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...Supreme Court agreed on Thursday to decide whether schools may give random drug tests to nearly any student seeking to participate in school-sponsored extracurricular activities. The case calls into question a decision by the Tecumseh Board of Education in Pottawatomie County, Okla., to make compliance with random drug tests a prerequisite for participation in any after-school activity at Tecumseh High School, from the math team to the cheerleading squad...
...Court’s last decision on the subject, in 1995, allowed the random drug-testing of student-athletes as a prerequisite for playing sports. However, it relied upon a number of factors specific to competitive sports, including the heightened risk for injury, as well as a finding that drugs were endemic in the school’s athletic program. No evidence has been presented that Tecumseh High School’s choir suffers from a significant drug problem, or that illegal drugs pose a heightened risk of injury to the singers. Although subsequent decisions by appeals courts have tried...
...taking this case, the Court should reaffirm that students are indeed “persons” under the law. They should not be subject to random, groundless and intrusive searches...
Among publishers, opinions are split. Some are seeking books on currently-popular themes that carry a bonus, like a popular name. For example, novelist Caleb Carr (author of The Alienist) will produce a book on the history of terrorism for Random House. Others are banking on books that personalize the events, hoping that tales from firefighters or Afghan-Americans will have more long-term appeal. Still others are forecasting a retreat from “serious” subject matter and a surge in the popularity of entertainment and sports-themed books. “I think the events...
...remember a couple of summers ago when the big news around New York was encephalitis. There were apparently these mosquitoes spreading West Nile virus all over New York, and random people started dropping dead. Then the city started spraying the various neighborhoods with insecticides at night to get rid of the mosquitoes, and everyone feared that the spraying was more dangerous than the bugs...