Word: randomizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...questioned said they would be willing to give up "a few of the freedoms we have in this country" to reduce illegal drug use significantly. Majorities said they favored mandatory drug tests for all citizens, police searches of the homes of suspected drug dealers without a court order, and random police checks of cars on the highway...
...speech last week, Bush called for even more drug testing. But some legal scholars complain that random drug testing of all employees, whether or not they are suspected of using illegal substances, disregards the venerable notion of "probable cause" -- that a search can be triggered only by a well- founded suspicion of criminal action by a particular individual. "When you start saying a search satisfies the Fourth Amendment even though it's not based on any focused suspicion at all, you've ripped the heart out of the Fourth Amendment," insists University of Michigan law professor Yale Kamisar...
Last year, several masters and the dean of the College came up with a plan to answer these complaints. Under the proposal, one-quarter of the spaces in participating houses would have been field by random assignment...
...like students to have a choice," he says. "I don't like the generic nature of [random] lottery and mixing...
...grounds for masters and the College dean to propose in November the greatest change in residential housing assignment since the early 1970s. Alarmed by stereotypes of the houses and concerned that the houses no longer represented the educational microcosm of the University's diversity, officials moved to introduce partially random assignment of rising sophomores...