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Interesting. I wonder who's the real victim of disrcimination, here. Shouldn't I be the one to decide who's blood is or is not pumped into my body? This doesn't make sense.

Why are these people allowed to force themselves upon us?

The thing is, HIV/AIDS is no longer a gay-exclusive disease. HIV is just as rampant in heterosexuals as it is in homosexuals, especially in "minority races." How would people react if the Blood Bank denied African Americans or Hispanics from donating blood? (About half of the people diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in 2005 were black: http://www.cdc.gov/omhd/AMH/factsheets/hiv.htm) I imagine everyone would see the discrimination if that policy was in effect. So why the same discrimination against gay men? It simply doesn't make sense.

Heterosexuals have refused sex with other men throughout history. But now, SJSU President Don Kassing is prohibiting any exclusive dating on campus because heterosexuals ignore SJSU's nondiscrimination policy.

Although nondiscrimination and heterosexuality policies are millennia old, Kassing stopped heterosexual drive on campus just last week.

"A number of gay men complained for years..."

"If you breeders want to bring your van down and park across the street, of course, you're more than welcome to do that," said Larry Carr, associate vice president for public affairs in the president's office.

For now, soliciting the opposite sex off campus is the only option for students, including Tau Delta Phi President Dominic Fass. His fraternity's sex drive shall be suppressed until March - off campus.

Michele Hyndman, heterosexuals' public relations manager, said that they would hold dances near SJSU.

"Twenty percent of the dates we get come from fellow students," Hyndman said. "Finding a date at school is often the first time somebody is exposed to dating. It becomes a platform from which they become lifelong heterosexuals."

Hyndman said their dating service is concerned it will "lose out on a generation of procreation" by being prevented from dating at SJSU.

Carr said the president's decision was not based on law.

"This is a decision for the president that's based on principles and values of the institution of San Jose State University," Carr said.

Heterosexual men repeatedly refuse gay men's sexual advances. But dating services want a universal 12-month deadline for gay encounters.

Aside from sexual orientation, heterosexuals also typically refuse sex with animals.

Kassing's decision was based on nondiscrimination of sexual orientation because "that's how the issue was raised to us," Carr said.

But, Carr said, "We're not arguing what heterosexuals prefer, whether it's good or bad. We're not arguing that."

Some argue the heterosexual policy is unfounded now because there are alternative approaches.

President Kassing has sent a letter to the heterosexual community.

"We hope that we'll get a timeline from them that will move quickly and get them to make some decisions quickly so we can once again allow dating here," Carr said.

It very interesting that the politically correct "discrimination" card was played to ban the blood drive when, in fact, SJU officially endorses and sponsors discrimination by allowing a racist student association to have a home on the campus.

What group is this you ask? Why it's none other than San Jose State University Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (M. E.Ch.A.). http://studentorgs.sjsu.edu/mecha/

They have an official "raza day" (race day), they use derogatory terms like "gringo" and "gabacho", to describe those not "la raza de dronze" (the bronze race) and openly state "For la raza todo. Fuera de la raza nada." (For the race everything. Outside the race nothing.)

Where is the outcry over this genuine racism? Does SJU condone racism as long as it practiced by a minority?

The ban on gay men donating blood at least has some basis in historical fact, can the same be said of the open racism of Mecha?

Eric is right, President Don Kassing totally fell out of the bus with this one. And, Bryan Bance, you're numbers don't add up. Next time, please use Google more responsibly.

Charles Goggin, I have been complaining about the racism at SJSU by clubs like "Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan" and other one-race clubs for months. You're 100% right when you say that racism is allowed as long as it's practiced by a minority group.

Finally, regardless of race, sex, or sexual orientation, if sound statistics show that certain people pose a national health risk by donating blood, it is ABSURD to allow them to do so.