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From Center program that launched in February, has Protection Connection aims to increase awareness their installation date to the end of winter term, the already distributed over 5,000 condoms via its Hot about STIs and encourage the use of protection, said Hot Spots have distributed: Spots in the EMU. e program aims to reduce the Godon-Bynum. “ ere’s a unique set of risk factors • 5,270 external condoms stigma around talking about sex, as well as promote that college students experience that increase • 3,539 lubricant packets protection against sexually transmitted infections. their risk for STI contraction, including substance • 531 internal condoms “Let’s be real, people are having sex,” said Kaleigh misuse and abuse, having multiple partners, a lack • 516 dental dams and Jodice, a junior PPPM major. Jodice works for the of understanding of the risk involved and things like • 248 love gloves health center distributing condoms to Protection that,” she said. “So knowing that we have what we e hot spots are fi lled every weekday, which Connection hot spots and residence halls. would consider a high-risk population, we felt like is more than the Protection Connection team had Students are just not always having the safest we needed to start looking at ways we could help anticipated, said Gordon-Bynum. sex, research shows. One in four college students reduce the incidents.” “ e need and demand and volume is defi nitely is estimated to contract a sexually transmitted Hot spots are located in the EMU by the higher than we were anticipating, which speaks well infection, said Adria Godon-Bynum, the manager of bathrooms near Falling Sky, near the Fishbowl of what we’re doing,” she said. health promotion at the health center. at number restrooms by Chipotle, in the Student Rec Center Something like internal condoms, for example, increases to one in two adults, attending college or near the cycling studio and supplies are also in the may help women feel more in control of their use not, among people 25 and younger. Duck Nest and the LGBTQIA offi ce, according to the of protection during sex, said Hannah Hamling, a “We’re over 18, and we’re in college. I think having health center’s website. e hot spots were installed senior PPPM major that also works for Protection the supplies makes it known that it’s not something during week 6 of winter term this year. Connection. “ e internal condoms are cool because weird that we can’t talk about,” Godon-Bynum said “As long as people are taking them, even if they you can leave them in for a long time,” while going regarding the two hot spots in the EMU that house don’t need them that day or that night, even if on a date or otherwise, she said. free internal and external condoms, lubricant, dental they’re taking them because they think they’re funny “It just increases female autonomy,” added Jodice. dams and love gloves. “Having the supplies on or they want to show their friends, it’s normalizing e program’s coordinators said they are campus shows you’re allowed to have pleasure and it in a way that might help somebody in their collecting data on the use of the hot spots and do things for fun and that’s okay.” community access them in the future,” delivery service and will use that information In addition to the hot spots and delivery service, Godon-Bynum said. to expand the program in the future, potentially Protection Connection is hosting an event on e delivery service, which is also new this year, to Fraternity and Sorority Life houses and other Tuesday with Planned Parenthood to discuss allows students living in residence halls to select student-centered areas on campus. communication about sex in relationships. e which kinds of supplies they want through an online For Jodice, the program’s inclusivity is one of the event will be from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the EMU ordering system. e protective supplies are then highlights: “We’re just trying to create a community and will feature a build-your-own safer sex supply delivered in discreet packages to their for everyone where they can have pleasure and not kit. 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EMILY POOLE JASON BIBEAU COPY CHIEF SAMUEL ANTHONY TANNER SHIPLEY Photograph by Sarah Northrop MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2019 | EMERALD | PAGE 3 A NEWS WOMEN IN COMPUTER SCIENCE GROUP WELCOMES ALL STUDENTS BY ERIN CAREY • TWITTER ELCAREY e Women in Computer Science organization, In a major like computer science that has few and WiCS treasurer Bethany Van Meter says that a group dedicated to creating a safe and fun place women earning degrees — the 2017-18 school all are welcome, although she was originally to bring together all types of students, has been year only awarded 16 percent of its degrees to intimidated by WiCS. a staple of the University of Oregon’s Computer women — having a group that understands those “I thought everyone was in the 300- and and Information Science department since 1985. frustrations has helped some students see it 400-level classes, and I was like, ‘Oh no, they e group is comprised of more than just through, said mathematics and computer science know so much, and I don’t know anything,’” Van women, and they encourage anyone in any double major Sierra Battan. Battan is WiCS’s Meter said. “But really it’s anybody. Even if you’re field to come. social media coordinator and secretary. not in the major, you can come.” WiCS President and computer and information “It makes you feel more validated,” Battan said, Tables for the technical interview questions science major Claire Phillips said she doesn’t “like you have a reason to be here. You’re not event are filled with all different types of know where she would be if she hadn’t been part just another person in a class. So it’s not as scary students, talking about sequence equations of WiCS for the past four years. when you’re one of the only females in the class ... and whether or not the equation is complete “ese people have become part of my family,” because of WiCS, you’ll know the other females.” or incomplete, as well as sharing the stressors Phillips said.