Tue 8 Apr 2008
Former Surgeon General on campus for condom-fest
Posted by shelbinator under Cool things, Culture, Local News, Mobile, Politics, Sci-Tech, YouTube and such
Last week, all I had to offer was camels on campus. This week, I got to talk to the former Surgeon General Jocelyn Elders while she was on campus amidst a veritable storm of prophylactics. Apparently the GT Young Dems teamed up with Trojan’s national Evolve campaign (complete with “Roll Out” flagged mics, get it?) to promote, you know, liberal sexual health and whatnot.
It’s nice to meet someone like the Surgeon General, but I can’t say I’m a fan of the current marketing. From the bizarre misalignment of evolution in the pig-to-man schema, to the magical ability of buying a condom in a bar to make women jump your bones, to the inevitably bad pork-themed puns…it’s just weird. Bring back Trojan Man and lose the oinkers.
Anyway, I asked Ms. Elders if we were on a bit of a venereal downturn over the last, you know, few years, health policy-wise. She said yes, that after some good gains in the 90’s, we are once again headed in the wrong direction — though she blamed our lack of conscious fear of disease rather than anything going on in Washington, D.C. So politic of her. Scroll in to about the 0:55 mark:
In addition to a political celebrity, they had condom races (I dunno, there’s nothing very sexy about trying to best the record of 27 seconds), an inflatable theater shaped kinda like a reservoir tip, and much, much more.
There was some vaguely motion sickness-inducing film about space herpes on the attack featured at Reservoir Tip Theater; you can take a tour in this Qik video, after you watch two very serious faculty-looking types wearing pig-noses pull condoms off bananas.
Definitely cooler than the camels, if you ask me.
Pop quiz: calculate the relative increase in probability of sexual intercourse occurring at Georgia Tech tonight after all these free prophylactics put ideas in their technological heads.
Answer: #DIV/0!
Tags: condoms, Jocelyn Edlers, Trojans
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April 9th, 2008 at 1:23 am
Hey! I resent that!
But do you realize what Trojans can do for Wii???
April 9th, 2008 at 10:35 pm
The odds would be a lot higher if this event occurred within two weeks of the start of a semester.
On an aside, do you still have the giff animation of the sightings of women at GT? That was one of the more amusing things I saw while at GT.
April 9th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
Actually, with the spring weather making its return, there were plenty of reasons to be glad there were Trojans about — making it all the more ironic, I guess, given the general lack of game.
That graphic does still exist somewhere. I’ll have to dig around.