**Editor's note: Amplify has received additional information about condom availability on NKU’s campus.  Condoms are available at the university’s health center.  Students are permitted to distribute condoms at some campus events, but not at others.**

You thought we faced obstacles to giving sexually active students access to contraception in high school? Well, this story from Northern Kentucky University last week shows that even college aged students are facing ridiculous hurdles to condom distribution.

At one of NKU’s freshman orientation sessions, Student Government Senator Dennis Chaney represented Students for Change, a group that partly focused on “saving lives from public health policy driven by social conservatives which endanger students”. Chaney was distributing condoms to students as part of Students for Change’s outreach.

However, such responsible behavior did not sit well with Amy Arbino-Wylie, NKU’s assistant dean of students. She told Chaney to immediately stop distributing the condoms, citing the student orientation guidelines that prohibited handouts if they “included alcohol/drug/sexual innuendo”.

I suppose the "innuendo" would be that preventing sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancies among college students is a good thing. Or alerting college students that something called “sex” actually exists. Take your pick.

When Chaney refused to stop distributing the condoms, Arbino-Wylie summoned two police officers to remove him from the building, tearing down the signs posted at their table. Chaney was arrested for “disorderly conduct” as he said to the students that had gathered “I’m being arrested for handing out free condoms. Where’s my free speech? ... This is how NKU treats students”.

Chaney obviously should have only distributed purity rings at the orientation, because the only proper sexual innuendo at NKU is that sex doesn’t exist on their campus.