Alpha Epsilon Pi donates $6,500 to Diabetic charity

Local frat Alpha Epsilon Pi, seen above, recently donated nearly $6,500 to a Mississauga charity, the Diabetes Hope Foundation, which will be used to fund two $3000 scholarships for diabetic students.

“The biggest adjustment for these [diabetic students],” said Barbara Pasternak, the founder of the Diabetes Hope Foundation in a press release, “is having to pay for their medication on their own, because the government normally cuts off subsidies once they turn 18.”

In order to raise the cash (which turned out to be $2,000 more than the $4,500 they had planned on raising) AEPi held-what else?-a big party. Held at Lucid nightclub on Sept. 23, they charged $10 at the door and gave female party-goers bags of donated MAC makeup.

“I was really impressed by the amount of effort the guys were willing to put forward,” said Pasternak. “Especially in the summer months.”

-Graham F. Scott

US universities can shoo away army recruiters again because ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ violates academic free speech: US court

WASHINGTON (CUP) — Colleges and universities in the United States may bar military recruiters from their campuses without risking the loss of federal funds after an appellate court struck down a federal law requiring institutions of higher education to provide access to military recruiters Nov. 29.

The Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia barred the government from enforcing the Solomon Amendment, a 1995 federal law that threatens the loss of federal funding to any university that does not allow military recruiters the same access to students as corporate recruiters.

A stricter interpretation of the Solomon Amendment by the Department of Defence in 2002 prodded many schools to admit military recruiters, who had been barred because of the armed forces’ ban on openly lesbian and gay individuals serving in the military.

The court ruled 2-1 the Solomon Amendment violated universities’ First Amendment rights of free expression and association. Its decision relied heavily on the 2000 ruling by the Supreme Court declaring the Boy Scouts had a constitutional right to exclude gay persons.

-Robert Heberle
The Hoya (Georgetown University)