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From a story in The Deseret News September 2006 Brigham Young University received straight F's on the Trojan Sexual Health Report Card released Tuesday. BYU finished dead last in the survey of 100 colleges and universities sponsored by the condom company Trojan and conducted by Sperling's Best Places. The University of Utah also flunked, finishing two spots better than BYU — 98th — because it got a single D instead of all failing grades. Yale University, which hosts an annual campus Sex Week, finished first with a 4.0 grade-point average. The survey graded the sexual health of campuses around the nation based on the idea that a lack of information and access to condoms can lead to unsafe sex, higher risk for sexually transmitted infections or STIs and unintended pregnancies. BYU and the U. fared poorly because they don't provide sex education on their Web sites, don't provide condoms or other contraceptives in dorms and don't have a sex advice column in their student newspapers. "We probably shouldn't have been No. 1, but there is no way we should be only two ahead of BYU," said Jason Gillman, office manager of the U.'s Health Promotion Program. Gillman buys 10,000 condoms a year to give out free to students. A student committee and other campus organizations give out "living well kits" — stocked with a three of different types of condoms, lubricants and information about STDs — to students during class presentations and other events throughout the year. "There are condoms all over our campus," Gillman said. "All you have to do is look." Other categories on the Trojan report card included HIV and STD testing, sexual assault services and lecture or outreach programs. |
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