Scauzillo said the condom promotion was necessary and that it will benefit the health of the public. She said the stores which are boycotting the magazine are hypocritical because they are refusing to distribute condoms, yet are selling the product at the same time.

DeKalb stores such as Apple Tree Records, 1022 West Lincoln Hwy., and Record Revolution, 817 West Lincoln Hwy., still are selling the issue.

Mark Gribble, Apple Tree Records manager, said he believed nothing was offensive about the advertisement and that he has not received any complaints from customers. “(The magazine) is just trying to make people more aware of AIDS,” he said.

Mark Farnham, assistant manager of Record Revolution, said he has not received any complaints about the advertisement, but the copies of the issue his store received only contained coupons for free condoms and did not contain any condoms themselves.

Scauzillo said that not every magazine was intended to contain actual condoms. She said individual subscribers only received coupons because federal mailing laws prohibit the magazine from sending actual condoms.

Steve Lux, NIU health educator, said he approved of the condom promotion. “The more that can be done to promote the use of condoms, the better,” he said.

Lux said he was surprised when he heard about the negative reactions to SPIN’s promotion. “Promoting condoms is not promoting promiscuity,” he said.

SPIN’s promotion is similar to NIU’s actions in making condoms more accessible to the public, Lux said. He said NIU already distributes free condoms to students and will install condom vending machines in about 30 campus restrooms in January.

The stores which have boycotted the November issue of SPIN still plan to sell the magazine’s December issue, Scauzillo said.