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...fight over Plan B is far from over. The real prize is over-the-counter access, which would make Plan B as easy to buy as a condom. The Food and Drug Administration last year delayed a decision on over-the-counter access for Plan B, ignoring the recommendation of its own scientists, as TIME reported in September. The Center for Reproductive Rights has sued the FDA to force a ruling, but a decision on this politically charged issue is unlikely before the November mid-term elections...
...University of California at Berkley instituted a new slogan for its famed Condom Week: “When you rise…condomize.” Three thousand miles to the east and 25 years later, Harvard’s Community Health Initiative (CHI) still denies first-year men the resources to fulfill that prophetic motto. Thankfully, the Undergraduate Council recently passed a bill to support the placement of condoms in all freshmen dorms to supplement the current supply in the Houses—a move that Dean of Freshmen Thomas A. Dingman ’67 has encouraged...
According to student CHI head Joseph K. Lee ’07, this blatant inequality in condom distribution has been justified by paternalistic concerns for the 1,600 incoming 18-year-olds. “Past college officials have felt that the maturity level of freshmen might not be high enough to merit condoms in the dorms,” he said. But after years of proposals from student leaders, Lee reports that current administrators “realize that condoms are actually very necessary for freshmen...
Adding to the controversy of CHI’s condom distribution, the effectiveness of Lifestyles condoms was questioned last November by the Radcliffe Union of Students’ visiting sex expert, Kim Airs. But an investigation by Kelli Ballinger, staff head of CHI, and Dr. David C. Olson, director of obstetrics and gynecology at University Health Services, discovered no evidence that the Lifestyles condoms function improperly. From experience, we strongly endorse the Lifestyles product, and hope that freshmen in the upcoming weeks, months, and years will experience “proven protection that feels really good...
...It’s important that we passed this [bill] because it helps us gain momentum as we continue to attempt to install condom boxes in freshman dorms,” Sundquist said after the meeting...