IN COURT, SPECIAL AFTER-SCHOOL ACTIVITIES

The Supreme Court already allows schools to randomly drug-test
athletes. Now it's poised to extend the ruling to nonathletic
activities like band and debate, letting schools bar students from
joining if they refuse the tests. But a ruling in favor of testing
would make about as much sense as that pot-inspired insight you
forgot to write down back in '79. After-school pursuits are an
"anti-drug". That's what the government ads say - and so do
government studies. A 1995 HHS report found that uninvolved students
are 49 percent more likely to have used drugs than those who spend at
least an hour a week resume-building. In 1997, the court ruled
against drug tests as a requirement to run for positions in
government. But student government? Here's your Dixie cup.