blood

Recently Ing wrote about being denied donating blood, due to the fact that she had lived in Europe between 1980 and 1996, and therefore may have been exposed to mad cow disease.

Today San Jose State University is suspending blood drives, "because of a longstanding government policy that bars gay men from donating blood".

The policy has been in place since AIDS first emerged in the United States in the early 1980s. The university finds the policy discriminatory. It is believed SJSU is the first college to ban blood drives as a way of protesting, according to the San Jose Mercury News.