CAMPUS CONTRACEPTIVES Council ruling to be made
The installation of contraceptive vending machines in the Students’ Union buildings on the city and Ham sites of the University of Canterbury will be considered by the University Council at its next meeting on August 23.
The Vice-Chancellor (Professor N. C. Phillips) said yesterday that the executive committee had referred the matter to the council.
The vending machines were installed yesterday in the men’s lavatory of the Students’ Union buildings on the town and Ham sites, but not in the women’s lavatories.
The machine at the town site was placed on the wall inside the entrance to the lavatory.
’’The .University Council has received no request for approval of this action, although the legal control of all buildings in the university sites is vested in it by statute,” Professor Phillips said. "Nor is it aware of the extent to which the student body as a whole supports the action.
“The committee has decided to refer the matter to the next meeting of the University Council so that the council may make a decision after due consideration of all aspects of the issue. Meanwhile the installation of the machines is without valid authority,” he said. More than 120 packets of contraceptives were sold yesterday from the two vending machines.
Mr W. H. Wealleans, who installed the machines yesterday morning, said each machine held 48 packets, with three contraceptives in each packet He found one machine empty at 4.30 p.m. and refilled it The other one was almost empty, and he expected both would have to be
refilled about 10 p,m.
Few remarks were made about the machines by students yesterday, although many went into the lavatories to have a look at them and see how they worked. At its annual meeting last evening, the town Student Christian Union decided to join forces with the Ilam union in opposing the installation of the machines. The Roman Catholic Newman
Society will consider the matter at its monthly meeting this evening and also a proposal that the three bodies join in forming a protest committee. Petition opened A petition requesting the Students’ Association executive to call a special meeting to consider the machines’ installation was being circulated at the university yesterday. It needed 75 signatures to achieve its aim.
(Correspondence on subject: Page 8)
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