San Jose State Bans Blood Drives
San Jose State University has banned blood drives on campus because of the FDA's long-standing policy barring gay men from donating blood, the Spartan Daily reports. The school's president says the FDA's restrictions violate SJSU's nondiscrimination policy. "I recognize the importance of giving blood and we know that universities are a significant source of blood," he wrote in an E-mail sent to faculty, staff, students, and alumni. "Our hope is that the FDA will revisit its deferral policy in a timely manner, and we may soon be able to hold blood drives on this campus again."
Critics are calling the move "terribly misguided," saying blood drives on the San Jose campus bring in an estimated 1,000 pints a year. High school and college campuses also account for about 20 percent of all donated blood, and blood drives are often where students develop the habit of becoming lifelong donors.
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blood drives and gay men
Clearly the president of the university needs to be the one who "revisits" his current policy. This guy must be so PC as to have stopped thinking.
Banning of blood drives
I say good for him...
There are plenty of other places for people to donate blood, and maybe this will start to take discrimination out of state and federal policies.
Here's an idea
Here's a thought...... Let the "el presidente" be the first recepient of the gay donor blood... and set the rest aside for the other gays who will be in need of blood at some point! Can't you just imagine the protests over such a common sense policy!!
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