Condom crusaders wage war against campus machines
By Michael Fibison
■ The Reporter
Mankato State U.
A militant group of self-proclaimed
“Christian-minded’’ students calling
themselves Students Against Sin waged
a crusade against condom vending
machines at Mankato State U.
G&B Vending Inc. owner Gerry
Erickson discovered knobs missing on a
sabotaged condom machine at the stu
dent union and an inscription banning
the machines etched into the side.
Erickson said he also received a letter
from SAS condemning the machines and
vowing not to follow “the long drawn-out
legal procedures and red tape to have
these vending machines removed from
campus."
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the French word for “thin” was illustrat
ed by a shot of a woman in a half T-shirt.
“The image struck me so powerfully,"
Blackmer said. “They were exploiting
her body. She was a body, not a person.
It became really difficult to concentrate
on the videos.”
In lesson 11, Blackmer said students
were shown a man trying to pick up a
pretty woman in a park. On the follow
ing exam, the students in Blackmer’s
class were required to repeat the lines
of the male pick-up artist.
“I was really uncomfortable with the
fear and the violence that is implicit in
something like that,” she said.
Amherst French Professors Aida
Nawar and Paul Rockwell agreed that
elements of the program are offensive
but said the program is an “excellent”
teaching tool.
Nawar said she intends to use por
tions of the program, but will use only
those which contain no sexist elements.
“I don’t think anyone can deny that
there are things that might be offen
sive,’ Nawar 3aid, adding that she has
been made uncomfortable by at least one
close-up shot of a woman’s chest.
“Most texts are truly objectionable,"
said Marie-H£lfcne Huet, chairwoman of
the French department, adding, “I
refuse to teach anything that is objec
tionable to anyone."
Instead, they decided to take overt
action.
The letter stated, “We will stop at
nothing to sabotage these machines and
prevent them from working." They also
claimed to have the machine keys and
threatened to steal the merchandise.
The condom-condemning crusaders
said it is their duty to prevent the sins
of premarital and extramarital sex by
ndding MSU of its condom dispensers.
“If these condoms were not available
to the youth of our society, they would
not be tempted to follow the path of
Satan toward sexual misconduct," the
letter stated.
The actions of the group have worried
Michael Hodapp, assistant director of
the student union.
“I don’t know how you stop something
like that,' Hodapp said.
If the machines am not removed from
campus, SAS vowed to continue their
“active and militant" stance against the
dispensers.
Erickson expressed his disappoint
ment. "I thought we were doing a ser
vice,’ he said.
His company is the second to brave the
MSU campus after the first vendor was
forced by costly vandalism to remove his
machines.
Erickson estimated his cost at about
$200. He speculated that the group must
have used tools such as a chisel and ham
mer to break the knobs off of the
machines.
Erickson said he questions the
“Christianity" of the group because they
are destroying property
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