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...Undergraduate Council and House Committees, says Lichtman, are "stockpiling, survivalist-like, condoms on house basements and across campus," an action which "can only heighten AIDS hysteria." This is an unfair mischaracterization. In deciding on laundry rooms and similar locations, the UC and House Committees carefully considered the importance of not just providing a service, but of creating an appropriate atmosphere, one which encourages awareness and action but is not offensive or irrational. Ideally, the stigma associated with condoms, whether humorous or distasteful, will be slowly dispelled as their presence becomes commonplace. Two condom dispensers in a house can successfully strike...
...former NATO commander and Reagan's first Secretary of State, Haig may be the most credible of the treaty opponents. Never a darling of the right wing, he skips anti-Communist boiler plate and stresses geopolitical concerns: that eliminating Euromissiles will heighten the Soviets' overwhelming advantage in conventional forces; that denuclearization of Western Europe , could weaken the NATO alliance; that the treaty fails to address the need for cuts in the Soviets' arsenal of ICBMs. In 1981 Haig argued for a deal that would leave each side with a reduced number of missiles. When he lost that argument, he dutifully...
...quarter short and dryers decide to take two cycles to dry clothes instead of one. That aside, is it really necessary to stockpile, survivalist-like, condoms in house basements across campus? The answer is no. Questions of taste and aesthetics aside, a proliferation of prophylactics across campus can only heighten AIDS hysteria while doing little to combat spread of the disease...
Similarly, it's hard to believe the vast minority of Harvard students engaging in homosexual sex need condom machines in their houses to heighten their awareness of the need to practice safer sex. There is no reason, other than peace of mind and routine birth control, why heterosexuals need condoms. Nor is there any reason we need condom machines installed all over campus. Unless, that is, a cheap, prurient thrill is all we're after...
Bobis does not tamper with Zindel's script, preferring to heighten the psychological tension of the family's fights. If the performers (particularly Duffy) stumble a bit on their lines or technical problems plague their delivery, they nonetheless manage to make the eccentric premise of Zindel's play seem convincing...