Love Line - Residence Hall Style

Description: Panel of "experts" answers questions about romance and sex.  These questions can be asked there, but most come from questions filled out anonomously and put into drawing boxes in the previous weeks.

What you need:
1) Find some people to be on your panel.  They could include:

A health center worker or a Doctor
A willing RA or hall staff member
A psychology professor.
A pastor

Pick a panel with diverse views and a good knowledge base.  Select people who will be willing to have fun during this exercise.  It can get pretty crazy! :-)

2) Put up posters in the weeks prior. "LOVE LINE - Coming to (your residence hall)"  Be creative!  Put boxes at the front desk and highly trafficked areas with slips of paper for people to submit questions about: sex, love, STDs... again, be creative!

Here's another Love Line Program Submission:

Description:

This is a really easy program to do, but it's educational and fun at the same time. We modeled a program after Mtv's Loveline. To give people the chance to ask anonymous questions, we put a box at the  front desk where everyone could drop their embarrassing sexual questions.  Our panel consisted of a 'Dr. Drew' (the sexual health education coordinator from the campus health center) and an Adam Corolla type character. Lots of students showed up to talk about sex. When the conversation was lagging we  would answer the anonymous questions, but  many residents that attended asked questions of  their own. We passed out free condoms from the  health center, and played 'Let's Talk about Sex' as people came in. I thinked they really   learned a lot, and it gave the students a chance to ask embarrassing personal questions.

Instructions/Things Needed:

-A medical-type, often available from your friendly local campus health center
-A jerk/Adam Corolla type, try freshman boys, or someone from the theatre department
-Free condoms or pizza always helps

Margo Sloan
School: University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign
email: msloan@uiuc.edu

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