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Monday, November 7, 2011 at 2:16:00 PM EST

In the spirit of being a safesite for the Great American Condom Campaign, I thought it would be interesting to see the comparison of sexual health among college campuses through out the United States. Trojan has recently released their annual Sexual Health Report Card for 2011 where you can see how your college stacks up against others. The universities are ranked by availability of sexual health resources and information to students on campus. Such factors include:

1. Student opinion of Health Center

2. Hours of operation

3. Allow drop-ins or require appointments for student scheduling

4. Separate sexual health awareness programs for students (e.g. Sex week, etc)

5. Contraceptive availability -- free or at cost

6. Condom availability -- free or at cost

7. HIV testing on-site (On/off campus, cost)

8. STI testing on-site (On/off campus, cost)

9. Anonymous advice for students available through center (via email, phone, text)

10. Lecture/outreach programs for sexual health issues

11. Student peer groups

12. Availability of sexual assault programs, resources or service

13. Website usability, functionality

  
Keep in mind that the Sexual Health Report Card only ranked 141 colleges and universities while GACC has about 2,000 safesites. The importance of sexual health is a necessity.

To see the whole list, visit: Trojan's Sexual Health Report Card.
 

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Monday, August 29, 2011 at 4:43:00 PM EDT

With all the buzz over the current presidential candidates, I thought adding this blog would be appropriate.

For years now, Republican presidential candidates would easily favor an anti-gay approach to the issue of same-sex marriages, such as Rick Perry and Michele Bachmann are doing now. However, changes, events and decisions in the recent years have created an interesting space for supporters of gay-marriage and the GLBTQ community. For example, in the past few months New York joined Massachussetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont, and New Hampshire as states that now allow same-sex marriage. But what could be the outcome if Rick Perry or Michele Bachmann became president?

Presidential Candidate Rick Perry

 
 
Perry and Bachmann remain in a middle ground, half way supporting the new and growing Tea Party federalists who want to leave the decisions up to the states without federal government interference; and the other half supoprting the social conservatives who want to ban same-sex marriages all togerther. With the case in New York, Perry didn't have much to say besides:

However, Perry has already signed a anti-gay marriage pledge that declares that if he were to win presidency, he would have to be:

Which ever side Perry is on, it doesn't seem to be a favorable one. It seems the only hope in the Republican party is that old guy, Dr. Ron Paul.

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