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By Thaddeus M. Baklinski

CALGARY, AB, February 5, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The University of Calgary Students’ Union has revealed that they will hold a meeting next Tuesday to decide if they will revoke the official club status of the university’s pro-life group, Campus Pro-Life.

Students’ Union president Dalmy Baez said, “We, as the students’ union, are supposed to be representing students and supporting them in any way possible,” according to a Calgary Herald report.

“But there are limits to this,” she added.

“The university issued a written warning to the organization some time ago. … We issued our own warning [that] if they were to violate any university policy, we would not be defending them and would be putting in some sort of sanctions,” said Baez.

The loss of club status for Campus Pro-Life would mean the loss of student union funding for club events as well as losing the right to use campus facilities for meetings and functions.

On Monday LifeSiteNews.com reported that the university had charged members of Campus Pro-Life with “trespassing” for having set up a Genocide Awareness Project (GAP) pro-life display on campus this past November. The students received court summons, delivered to their homes, to answer to the trespassing charges at the end of this month.

“This makes me more frustrated than the university taking us to court,” Campus Pro-Life president Leah Hallman said, according to the Herald.

“The student union is supposed to represent the students and is supposed to be our voice and to protect us. The fact that they’re possibly going to impose sanctions against us makes me very frustrated.”

Though frustrated, Hallman said she is not deterred by the action of the students’ union.

“We could and will still do everything we can. They won’t stop us from spreading the message of life on campus. But it will make things much more difficult for us.”

To express your concern or opinion please contact:

University of Calgary Student’s Union
President – Dalmy Baez
251 MacEwan Student Centre,
2500 University Drive N.W.
Calgary, Alberta,
Canada, T2N 1N4
Phone: (403) 220-7048 / (403) 836-8894
Email: [email protected]

Dr. Harvey P. Weingarten, President
Administration Building, Room 100
University of Calgary
2500 University Drive NW
Calgary, AB T2N 1N4
Phone: (403) 220-5460
Fax: (403) 289-6800
Email: [email protected]

See previous LSN coverage:

University of Calgary Charges Pro-Life Students with Trespassing
https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/feb/09020201.html