The Carolinian [March 25, 2008]

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SGA temporarily loses affiliation, nullifies elections
Stephanie Patton
News Editor
Last week's SGA Senate meet-ing
was spent discussing issues
SGA has recently encountered,
including a temporary loss of
the group's affiliation and the
nullification of the recent SGA
elections.
The SGA recently lost its affili-ation
for nearly two weeks when
President John Bryant failed to
turn in affiliation-related pa-perwork.
Bryant stated that he
is not quite sure how the error
occurred.
"I believe that I turned it in,"
said Bryant regarding the neces-sary
forms to apply for re-affilia-tion.
"I don't know why it wasn't
[turned in]."
Bryant did not inform mem-bers
of the SGA or the organiza-tions
funded by the SGA of the
predicament until the SGA meet-ing
on March 18. The organiza-tions
lost funding for those two
weeks, and the lack of money is
how some came to realize they
were no longer affiliated with the
university.
"The reason that it was not
brought up and talked about with
the entire student body before,"
explained Bryant, "was because
I thought it could get handled
quickly."
Bryant sent an apology letter
explaining the predicament and
the SGA regained its affiliation,
but is now on probation until
Spring 2009. If the SGA has an-other
violation during the proba-tion,
a council set up by Student
Affairs will become the student
government. This is the second
time the SGA has lost affiliation,
as far as Bryant can remember, he
said.
The UNCG SGA was also
placed on probation in February
of 2007, after failing to inform the
university 12 hours before hold-ing
an event on campus. That
probation carried
Contested election
In addition to affiliation com-plications,
the SGA was also deal-ing
with the trouble of this year's
elections. Elections were held the
first week of March, but the re-sults
have been nullified.
As stated in a letter drafted
by Mekia Taylor, Elections and
Publicity Committee chair, the
elections will be re-done. The de-cision
was made after members
of the Elections and Publicity
Committee felt the integrity of
the elections was compromised.
SEE PROBLEMS ON PAGE 18
Spartan TV hosts SGA
candidates
Stephanie Patton
News Editor
What was meant to be a presi-dential
debate turned out to be
more of a discussion last week
with SGA members Sen. Michael
Tuso and Sen. Andrea Schronce
speaking about the qualities and
experience they feel they embody,
enabling them to become the
leaders of the student body.
Spartan TV hosted the debate
shortly after SGA announced
there would be a do-over in the
election process. The television
station invited all the presidential
and vice-presidential candidates
to attend the event, however, due
to a decline of the request and a
failure to show, only two candi-dates
were available to answer
questions.
Sen. Tuso, running for presi-dent,
and Sen. Schronce, running
for vice-president, are running
mates in the election, making it
difficult to hold an actual debate
with just the two. Instead, Chris
Brown, a Spartan TV anchor,
SEE SPARTAN ON PAGE TWO
Philosophy department explores
ethics of "Savior Siblings"
PHOTO BY CYNTHIA MARTS
Senator Andrea Schronce (left) and Senator Michael Tuso (right) are running
for Vice President and President respectively in the upcoming election re-do.
Rebekah Cansler
Staff Writer
Is it right for parents to create a
child to be a donor for their other
children who may have problems?
Thursday evening, the depart-ment
of philosophy hosted their
last "Great Conversations Lec-ture"
of the semester on the topic
of "savior siblings." Professor Ter-rance
McConnell, who has writ-ten
many books on the subjects
of medicine and ethics, spoke to
faculty and students fill-ing
the Faculty Center.
McConnell began the
discussion stating that
before one could decide
whether savior siblings
are fine to create, one first
had to establish who was
the person responsible to
decide.
Parents make the deci-sions
for their children
when they are young on
the idea that children are
not yet competent to de-cide
for themselves. Par-ents
use what McConnell
calls the "Best Interest
Principle" when deciding
for their children.
According to McCon-nell,
parents cannot al-ways
use the best interest
principle because they must
sometimes chose which child will
be receiving the least amount of
harm. Therefore the principle
used should be called the "Ac-ceptable
Interest Principle" not
the "Best Interest Principle." For
instance, if a child is asked to give
blood to their sibling and it causes
no harm to the donor, then it is
acceptable to ask since the child
giving blood will not be harmed
beyond a certain degree.
So do parents have the right
to create another child by in
REBEKAH CANSIER/THE CAROLINIAN
Terrance McConnell leads a discussion on Savior
Siblings Thursday evening.
vitro fertilization (IVF) and pre-implantation
genetic diagnosis
(PGD)? Children born by these
methods can potentially have
the right characteristics for a sick
sibling—one with cancer, for
instance, that would need bone
marrow. Doctors can construct
the baby's genetic characteristics
based on the parents, choosing
the good ones and leaving the
bad, therefore becoming the per-fect
match as a donor for their
sibling.
There is controversy sur-rounding
these methods,
but there are also benefits.
Parents with a high risk
of a certain disease, a 75
percent chance being car-ried
on to their child, can
have a PGD. The doctors
can choose the sperm and
egg not carrying the dis-ease,
giving the parents a
healthy child. Also, par-ents
with certain handi-caps,
such as deafness, can
choose for their children
to be like them through
PGD.
An example of such
procedure includes Adam
Nash, a product of PGD,
was born to be a donor
for his sister, Ashley Nash,
who has cancer. Also, Jodi
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