The Cowl Established in 1935 VOLUME LI NO. 17 PROVIDENCE COLLEGE • PROVIDENCE, R.I. Thursday. April 2. 1987 Tennessee May Make All Students Take Drug Tests Even as some athletes began su­ drug abuse wasn’t as rampant ing to stop having to take drug among nonathletes as among tests, a Tennessee State legislator athletes. has introduced a bill that would re­ At the University of Tennessee, quire anyone who wants to attend Daily Beacon reporter Paul Kay one of the State,s colleges to be thinks there is "limited drug abuse tested for drug use. on campus. Maybe 20-to-25 per­ Duke University is the only other cent of the students indulge in campus in the United States to have drugs. I think the alcohol problem toyed with the idea of making all has to be addressed.” students submit to drug tests. Athletes on other campuses, The idea, which was dropped at meanwhile, are resisting drug tests Duke last fall, isn't very popular at more frequently. the University of Tennessee. Athletes at Stanford, Colorado Friar basketball fans enjoyed the social aspects of Bourbon Street in New Orleans during the Final Four. (Photo by Joseph E. Caines) "The law hasn’t passed," says and Northeastern University in Don Eastman, assistant to UT’s Boston have gone to court to try to chancellor, "and we'd certainly halt drug testing, which became resist it if it did.” widespread this year in the wake of Coors’ Actions Brew A "Basically." adds Hedy the June cocaine related death of Weinberg of the American Civil Maryland basketball star Len Bias. Liberties Union in Nashville, "it The “ testing of student athletes Storm of Protest at Harvard treats the innocent and guilty alike. without probable cause for suspi­ It's patently unconstitutional cion is an outrageous violation of The generally dormant nation­ out of business,” Domenic Bozzot- charges get so much press on cam­ because it doesn't ask for 'probable privacy rights guaranteed by state wide campus boycott of Coors beer to added. puses in new distribution areas." cause'.” and federal laws," asserts ACLU flared again briefly last week as "If people drink Coors beer, it's "That boycott movement is no Probable cause is the legal doc­ attorney David Miller. William K. Coors, chairman of the because they don't know," said longer active at all, except in expan­ trine that the authorities can't in­ If the ACLU wins all three cases, Adolph Coors Brewing Co., spoke Chris Rondeau, director of the sion markets where the AFL-CIO terfere in citizens' lives with war­ he adds, "we will pretty much do at Harvard. Harvard Union of Technical and always makes a strong push for it," rants or searches unless there is a away with drug testing programs." Demonstrators, accusing the Clerical Workers. “ You don’t have Baird says. reason to suspect the citizens arc Courts in the District of Colum­ brewery's politically conservative to be radical to find the Coors at­ In 1985. Coors expanded its guilty o f something. bia, New York State and New management of race and sex bias titude toward blacks offensive." marketing area to New England. Tennessee Senator Bill Richard­ Jersey already have declared public- in hiring, union busting and fun­ Rondeau referred to a 1984 Last year, the University of son. who introduced the bill-which school mandatory urinalysis pro­ ding Nicaraguan contras, picketed William Coors comment that im­ Massachusetts Campus would bar applicants who tested grams illegal. Coors' speech to Harvard’s Con­ plied blacks lacked "intellectual Center/Board of Governors voted positive for drugs from attending But Northeastern lawyer Vincent servative Club. capacity." Coors maintains the to ban the sale of Coors in the any o f Tennessee's 24 public J. Lembo thinks his testing pro­ While protest leaders-who quote was taken out o f context by Campus Center/Student Union campuses—dosen’t agree his idea gram should remain because represented a wide array of groups the Media. complex. has any real constitutional "athletes should be beyond like the Democratic Socialists of Coors' labor woes began in 1977, But on other cam puses— problems. reproach." America, Harvard’s South African when brewery workers struck to including the University of Col­ His bill, he says, "places the fear "The University," he adds, “ has Solidarity Committee, the Har­ protest what they considered op­ orado, the first campus to adopt a of detection out before” young the right to institute drug testing in vard/Radcliff Gay and Lesbian pressive labor and hiring practices. boycott-the boycott has been lifted people, and thus could convince the interest o f students' health and Alliance, the Committee on Central The strike was never settled, and quietly. them not to use drugs. in the interest of fair