MCom 100W- Tu/ Th 10:30 a.m.
Blog Post #1- Redo
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The Spartan Daily has dedicated several daily publications in the past three months to try to keep the students and staff alerted of the blood drive ban on campus. There have been plain informational articles written as well as the positive and negative opinions of students published in recent months. Overall, it appears as though the students are against this ban on blood drives on campus and are searching for explanations for the absence. The explanation the paper is giving us is this: the FDA has a national policy denying acceptance of blood from homosexuals. This rule clashes with our campus’ policy of nondiscrimination, and hosting an “anti-homosexual” blood drive would cause controversy and violate our personal policy. Does this mean that all blood from homosexuals is tainted? What makes this blood any more dangerous or more contaminated than someone else’s blood? I am assuming this policy stems from the idea that a higher rate of AIDS and other STDs are present in homosexuals than their straight counterparts. This would be a rather large and questionable assumption. Don’t straight people participate in all the same activities that are stereotypically associated with homosexuality: needle use, anal sex, etc.? Well, perhaps the research and data backing up the FDA’s policy is right and true. Who knows? I surely don’t, but something about the whole situation doesn’t quite sit well with me. I suggest accepting blood donations from those who are believed to be disease-free (straight or gay), and then testing the blood to be completely sure before distributing. Either way, the Spartan has done a tremendous job spreading the knowledge behind this very public situation between SJSU,
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It's new and improved! Good job.
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