CONDOMS DISTRIBUTED BY ACT-UP MEMBERS

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, February 22, 1992                   TAG: 9202220287
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A-5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: CHARLOTTESVILLE                                LENGTH: Short
CONDOMS DISTRIBUTED BY ACT-UP MEMBERS
Members of an AIDS activist group say they distributed condoms and instructions on their use to Albemarle High School students "to get information" to teen-agers.
Albemarle police and school officials said the distribution disrupted school.
Detective Ronald Burrell said trespassing complaints have been sworn out against four University of Virginia students, all members of ACT-UP/SAFE, in connection with the distribution.
Burrell said the four were charged because they continued to distribute the condoms and literature Thursday after school officials told them to leave. He said officials reported that some condoms were given to middle school students as they changed buses at the school.
"It disrupted the whole school," Burrell said. "It blocked children from getting off the bus and it occurred in an unsafe area because of the school buses pulling in and out of the parking lot."

by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB