Carleton University’s student council decided unanimously, in an emergency meeting last night, to reinstate cystic fibrosis as the focus of its annual fund-raising event and to make a public apology for spurring a controversy that has raged for more than a week, according to The Ottawa Citizen.

Last week, the council decided to withdraw from a Canada-wide campus-based fund-raising event for the disease because, it said, cystic fibrosis wasn’t “inclusive” enough. The move sparked a groundswell of negative public comment, including on this Web site.

The student council member who had proposed the contentious policy apologized and resigned his seat during last night’s meeting. Another council member who had voted for the motion also resigned. Student petitions calling for the impeachment of the student-council president and some others were presented at the meeting. —Karen Birchard