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...pilot project to provide protection in freshmen dorms, according to an e-mail written by Dean of Freshmen Thomas A. Dingman ’67 obtained by The Crimson. The Center for Wellness and Health Communication (CWHC) will purchase the boxes, and freshmen involved with the Community Health Initiative (CHI) will keep them stocked, he wrote. Yard Operations will decide where to place the boxes and will be responsible for their installment. CWHC director and CHI supervisor Keli Ballinger said the condoms will be stocked on a weekly basis. Next to the condom boxes, CWHC will set up racks with...
While you were working on your tenth strawberry daq of the day while passed out on the beach in Mexico, the members of the Harvard Tai Chi Tiger Crane Club were eating fried scorpions in China. Jaime Gaurnaccia ’08, David Henderson ’07, Thomas Lowe ’05, Brenda Wong, the fitness trainer at the Business School, and high school senior Jimmy Cheung traveled East for intersession with Master Yon Lee, who’s been the club’s teacher and senior advisor for 20 years. In China, they got to participate...
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...
...sexual enlightenment during the move from the Yard to Houses warrants the current unequal system, we sympathize with administrators’ fear of appearing to promote intercourse to naïve freshmen. The solution to that dilemma, however, is not depriving sexually active freshmen of free contraception. Instead, CHI officials and the Freshmen Dean’s Office should focus on educating students about safe and healthy sexual lives...
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...