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3 6 Condom Schools 5 Fernandez reveals locations of contraceptive programs school programs such as programs for pregnant teens or dropouts submitted condom distribution plans to the chancellors office for consideration. Thirty-nine schools met the first deadline of May the rest met the second deadline of June 1. The 16 schools chosen were considered best prepared to begin training the staff and distributing condoms by late October or early November. By Febnuuy, 1993, all high schools are expected to have a distribution plan in effect. The citys school board voted 4-3 in February to allow condom distribution in schools.

Distribution does not require parental However, board policy does not allow distribution of contraceptives in school clinics. There was tremendous enthusiasm; everybody submitted plans, said Jill Blair, a top board official designated by Fernandez to develop and oversee the project. Spokesmen for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York and the Diocese of Brooklyn, which had strongly opposed the plan, said church officials had not heard of the selection of the high schools. Were still hoping theres a way this program can be stopped, said Joseph willing, a spokesman for Cardinal John OConnor, adding the archchdiocese will continue to work with a coalition of Protestant and Jewish clergy fighting the program. Joseph A Gambardello contributed to this stay.

By Sylvia Moreno STATE WRITER Sixteen public high schools, representing a broad range of tin citys students, have been selected to kick off the nations most ambitious school-baaed condom distribution plan this fall. New York Newaday has learned. Vocational, alternative, specialized and neighborhood high schools have been selected, including the High School of Fashion Industries in Manhattan, which has a largely female population; George Washington High School in Washington Heights, Manhattan, which draws mostly children from Dominican families in the surrounding neighborhood; and Brooklyn Technical High School, which accepts students city wide only on the basis of high grades and a rigorous examination. The schools were chosen by a committee selected by Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez, and was composed of AIDS experts, health and school officials.

The schools, each of which have developed plans on how to distribute the condoms, have picked teams of teachers, administrators, parents and students to implement the program that school officials have touted as essential to stemming the AIDS epidemic among adolescents. The condoms will be given out in designated health resource rooms to be staffed by school employees. The 16 school teams will participate tomorrow in the first of a series of training sessions sponsored by the Board of Education. Each of the citys 120 high schools and almost every one of the additional 25 high Metal Gates Seen Taking a Toll By Michael Moss STAFT WRITER The MTA may have to replace the 2-year-old metal toll gates at its tunnels and bridges that have injured 23 toll collectors, spurred dozens of lawsuits from motorists and even battered police cars. The toll rate bars are power driven, and smack workers and cars with sometimes brutal farce.

Now, pressed by union leaders, the agency is studying ways to make them lighter including a return to wood. We certainly ue concerned, said Cathy Sweeney, spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority subsidiary, the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority. The bars, 10 feet long, were installed in 1989 to replace a lighter-weight model of pine. The aim was to stop toll cheats cold, and they do. The 70 express lanes they regulate experience few, if any, drive-throughs.

But since the new French-made bars arrived, 23 toll workers have been hit in the head, the back, the neck or otherwise injured because they didnt lode or misjudged while crossing under the bar, according to Motorist pauses to pay toil at "killer gate" thats shrouded in an orange warning mesh. NEW YORK NEWSOAY, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, Barbara Hogan, 34, of Queens, said she was knocked unconscious for 90 minutes on Aug. 4, 1989, while crossing to her booth at the Midtown TunneL Recent testing also turned up three herniated disks in her neck. Said Hogan: I dont know if I will ever be able to go back to work. Twelve injured toll officers had to take time off from work, and two others besides Hogan remained disabled for more than a year.

The most recent injury occurred on the Bronx-Whiteetone Bridge this past March, according to union leaders. Dozens of motorists struck by the bars have filed legal cUiina, the TBTA reports. Since 1987, the most recent period studied 87 daims have been filed by motorists for toll bar TBTA said. the 'Bridge 'and Tunnel" Officers- Benevolent' effect until the department can reinspect the white lines, said department spokeswoman Margaret Eigh-mey. Earlier this month, it issued a new memo to employees laying out rules Cor walking to and from the toll booths.

You live or die on the toll plaza depending on how you move about, said Sweeney. But Peter Lukas, president of the union, says the TBTA is doing too little, too late and in the wrong direction. He argues that the tell bar, not workers, is rtftwtt, Association, the union representing toll collectors, says its members report a number of collisions involving police on emergency runs, who were accustomed to easily slipping through the old pine bars, tailgating behind a car that had already paid the toll. Until now, the TBTA has focused on making its bars more visible. Pressed by the state Department of Labor, the TBTA last summer a full year after the bars went up painted white lines below and draped them with orange netting as an early warning device.

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