The Food and Drug Administration is expected to make a decision today on whether to make emergency contraception available over-the-counter nationwide. The pharmaceutical company Barr Laboratories submitted an application to permit the emergency contraceptive "Plan B" to be made available over the counter for people over age 16.
Here is a collection of thoughts I had over Winter Break relating to issues of health and sexuality. Let's face the facts Why does President Bush think the United States exporting "abstinence only" money and conservative family values to Africa will control or even stop the AIDS epidemic?
Richmond overhauled the state's tax code in spring 2004 amid claims of needing to right Virginia's fiscal direction. In addition to raising the state sales tax and beginning a phase-out of tax age deductions, the state approved a 17.5-cent increase on packs of cigarettes effective Sept.
When I received a copy of "Confessions of a Serial Egg Donor" by Julia Derek, I read it with caution, expecting a lecture on the miscalculated risks of egg donation.
After today, the "G-Spot" is no more. Wipe away those tears, send distressed letters to the editor detailing your withdrawal symptoms and form support groups.
When walking to class, students often must choose between personal interaction with friends and gabbing to roommates or parents on their cell phones. What most students probably fail to realize is that by choosing to talk on the phone, they could be hurting not just the feelings of their friends, but also their own bodies. Despite various studies that have shown the damage cell phones can cause, the U.S.
In the fall of 1990, an opinion piece about graffiti on the stall walls of a central campus bathroom naming alleged rapists ran in the Brown Daily Herald.
The overlooked phenomenon of disordered eating is a growing problem for college students nationwide, who typically focus on more severe disorders such as bulimia or anorexia. Disordered eating is the large umbrella of unusual and unhealthy eating habits that do not necessarily fall under a textbook definition of a disorder, and University health and counseling personnel say students on Grounds are even more heavily impacted than the average college student. Nearly all students experience symptoms, but the number of people who actually recognize their habits as harmful and come forward for help is small, said Alison Beaver, assistant director of Health Promotion at Student Health. A certain amount of shame also is associated with eating disorders, so people are often more reluctant to address their unhealthy habits, said Emily Lape, eating disorder specialist at University Center for Counseling and Psychological Services.
Mary Kay, Longaberger, Tupperware: What do these three companies have in common? Answer: They all have "parties." Basically there is a group of people (women) who get together, and one person there is a "distributor" of the products.
In a 1983 study by Malamuth regarding attitudes toward women, 30 percent of college men interviewed said they would rape a women if they could be assured they would never be caught.
When a condom breaks or when someone skips a pill or forgets to change a patch, women can find themselves, quite literally, seeking "Plan B." Emergency contraception, commonly though incorrectly referred to as the "morning-after pill," is an option for women who seek to prevent pregnancy after having unprotected sex.
Humans define their sex -- man or woman -- by their biological parts. But how do they define their gender -- masculine or feminine?
When fourth-year Education student Annie Hylton was raped in December of 2001, she chose to confront her attacker, a fellow student, through the University's sexual assault adjudication process.
Whether it is over a man in uniform, a woman's delicate foot or a pair of sexy underwear, fetishism is alive and well in our society today. People drool over their partner's hair, legs or buttocks.
Aquick disclaimer to the University community: So last week I was at a party, and a guy introduced me to his friends with "hey guys, this is Gretchen.
The Associated Press reported in early February that public health officials had identified an HIV outbreak among black male college students in North Carolina. The United Nations reported in its 2004 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic that the HIV/AIDS epidemic is "expanding rapidly" in Asia.
A recent challenge to Georgetown University's sexual assault adjudication confidentiality policies may lead the University to change its own Sexual Assault Board procedures, Senior Associate Dean of Students Shamin Sisson said. According to a federal review released in July, Georgetown University was violating the rights of campus rape victims by requiring them to sign documents agreeing not to speak about the outcomes of their campus court hearings before they were given the results of the hearings.
My eyes shot open, and I wondered who covered my Britney poster with one of Bon Jovi. Wait a minute, I say to myself, that's not my wall!
The gay marriage performance last Thursday night in Newcomb Hall's art gallery and the ensuing discussion presented just a taste of the national views that are being discussed surrounding the issue of gay marriage. Outside the staged ceremony, there were no protests and the audience was fairly receptive to opinions presented in the show.
At a University that values the integrity of its community so highly, some students are asking why an offense against trust -- sexual assault (including forcible rape) -- is not enforced by the single sanction when lying (even if it's to a professor about being sick when you were actually hung over), stealing (even if that means participating in the famed fake Brown swipe at Newcomb Dining Hall) or cheating (on even the most minor of assignments) are all subject to the honor code's strict sanctions. Currently, students found guilty of sexual assault are subject to a variety of sanctions including disciplinary probation, suspension and expulsion. The difference between the standards used in honor cases and those used in sexual assault cases is the same as the difference between honor and all other University disciplinary proceedings, said Shamim Sisson, senior associate dean of students. Not applying the single sanction to sexual assault cases and the differences in proceedings between honor and all other University disciplinary proceedings "in some way are historical vestiges." Until the early 1950s, the University had no formal standards of conduct for students beyond those against lying, cheating and stealing and no formal way of dealing with non-honor offenses, Sisson said. Adopting a single-sanction system for sexual assault cases might lead to a situation similar to the one many critics of the honor system say exists -- the "seriousness clause problem." The problem occurs when authorities (student juries in honor cases and the Sexual Assault Board in sexual assault cases) believe students are guilty of less serious offenses and should not be expelled but they are unable to impose lesser punishments.
