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Show Editorial v More On Birth Control Brown University in Providence, R.I., a health J director recently received administration support service .sjon t0 provide two unmarried coeds with jLcription8 for contraceptive pills. ' The girls both over 21 ' had been referred to Dr-i Dr-i ell D. Johnson by clergy. "We don't prescribe with-SW with-SW great deal of serious soul searching," he said. "We fUtt to know why they want to use the pills. I want to T I'm contributing to a solid relationship (between 'I the people involved) and not contributing to unmitigated promiscuity aspect of the University of Utah's posi-. posi-. on birth control was made in a statement issued last weeHrom the Dean of Student's office. It reads: H "The University Student Health Service does not and ? m not distribute drugs to its student body for con-tracptive con-tracptive purposes. The administration does not believe that an aggressive position in the direction of the use of contraceptives is an appropriate educational function for a public institution. "The University does recognize that the prescription of what are known as contraceptive drugs is legitimately )used for certain disorders which may be associated with Aormonial imbalance. In these instances, the medical J diagnosis and treatment that are arrived at by the physician physi-cian become a part of the physician-patient relationship. The University respects the privacy of this relationship -and expects, at the same time, its physicians to recognize the institution's policy." r We agree that the University need not take "an aggressive position" in the matter. We don't advocate that the University indiscriminately distribute birth con- trol pills, nor that pills be made available in the health l( center at all. But,r recognizing the personal and the individual indi-vidual nature of the problem, we do not favor a situation ie I where doctors, because of a university regulation, are not & 'allowed to consult with individual students about the .k problems of birth control. We hope the administration does not mean to create such a situation, ftf A resolution formulated at the recent National Student Stu-dent Association said: "Many students receive insufficient 0I1jand distorted sex education prior to attending college, disc, and in few institutions is this situation remied adequately. : Rising numbers of cases of venereal disease and increasing 1 'numbers of unwed mothers and illegal abortions indicate a serious deficiency in U.S. educational programs and in the availability of birth control information." The resolution asked for the '"availability of birth - control information through campus health centers upon request of any student." Such a policy is passive and, we think, realistic. The morality of future generations is not something that will be determined by the administrative attitudes of a university. There are some very serious questions involved in the conduct of American college students, and the University will have to recognize that fatherly guidance is not the only answer. That there is a direct relation between the availability of birth control devices and promiscuity is at least questionable. ques-tionable. That there is a direct relation between the misuse of birth control devices and pregnancy can be i proven. It is in the light ' of these two statements that J we feel the university should re-formulate its policy. It seems to us that the creation of unwanted children is one of the world's greatest problems especially if the child remains unwanted after birth. With the possibility of virtually eliminating this problem, society will be Jiorced to take a completely different look at sexual -morality. ,We cnallenge the University, in the sanctity of the gstudent health center (not necessarily in public state--ments), to deal effecively with the issues the present Policy ignores. hl6 challenSe lt to helP students to face a plaguing atric h bth by providinS Personal medical and psychi-to psychi-to th ' 3n ky maintaining an atmosphere conducive control d'SCUSsion of the overall implications of birth |