CAMPUS DRUG TESTING ON AGENDA; COUNCIL SET TO DEBATE HART DISTRICT ATHLETIC POLICY.Byline: Mary Schubert Daily News Staff Writer Drug testing of student athletes at Hart district schools, and a recent survey of 390 coaches, parents and teens, will be debated tonight by the board of education. The issue is on the agenda of the William S William, crown prince of Germany William or Frederick William, 1882–1951, crown prince of Germany, son of William II. In World War I he commanded (1914) an army on the Western Front and was nominal commander in the German attack . Hart Union High School District board, but the matter is for discussion only. The school board has no immediate plans to vote for or against enacting a policy that would require athletes to submit to drug and alcohol testing. Board member John Hassel, however, said he wouldn't mind if such screenings were up for a vote - and he would support the idea if it does. ``I hope from this there will be enough discussion to generate a full-blown proposal to the board,'' he said. Many times, the school board must consider whether to expel ex·pel tr.v. ex·pelled, ex·pel·ling, ex·pels 1. To force or drive out: expel an invader. 2. a student from school - and often the reason youths face such harsh punishment is substance abuse, Hassel said. There seems to be ``a general rise'' in drug and alcohol use among athletes and students in general, said Hassel, a six-year member of the school board. ``The most popular seems to be marijuana marijuana or marihuana, drug obtained from the flowering tops, stems, and leaves of the hemp plant, Cannabis sativa (see hemp) or C. indica; the latter species can withstand colder climates. ,'' he noted. In his report to the school board, Hart district administrator Mike Allmandinger said the survey showed that ``data from the student and coach groups is clearly more supportive of drug testing of student athletes, and student drug testing in general.'' But the 139 parents surveyed were more evenly divided on the subject, Allmandinger noted. Given four options in the poll, parents were pretty evenly split on testing all students versus testing athletes only. Also, they were similarly divided on not testing athletes or not testing any student. In the survey, 205 Canyon, Hart, Saugus and Valencia students and 46 district coaches were polled. Valencia High School Valencia High School may refer to:
``I think if they're going to test athletes, then they should test other groups,'' Stiman said. ``I'm definitely not against drug testing, but I don't think it's right that they just limit it to athletes.'' There is some precedent to the practice of testing athletes, rather than the entire student body. In June 1995, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld an Oregon Oregon, city, United States Oregon, city (1990 pop. 18,334), Lucas co., NW Ohio, a suburb adjacent to Toledo, on Lake Erie; inc. 1958. It is a port with railroad-owned and -operated docks. The city has industries producing oil, chemicals, and metal products. school district's policy of requiring student athletes to submit to random drug testing. In their decision, the justices said traditional privacy concerns built into the Constitution are superseded by a school district's responsibility for protecting the well-being of young athletes, as well as students in general. Stiman said he understands why athletes would be singled out for the testing. ``They're playing in a sport where people can be hurt. If you have individuals who are doing drugs, they can cause harm to somebody,'' the Vikings coach said. Manuel White Manuel White (born July 2, 1982) is an American football running back. , 15, plays football and basketball at Valencia High and has a 3.6 grade-point average. He said he would welcome a district drug-testing policy, to screen out youths using alcohol, marijuana and other substances, as well as performance-enhancing drugs This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. like steroids steroids, class of lipids having a particular molecular ring structure called the cyclopentanoperhydro-phenanthrene ring system. Steroids differ from one another in the structure of various side chains and additional rings. . ``It would be good if they would test the student athletes,'' said White, a sophomore running back on the Vikings' varsity squad. ``That would stop a lot of people from taking drugs if they tested everybody, because people would have the fear of getting caught,'' White added. A 30-year teacher and coach at the high school and junior college level, Hart High baseball coach Bud Murray Murray, river, Australia Murray, principal river of Australia, 1,609 mi (2,589 km) long, rising in the Australian Alps, SE New South Wales, and flowing westward to form the New South Wales–Victoria boundary. said he would favor drug testing - if, for no other reason, that it makes it easier for youths to avoid peer pressure and resist temptation Temptation Terror (See HORROR.) apple as fruit of the tree of knowledge in Eden, has come to epitomize temptation. [O.T.: Genesis 3:1–7; Br. Lit. , because they could be subject to random testing (programming, testing) random testing - A black-box testing approach in which software is tested by choosing an arbitrary subset of all possible input values. Random testing helps to avoid the problem of only testing what you know will work. . ``I like the idea. I think that it gives those kids a reason to say no when they're out with other people,'' said Murray, who teaches history and coaches the Indian varsity. ``I feel like everybody should be tested, but if they're only going to test certain groups, I would want to see them test the athletes,'' Murray said. ``If you're out there playing football, or trying to hit an 85 miles-per-hour fastball, and you don't have all your senses, you could really get hurt.'' |
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