"But Elmo, you told me it wasn't contagious!"
After riding out the meningitis wave of last week, prepare yourselves for yet another University Health Advisory. Yesterday was meningitis; today is measles. Never has the letter M been so unfriendly to innocent university students. E-mail to follow after the jump!
As the DP and your inbox have probably already informed you, Penn is not yet in the clear when it comes to this week’s meningitis scare. With three Penn students now being treated in the hospital, official university events and parties (including Feb Club) have been canceled for the weekend, and Student Health is holding a clinic tomorrow to provide screening and antibiotics. Not the way we’d hoped to spend Valentine’s Day, but better safe than sorry.
It’s the perfect couple: Evite, meet sexual education. It’s about time you two got acquainted. Their offspring? Why, inSPOT.org, a site that lets you send cute cards to your partners to inform of them of your STD status. One user favorite reads: “It’s not what you brought to the party. It’s what you left with. I left with an STD. You might have, too.”
Did we mention the cards come in hot pink and neon options? If that’s too Erica Jong-esque for you, try a simple yet effective: “Sometime’s there’s no rhyme or reason. I got diagnosed with STDs since we played.”
We’re sure they’ll get the message. And to prove they’re not just the bearers of admittedly-bad news, the cards provide locations of where to get checked, including a clickable map of Philadelphia.
Being a good samaritan just got a whole lot easier.
CollegeOTR tipped us off to Trojan’s sexual health report card, a glorified survey on campus resources masquerading as some sort of racy report rather than what it is, a press release that they hope will get picked up on blogs like this one. Mission accomplished! Penn ranks 21, behind Columbia, Cornell and Brown, but ahead of Harvard and Yale. We’re not sure what the implications of this are–can we expect to get more severe STD’s when we hook up with Yalies? Will this harm Penn’s permanent sexual transcript?
View the full report here.
