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Show College Favors Contraceptive Distribution PORTLAND, Ore. (CPS) The Reed Quest, student newspaper at Reed College, has decided to hoi a stuent-faculty symposium on the question of "whether or not colleges CReed among them) should dispense contraceptive pills to its female undergraduates." undergradu-ates." The Quest announced the proposed symposium in an editorial which said In part: "In recent months, many national nat-ional magazines have given extensive ex-tensive coverage to the questions off collegiate sex and promiscuous promisc-uous behavior. Indeed, sex has recently become a major national nation-al issue. Most of these discussions discuss-ions have, however, been written by people who are not students or members of a college community. com-munity. The Quest feels that ft is entirely proper for students and faculty at Reed to express their views on one aspect of the subject which may be of future concern to the college." |