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<text id=90TT0308>
<title>
Feb. 05, 1990: American Notes:Illinois
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Feb. 05, 1990 Mandela:Free At Last?
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 25
American Notes
ILLINOIS
A Crash Course In Drug Testing
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<body>
<p> 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.
</p>
<p> 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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</body>
</article>
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