Dorms Might Get Condom Dispensers

Pending approval by residents of Stanford dormitories, condom dispensers could be installed in selected dorms and libraries on campus this spring.

If residents of a dorm want the dispensers in their residence, then the university will permit their installation, said Michael Newman, editor-in-chief of The Stanford Daily. But even though it is a student task force that is lobbying for the dispensers, it is unclear which dorms, if any, want to house the machines, he said.

The decision of where the dispensers will be located will be made after spring break, Newman said.

The National Sanitary Labs company is prepared to install the dispensers within a week after it knows where they are to be located,The Daily reported. The machines will dispense condoms for 50 cents, or five times the cost of a condom at the student pharmacy. Brown

Newspaper Uncovers Stereo Scam

Hundreds of Rhode Island consumers, including some Brown University students, have been duped by a company misrepresenting the stereo speakers it was selling, The Brown Daily Herald recently revealed after a three week investigation.

According to the paper, a Warwick-based company, World Wide Electronics, has for months sold its substandard speakers from vans, intimating to consumers that its goods have been stolen and are available at fractions of their original prices.

In order to gain information about the company, the newspaper stated that one of its reporters responded to a classified advertisement for employment and attended an interview with the company's manager. The manager said that similar operations are operating in at least six other states, including Massachusetts,The Herald reported.

World Wide Electronics calls the speakers that it sells, "Acoustic Research, PSM 1250 Studio Monitors." But despite the sophisticated-sounding name, the speakers are of very low quality, the newspaper reported.

The speakers are "plant stands...they are purely visual," the owner of a local stereo store said.

In order to sell the speakers, salespeople show consumers false sales catalogues that describe the speakers as state of the art. Barnard

School Receives No Early Applications From Blacks

Barnard College has not received any early admissions applications from Blacks for at least two years, Director of Admissions Christine Royer said yesterday.

Of a record 145 applicants for early admission, Barnard accepted 71 women, four of whom are Asian and one of whom is Hispanic.