New condom dispensers quickly depleted
Reporting about the SGA, not a record of it: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter published this and the SGA did not write it, file it, or approve it. The archive holds it because the article itself uses the phrases “sga” and “student government”.
Summary
- This News-Letter article covers new free-condom dispensers on campus and their rapid use.
- The paper reported that dispensers were placed in rest rooms throughout Brody Learning Commons and on the M and Q levels of the Eisenhower Library, adding to existing sources at the Health and Wellness Center and through Resident Advisors.
- The article says students working under the SGA stocked each dispenser weekly with 50 condoms, and the first supply ran out by Tuesday after being stocked the previous Thursday.
- The reporter writes that the Health and Wellness Center supplied the condoms, so the only new spending was the one-time cost of the dispenser holders.
- According to the article, sophomore Marni Epstein brought the idea to the SGA at a spring town-hall meeting and said, “I was surprised they [condoms] weren’t more accessible,” because orientation did not include follow-up on sex safety.
- The News-Letter reported that freshman Rodrigo Aguilar said the dispensers were convenient and private because students could use Brody instead of the Health and Wellness Center.
- The article adds that Epstein and Senior Class Senator Zoe Cohen campaigned for the program and managed the dispensers; Cohen wrote that administrators supported it after the students explained the need for a central campus location.