For the wording of the motion please click here.
Personally I was shocked to hear that their council could pass such a motion on information that was untrue.
Myself, other executives, councilors, and students all wanted to make it very clear to the CUSA's student council that we did not support their decision and to the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation that the DSU will continue to support Cystic Fibrosis research now and in the future.
Myself and the DSU's Shinerama Director wrote a letter to the CUSA council via their President stating that we are deeply disappointed with their council's most recent motion and that we hope that they will reconsider their decision. And we also wrote a letter to the CCFF stating that Dalhousie students have been very proud to have been involved in Shinerama for the past 43 years and for raising over $700,000 for Cystic Fibrosis research and will continue to be involved in the Shinerama campaign.
On November 26th the Metro newspaper here in Halfiax did a story on the events that had taken place at Carleton University. I was interviewed on November 25th for my comment on the event:
'Dalhousie Student Union president Courtney Larkin said she was “surprised” to hear of the Carleton decision, but Dal won’t be following suit.
“I think the Shinerama team does a really good job letting students know how this could affect you, that it could be a classmate or a friend,” Larkin said.'
For the full article please click here.
Our Shinerama Director was also on Global news last night giving his statements around how we are disappointed that their council has passed a motion on untrue information and that we will not be following suit.
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