competition." America and several campus striking employees were replaced "Most of these boycotts blow Richardson says it's unfair to test "More than five percent and less worker’s unions- claim 200 to 250 by nonunion workers. Since then, over," Baird says. "It's difficult only athletes. “ I don’t like singling than 50 percent” of the nation’s demonstrators were there, Coors the AFL-CIO has urged a boycott for the union to muster support out athletes." The fairest law, he colleges now test their athletes for Officials counted only 50 to 75. of all Coors products. The com­ when Coors becomes active in a adds, would “ cover everyone, and drugs, estimates lawyer Ben Righ "The demonstration was small,” pany remains nonunion by choice community." not single out any one group." of the University of Colorado, agrees Marjorie Heffron, associate of the employees, claims Coors The brewery spends thousands A similar concern last year mov­ which is being sued by track athlete director of Harvard’s news service. spokeswoman Cary Baird. of dollars yearly on scholarships ed Duke Athletic Director Tom David Derdeyn, who contends "It was a very peaceful pro­ "Unions have a purpose, but if for minorities and veterans, and for Butters to propose making all CU’s program is an unconstitu­ test. Participants walked in a circle management looks after the needs community service programs, she students subject to the same kind tional invasion of his privacy. with banners and some were of employees you don't need third adds. of random drug tests his athletes “ We’re saying (Derdeyn) doesn't chanting.” party management. We always deal Coors, meanwhile speaks on had to take. have to participate in our pro- The company has long been a with our employees openly.” several campuses each year, A faculty committee, however, target on many campuses. Baird also denies the company generally covering such topics as quickly rejected the idea, judging See DRUG TESTS, pg. 3 Since 1968. as many as 50 col­ uses such controversial practices as wellness programs, entrepreneur­ leges have voted to ban Coors’ pro­ strip searches and lie detector tests. ship. and the preservation of per­ ducts from their campuses, first to "Can you imagine anybody in sonal rights, Baird says. object to company officials’ efforts the 1980s sitting still for a strip "H e enjoys speaking to students to suppress leftist student groups search?’’, she asks. because he finds them stimulating. and. in recent years, to protest Such criticisms are “ unsubstan­ And he enjoyed speaking at Har­ company labor policies. tiated, untrue charges, based on lies vard for that reason.” ” 1 don't think we can put Coors and innuendos. It’s just too bad the Mac Dowdy Lectures on Medieval Homes in 64’ Hall by Rob McGehee According to Dowdy, the quali­ quests. Many of the homes con­ ty of the homes demonstrates the tained no windows, but had strong On Wednesday March 25 in '64 degree of a family’s importance. doors so as to keep out the invaders Hall, the Providence College Presi­ The houses were built in an age during the Middle Ages. dent’s Forum on Culture and when England was nothing more Many Englishmen have purchas­ Values welcomed Mac Dowdy who than a collection of manorial ed these homes and have restored presented an illustrated lecture en­ villages. The homes presented dur­ them in recent years. In one in­ titled “ The Medieval Home." ing the slide show were,in many stance, Dowdy showed a slide of a The lecture included a slide show cases, the homes of medieval lords, medieval home that had been con­ during which Dowdy described the the rulers of the serfs that made up verted into a MacDonald’s aspects of homes in England, some the surrounding villages. restaurant. of which date back to the seventh Mac Dowdy went on to say that Dowdy is also a senior member century. He noted many of the ar­ many of the extravagant homes of Wolfson College and has exten­ chitectural features of homes that were built by Jewish bankers. Other sive broadcast experience with BBC somehow have lasted for many homes were built in the earlier radio and Anglia television. He has centuries. period of the Norman Saxon con­ Continued to pg. 3 2 The Cowl, April 2, 1987 Club Notes A lenten day of fast will be spon­ used toward that meal will be sored by the Pastoral council on donated; 3) donate non-perishable, April 8. Students can help the non-dated foods or money to the needy in the Providence area in Pastoral Council Office, Slavin three ways on that day: I) if you 115. The day of fast will be com­ live off-campus, donate money in pleted with a mass for world peace Alumni Cafeteria; 2) if you live on and world hunger at 4:30 pm in campus, skip dinner in Raymond Aquinas Chapel.