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By AMY BARCOMB
Staff Writer
October is the time to Get
SMART.
Get SMART is a year-long sex
awareness and responsibility campaign
sponsored by the Open Door
1 'Program. The campaign starts this
month.
Lisa Mohn, Program Director of
the Open Door Health Awareness
and Promotion Program said Get
SMART is a way for students to
learn that Sex Means Awareness,
^ Responsibility and Truth.
The idea was prompted in part
by ihe increasing rate of sexually
transmitted diseases (STDs) on
campus.
"Between 5 percent and 10 percent
of all visits to the Student
Health Center are concerning
.STDs," Mohn said. "We feel that
the numbers are so high because of
the way that students view their
susceptibility to and the severity of
S.TOs."
, There are many different programs
within the Get SMART campaign.
One of the programs involves
the University 101 classes.
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Open Door gave the freshmen in
these classes Health Risk Appraisal
surveys, which were sent to a
.computer service for evaluation.
" ; Toward the end of the semester,
Open Door will take the results
back to the classes for discussion.
"The main focus of these talks
is personal responsibility with an
emphasis on STDs," Mohn said.
v-Open Door will also be conducting
sex awareness programs in dif- _
ferent dormatories, with the possi.
bility of expanding to other
.groups, Mohn said. ? L
"We hope to get other student
, organizations involved to sponsor '
events and programs and then we
,, -W9uld go and provide advice and
..-;so forth," Mohn said.
Mohn also stated that Open
Door plans to carry the Get
SMART campaign over into next
year depending on student g
response.
So far, student reactions to the
campaign have been positive.
"I think it's a good idea. Lots of
people on campus think they know .
Everything about everything, but
they don't," philosophy sophomore
Jim Moss said.
"We hope the program will be ^
something in which the students
will take an interest," said Mohn.
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Alfred Kinsey, the leading authority on sex1
behavior, estimates that one in 10 Ameriis
is homosexual. These individuals did not
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it, as surely as they did not choose to be
rn into a racist, sexist, and homophobic world
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National Coming Out Day, Oct. 11, is an anal
event to remind the straight majority that
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It is a day to "take your next step" tow1
accepting your sexuality and the social burn
that currently goes with it.
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Blue Jean Day, which is designed to force
terosexuals to experience the homophobia
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spread the word that gays and lesbians are just carr
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our sex life, but the fact that we are excluded ^
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ATHY HEBERGER
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hen a college woman becomes
lant, crucial questions fill her
at a time when she is feeling
confused and especially unto
logically answer these
tions.
fsa very emotional situation,
decisions are made lightly,"
icology Nurse Practitioner at
Student Health Center Linda
phis said.
vo-to-three women test posifor
pregnancy at the USC StuHealth
Center each week, and
(regnant women a month turn
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decide what steps to take with
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hing and information about
srnity homes are available at
imbia organizations,
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in the Student Health
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JEFFREY C. TURBITT
ff Writer
National studies show that 80
cent of males and 60 percent of
tales become sexually active by
time they enter college,
lecause the average college stuit
typically has multiple sex
biers, the possibility of a col3
student acquiring a sexually
ismitted disease is ever-present.
)r. James Turner, director of the
C Student Health Center, said
total number of sexually-active
dents with STDs at USC is
re than 25 percent
le said STDs such as venereal
ts, chlymidia, herpes, and pubic
are an "epidemic on college
lpuses."
decent statistics show that more
i 15 percent of sexually active
i and women contract venereal
ts, the most common STD on
lege campuses. Six to eight
=s of venereal warts are treated
h day at the student health cenTurner
said.
"urner says two to four cases of
/midia, an infection of the geni,
are treated each day at USC,
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