Dear Editor:

I was shocked when I read the Oct. 20 issue of The Maroon and discovered that students think “it should be the university’s job to make sure kids are being safe” about sex.

What kids are we talking about here? Eighteen to 20-something-year old kids who consider themselves responsible enough to make their own decisions about life, love and education? Are these the kids for which Loyola should be responsible?

I certainly don’t think of myself as a kid anymore, and I find it hard to imagine many of my fellow students do. We are adults now. We have the right to smoke, vote, buy firearms, sign contracts, drink alcohol and, yes, consent to sex. With these rights come responsibilities that cannot be passed off to anyone else.

If we decide to have sex, it is our own responsibility to be safe about it. Instead of a growl to the lack of condoms in Student Health, how about a howl to maturity and sexual responsibility?

Daniel Straight

Computer science junior