University of Michigan begins selling condoms in dorm vending machines
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[QUOTE]This fall [URL="http://umich.edu"][B]University of Michigan[/B][/URL] students can grab a number of items in their dormitory vending machines: a pop, some chips, a candy bar and —the newest addition— condoms.
This is the first full year condoms will be sold in the dorms, although the contraceptive was first introduced in U-M vending machines in April 2013 but then removed during the summer because children bunk in the dorms for summer camps. U-M —which was ranked the [URL="http://www.annarbor.com/news/university-of-michigan-begins-placing-condoms-in-dorm-vending-machines/%E2%80%94which%20was%20ranked%20the%20No.%206%20most%20sexually%20healthy%20college%20among%20American%20universities%20by%20Trojan%20in%202011%E2%80%94"]No. 6 most sexually healthy college[/URL] among American universities by Trojan in 2011— will sell the condoms in 14 dorms on its Ann Arbor campus.
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Peter Logan,[/B] head of University Housing communications, said students asked housing staff in 2012 to install free condom dispensers in dorm bathrooms. Housing officials weren't sold on the idea of dispensers in the bathrooms, but eventually settled on adding condoms to the vending machine wares — and selling them for $1.
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Carly Manes[/B], an incoming U-M junior studying public policy, was one vocal student who advocated for easily accessible condoms.
Although they're available for free at the U-M Health Service,[URL="http://annarbor.com/news/women-embracing-traditionally-male-driven-college-hookup-culture/"] sexually active students [/URL]may be too shy to publicly ask for one or may not plan ahead and think to get them, Manes said.
"A lot of dorms hold freshmen and sophomores ... who were having sex on the weekends and didn't have access to condoms," she said. "If that's where you're having sex, that's the most convenient place to have condoms located."
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[url]http://www.annarbor.com/news/university-of-michigan-begins-placing-condoms-in-dorm-vending-machines/#incart_m-rpt-2[/url]
I can't wait to see the butthurt catholics or whatever religious group, get stirred up about contraceptive use.
makes sense
edit: oh sorry i didnt realise they were doing this in the country of no logic, now i understand why its a news article
Why is this news?
[QUOTE=Leestons;41931097]Why is this news?[/QUOTE]
Do you guys sell condoms in vending machines over at your Universities?
[QUOTE=breakyourfac;41931226]Do you guys sell condoms in vending machines over at your Universities?[/QUOTE]
No, we pop to a student run support office and grab a bag of like, 6 or so, entirely free.
Admittedly they aren't great quality but hey, gives you plenty for condom based antics.
[QUOTE=breakyourfac;41931226]Do you guys sell condoms in vending machines over at your Universities?[/QUOTE]
Canada says: Yes.
[QUOTE=breakyourfac;41931226]Do you guys sell condoms in vending machines over at your Universities?[/QUOTE]
Student union building has a massive fishbowl of free condoms and there are coin operated ($.25-1) dispensers in every washroom.
Several locations at my college gives them out free, plus RAs sometimes give them out around breaks and long weekends.
[QUOTE=Kwaq;41931064]makes sense
edit: oh sorry i didnt realise they were doing this in the country of no logic, now i understand why its a news article[/QUOTE]
Because every other country [i]except[/i] for the U.S. are run by geniuses and are virtual utopias where no one is hateful or driven by religion to discriminate and make dumb decisions.
[QUOTE=breakyourfac;41931226]Do you guys sell condoms in vending machines over at your Universities?[/QUOTE]
Yup. Right next to gummibears & snickers.
[QUOTE=breakyourfac;41931226]Do you guys sell condoms in vending machines over at your Universities?[/QUOTE]
yes? But even if we didn't, not like you couldn't get them at just about every supermarket and there's usually one not too far from dorms.
[QUOTE=Number-41;41932160]Yup. Right next to gummibears & snickers.[/QUOTE]
have you ever accidentally gotten a condom instead of a snickers?
The condoms should be free and not some shit brand. My uni gives some out for free but they should be easier to obtain.
I feel like uni's in general should have some sort of on campus sexual health clinic for STD and AIDS checking as well as birth control advising and prescriptions.
