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...number of students, faculty and administrators have complained to our office about a most regrettable act that took place during the 150-person dinner in honor of Secretary Sullivan at Dunster House. Persons who identified themselves as gay and lesbian students placed a condom in an official-looking dinner program with the Harvard Foundation's name printed on the cover in each of the dinner guests' plates, including the head table...
...challenge more grave than in New York City, which accounts for just 3% of the nation's 13- to 21-year-olds, but harbors 20% of all reported AIDS cases in that age group. It was the sheer size of the problem that prompted Fernandez to suggest the free-condom idea as part of an expanded AIDS-education program for the city's 261,000 high school students. Under the plan, staff volunteers at each school would hand out condoms, along with a booklet explaining their use, to every student who wants them. Sex counseling would be available but would...
Critics also argue that condoms, which can have a failure rate of between 10% and 15%, are not the best protection against AIDS. Human Life International, a Maryland-based Christian sexuality-education group, has vowed to sue the New York City board of education if any student gets pregnant or contracts a sexually transmitted disease while using a school-supplied condom. The alternative that schools should be promoting, critics argue, is chastity...
...fact, many parents seem relieved to have the issue taken out of their hands. A Gallup poll for the daily New York Newsday found that 54% of parents with children in the New York City public schools approve of the condom plan. There is little opposition from students. "This isn't telling us to be sexually active," argues Mike Hurdle, 17, a senior at Queens' Andrew Jackson High School. "It's just saying, if you are, you should be protected...
...York City condom initiative will go before the board of education for a vote on Jan. 23. So far, only two of seven members have said they firmly oppose the plan. But as the commotion concerning high schools spreads across the country, another, even more controversial battle may be shaping up. According to many experts, there is a growing need to make condoms available in junior high schools, where student sexual activity is on the rise...