Editorials
CONTENTS Volume CXVIII, Number 15 Correspondence 498 Editorials 499 The Soviet coup: Patrick Barnard 501 Capping a gusher: Peter Riga 502 The new/old abortion battle: David...
...Fernandez argues that counseling or guidance is unnecessary: "People at any age have ready access to condoms at supermarkets and drugstores without the benefit of an educational or counseling component...
...It is as if Mr...
...Thus excluding parents from the school condom program has to be among the most self-defeating aspects of the policy...
...Fernandez will reluctantly accede to a parental "opt-out" option being incorporated into the condom program...
...What, after all, is the likely result of trying to modify sexual behavior without reference to concepts of moral responsibility...
...This is a policy that de-ethicizes sexual behavior precisely where sexual responsibility is most needed...
...As the subway poster and the school board's decision demonstrate, something vital has been lost in the city's approach...
...Volleyball seems to be the answer...
...Would they expect students to make themselves accountable if similar minimal expectations were applied to school work...
...As we go to press, it appears likely that Mr...
...That vital something is morality, and "moral" questions about sexual behavior...
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...According to the experts, parents only scare students away...
...Instead, the merry punsters at New York City's Health Department seem to encourage premature--and possibly lethal--sexual activity among the young while disinviting serious thinking about the dangers AIDS actually presents...
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...Condom's will be available in New York City high schools later this fall...
...Could a high school field a sports team if students were simply issued uniforms and told to play the games as they saw fit...
...Nor will the schools require counseling as part of its condom- distribution program...
...Presumably that too might scare students away...
...Mr...
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...Use a condom," it clinches its point...
...Portland, Me...
...Don't play around without them...
...CONTENTS Volume CXVIII, Number 15 Correspondence 498 Editorials 499 The Soviet coup: Patrick Barnard 501 Capping a gusher: Peter Riga 502 The new/old abortion battle: David R. Carlin, Jr...
...Survival in such desperate circumstances depends on more com- pelling forms of cooperation...
...504 The country of the old: Abigail McCarthy 505 i The singer of all our songs: Nancy M. Haegel 507 Poetry: Timothy Hodor 502 Michael Cadnum 518 Praying at Auschwitz: Leon Klenicki 510 Screen: Richard Alleva 513 Stage: Gerald Weales 515 Dance: Gary Seibert 516 BOOKS Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations): David Castronovo 519 Exporting Democracy: Robert E. White 520 Resuscitation of a Hanged Man: Paul Elie 522 The House in Mango Street/Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories: llan Stavans 524 STAFF Editor: Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Managing Editor: Patrick Jordan Associate Editor: Paul Baumann Production Editori Jacqueline Dowdell Senior Writer: Robert G. Hoyt Movies: Richard Alleva Stage: Gerald Weales Poetry: Rosemary Deen Columnists: John Garvey, J. Bryan Hehir, Abigail McCarthy, David R. Carlin, Jr...
...Display advertising correspondence should be sent to Ruth E. Taylor, 11 Graffam Rd., So...
...This past winter New York Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez pushed a condom distribution plan through the school board with the help of Mayor David Dinkins as part of a utilitarian approach to combating the spread of AIDS among sexually active adolescents...
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...Let us leave aside the questions about why contraceptive services are being added to an overburdened school system 13 September 1991:499...
...The Health Department is not alone...
...The clever word play delivers a message about preventing AIDS, but not the one that New York teen-agers need to hear...
...It's hard to believe the chancellor and his advisors have asked themselves how dispensing condoms along with textbooks can possibly shape the most intimate of human relations...
...Or to obtaining a driver's license...
...Telephone: (212) 7324)800...
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...Fernandez reasons that survival during a drought depended on providing each individual with his or her own well- digging equipment...
...To insure the program's effectiveness, neither parental consent nor notification will be required...
...New York, N.Y...
...And there are others...
...MMONWEAL Condom sense ou can play with them," reads a New York subway ad picturing teen-agers gleefully playing volleyball with an inflated condom...
Vol. 118 • September 1991 • No. 15
