But by refusing to accept the inevitability of student sexual activity and stubbornly adhering to antiquated Church doctrine, the university is failing its students in its responsibility to promote sexual health.
If I was to ask you which university was being referred to, I wonder how many would come up with Georgetown. Stubbornly adhering to Church doctrine and Georgetown are not exactly worlds I would expect to appear in the same sentence. The odds of such an occurrence I would normally rate at a number with a very high value exponent. That Georgetown has not bought into the condoms for students mentality is positive indeed.
The Trojan Sexual Health Report Card gave Georgetown a 1.1 on "sexual" health. Yale got a perfect 4.0 and Notre Dame and Brigham Young got 0.0’s. I remember a time when a corporate sponsored survey on the availability of their products might have gotten sneers from students. Now it is just accepted wholesale and becomes the subject of a student newspaper.
Georgetown does not have to abandon its moral ideals and condone premarital sex, but in light of the health risks involved in the absence of contraception and STI testing, it is time for the university to accept responsible sex as the lesser evil.
So how exactly would an evil ever be described as responsible? Evil is always irresponsible.
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“antiquated” Church doctrine at that.
Good to see ND got a 0.0
I guess the folks at the Georgetown Voice wouldn’t think of just telling “responsible students” that if they wanted condoms they could just walk the three blocks to buy them at any number of stores in the area. Apparently the desire to be treated as adults only goes so far.
Remember this is in a student paper.
Every kid who attends a big time college or university like Georgetown is told from the time they are eighteen they are the best the the brightest, and some actually believe it.
Expecting sound judgment from these folks when they are twenty and horny is not fair.
Now, if the institution caves to their demand for latex and VD tests, then the judgment as well as the catholicity of the grown-ups is in serious question.
At this point, Georgetown is to be praised.
Responsible sex already exists. It’s called marriage.
I remember an old deacon who taught theology at my high school. He had a cartoon posted rather prominently in his classroom. It was an image of a young boy and his grandfather. The boy asks, “Grandpa, what did you wear for safe sex when you were younger?” The grandfather retorted, “A wedding ring.” God bless him.
As far as the convenience store question is concerned, the students would prefer the general anonymity provided by the on-campus health clinic. Plus, many offer free condoms… no questions asked.
Not only is this a student paper, but it’s the crazy left-wing paper on campus. I expect nothing less from them. The 1 point Georgetown got probably came from the fact that H*yas for Choice do random (think drive-by) condom distribution. The group can’t actually use the word “Hoya” because the university refuses to sponsor the group. Members of H*yas for Choice and The Voice belong to the same circles, not surprisingly.
Are these people such sheep that they cannot connect the results of the study with fact that a condom manufacturer conducted it?
Remember Georgetown boast a famous graduate who brought down the moral standards of this entire nation: Bill Clinton.
The question is, “Can anything good come from Georgetown?”
“but in light of the health risks involved in the absence of contraception and , , , “
What health risks are there when contraception is absent? Pregnacy is a health risk? Funny, I thought that’s what was supposed to happen. Where did I go wrong?
That attitude speaks VOLUMES about the author at the very least.
I think Marquette also scored low on Trojan’s survey and a similar article appeared in their student paper.
At my school all I ever see are Coke Machines, I am just waiting for Pepsi to release the results of a survey saying students aren’t getting fair access to Pepsi Products. Maybe then we can finnaly get past our antiquted Norman Rockwell’s America Coca Cola “Classic” values and get with the hip new Pepsi sub culture. No one is saying we need Wild Chery Pepsi, but students are going to drink it, so it might as well be provided… oh and free!
If Trojan Brands is so concerned about the health of university students (good point above about “the best, the brightest”) then why don’t they set up a free-condom store in that neighborhood of the district – there they could give away their free condoms to whomever they wished, no questions asked! Better yet, if they were so concerned about the health of university students, why don’t they invest their profits into chastity education, so these students will not be presented with “choices” that would endanger their health in the first place!
As far as the convenience store question is concerned, the students would prefer the general anonymity provided by the on-campus health clinic.
I’m still not sure why the corner drug store would provide less anonymity than an on-campus clinic. One would think it provides more, since the clinic would probably make you show a student ID before forking over the product.
Could it be, in fact, the exact opposite — that being seen stocking up at the campus clinic is a sort of signalling device?
So what would you call the older, hedonistic pagan doctrine that the newspaper is preaching? Ancient temple pimping? The world’s first form of gambling: catching STDs?
I find it completely insane that if natural intercourse had a 10% chance of acquiring HIV the condomites would say that’s not good enough. And yet, barriered intercourse has just that, a 10% failure rate for HIV, and all the sudden it becomes acceptable by these radicals.
It’s like saying “it’s ok to play in traffic son, just wear a helmet.”
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