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DUDLEY HOUSE members must not be very creative. House committee is joining with the Undergraduate Council to install condom dispensers in house laundry rooms. Of the house committees so far to consider the proposal, only Dudley's has declined to sign up. Dudley is a non-residential house, it was decided, so the machines wouldn't serve any purpose. But why not? Passion knows no boundaries of time, location or context. Or, it seems, of wash cycles...
Like all freedoms, though, this one has been abused by some to further their own, selfish ends. Take condom manufacturers. All of a sudden it's acceptable for condoms to be advertised on television and in full-page newspaper ads. Johnny Carson can make jokes about them and get laughs in Middle America. AIDS hysteria has been a Trojan Horse, if you will, through which the marketing gurus of the prophylactic industry have boosted public acceptance and sales of their product...
Winthrop residents will vote in a referendum this week. and Kirkland and Quincyhouse committees are still discussing the issue.Dudley house committee approved of the idea butdecided that condom machines would be uselessbecause Dudley is nonresidential...
...Condom vendors, like soft drink and snackvendors, provide and maintain the machines at nocharge in exchange for a percentage of theprofits. The initial council resolution requireshouse committees to donate their share of theproceeds to a fund for AIDS research...
Although virtually all of the freshmen whoattended the meeting about the condom machinesfavored installation, they disagreed on where toput them, said Noam Bramson '91, the UndergraduateCouncil member who proposed installing themachines...