 In 2008, the Carleton University Students' Association (CUSA) voted to drop their annual Shinerama fundraiser, on the alleged grounds that "cystic fibrosis has been recently revealed to only affect white people, and primarily men".The controversy garnered attention from mainstream news media.According to the CCFF, cystic fibrosis does mainly affect Caucasians, which would also include nonwhites with ancestry from India and the Middle East, but also affects blacks and east Asians.