You Joined WHAT?

There are lots of clubs at high schools these days, including some that would have been unheard of when I was in school, such as the Gay/Straight Alliance. A high school in Berkeley (you just knew it had to be there) has a new club that's getting some attention:

Berkeley High School in the Bay Area university town has a registered Condom Club that offers students 12 free condoms week.

An ad for the club in the Student Daily Bulletin read: "Having sex? Thinking about having sex? Come to CONDOM CLUB at lunch in A205. One meeting will get you a sticker on your ID that gives you 12 free condoms each week from the BHS Health Center."

In a column for the San Francisco Chronicle Sunday, a Berkeley writer whose son is a freshman at the high school said he found out about the club through an e-mail dispatch of the Daily Bulletin.

The invitation also has been broadcast a few times over the school's loudspeaker system, said G. Pascal Zachary.
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The high school, which has about 3,000 students, touts its many clubs and organizations as a "great way to make friends and get involved."

You're not kidding there. But 12 free condoms a week? What's their community service, prostitution?

Frankly, I'm glad the Berkeley kids are using condoms, because Lord knows that last thing we want is for these people to reproduce.

And while we're on the subject of school silliness, how about this (h/t Best of the Web):

Pomona College is in dire need of a gender-neutral restroom in the Smith Campus Center. As the situation currently stands, the campus center only has gender-specific facilities, creating an uncomfortable, exclusive and unsafe environment for students at the Claremont Colleges who do not choose to conform to heteronormative identities.

Next thing you know they'll be wanting to vote.