University Daily Kansan / Friday, February 20, 1987
Federal workers to undergo drug use tests, officials say
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Nearly 1.1 million federal workers in sensitive jobs could be tested for drug abuse under guidelines that order bathroom monitors, blue dye in toilets and urine temperature checks, the government said yesterday.
The tests, ordered by President Reagan last fall during his anti-drug campaign, will check primarily for marijuana and cocaine use. Dismissal could come if a worker refused to undergo the examination or tests positive after treatment.
The anti-cheating guidelines were unveiled by Attorney General Edwin Meese, Health Secretary Otis Bowen, Constance Horner, director of the Office of Personnel Management, and Donald Macdonald of the Alcohol Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration.
"These guidelines provide the greatest possible privacy for the individual, consistency in testing procedures, security for specimens and
accuracy in test results." Bowen said. "Our goal is to deter illegal drug use and to help employees who have a drug problem find counseling and rehabilitation."
Almost immediately, critics fired back with charges that the guidelines infringe on personal privacy and impose "Tidy-Bowl justice."
Elizabeth Symonds of the American Civil Liberties Union said, "The ACLU believes it is clearly impermissible and a violation of the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and seizures."
"These drug tests are a search, and to do it on a random basis without probable cause is the same as going into an employee's home to search for stolen paper clips," she said.
A sharper response came from Robert Tobias, head of the National Treasury Employees Union, who described the guidelines as further onslaughts on employee Fourth Amendment rights and a comic exercise in Ty-D-Bol justice
Reagan ordered the testing for federal workers in sensitive positions but delayed implementation until the Health and Human Services Department could draft guidelines to prevent cheating and fraud.
The guidelines allow each federal agency to determine which employee must submit to the test. The cost of one test and analysis is about $20.
Besides marijuana and cocaine, an agency also may test for heroin, PCP, amphenatines or other drugs, officials said.
Under the guidelines, individuals acting as monitors, most likely hired from private contractors, will be stationed inside restrooms but outside toilet stalls.
Blue dye will be dumped into selected toilets to prevent the dilution of specimens and the temperature of urine samples will be taken within four minutes of collection to detect whether a substitute was submitted.
Chinese Food: Taster's Delight
By M.F. West
Wichita Beacon staff
The fall football season is here again and many of you Wichitans will be making the journey north to the University of Kansas for the
While you're in Lawrence, you should try the cuisine of the Royal Peking Restaurant at 711 W. 32rd.
The Chinese proprietor — we've told the family came to be taken over by our offers, three family dinners for two, four for four, and for five or more.
prepare "The President's Dinner" — the one served in Pepa Richard Nixon on his break-through journey to China. Individual dishes on the card run from accents for the Pepo Kinko Duck. Most are in the $13
Bloomberg will the 3 to $4 range.
On recent family occasions we've enjoyed both the dinners for three and for four.
The latter we began with the won
*prices not current
ton soup, which was brought to table only moments after wed' ordered them. The rice had been pan-fried with egg roll ice cream as a side. The Royal Peking provides two for the dollar with both a hot mustard sauce and a light sweet clear sauce. The roll covers all of the crispy in the pork bits in the filling are well done but retain the same flavor in crisp and linedly cooked vegetables in the roll only hint of being cooked.
We hardly had finished soup and roll when the main dishes arrived; large beef, rice (tulineen) in a sauce prep and cut size pieces of chicken prepared with mushrooms and vegetables including bamboo shoots, the Royal Clover and it to medium in size with a rich orange sauce and a sweet and sour pork.
tastes are difficult to describe to your taste buds, that each of these dishes is a savory tasting experience in itself. On the latest visit to the restaurant (which is hidden in the shopping center on 24th floor to Maumpintour) we ordered the dinner for three, beginning with hot and soup soup, not meat and egg and pecan pie; preceding it and three main dishes: mongolian beef, chicken with green pepper precisely touched by heat of cooked without being either cooked or raw) and a sweet and sour shrimp. These were much like dishes in the other references. The net result of both evenings was a dining experience with a variety of tasting experiences considerable gustatory satisfaction.
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