will serve their diverse communities, And whereas cystic fibrosis has been recently revealed to only affect white people, and primarily men Be it further resolved that: The CUSA representatives on the inc
