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A&M crowd calls drug tesfsj
‘an unwarranted invasion'
Narrow debate vote considers privacy issyf
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By Melanie Perkins
Staff Writer
Though the vote was close, audi
ence members at the last and possi
bly most hotly debated Texas A&M
Forum of the semester decided
Wednesday that drug testing is an
unwarranted invasion of privacy.
The parliamentary debate, spon
sored by the Texas A&M Debate So
ciety, the Department of Speech
Communication and Theatre Arts
and the Office of Student Activities,
drew a vote of 158 who believe drug
testing is an unwarranted invasion of
privacy and 155 who believe it is not.
Michele Davies, a senior computer
science major from Houston, spoke
against drug testing, calling the sud
den upsurge in drug testing a “knee-
jerk reaction to the American drug
problem.”
“Reagan’s executive order last
September called for a drug-free
workplace at all costs,” Davies said.
“Unfortunately, it may cost us our
freedom.”
She said random drug testing is
unwarranted because an employer
or supervisor will notice when the
employee is slacking off and has a
problem. An employer must have
reasonable suspicion before asking
an employee to take a drug test, or
the employee is, in effect, being con
sidered guilty until the test proves
his innocence, Davies said.
She said drug testing is unreliable
because the rate of false positive tests
is high — one study found a false
positive rate of 66 percent and a mil
itary study found a 97 percent false
positive rate. Guessing is 50 percent
correct, she said.
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She also pointed out that drug-
free urine can be purchased and that
certain foods, like poppy-seed bagels
and herbal tea, could cause a positive
drug test result.
She asked the audience if anyone
would be willing to urinate in a cup
in front of everyone in the room.
She had no volunteers, and she said
this helped prove her point that
drug testing is an invasion of pri
vacy.
Erik Mulloy, a senior computer
science major from San Antonio,
supported drug testing, saying that
although drug testing may be a little
bit of an invasion of privacy, it is not
unwarranted, and that there must be
a balance between invasion of pri
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vary and the goal oi having a safe,
drug-free work environment.
Mulloy sail! that about 87 percent
of the audience had used marijuana
or cocaine because it has been ac
cepted in American society as the
thing to do.
“There is no way to enforce s ~ ~
or 65-mph speed limit — we
speed,” he said. “But that’s
same thing as speeding on crack.
There is a difference."
He said he agreed drug tests have
not yet been perfected, but the issue
is whether or not they are an inva
sion of privacy, which they are not.
He said most of the time, when an
employee is found to have a drug
problem, he receives treatment foi
his problem and is not fired.
“What we are trying to do is find
out who is using drugs; we are trying
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GSS explores Biblical references
to occurrences ofhomosexua
By Shannon Boysen
Reporter
“To know.” These words fell un
der fire at the discussion of homo
sexuality in the Bible at the Gay Stu
dent Services meeting Wednesday.
In a videotape shown at the meet
ing, the Rev. Ken Martin of the Uni
versal Fellowship of Metropolitan
Community Churches in Santa Mon
ica, Calif., discussed the ambiguity of
the words “to know” as translated
from the Hebrew word “yadha.”
unto him, ‘Where are the men which
came unto thee this night? bring
them out unto us, that we may know
them.’ ”
Martin said there are definite sex
ual connotations to (his passage Ire-
cause Lot offered to give his two
daughters to the men, using the
words in the same way.
Martin argued that in more than
900 uses of the words “to know” in
the Bible, only in 10 cases did they
actually refer to a sexual act. He re
ferred to the destruction of the city
of Sodom in Genesis 19, and quoted
one of these uses:
“And they (the men of Sodom
who had gathered around the
house) called unto Lot, and said
Christians have denied the possi
bility of homosexuality throughout
history, even in the Bible, he said.
Martin said the main reason the
Biblical figures, including Jesus,
gave for the destruction of (he Sodo
mites was their inhospitality at not
taking travelers in, which was a big
ger sin, he said, than sex.
The first attribution of the sexual
sin in the Bible was the Palestinian
Pseudopigrapha, a document writ
ten in the mid-1800s. The document
said, however, that the sin com
mitted in Sodom was heten
Martin said, not homosexual.
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but if so, it was rape,” he said
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sexual love than we can relaieii
heterosexual love.”
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Met ropolitan Community
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pit ally against homosexuality
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