[QUOTE=Trogdon;41932553]The condoms should be free and not some shit brand. My uni gives some out for free but they should be easier to obtain.
I feel like uni's in general should have some sort of on campus sexual health clinic for STD and AIDS checking as well as birth control advising and prescriptions.[/QUOTE]
A lot of the unis over here with on campus medical facilities do have services like that, though they aren't massively quick for test results as I understand due to it going through them, then the NHS, then back to them. As for free condoms not being a "shit brand", they can't really be giving out platinum laced super-doms for free, unless the company making them signs a deal which would probably involve the uni sticking tons of advertising up, and unis just shouldn't need to do that.
I was an RA last year and I was given a bag full whenever I needed it to give to my residents, for free. I even made a spring loaded condom dispenser so people didn't bother me drunk at 2am. Lemme see if I can find it.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/r7DhrWz.jpg[/t]
Edit:
I also found some other shit I did as an RA. I cannot confirm nor deny my obsession with Taylor Swift at that point in my life.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/B2WwhTl.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/5AQHbRu.jpg[/t]
At my university, you can go to the campus health center and buy what is called a "condom card" for $5. It's a punch card with 10 punch spaces, and every space is worth 5 condoms, and there's like 10 different kinds you can get, from magnums to glow in the dark to flavored ones. So essentially you are getting quality, name brand condoms at 10c a pop. Free lube too!
[QUOTE=breakyourfac;41931226]Do you guys sell condoms in vending machines over at your Universities?[/QUOTE]
there are condom dispensers in most public bathrooms
[QUOTE=urbanmonkey;41933860]At my university, you can go to the campus health center and buy what is called a "condom card" for $5. It's a punch card with 10 punch spaces, and every space is worth 5 condoms, and there's like 10 different kinds you can get, from magnums to glow in the dark to flavored ones. So essentially you are getting quality, name brand condoms at 10c a pop. Free lube too![/QUOTE]
It's so alien to me to see unis charge for this service :v: Though I suppose the NHS has a big part in how ours is done. My uni recently tried setting up anonymous fishbowls of condoms (various shapes, sizes and such), lubes, and sex information. Though as we're an open campus shitknuckles from the nearby high school kept coming in, taking all the condoms they could and throwing them around the campus, or tampering with the condoms in the bowls.
So we have to use the student support office, which is only open from like, 8PM, sucks for people not living on campus (such as myself).
[QUOTE=Leestons;41931097]Why is this news?[/QUOTE]
because breakyourfac sits in his room all day with his eyes keenly peeled on his RSS michigan news ticker, and if anything pops up he has to post it here
[QUOTE=urbanmonkey;41933860]At my university, you can go to the campus health center and buy what is called a "condom card" for $5. It's a punch card with 10 punch spaces, and every space is worth 5 condoms, and there's like 10 different kinds you can get, from magnums to glow in the dark to flavored ones. So essentially you are getting quality, name brand condoms at 10c a pop. Free lube too![/QUOTE]
With 10 punches do you get 5 condoms free? :v:
I am more surprised that the condoms aren't given out for free, but I guess University has to make money somehow.
[QUOTE=gufu;41935097]I am more surprised that the condoms aren't given out for free, but I guess University has to make money somehow.[/QUOTE]
The bookstore. It's ridiculous.
[QUOTE=omggrass;41932356]have you ever accidentally gotten a condom instead of a snickers?[/QUOTE]
no, god forbid, that would be awkward
[QUOTE=Number-41;41939612]no, god forbid, that would be awkward[/QUOTE]
"Yo this bubblegum sucks!"
the hell is a 'pop'
[QUOTE=Pelican;41939770]the hell is a 'pop'[/QUOTE]
Soda? [url]http://www.popvssoda.com/[/url]
[QUOTE=Pelican;41939770]the hell is a 'pop'[/QUOTE]
soft drink
[QUOTE=breakyourfac;41939632]"Yo this bubblegum sucks!"[/QUOTE]
"Stay away from those Snickers condoms"
They already sell them here in Geneseo, I don't see what's so news-worthy
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