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Page A10 — Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 7, 1990.

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TERRACE — Other than one closed session with school counsellors, the Terrace school board has yet to discuss the in- stallation of condom machines in secondary schools,

The issue here, an in other northwest school districts,

follows a letter from the Skeena _

health unit board saying the machines would help stop the spread of AIDS in teens,

Below are the positions of Terrace trustees on the issue.

WAYNE BRAID: NO

Terrace trustee Wayne Braid says condoms, particularly in junior secondary schools, will send the wrong signal to young people.

And he said some senior high students have told him they feel insulted by suggestions to install the dispensers,

“{ don’t think they belong in the schools,”’ he said. ‘‘And I haven't heard from one parent yet that says they’rein favour of it.”

KRIS CHAPMAN: YES

“If one life is saved, it’s worth it,”’ says Stewart trustee Kris Chapman.

Students in smaller comm- munities are often reluctant to buy condoms and if sexually ac- tive, risk being exposed to the AIDS virus, she said. “Stewart is a good case in point — nearly everybody’s mother works at the drug store.’*

Above all students must want the machines installed, she said.

“T would hope that would not be the case,”’ she said in adding she recognized fears condoms might be used as water balloons or would lead to promiscuity.

' ‘People are going to be of-

‘fended, so I think we better prepare the parents for it, too,”’ said Chapman.

EDNA COOPER: UNDECIDED

School board chairman Edna Cooper favoured installation when the issue first came up Late last year.

“We are in a crisis situation and we have to react with

everything we have,” shie'said at +

the time.

Now Cooper says she won’t state her position until all infor- mation is in and everyone con- cerned has had a chance to speak to the board.

“I'm going to hedge my bets for now,” she said.

DUNCAN ETCHES: YES

Hazelton trustee and doctor Duncan Etches does not oppos- ed offering condoms in schools and does agree with other trustees in saying condoms are not 100 per cent effective.

“But to reduce the risk (of AIDS infection or pregnancy) is still a worthwhile objective — even if it doesn’t eliminate the problem.”

He said he doubts many sex- ually active Hazelton teens are using condoms, The town’s on- ly pharmacy — located in the hospital's waiting room — gets almost no requests for condoms from teens.

LAVERN HISLOP: NO “From the medical reports that I’ve seen, 1 would be really concerned to put them into the schools,’’ she said last week. She said evidence suggests condoms may not be as effec- tive at preventing the spread of the AIDS virus as they are thought to be. ‘If they aren’t doing the job they're supposed to against the virus, then they could endanger kids more than not having them.’’

DELBERT MORGAN: UNDECIDED Trustee Delbert Morgan says he will base much of his deci- sion of how to vote on the feel- ing of voters in Kitwanga. He said he hasn’t made a

decision yet, but the people he -

has talked to overwhelmingly oppose putting condom machines in schools. |

“The vast majority say keep it out of there," he ‘said. “*There’s a lot of concern about it encouraging promiscuity.

That will play a major part in

my decision,"’

JOHN POUSETTE: 1 NOL. Terrace trustee John Pousette

was the school..:board’s

representative at the Skeena: | -

Union Board of Health meeting that passed the original : recom: mendation in- favour of ‘co

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Duncan Etches

really need them, they can go to the drugstore,’ he said. ‘‘I don’t feel this is one of our responsibilities. I’d rather see a child care program (for young mothers in school.)

Pousette also warned con- doms are not completely

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The schools should instead use family life programs to en- courage abstinence or monogamy, he said.

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