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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT VOICE SINCE 1904
Elizabeth Dole talks at first leadership lecture series
▶ DARBY VANHOUTAN
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n front of a crowd of nearly 120 people, former U.S. Senator Elizabeth Dole spoke Sunday afternoon about what it's like to be a leader and a woman, and how the two go hand-in-hand
"I'm used to that," Dole said on being the only woman in the room. "Just doing my own thing and following my star. I advise the young women today to find what you're passionate about. Women are moving forward in massive ways today. I was there on the cuttin-
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the first woman to clinch a Republican presidential nomination.
"I'm planning to take her words to heart and am excited to see how I can use them in my own life and how I can follow in some of the trails that she blazed," Snitsar said after the event.
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▶ COURTNEY BIERMAN
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Internal condoms are a reliable type of STI and pregnancy prevention, but they are not widely found on the University campus.
Chloe Secor, an undergraduate assistant in the Center for Sexuality and Gender Diversity said that a misunderstanding of what can constitute as sex likely plays into internal condoms being less widely available on campus. Because the protection is often used in non-heterosexual relationships, they're often overlooked as a contraceptive tool.
"I think it speaks to a larger social issue, and ignoring that there are different kinds of sex that are happening that may not ever see a condom or a penis," Secor said.
She also added that there's an element of sexism to the preference for external condoms.
"We're very afraid of vaginas," she said. "As a society, we're terrified, still, of vaginas."
Jenny McKee is the program manager at Watkins Memorial Health Services. She said some couples may prefer internal condoms over external ones because they give the female identified partner more control. If the male identified partner doesn't want to buy or wear condoms, his partner
can do so instead. They also don't have to interrupt intercourse because they can be inserted even hours beforehand, they're latex free and they offer more coverage for STI protection.
Internal condoms, sometimes referred to as female condoms, are pouches inserted into the vagina before sexual intercourse to protect against STIs and pregnancy. McKee said they are typically more expensive and harder to find at drugstores than external condoms and other prophylactic materials.
Data collected by Watkins Memorial Health Services shows that only .02 percent of University
students use internal condoms as their first contraceptive choice when engaging in sexual activity. For this and other reasons, internal condoms are not as widely available as external or male - condoms, according to McKee.
Although internal condoms aren't offered at most residence halls or sold at the Watkins pharmacy, McKee said they will be provided upon request to students courtesy of Health Services. Resident advisors and other student housing staff can also request supplies of internal condoms and other contraceptive materials for residence halls.
Watkins Health Services gives out condoms (internal and external) and lubricant every Friday at various locations on campus in pocket-sized safe sex kits. The red packaging reads "C.O.M.E." which stands for "communicated, ongoing, mutual and enthusiastic"—four characteristics that McKee said should describe every healthy sexual experience. The weekly event is called "Condom Sense Friday."
"It doesn't matter what kind of sex you're having, we should be able to provide something for you to make it as safe as possible."
Even though internal condoms have benefits that other contraceptives do not, they also have drawbacks. External condoms are three percent more effective at preventing unintended pregnancy, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Also, internal condoms can be tricky simply because they're harder to find at most drugstores. McKee said that they're especially effective when both partners have had a comprehensive discussion about sex before engaging in sexual activity—no matter how uncomfortable that conversation may be.
If you can't talk about it, you probably shouldn't be doing it," McKee said.
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University, starting this summer.
According to DeAngela Burns-Wallace, vice provost for Undergraduate Studies, the program is a partnership between Adidas and the University. Its mission is to support first-generation college students, in addition
in the summer, the students will be involved in a series of programs and workshops, according to the website. With the immersion into the program, students will be able to apply these skills they learn through Adidas Leadership Scholars during their time at the University and after graduation.
According to the Adidas Leadership Scholars page, students who participate in the program must complete 30 credit hours per year and maintain at least a 2.50 GPA.
The program will im-
and help them find their major sooner.
staff are encouraged to view all of the presentations and evaluate the candidates before 4:30 on Wednesday. Here's a look at the candidates:
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mings, but in most programs we sort of make students decide whether they want to work with individual families or groups or whether they want to work with the more larger systems - communities, organizations, legislation, that sort of thing - and I think it's a false dichoto-
Carney has been the di-
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Church is the director of the School of Social Work at Louisiana State University and said he wanted to go into social work after spending time as a correctional officer in
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