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FRIDAY, September 9,1988 Vol. 6, No. 1 Mandatory drug testing not ready BY KIP PROVOST dents will be notified with a gastroanaly sis, the most expen­ positive test and to avoid any first college in theUnited States students attending LU begin­ News Editor call slip in their mailbox and sive drug testing done, only if false accusations of drug use. to implement random drug test­ ning in fall 1988 will be re­ Liberty University's random will have 48 hours to respond. the second urine test result is When a completed drug test ing. quired to sign a waiver con­ drug testing program will be­ Urine samples will be taken different from the first or if shows positive, the student may "We will be the first college senting to the testing. gin when Dr. Greg Albers, head from the student who is tested. both urine tests show positive. be dismissed from school. in America to have such a pro­ Any student not signing the of the drug testing program at If the sampling shows a posi­ The third test is foolproof and Re-enrollment will depend on gram, and I hope that others waiver will not be admitted to LU, gives the nod that all sys­ tive sign ofdrugs, a second test may be used as evidence in the severity ofthe situation and will follow suit," Dr. Jerry LU. tems are ready to go. will be run from the remaining court situations. The purpose decisions made by a review Falwell said. Overall, the reactions and Drug testing will be done on a sample of urine. of the third test, if it is neces­ board. Around 200 students per opinions of the student body randomly selected basis. Stu­ A third test will be run by sary, is to accurately confirm a Liberty University is the month will be tested, and all have been favorable. Falwell, Judd North Campus emphasize houses conservatism services BY ALLISON TROY Champion Reporter All grounds, maintenance and cus­ to LU CR's todial offices have been moved to North Campus. However, BY LORISKUDLER more conservatives enter die House several main offices mere make it Champion Reporter and Senate. possible for us to do our business in Almost 300 students attended a Charles Judd, a six th district con­ die branch offices here on campus. College Republican Club meeting gressional candidate, made his ap­ The physical plant operations have Tuesday Aug. 30, for a rousing po­ pearance in die rally as one step been made a part of Old Time Gospel litical celebration. toward this goal. Hour and are no longer part of Liberty Dr. Jerry Falwell and congres­ Judd, a conservative Christian can­ University. sional candidate Charles E. Judd were didate, addressed the students on his To make room for die new Student guest speakers at the event. concerns about Christian principles Center, die security offices have also In his address, Falwell empha­ disappearing from die schools and moved to die North Campus. sized how college students can im­ government. He also reiterated Dr. The Liberty Broadcasting Network pact the upcoming election by voting Falwell, stating how important it is offices are gradually moving to North and influencing others. He advo­ dial more conservatives enter Con­ Campus, which will provide larger cated getting involved in lobbying gress to allow a conservative presi­ studios to work in. dent to act. for local candidates and helping in Odier offices located at die North their campaign efforts. The main features of Judd's plat­ Campus include: die main telephone He feels that the majority of form include a strong national de­ office, printing services, recruiting of­ college students around America will fense, aid to die Contras, an end to fices, personnel office, financial aid support George Bush in the election federal funding of abortion and a services, die alumni offices and die and believes Bush will win by quite balanced budget amendment. Liberty University School of Life­ a wide margin. Because people had Catherine Maentanis, Public Re­ long Learning. comfortable lives in the Reagan years, lations officer for me College Repub­ North Campus is owned by Liberty they will want to continue his poli­ licans, reported on a trip she took this University, Liberty Broadcasting cies, Falwell explained. summer to Central America. She Students are more intelligent now expressed how real die tiireat of Network and Old Time Gospel Hour. than ever, he also said. Since stu­ communism is and how its ultimate dents are more informed, he contin­ goal is to reach die United States and ued, they can make decisions for destroy our freedom. Index themselves instead of following die LU's College Republican Club, adults in society. with 875 members, is the largest in Editorial 2 He said mat faculties of major Virginia, according to membership RAD 3 schools voted 78-22 for Mondale in officer Anthony Perrone. Sports 5,6 die 1984 election, while students Chairman Jim Lumley said that voted 61-39 for Reagan. This shows this year the College Republicans Dan Ho 2 that in spite of liberal faculties, stu­ would concentrate on registering stu­ Album Review..5 dents are still thinking for themselves, dents to vote, lobbying for congres­ he said. sional and presidential candidates as Sept. 9,1988 Photo by Barbara Guess One section, In addition to the presidential elec­ well as Contra aid and other issues. Charles E. Judd waves to supporters at last week's CR rally. tion, Falwell expressed concern that six pages More than 300 LU seniors stay at Sheraton, Holiday Inn BY BRAD TAYLOR with die situation. No date as of when die girls would Editorial Editor "The reason many of die seniors be moving was given. More dian 300 LU seniors are tem­ chose not to live off campus is be­ Management at both hotels told die porarily being housed at die Lyn­ cause diey want to be mere (on cam­ Liberty Champion thai diey have had chburg Holiday Inn and die Sheraton pus). They are really being shafted "little, if any, " problems widi LU Hotel. for all dieir hard work over the last students. Crowded rooms, no phones, and four years," Cosby said. "The lobby gets a littie crowded feeling somewhat alienated from tra­ According to university officials, with girls waiting to use die phones, ditional campus life have been some it may be some time before students but odier tiian that we have enjoyed of the complaints from students who will begin moving to die new dorms. their stay here," said one Sheraton are eagerly anticipating die comple­ John Baker, Dean of Student Af­ employee. tion of die new dorms. fairs, said die earliest that the transi­ The Holiday Inn is solving their The dorms, which will have two tion would begin between die hotels phone problem by putting die phones students per room, are divided into and die new dorms would be "early back into the rooms. Phones at both suites. Five rooms, two badirooms, to mid October." hotels were removed because neither and a livingNkitchen area will com­ Baker added dial die senior men hotel's phone system could handle prise a suite. would be moving into die first com­ the increased number of calls ex- Gay Cosby, an LU senior employed pleted dorms as their rooms at the pected from die LU guests. Holiday Photo by Phil Bass at the Sheraton, says many of die girls Holiday Inn are smaller than those of [m has arranged to handle die calls Construction is still underway on LU's senior dorms. being housed diere are disappointed die girls at die Sheraton. and bill each room. i » »• It The Liberty Champion, Friday, September 9, 1988 page 2 OPINION DAN HOCHHALTER "..Where the spirit of the Lord THE HO STORY is, there is Liberty." Another year begins -II Corinthians 3:17 for Liberty students Another school year has begun. Editorial Classes are in full swing, most students have already used up their minimum al­ lowance of tardies, professors are frantically searching their cluttered desks for lost class notes, and one Champion watches particular junior is already homesick. Now with the beginning of every year, there always has to be a first issue to the school newspaper. This is kind of excit­ students for news ing for us demented writers to watch. The place is already unorganized, everything Welcome to The Liberty Champion. As you have probably is lost, the editors have been reduced to quivering masses of grape jelly, and no already figured out by now, this is the official student news­ one can figured out how to use these paper of Liberty University. stupid computers which have been pur­ Let us emphasize the phrase student newspaper. chased to make dungs go easier for us. This is where I come in. I'm what they Our job here at The Champion is to report and reflect on the call a humor columnist.