University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 18, 1990
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Safe sex or 'path of Satan?'
Groups protest distribution of condoms on campuses
College Press Service
A mysterious student group wrecked a condom vending machine on the campus of Mankato State University in Minnesota, claiming it was trying to prevent students from
following "the path of Satan."
The group then anonymously sent a letter to the company that leases the machines to the school, condemning premarital sex and threatening to vandalize more condom dispensers.
In its letter to Gerry Erickson, owner of G&B Vending Inc., "Students Against Sin" promised to "systematically sabotage each and every one" of the machines on campus.
"If these condoms were not available to the youth of our society, they would not be tempted to follow the path of Satan towards sexual misconduct," the letter said.
nial Student Union, and scrawl "Condom Machines Off Campus Now!" on the device.
"I'm very surprised. I think (the condom machines) are there for a good reason and people don't have any right to do what they did," said Michael Hodapp, assistant union director. "Although, when you have a campus this size, you are bound to have people who feel different."
Condoms have been a source of controversy on scores of campuses since schools began installing machines in the late 1980s.
machines in the last
In March, two students at the
University of Dayton criticized
President Raymond Fitz for not stopping
a student group, the Democratic Socialists of America, from distributing condoms on the Catholic school's campus.
So far, attacks on Mankato machines have not reoccurred. But Mankato's Women's Center and Alternative Lifestyles offices recently were vandalized and defaced with graffiti.
While the Mankato machines were under attack, the University of Massachusetts and Michigan State University installed condom vending machines in all dorms. Previously, condoms were available at only a few select places on the two campuses.
Students fear asking questions in class
Many are concerned only with tests, professor says
College Press Service
College students don't ask enough questions in class, a University of Missouri-Columbia professor says.
The average student generates only three questions during a 16-week course, said Candace Stout, an assistant art professor who analyzed students' questions in art history classes.
Three-fourths of the questions were never verbalized, she added.
*"Students have been socialized from grade school to believe that asking questions is often a
negative behavior," Stout said. "At this time, you often are told you are not independent if you can't figure things out on your own, so students see questioning as dependent behavior."
The 161 students who participated in Stout's study were asked to keep a record of the questions they asked in class and those they thought of but never verbalized. At the end of the 16 weeks, only 451 questions had been generated in both written and oral form. Only 113 of those questions were actually asked.
"A large percentage of them said they didn't feel the need to ask questions because the lecture material was inadequate." Stout said. "They want just enough information to prepare for a test, a disappointing, mechanistic view of learning."
One student suggested that it might have been the professors' faults. "Usually the professor fails to answer a question so that the student understands it," said Kyle Kitterman, a student at Boise State University in Idaho. "Sometimes they're very sarcastic and make students feel stupid."
Robert Miller, chairman of the English Department at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, said he fielded at least three questions each lecture from a class of 40 to 50 students.
Stout found that students generally did not allow peer pressure to keep them from asking questions. Although 35 percent of the students said they did think of their peers when asking questions, 81 percent did not allow peer pressure to keep them from asking.
Across the country, students participate in drunken brawls
More arrests haven't curbed drinking
College Press Service
Students at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania and the University of Oregon turned parties into nearriots, resisting arrest and throwing whatever they could at police.
At Oregon, partiers pelted police with beer bottles March 31 when they tried to break up an outdoor party of about 400 students. Officers ultimately used tear gas to disperse the crowd.
Kutztown students hurled rocks, eggs, bottles and coffee mugs March 16 when 12 police officers tried to break up a crowd of about 500.
At Frostburg State University in Maryland, 91 students were charged with underage drinking after a police raid at a February party.
Similar riots at scores of schools during the past two springs have led officials to ban outdoor parties and install tough new public drinking penalties.
pellenteses.
Purdue, Western Michigan, Iowa State and Colorado State universities. Plymouth State College in New Hampshire and the University of California at Santa Barbara all have had parties that escalated into drunken melees.
At Michigan State University, which in October was the scene of one of the worst riots when 3,000 drunken students threw furniture and even a car into huge bonfires, officials said a crackdown on student drinking had turned their campus into a nicer, quieter place to live.
"We don't have hard evidence yet, but anecdotal data say the environment of the dorms is much nicer," said James Studer, vice president of student affairs.
At least one resident disagreed.
At least "he didn't noticed much of a difference," said Holden Hailer resident Michelle Goodman. "Students (in the dorms) aren't really drinking less. They're just being more careful not to get caught."
Reports from spring break at Daytona Beach, Fla., and South Padre Island, Texas, indicate that vigorous campaigns to reduce alcohol abuse are not stopping many students from drinking. But they are leading to more arrests.
Similarly, MSU's campaign has brought more student drinkers into its judiciary system. In Fall 1989, 561 alcohol cases were reported coped with 317 in Fall 1988.
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