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Chris Van Loan is a senior at the University of Texas in Austin. A lifelong Austin native, Chris is now a member of the Texas Youth Leadership Council – a project of Advocates for Youth and the Texas Freedom Network.
Just as quickly as my Great American Condom Campaign begun it has come to a swift end.
I got my 500 Trojan condoms in the mail and quickly started distributing them on campus the same week. I'm in a course called Human Sexuality so I figured what better place could there be to hand out free condoms as well as get people to sign my Education Works petition for comprehensive sex-ed?? This college course has a lot of great information I think many of the students wish they had when they were in public high schools themselves.
Brownstein teaches the course 3 times in a row back-to-back in the same room and since I am in the second one it was easy for me to show up early and stay late and have access to at least 300 students.
It was going so well and I had already given out 200 condoms and gotten over 40 petitions for comprehensive sex ed signed when I left my cardboard box unattended in a bathroom for a few minutes. I came back and it was all gone! I asked random strangers what they had seen, I talked with two lost and found offices on campus and the janitorial staff. Eventually I just had to accept that all of the petitions that I had worked for were gone and some greedy kid ran off with 300 Trojan condoms.
The Pros:
- I did distribute over 200 condoms to students at UT
- I got to talk with a lot of students and raise awareness on the subject, informing them that 94% of school districts in Texas have abstinence only education.
- Hopefully my condom bandit will continue distributing the Trojans to his friends, doling out handfuls to people in need.
Bummed out,
Chris Van Loan
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