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The Student Assembly Finance Commission (SAFC) claims to fund over 350 student organizations that are registered at Cornell University. Sexual Awareness for Everyone (SAFE) is one such organization that turns to the SAFC for financial support in order to be able to continue serving the Cornell community. For the last twelve years, SAFE has worked to raise awareness, especially about HIV/AIDS and other STIs, and promote safe sex practices through a variety of workshops and events on and around the Cornell campus. One of the most crucial aspects of SAFE is the regular distribution of condoms on campus and in Collegetown bars. During our entire involvement in SAFE while at Cornell, the SAFC has refused to fund these condoms on the basis that they are perishable. With regard to durable goods, the SAFC states that it funds consumer goods that are typically used repeatedly over a period of years and able to exist without significant deterioration. Understanding that condoms have a shelf life of several years, but that they are most effective when worn during sexual intercourse, we believe that the SAFC should fund these much-needed (and relatively inexpensive) goods. More importantly, we view the SAFCs definition of durable goods as unnecessarily restrictive and maladapted to the needs of sexual health groups on campus. We urge the SAFC to remodel its funding guidelines to allow for condom endowment, especially considering the restructuring of financial allocations the SAFC is currently facing. It is in the interest of the entire Cornell community to encourage, rather than hinder, the use of prophylactics.

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  • Luca Zatreanu
  • Sally Dunst
  • Andy Wong
  • Hyun-ji Choi
  • May Yee Choi
  • Lisa N. Opdycke
  • sarah mongiello
  • annie ross
  • Nathaniel Houghton
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  • Emily Kraus
  • Jessica Heimler
  • Ashley McFarlane
  • LeeJee Choi
  • Daniel Abowd
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  • Eric Chang
  • Tywanquila Walker
  • Nichole Peer
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    • This is one of the worthiest clubs on campus because their mission impacts everyone. Please fund them!
  • Brisa de Freitas
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  • valerie marcano
  • Fina Jervis
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  • Alisa Orahovac
  • Olivia Tai
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    • In the latest Sun article, the SAFC purports that they allocate funding according to how far-reaching the proposed events and groups activities will be. If they actually believe that funding safe sex with condoms is not far-reaching enough of an endeavor, then I seriously doubt that the SAFC has the students' interests at heart. Condoms are the easiest and CHEAPEST way of ensuring the sexual health of Cornellians all over the campus. I also have faith in SAFE's ability to promote sexual health awareness, so that students will know how to properly use condoms and ensure that the Student Activity Fee was money well spent.
  • Lauren Schneider
  • Breanna Byington
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  • Natasha Moses
  • Sukyee Or
  • Alyson Blum
  • Crystal Chen
  • Zazie Peltier
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  • Galina Tan
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  • Evan Carney
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    • You are giving $35,000 to Slope Day and you don't even care enough to fund safer sex supporting groups. Shame on you.
  • Priya Patel
  • Annie Tsao
  • Jeffrey Javed
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  • Adri Mills
  • Jane Riccobono
  • Sharice Davids
  • Daniel P Riffe
  • Lamarr Parsons
  • John Connelly
  • Nathaniel Baker
  • Ben Pinon
  • Paula Latortue
  • Emma Schain
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    • I support the free distribution of condoms at Cornell because I support sexual health, limiting unplanned pregnancies, and stopping the spread of STIs, HIV/AIDs and other sexually-transmitted diseases.
  • Joshua Lazoff
  • Zachary Xavier Murray
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    • stand for safe sex
  • Ruben Rahman
  • Jayson Jones
  • Hiba Alhomoud
  • Krystal Crespo