Comments on: Blood drives stopped http://blogs.thespartandaily.com/news/14 Latest news updates from the Spartan Daily. Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:21:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Spartan Daily http://blogs.thespartandaily.com/news/14#comment-123 Spartan Daily Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:28:40 +0000 http://blogs.thespartandaily.com/news/14#comment-123 [...] halts blood drives; policy questioned Feb. 4, 2008: Opinion: Making a deadly situation worse Jan. 30, 2008: Blood drives stopped Poll: Do you agree with SJSU’s blood drive [...] […] halts blood drives; policy questioned Feb. 4, 2008: Opinion: Making a deadly situation worse Jan. 30, 2008: Blood drives stopped Poll: Do you agree with SJSU’s blood drive […]

]]> By: Spartan Daily http://blogs.thespartandaily.com/news/14#comment-26 Spartan Daily Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:57:09 +0000 http://blogs.thespartandaily.com/news/14#comment-26 [...] Where to donate blood off campus Feb. 4, 2008: President halts blood drives; policy questioned Jan. 30, 2008: Blood drives stopped Feb. 7, 2008: Opinion: This Queer Life: Bad Blood Feb. 4, 2008: Opinion: Making a deadly situation [...] […] Where to donate blood off campus Feb. 4, 2008: President halts blood drives; policy questioned Jan. 30, 2008: Blood drives stopped Feb. 7, 2008: Opinion: This Queer Life: Bad Blood Feb. 4, 2008: Opinion: Making a deadly situation […]

]]> By: Jonathan Hodges http://blogs.thespartandaily.com/news/14#comment-16 Jonathan Hodges Mon, 04 Feb 2008 05:32:40 +0000 http://blogs.thespartandaily.com/news/14#comment-16 Don Kassing has obviously caved into the politiclly correct-motivated demands of a small but vocal homosexual mafia. How barbaric to deprive innocent victims of a life-saving procedure - simply from a policy disagreement. Don Kassing has obviously caved into the politiclly correct-motivated demands of a small but vocal homosexual mafia.

How barbaric to deprive innocent victims of a life-saving procedure - simply from a policy disagreement.

]]> By: Anonymous http://blogs.thespartandaily.com/news/14#comment-14 Anonymous Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:55:34 +0000 http://blogs.thespartandaily.com/news/14#comment-14 The FDA policy banning gays from donating blood does not constitute a discriminatory action against the gay community; discrimination typically entails a positive loss on the part of those that are being discriminated against. The gay community is not losing anything tangible by being barred from donating blood. It goes without saying that Don Kassing must be a fool to think that his silly university’s anti-discrimination policy could supplant the regulatory statutes of the federal government. Mind you, the FDA is a federal agency. The discriminatory policies of the military have been upheld time and time again, and yet they have not been barred from gathering recruits on university campuses nationwide. The FDA has a much more rational basis to bar gays from donating blood then does the military from barring gay recruits. Kissing’s policy is not likely to hold up in court. One thing that surprises me is that no one has thought that Kassing might be overstepping his jurisdiction; Kassing is not just barring blood drives from being held at the university, he is barring student groups as well as employees of the university from organizing blood drives, if this applies to student groups that wish to hold blood drives of campus, then he certainly is overstepping his jurisdiction. This might become a civil liberties issue as well, albeit of a different sort, after all, Kassing is preventing students from organizing. The FDA policy banning gays from donating blood does not constitute a discriminatory action against the gay community; discrimination typically entails a positive loss on the part of those that are being discriminated against. The gay community is not losing anything tangible by being barred from donating blood. It goes without saying that Don Kassing must be a fool to think that his silly university’s anti-discrimination policy could supplant the regulatory statutes of the federal government. Mind you, the FDA is a federal agency. The discriminatory policies of the military have been upheld time and time again, and yet they have not been barred from gathering recruits on university campuses nationwide. The FDA has a much more rational basis to bar gays from donating blood then does the military from barring gay recruits. Kissing’s policy is not likely to hold up in court. One thing that surprises me is that no one has thought that Kassing might be overstepping his jurisdiction; Kassing is not just barring blood drives from being held at the university, he is barring student groups as well as employees of the university from organizing blood drives, if this applies to student groups that wish to hold blood drives of campus, then he certainly is overstepping his jurisdiction. This might become a civil liberties issue as well, albeit of a different sort, after all, Kassing is preventing students from organizing.

]]> By: PAS http://blogs.thespartandaily.com/news/14#comment-10 PAS Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:51:45 +0000 http://blogs.thespartandaily.com/news/14#comment-10 this is not "Kassing's foolish crusade," as you would think it is. this is a stand against the FDA's discrimanitory stance against the gay community! And even though you would like to think that Kassing is responsible for this ban, when in reality it is something that has been adopted and supported by various groups at our university. if you want to advocate for change you need to be lobbying against the FDA's discrimantory regulations, not against people(s) who are striving for the equallity of all individuals. this is not “Kassing’s foolish crusade,” as you would think it is. this is a stand against the FDA’s discrimanitory stance against the gay community! And even though you would like to think that Kassing is responsible for this ban, when in reality it is something that has been adopted and supported by various groups at our university. if you want to advocate for change you need to be lobbying against the FDA’s discrimantory regulations, not against people(s) who are striving for the equallity of all individuals.

]]> By: Anonymous http://blogs.thespartandaily.com/news/14#comment-9 Anonymous Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:31:58 +0000 http://blogs.thespartandaily.com/news/14#comment-9 I can only wonder as to how many people are going to die as a result of Kassing’s foolish crusade. I can only wonder as to how many people are going to die as a result of Kassing’s foolish crusade.

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