Boise State Rejects Condoms and Saving Money

Boise State University is saying no to condoms, or at least, condom discounts. Recently after five members of the BSU community complained about condoms coupons in a catalogue of coupons offered to students, the coupons were removed. Since no one, especially college students, likes saving money or avoiding STDs, this was obviously a beneficial decision.

Boise Weekly reports:

About three weeks ago, some 15,000 condom coupons were torn from a coupon book that is distributed to returning Boise State students at the campus bookstore. After about five complaints from students, parents and faculty, bookstore director Mike Reed called the publisher and suggested that the coupon books be distributed elsewhere, according to a report in the Arbiter, the campus newspaper.

Rather than lose his choice distribution point at the bookstore, publisher Jeff Brooks, who runs a Kansas company that distributes coupon books at 43 universities, opted to remove the condom coupon—20 percent off any purchase of $5 or more—from each of the books.

University spokesman Frank Zang said the decision was Brooks', but Brooks told BW that he was asked to remove the coupon books from the store and that Reed said the condom ultimatum came from over his head.

"We have Walgreens ads; Walgreens sells them," Brooks said. "It was a pretty tasteful ad; we never really thought it was an issue."

Caryn Thompson, owner of the O!Zone, on Broadway Avenue, has advertised in the coupon book for seven semesters and developed a large following.

"Students kept coming in that weekend and telling me that one parent had complained," Thompson said.

Whew! It sure was worrisome the prospect of BSU students saving money for stuff like books. And what if they didn’t catch gonorrhea? Cheers to the five prats who complained about condom coupons.