Be OR ag eg OR ery OE hg Pag te TERRACE — School board trustees have put off until later a decision to install condom machines in junior and senior secondary schools. At the same time, most of the trustees opposed the idea when it was first introdpced at a Jan. 30 in-camera meeting with teachers and counsellors. *'The trustees who were there at that meeting didn’t seem to be in favour of it,'” sald Terrace trustee Wayne Braid, who chaired the meeting. — Skeena Union Board of Health members in December urged school boards to install condom machines in all of the region's secondary schools- as part of an AIDS education and awareness program. School board chairman Edna Cooper, who was absent from the meeting, supported the recommendation when it was first announced in December. Cooper said the condom machine issue will be raised again at another private com- mittee meeting before a recom- mendation is brought to the board's monthly public meeting for ratification. Braid said four teachers and eer ar Pa ee ee Sey et ros guidance counsellors gave the board their opinions on the sub- ject. ; Local teacher ‘Helmut Giesbrecht — one of four teachers who addressed the oo _ board. at..the meeting. —. said .§ some junior secondary school’ § students might not be ready for the machines, *‘But I indicated I wasn’t as vehemently opposed to the idea in senior secondary as some of the other people were,’’ he said, fp **I don’t think seeing a condom dispenser on the wall is going to dramatically change their (senior secondary students’) values,”’ . He warned younger students are getting pregnant — ‘‘even in the elementary school grades,’ Skeena Jr. Secondary prin- cipal Geoff Straker, also at the meeting, said installing the machines woulkt be sending students an unacceptable message. “I don't see a need for them in a junior secondary school.’’ Thornhill jr. Secondary school teacher Elizabeth Metz- meier said she had concerns about the maturity of the younger children. Caledonia counsellor Mags Gingles refus- University details bother college head TERRACE — It is still too early to get firm commitments on just how it will operate, but Nor- thwest Community College (NWCC) president Don Ander- son is concerned at the lack of detail in a recently released report on the proposed northern university. While the report ‘recognizes the new institution should have campuses in various com- munities throughout the region, Anderson pointed out it did not indicate how much of the pro- - gramming would be handled by those campuses or how quickly they would be involved. “I. fear that rather than in- crease access for the people we’ve got here right now, they may get ignored for a few years,’’ he said. Pointing out the report sug- gested goodwill and the pressures of financing would encourage the university to work with the three existing northern colleges (NWCC, Nor- thern Lights in Dawson Creek and New Caledonia in Prince George), he added, “I’m not sure that always happens.’’ Anderson and others meet privately with advanced educa- tion minister Bruce Strachan here this Friday before the latter appears at a public meeting. ‘We need an assurance there will be a joint operation when it ‘comes to putting it into place,” . said Anderson of the planning needed to open a new institu- tion. Anderson was also concerned the section of the report dealing with programming had not em- phasized the health care field. 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