In the last school year, this university gave away more than 80,000 condoms free to its students — 1,000 to 1,500 every week, in a dizzying variety of brands, colors and flavors.

At Georgetown University, students aren’t even allowed to buy one on campus.

“Just go to CVS,” the Washington Post reports Georgetown students being told. The Jesuit school is largely secular, but the Catholic Church’s birth control ban sends its students flocking half a mile to a 24-hour convenience store to ensure safe sex.

Some Georgetown students are now protesting their school’s traditionalism, saying condoms and birth control medication should be available on campus.

The student group H*yas for Choice — “the pro-choice, pro-reproductive justice group at Georgetown University,” which is not formally recognized by the university — has distributed some free condoms over the years, but is now taking its activity to another level.

Students chained themselves to a statue of the university’s founder and protested at the main entrance to campus over the weekend as prospective students and their families arrived for tours.

“Georgetown. Change. It’s not too late,” the students chanted, according to the Post.

In a letter to the students, the university’s vice president for student affairs reaffirmed the school’s commitment to religious restrictions on birth control.

Wrote Todd Olson:

“Georgetown’s policies and practices rest on the strong underpinning of Catholic social and moral teaching and its affirmation of the dignity of all persons from the beginning of life to its natural end. I recognize that these are complex questions and that there are divergent points of view on the issues that you raise; that is why our policies and practices encourage debate and conversation. Nonetheless, as a Catholic and Jesuit university our policies must reflect our identity and our values.”

No word on what Georgetown would make of the wares available at this university.

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