Harvard College ended anonymous HIV testing due to budget constraints in the wake of a collapsing endowment. The Harvard official responsible for cutting that errr... public health serivce ... says that people who use said testing are really just promiscuous and promises to put a letter in people's file, instead of the old policy anonymous, free testing. Good for them for calling it like it is.
So if Harvard does it, I have to ask: Will the Claremont Colleges do away with their lavish subsidies?
As I've argued in the past, they ought to, if only because it's wrong for people who so clearly don't partake in a service to subsidize that behavior with money they willingly give over to the college believing that said money will be used for an educational purpose. David Daleiden, my erstwhile co-blogger, argued as much on this blog back in April of 2008. In March 2009, I asked if we really did needed eight days for school-subsidized HIV, clap, etc testing, only to be heckled by the commenters that yes, we do, because people have sex and its a public health concern.
Now let the Charles-hates-promiscuous-people-even-though-he's-not-a-social-con-likes-to-date-and-have-a-good-time trolling begin.
1 comments:
actually, the claremont colleges don't pay anything for free STD testing. the only free STD testing we have comes through the east valley health clinic, that runs a moving van that does testing and travels around the inland empire. they just happen to bring their van to the claremont colleges once every 2 weeks.
the testing offered at student health services requires students to pay for it
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