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Drug tests Constitutional protections, due nrocess he in p violated ia a viuiaiiuii V7i piivac^ aiiu me- v^uiouiuiiuii. And yet, the private sector has gone drug test crazy. History has proven that some of the people in such areas do use drugs. But again, most people who are drug tested ? randomly in sports and routinely when hired by a company ? do not test positive. The Constitution protects every American, and it's the privacy of these people that is being invaded. It is the constitutional protections of due process and reasonable suspicion that are being violated by the drug testers. It must stop. The United States has better protections than most countries, but its ideals are being shattered by this drug testing mania. Some progress is being made, though. This summer, the Supreme Court ruled that a drug testing program at Stanford University was unconstitutional because it violated the due process clause. The ruling went out of its way to say just Stanford's drug testing program was unconstitutional ? not all colleges or universities' programs. But some legal experts, according to an article in The New York Times, say the ruling may have laid the groundwork for future rulings to overturn college drug testing once and for all. If testing is done, it must not be a routine program for all, but , must follow the letter and spirit of constitutional law. Test only with a reasonable suspicion someone who is using or abusing drugs. Test only according to the tried and tested process of our criminal justice and judicial systems. Test, but allow those tested to be given the full benefit of a review. And use tests that are as close to 100 percent error free as you , M can get. The possibility of error should not be discounted, because error is just as likely ? if not more ? as the possibility that testees have indeed taken drugs. If \7aii onrl flion tol/n ama /4*>n/v ii juu cai ?J11C 9Cbu aiiu nivii laivv vjiig MliU Ul U1 Ug ICM, you can "test positive" for heroin use. Without ever having taken, seen or heard of heroin. The process that is removing athletes from events left and , right and is denying others jobs is a flawed, unconstitutional process. PRIMITIVE BRAINS . y > .. -. : A A MP wmw* NEAMPEKTHAl CRO-MAGNON JAVA WaPHF1^ dan quayle J rrff ri 1 Ihe Gamecock Best Non-daily Collegiate Newspaper, Southeastern Region > Society of Professional Journalists, 1987-88 Editor in Chief Photography Editors STEPHEN GUILFOYLE BRIAN SAULS Managing Editor TEDDY LEPP ; SON HA Datebook Editor Copy Desk Chief JENNY SHARPE WAYNE YANG Graphics Editor Assistant Copy Desk Chief MICHAEL SHARP KATHY BLACKWELL Comics Editor I News Editor TRACY MIXSON HAL MILLARD Adviser Assistant News Editor PAT MCNEELY STEVE PRADARELLI Graduate Assistant MARY PEARSON PHILLIP MCKENZIE Features Editor Director of Student Media SUSAN NESBITT ED BONZA Assistant Features Editor Advertising Manager TOM JOYNER MARGARET MICHELS Sports Editor Production KEVIN ADAMS LAURA DAY Assistant Sports Editor RAY BURGOS CHRIS SILVESTRI Assistant Advertising Manager BARBARA BROWN ' Letters Policy: The Gamecock will tr> lo print letters receised. Letters should be. at a maximum. 250 to 300 words long. Guest editorials should not exceed 500 words. We reserve the right to edit letters for stjle or possible i libel. The Gamecock will not withhold names under an> circumstance. i i ' ' r "V- / . - pfBSji i i i ' ' , ' t . I While it is true that an athlete should never use drugs unless prescribed by a doctor (because such a practice is unhealthy), , athletes should not be subjected to drug testing because no one should. As The Gamecock and many legal experts see it, drug testing 10 O i M 1 of 1 s~\ r\ r>ri iro/^TT n?/4 Series in Stat "Oh the times, they are a-changin'." ? Bob Dylan. Oh, the times they have a-changed. The State newspaper began a series Sunday remembering the activists who lived in Columbia during the late '60s and early '70s. And three of the four parts in the series have dealt with events involving students and will deal with places where students went to plan their "activism." Sunday's story dealt with students who began to act on their newly discovered social conscience, students who went to the Russell House, which they described as "their" union, and took it over one Thursday afternoon, demanding that rules, which limited access to just students and staff, be stricken. Eventually, the students were arrested by agents of the State Law Enforcement Division and National Guard units when they "re-took" the union. Because of their arrests, other students filled the parking lot outside the Administration Building, now Osborne, went in and took it over. Today's story will relate the tale of a coffee house where most of the activists went to talk. The coffee house, called the UFO, was shut down by SLED, but it was moved to a new location and called the UFO in Exile. Moved to the Russell House, the UFO in Exile prompted the new "non-visitor" rule that sparked the Russell House takeover. Thursday's story will relate the tale of an antiwar activist and an undercover agent. I don't know if it's the same as a story I've heard, but there was one activist who worried SLED so much it planted Letters to the help, and Campus police ***?? ?1 _! 1 MIIIK3 113 JUU To the editor: USC campus police, wake up! Saturday night, Sept. 24, my room- J^j mate and I were on our way to a party on campus, when we ended up stranded on a dark back road near j^ll vrl the Roost with a flat tire. I am furious with the security here because y0 t^e ecjj, two USC police cars passed us while ^ny nevv we were standing in the middle of the t^e j^plicz road in an attempt to get help. There articles in a was no way possible for them not to an?j on]y have seen us, with hazard lights and Gamecock head lights on. Just exactly what does stereotypes their job consist of, the more than robbers an< generous amount of ticket distribu- tjcje wjier tion and car towing you do at all assailant is hours of the day? Because of this t^at jt was event, I am convinced that the USC tecj t^e act police force does not have its js onjy n( priorities in order, whereas the search by reason they exist is to provide securi- races ty for the students here at USC and stated- is t to enforce the law. There is consis- the victim tent talk of improving security on race9 campus, as this fall alone the crime rate is significantly high. As far as I This is o am concerned, this event could have and well 01 been a prospective disaster; luckily it pus. It is ti was not. I would like to thank those society thr four kind people that stopped to another, b 6 1 \o/^ qQq Q MflWliEe- -THEAHMn-A OMSTrTU V V \\'.'