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Show fr 1 rrrs Page I HE 2 Wednesday Salt Lake G tiffins volleyball, 7 pm Community College Thursday Career Center Panel on Admission to 5:30-- 7 Graduate School pm in the Gore Auditorium Drug and Alcohol Awareness 0 Program pm in Tingey 7:30-9:3- Lounge Friday Griffins volleyball vs. Montana State 7 pm in Payne University-Norther- n Gym Campus Ministry presents the Reiki Retreat Contact Campus Ministry at 832-223- 2. Saturday Griffins Volleyball vs. University of 7 pm in Payne Gym Great Falls Westminster Concert Series presents 7:30 pm in pianist Marjorie Janove the Jewett Auditorium 7-2- Faculty Art Exhibit, 10 am-- 4 pm in Jewett are shunned. Instead, students are given immense freedoms on campus. I really like it on campus because we are treated less like children than most of the other campuses that Ive been on, said ASWC Clubs and Organizations Chair Tyler widely known on campus that Thursday, an in the Salt Lake Resident Advisors have condoms available for students on campus. It would be naive of us to think that students are not having sex. But we want to help people learn about the Condom Article Causes Tizzy at SUU was brought to my attention by a few members of the Westminster Community. Students at Southern Utah University were apparendy upset about their condom distribution policy, where condoms are only available through the schools Wellness Center. Some students complained that they either did not know about the Wellness Center or were scared away from it because they feared that they would be lectured about abstinence. An article was written about this concern, using a condom on a banana as a visual aid, causing even more controversy. options that they have, said Director of Residential Life Cullen Green. Jensen. Its great that our campus supports these things because it is important to educate people about their options. The common argument against the free distribution of condoms in a school environment is that it promotes sex, but that is not the case. We are not promoting sex. We are promoting the option for safe sex, said Green, spouting the mantra of nearly everybody who After briefly researching Westminster Colleges policy on condom distribution,' it appears as though we will not face any similar problems at Westminster. Although there is no official written policy concerning the distribution of condoms nor do we have a Wellness Center where students can find information about safe sex - it is pretty - 2 "1 1, 2002 October Letter from the Editor On titled ASWC Movie Night at Movies 10 Oct. FORUM Students for Choice pres- ident Aly Ainscough stressed the importance of education in breaking down barriers and preventing ignorance. There are a lot of people who are about sex and dis- cussed the condom distribution policy. Resident Advisor Casey Chow added, It is our responsibility to provide the option for safe sex. Chow and most other R.A.S have condoms outside their doors and. also have supplies in their room to ensure that students always have condoms available. This freedom is not as ill-infor- STIs, she said. Having restrictions can only hinder the understanding of these issues and cause stereotypes. According to Jensen, the important issue is informing people without infringing on students beliefs. I wouldnt take values aiway from anyone. But if youre going to have sex, you might as well have safe sex. prominent on other Utah campuses, where potentially controversial issues like sex Oct. 9 The Career Center presents the 8 pm Etiquette Dinner CHMDKt Oct. 10 Letter to the Editor 6-- Career Center Graduate School and 11:30 Internship Fair Payne Gymnasium am-- 3 pm in Editor: Censoring art? Administrative repression of freedom of expression? Whod have thunk it, right here at our little enclave of Ivy League Tradition? And yet, there it - is. According to The Forum of 24 September (who got the information, apparently, Editor Matthew Gaschk Production Manager F ' A Cecily Ellis Djslness Manager ; ' Photo Editor Jonathan Newman W i I i Todd Fichter Jeremy K Jdhnson Leather Bodrero J Staff Writers Kelli Coppens Jessica Faulkner J'' " v Jason tong Matttuers Steve Peterson Andy Sullivan Melissa Walker Advisor Fred Fogo The Forum is published every Tuesday. We encourage students, faculty, staff and other readers to write letters. Address all letters to: The Forum, Westminster College, 1840 the editor at S. 1300 E., Salt Lake City UT 84105. You can also forumwcsk.edu. Only signed letters will be accepted. The Forum reserves the right to edit all submissions. Views expressed are those of the writers, and are not to be considered those of the Forum, ASWC, the faculty, staff or administration. most people didnt like them...to quote The Forum; (sic) they were hideous. world, long after our snooty colleagues who take it upon themselves to protect the rest of us from the hideous have crawled back under their little rocks of obscurity, the art of Frederic said, from Steve Morgan, Executive Vice President and Treasurer) four Frederic Remington statues have been removed and are being stored in an undisclosed area bn campus because, Morgan So these self-appoint- ed arbiters of taste removed the art because, in Mr. Morgans most people didnt like it. Since when is the purpose of public art to be opinion, Remington will continue to be displayed, studied, ' admired , and imitated around the world just as it has been for many decades. liked? I believe it all comes down to this: our art censors are of the opinion that lowly cowboy artist Frederic Remington lacks sufficient snob appeal for our august institution. But in the real self-ordain- ed Except, it seems, on the campus of Westminster College. . " Rod Miller r' 1. . ! .1 . '!- r u ; ' , ,, - It) - , , CORRECtfONS: Chief Flight Instructor, Bob van posterhout was quoted from dated material provided to the reporter by the flight school. Van Oosterhout left the program in 2001. The Interim Chief Flight Instructor Is Ben Millward. . tit IMP) MPXr - v - - cjsisifsKti'. t:if fij i J - - 1 .yfcSfci mww s.'- 1 riTu ii i iltfsL I C' KT - f1IP wur-- i |