Condoms at LEADS Mardi Gras
I know Mike and Nichole already posted about this, but I figured I'd add in my two cents' worth. As they mentioned, we got very mixed responses to our table, which made me wonder how these responses reflected the demographics of the people we had passing our table and in the campus as a whole. Were these students more conservative than average or just a representative slice of the population? Were they on the young side, and still need time to come into their own opinions (I know many people's values change once they get out of their parents' house and are forced to think and act on their own)? Or, perhaps, were we expecting too much from them? After all, the LEADS people originally didn't sound too thrilled to have us, which might have been a result of the fact that they knew the majority of their students would have more conservative values about safe sex on the whole. On the other hand, there were students who did appreciate the information, and just because a person is against an idea initially doesn't mean they'll continue to be once they learn more about it.

2 Comments:
At 1:33 AM,
Mike said…
I was in LEAD (no "S") last year as a freshman and I definitely encountered more conservative students than liberal students, although this issue really shouldn't be about politics. This is an issue of who's having sex and, more importantly, who is having safe sex. Qué será, será. Just so you guys know, that took a lot of effort to figure out how to make accented characters and I'm not even sure I used them properly!
At 11:38 PM,
Kat said…
Just being picky here, but the S stands for Scholars, ie, LEAD Scholars or LEADS ;)
Yeah, I noticed when I was in the group that it was very conservative oriented-- I think possibly because it tends to lean towards political hopefuls and ceo types, the former being conservative because of the surrounding politics, the latter because of how Republican/conservative ideals tend to help business owners. Just a thought.
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