POLICE REPORT
Beginning midnight Wednes
day, Feb. 20
3:01 p.m. — Man complained
of back pain, Behlen Physics
Lab, transported to Lincoln
General Hospital, 2300 S. 16th
St.
4:06 p.m. — Hit-and-run acci
dent, 41 st Street and East Cam
pus Loop, $300.
9:28 p.m. — Man felt dizzy,
Abel Residence Hall, refused
transport.
i Condoms lack use among students
By Trish Spencer
Staff Reporter
The message that AIDS kills may
not be reaching University of Nc
braska-Lincoln students, according to
1990 state health reports.
Reports from 26 HIV/AIDS test
ing sites in Nebraska showed that
only 14 percent of the people who
visited them in 1990 used condoms
regularly.
Although 88,000 condoms have
been sold by the University Health
Center in the past three years, only 11
percent of the 53 students tested by
the University Health Center in 1990
said they always use condoms cor
rectly.
The majority of college and high
school students do not use condoms,
said Shannon Fiene, community health
educator.
Twenty-eight percent of the stu
dents said they never used condoms
and 38 percent reported that they
sometimes use condoms, according
to state health reports.
Fiene said she thinks most young
people do not use condoms because
they do not think about dying.
Yearly events like National Con
dom Week, which ended Thursday,
are meant to encourage people to talk
about condoms and use them, Fiene
said.
The University Health Center
Student Advisory Board sold con
doms and distributed tree informa
tion about sexually transmitted dis
eases and abstinence at a booth in the
Nebraska Union on Feb. 14.
Terri Turner, the board’s adviser,
said response to the booth was good.
Students who teach contraceptive
education classes at the health center
and living facilities on campus also
have received a positive response,
Turner said.
Students, along with nurses from
the health center, teach the proper
way to use contraceptives such as
condoms.
Fiene said that although the booth
and classes have made people more
aware, they are not changing their
behavior, which alarms her.
While Nebraska is ranked low
nationally in the number of STD and
HIV cases per capita, she said, the
rate of HIV case numbers is increas
ing by 37 percent in rural and small
town areas compared to only 5 per
cent in metropolitan areas.
Fiene credited the decrease in
metropolitan areas to people’s knowl
edge of victims of the disease and the
increased use of prevention methods.
Condoms pilfered from health center
By Heather Heinisch
Staff Reporter
Condom thieves are taking advan
tage of a fishbowl dispenser at the
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Health
Center Pharmacy, the chief pharma
cist said.
Over the last three years, more
than 88,000 condoms have been taken
out of the honor-system fishbowl, but
James Oehm said the health center
# would be doing well if it was paid for
half of those taken.
There seems to be no good way to
dispense the condoms, he said, be
cause they aren’t counted when they
are put out, which is about twice a
day.
Oehm said the pharmacy is not
trying to make money off the sales
but does want to break even.
If people do not pay 10 cents for
each condom they take, he said, prices
will have to be raised or the condoms
will be put behind the counter and
dispensed individually.
The glass fishbowl was set out in
the first place to eliminate the embar
rassment of having to ask for con
doms, he said.
Sales have increased over the past
three years from about 500 a week to
about 700 to 800 a week, he said.
Oehm attributed the increase to
the popularity of the prophylactic and
the concern about AIDS and other
sexually transmitted diseases.
Also, since the word has gotten out
that the condoms cost only 10 cents,
sales have increased, he said.
The customers are evenly divided
between men and women, he said,
but women are starting to edge out the
men.
Oehm said he could only speculate
on why sales to women are increas
ing. Women may be more respon
sible and aware of STDs, he said, bul
they also buy a lot for party decora
tions and rubber trees.
Break time is when people stock
up on condoms, he said, and more are
sold on Thursdays and Fridays than
the rest of the week.
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Condoms sold at UNL Health Center
Past three years:
88,000
Per year:
29,333
Per week:
638
Per day:
116
Per hour:
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Source: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Health Center
Amie DeFrain/Daily Nebraskan
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Abortion
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“fetus” avoids the real situation, Mills
said.
Mills explained she used a false
name when she had an abortion 10
years ago.
“The language changing from
‘unborn human life’ to read ‘fetus’ is
doing what I did — removing our
selves from the situation. Abortion is
murder," Mills said.
Donna Swihart of Lincoln said
abortion is not the solution to un
wanted pregnancies.
Swihart said she became pregnant
when she was raped at the age of 15.
She decided not to have an abortion.
“Aboruon is not the only alterna
tive. ... Rape is not a hopeless situ
ation. It’s hurtful, violent and offen
sive, but not hopeless,” she said.
But Kristin Williams, a freshman
general studies major at the Univer
sity of Nebraska-Lincoln and a member
of UNL Students for Choice, said that
if the bill didn’t pass she may lose her
right to privacy.
“I must question the validity of my
so-called bright future when again
and again I come up against a society
whose laws try to dictate what I must
do with my body,” Williams said.
Legislators also heard testimonies
from opponents of LR15CA.
The resolution would offer voters
the choice between two con st itutional
amendments. One would state that no
law would interfere with a woman’s
choice to have an abortion up to three
months into the pregnancy and the
other would outlaw any planned ter
mination of pregnancy.
The two proposed constitutional
amendments would be voted on in
November, 1992, if the resolution is
passed.
McKeever Kister
CHANGE party promises
oy tmiiy HosenDaum
Senior Editor
Citing the need for equality, credi
bility and results in student govern
ment, the CHANGE party announced
its candidacy for the Association of
Students of the University of Nebraska
on Thursday at Broyhill Plaza.
“We’ve seen ASUN this past year,’’
presidential candidate Matt McKeever
said. “They haven’t been the most
energetic group, for lack of a better
word.
“We want to see change in ASUN,”
he said.
Lynn Kister, CHANGE’S first vice
presidential candidate, said the party
is unique because its members are
diverse, something that’s needed on
ASUN.
CHANGE members aiso are ac
tive on campus and would make needed
improvements in ASUN, she said.
Kister said she has been involved
with Early Warning! and McKeever
has experience in the Residence Hall
Association.
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members can’t offer as much as
CHANGE party members can, she
said.
“I don’t think they have a lot to
offer,” Kister said. ‘‘We’re doing things
right now.”
McKeever said the party would
seek equality on the NU Board of
Regents by pushing for a voting stu
dent regent. He said ASUN has dropped
the issue this past year.
In addition, the party would pur
sue credibility for ASUN by restruc
turing the constitution, he said. The
senate would be reapportioned by living
units and minority status, in addition
to the present col lege-based system
of apportionment, CHANGE’S plat
form states.
The party also hopes to create
leadership and diversity programs for
all students and student organizations,
McKeever said.
The leadership classes would pro
mote ‘‘student leaders rather than
student politicians,” also improving
ASUN’s credibility, he said.
