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Originally Posted by jolinar of malkshor
On the face of this article it sounds bad, really bad. But Charles Adler had the president of the students union on yesterday to explain this BS. She mad a lot of sense. SHe explained that the original motion before the student union was to debate if they should do fundraising for different charities for each year instead of just CF. Which is fine. The reason that this looks so bad is because it was ONE student that spoke out in the debate about supporting CF because of the reasons listed above. (Which are complete BS). Those where the remarks that basically stuck with the story. She explained that the motion had nothing to do with the above allegations and it was only the remarks of 1 member. The union strictly voted on the motion if they should switch up fundraising each year. Sounds like it was just one idiot school union member that made these remarks.
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It isn't often that JoM is the voice of reason and sanity in any debate but he obviously is here. As it turns out the MASSIVE protest today forced the SU to go back on their previous decision to rotate which charity they support. The idiot (Donnie Northrup) that spoke on it being a white-only disease probably didn't think he was going to force Carleton to NEVER EVER EVER EVER again debate rotating where the funds go. This has given Carleton a black eye that it doesn't deserve.
BTW - I give monthly to Amnesty International and Foster Parents Plan, but not to breast cancer. This does not mean I do not want there to be a cure for breast cancer.
Also - from the
Ottawa Citizen
- Mr. Northrup said "not a lot of thought" went into the wording..."I'm among term papers and assignments - it was a slip up. I should have researched it further," said the fourth year integrated science student.
- Mr. Northrup said the backlash has been "fairly unkind." He has received hate email and random Facebook messages."I am currently not able to live happily," he said.
I kinda feel bad for the guy. He f'd up and now the whole country is out to get him....