\UM -v N; . v M \v$ ^ t ^ % \ flip charts? yff 'l * y i pipnt know vu i1 , we coulp have %feld flip charts... o i3 v jj i m M(f) _0- ^ 0.nO ^y'CoNfxo oV:;.i f?jN^^v-:5:'a _ v^r MY SERVE,GEORGE/" I !' ' :\V< Plecty* ^r%\l i 1# JAM1* e newspaper di: in Guilfoyle 11 gn ||r ?????????^ t^( an agent in his group and later arrested him. The activist didn't know about the SLED agent until So the trial. Ar I don't know if this is the same activist as the one m\ The State said it would write about, or if he was a ha student, but I do know this fellow had some cam- gr< pus ties, because he wrote a letter to The qu Gamecock, which the paper ran, and which caused the administration to shut the paper down for a dis year. act But as interesting and well-written as the series sh< has been so far, it truly disheartens me also. Q?ir?K o focninottnn tirv-iA it ll/OC tl/llPn CtllHpntC VIO "juvii u lUOVlliailllg lllliv II *?uj, ?uvii jimuvuu Tig cared for the environment, when students cared He about what their government was doing, when students took an active role in their campus life and me their university union. These students were willing to risk incarceration we and worse for what they believed in. They took < stands, and many were put in jail. They forced the 1 editor remind campus police to and exploit members of eyes open and stop crime groups because of personal arts. systems toward this group. Th 25th anniversary of the firs Kelly Smith students at USC. 1 should ho Music Ed. sophomore during this period ' '' J, produced more that rapists, n murderers and thieves. 'spaper Edwin J. notes bias 8rauua,e Judge'Shot spaper should be aware of - t itions of its writings. The ||V nODll 1CKf*l i paper should be unbiased ?/ pvpUIIIII state the facts. The in its articles is promoting editor: of black males as rapists, reference to David O. ! i drug dealers. In every ar- in Mondays edition < e a description of an Gamecock,Shout /magazine is given, it is always stated t^ie iyios| wildly sought after < ? ui..i 1? Dublications here in Columbi a UlclLK IlldiC W1IU LUIIIIIlll, The race of the assailant reasoning for this is sim] ?cessary when an active presents a lighter side to life the police is in progress. USC and at other universities of the victims are never t^ie Southeast, he reader to assume that .^r* Lucas, to quote an old is white or of another lighten up. The level of content may not be quite as 1 your fine publication, but i vert racism, and it is alive serve a purpose. It gives the i the USC-Columbia cam- something that doesn't challe agic when any member of expand one's mind ... it is ju? eatens the well-being of fun. Have you ever read the ut we should not isolate Dick" column or the horoscc :: o... ^ ^ 3/3^. ii^ ! ** I 1 y sheartening ministration to take notice of what they believed They had commitment. But not any more. In 1985, one of USC's student "activist" groups mted to build a shantytown on The Horseshoe, le administration said it couldn't. The "activist" Dup said "OK, where will you let us protest?" I don't believe shanties prove anything to anyone lymore than Sandinista Gulag-huts do). But it is disheartening to watch a group cave in when it supposed to be an activist group. They didn't have the same committment as did ;ir '60s idols. Now USC has other activist groups: The Free uth Africa Alliance, The Alliance for Peace, nnesty International. Amnesty is not designed so ich for protests and sit-ins, but the others, which ve to do exactly that, are the invisible activist Dups. You always hear from them, but you never ite see them, at least not collectively. The Free South Africa Alliance, truly heartening, only has one black member. Their :ivities this semester are reminiscent of the '85 inty "incident," rather than the '60s. The group wanted to hold a weekly candlelight ;il on The Horseshoe in front of The President's )use, President James Holderman's abode. The administration said "No." Alliance imbers said "OK." They took a stand, but they stood where they re told. Dh the times, they have a-changed. For the worse. certain Shout! magazine? I am confident belief that the publishers are not trying to is is the make any literary lists for best t black publication. They are just presenting pe that life in a light-hearted manner. } 11 w- * ~n ~ r _ ? Doners. ivir. Lueas, uu us ail a lavor ana it your nose back in your enclopedia. The truth of the matter is Wilson 4 immed up by one statement. While stuutru. iout! magazines, which enjoy considerable success on this campus and I j others, are snatched up as soon as IT* they are put out and are enjoying financial success, certain other types w, of publications, with all of their IXj' credibility and worthiness, are struggling to attain the same level of success as Shout! magazine. This is not Lucas's done by criticizing Shout! magazine, of The its writers or its readers. If you ac; one of complished anything with your letter, :ampus you merely darkened the name of ia. The Portfolio Magazine, which is supposple: It ed to promote the idea of literary enhere at trepreneurship. So as one of those across people with a "pitifully small number of brain cells," let me end by saying, saying this ... the next time I see a literary copy of your magazine collecting high as dust on the floor in the humanities t does building, I will stop, think of you and reader keep walking, leaving it for the nge or janitor to pick up later. >t plain "Dear Clyde Ebanks >pes in Insurance senior