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McGill suspends club status

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McGill’s Choose Life had their club status indefinitely revoked yesterday by the SSMU.

The motion, which passed by a vote of 16-7, stipulated that the “Student Equity Committee work with Choose Life to draft a document for Choose Life on how to abide by SSMU’s Constitution, By-laws, and Policies, which will be adopted by Choose Life.”

Maybe it will be a behavioral chart that will work on a smiley face basis. Perhaps double-smiley face stickers will be awarded when Choose Life quietly heeds to the temper tantrums of those who believe freedom of speech comes with strings attached.

They would be good to remember: “We must bring ourselves to realize that it is necessary to support free speech for the things we hate in order to ensure it for the things in which we believe with all our heart.” — Heywood Campbell Broun

McGill U: going against the flow

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Proud as punch about this:

McGill University’s student government has bucked an unfortunate national trend by granting full club status to a student anti-abortion group.

The Student Society’s decision to grant recognition to Choose Life is not so much a victory for pro-life forces as it is a victory for free speech and freedom of association, values that seem to be under attack, and poorly defended, on many Canadian campuses – where they should be safest.

I think a lot of this had to do with McGill not wanting to come off as narrow as York or Calgary Universities. In case you haven’t noticed, Quebec likes to go against the flow. Sometimes to a fault. Not this time, thank goodness.

U of C pro-lifers to face court conviction

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And that’s no Bologna, according to this columnist (I couldn’t resisit the pun).

It’s really too bad the idea of the university has apparently run its course, a ship smashed to splinters on the rocks of political correctness.

Universities have had a good long run.

The very first was organized in Bologna and the first reference to it is an imperial decree from Frederick Barbarossa in 1158…

As they developed, universities taught the use of logical, dispassionate observation to investigate nature — thanks, Aristotle! — which conflicted, of course, with the position of the dominant social and political force of the time, the Roman Catholic Church.

Over the years, schools became a place where the struggle between divergent opinions was not only tolerated but encouraged, in the hope of determining what was true and what was real, because it was conflicts between points of view that helped define truth.

Of course, the concept of truth itself is long dead in universitiy administration, so what were we expecting?

Celibacy U

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Here’s a little ad being circulated around Ryerson University. What a surprise–it’s being torn apart in the comments section. It seems it isn’t politically correct to refer to your personal values as “more honorable.”

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But let’s be honest. If saving yourself for your ideal mate is the motive behind the celibacy, is that not more honorable than, say, a one-night stand?

Oh, right! We use the remote to change the channel, order food that’s ready in about a minute, and use high-speed internet. What makes me think waiting for sex in our instant-gratification society will be a very popular idea?

And yet, I’m decidedly optimistic.

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Andrea doesn’t want to be mean yet she wonders: Whether some of these people are celibate by default, not honourable choice. Nothing against Star Trek, but…

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Brigitte doesn’t mind being mean: Holy Corny Cheesy Cringe-Inducing Terrible Clip, Batman! Is this for real? I’m all for sexual restraint (sorry, I don’t think celibacy is necessarily for everybody, but between that and indiscriminate hooking-up, I’m sure there’s a healthy middle), and I am not always as pessimistic as I sound, but golly, this video is so awful it would have pushed me far away from celibacy…

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Andrea again: Apparently, the clip, having been torn apart in their comments section, will now be torn apart in ours. Perhaps we should take it down. I don’t want to be responsible for someone running out into a torrid and inappropriate affair because of bad celibacy advertising–no booze required. I once heard someone say it’s fine to be celibate: You should, however, refrain from advertising publicly. Proof positive.

The fight over our young

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No, not the young you may be thinking. (After all, when we talk about young ones in these parts, we’re usually referring to the unborn.)

These statistics caught my eye again recently:

Looking specifically at teens … 72 percent call abortion morally wrong, and 32 percent believe it should be illegal in all circumstances. Among adults … 17 percent backed a total ban.”

While some dismiss this statistic, choosing to focus on the lack of life-experience a teenager possesses, I am reminded of my own pre-teen self, already well anchored into my opinion on many important issues.

There must be a few people who see it as I do on the pro-abortion side.

They [major abortion-rights groups] hope to win over young people by focusing on issues less controversial (and to many students, more pressing) than abortion, such as the rising price of birth control on college campuses.”

To the pro-abortion side I say, “College campuses are a great place to start. After all, they seem to be gagging one side of the debate; silencing the unfavorable point of view.”

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