MONTREAL (CUP) — An 
     
     entrepreneur’s dream of in- 
     
     stalling condom vending ma- 
     
     chines in CEGEP washrooms 
     
     may never come true, if oppo- 
     
     sition to the plan continues to 
     
     mount. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Jocelyn Morin, a former X-ray 
     
     technician, has been approach- 
     
     ing colleges throughout Quebec 
     
     and is reported to have an 
     
     exclusive contract with an 
     
     American condom manufac- 
     
     turer, Nation Sanitary Lab. 
     
     But education minister Claude 
     
     Ryan said the plan is absurd 
     
     and should be abandoned. 
     
    
   
   
    
     “As I understand it, there are 
     
     places-where these things can 
     
     be procured by people who want 
     
     them—there are pharmacies,” 
     
     he said. “I’m not too familiar 
     
     with this, but I can’t see these 
     
     things being installed in col- 
     
     leges. It would be too ridicu- 
     
     lous.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     Itidal Sadek, director of Daw- 
     
     son College’s campus, doubts 
     
     condoms will be available 
     
     there. “We don’t sell anything 
     
     ‘in dispensers, not even sani- 
     
     tary napkins.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     Condom Controversy Heats Up 
     
    
   
   
    
     “Tt’s basically a fear of van- 
     
     dalism and although condoms 
     
     would be good for educational 
     
     purposes, they’re not needed 
     
     for emergencies. I just haven’t 
     
     heard any convincing argu- 
     
     ments.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     Tom Nowers, head of student 
     
    
   
   
    
     services at Marianopolis Col- 
     
     lege, says the potential for 
     
     vandalism is too great. 
     
    
   
   
    
     “The minute you put money 
     
     into a machine, you’ve got a 
     
     problem,” he said. “I can 
     
     understand both sides of the 
     
     argument, though, of having 
     
     birth control versus the implied 
     
     tacit approval of sexual activ- 
     
     ity.” 
     
    

    
     John Abbott College official 
     
     Irena Fish agrees. “If you have 
     
     them available, you could be 
     
     seen to be promoting sexual 
     
     promiscuity, but on the other 
     
     hand, you’re also promoting 
     
     health,” she said. 
     
    
   
   
    
     “The idea will have difficulty 
     
     passing here because of paren- 
     
     tal and community reaction,” 
     
     she said. But Mary farrell, a 
     
     Dawson College health services 
     
    
   
   
    
     worker, has no problems with 
     
     condoms on campus. 
     
    
   
   
    
     “Even the Department of 
     
    
   
   
    
     Health is promoting the use of | 
     
    
   
   
    
     condoms. It should be up to the 
     
     students. If they want them, 
     
     they should be available,” said 
     
     Farrell. Trois Rivieres College 
     
    
   
   
    
     director Alain Lallier said 
     
     Morin approached him about 
     
     the plan, and said he found 
     
     merit to stopping transmitted 
     
     diseases and unwanted preg- 
     
    
   
   
    
     _ nancies. “We haven’t installed 
     
    
   
   
    
     any machines yet, but we have 
     
     set up a commitee to study the 
     
     idea,” said Lallier. “The con- 
     
    
   
   
    
     dom vending maching would 
     
     have to be one aspect of a total 
     
     educational campaign to make 
     
     students more aware of their 
     
     responsibilities.” 
     
    

    
     There were more than 40,000 
     
     teenage pregnancies in Can- 
     
     ada last year. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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