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- NATION, Page 25American NotesILLINOISA Crash Course In Drug Testing
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- In their American-history classes, pupils may learn that the
- Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution demands probable
- cause for searches. Now the 2,100 students at
- Homewood-Flossmoor High School outside Chicago have learned a
- new lesson. Last week the school began random testing of all
- who take part in athletics for ten common drugs, including
- marijuana, cocaine and alcohol.
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- A weekly drawing will determine which 5% of the student
- athletes must submit urine samples. In addition, two athletes
- each week will be screened for steroids. Anyone who flunks the
- tests will be required to meet with a counselor. When chemical
- dependency is found, the culprit must enter a treatment
- program, and faces suspension from the team. The athlete can
- rejoin the squad after 30 days if he or she then tests clean.
- The Flossmoor plan has the support of a federal- appeals-court
- decision in a similar case last year as well as of 70% of the
- students surveyed at the school -- although nearly half of them
- think it is a violation of their rights.
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