Football team survives with family ties Kris Henry here is nothing like being part of a family. A family is JL always there for you. regardless of what might fa> hap pening in your daily life. Family will always lie there to keep members from getting too big for their britches ami too down in the mouth 1 know 1 don't have to wait long for someone in my family to put me in my place and get my head out of the clouds. Hut that same family attention can work in the opposite direction as well My family is always there to support me and give me that chuck on the shoulder we all need to keep plodding along. Family is the reason that the Oregon football team has been ns successful as it's been this year The Ducks have been champi ons because of this throughout the preseason and regular season. The football team isn't just a champion in the Par-10 Confer ence. they are champions for the familial togetherness they have displayed all year. Before the 1994 season started, the team members collectively decided to put past disputes that hurt them the year before behind them and concentrate on making the football program team ori ented. Solid senior leadership pro vided the foundation for the foot• ball team to think of itself col lectively instead of individually. Offensive and defensive players got behind one another and each other And that has made all the Turn to HENRY, Page 16 OAH» OnM&lmwwu The Ducks had many reasons to celebrate this season. Close Wes among the players have been attributed to pari of the team's success. Bowl coalition announces bids for post-season (AF) — Howl matchups wore announced Monday, six days Ixdore the original dale scheduled by the bowl coalition. Howl officials announced the pairings early bec ause they didn’t anticipate major c hanges in the rankings after Satur day's Southeastern {Confer ence championship game between No. 3 Alabama and No. 6 Florida. There could have tieen a shukeup if Alal»una trounced Flori da and moved up to No 1. but that seemed highly unlikely. "If there was any chance of that happening, we would have waited." said Keith Tribble, executive Tum to BIDS, Page 16 Schools may require drug testing WASHINGTON (AIM — Thu Supreme Court agreed to use an Oregon case Monday to decide whether school districts can require student ath letes to undergo drug testing. 'Hie court said it will hear the Vernonia School District's argument that mandatory drug testing "may be the only effective way to deal with a drug use epidemic among school children." The Vernonia school board voted in 19B9 to require drug tests for students who participate in interscholastic sports. District officials said teach ers believed drug use was responsible for an increuse in unruly behavior by students sinc e the mid-1980s All students who signed up for interscholastic sports were required to l>e tested at the beginning of the season and c ould be selected randomly for additional testing during the sports season. The students were tested by urinalysis for amphetamines, marijuana, cocaine unci l.Sf) Those who failed a first time had to attend a drug treatment program, while those who failed a sec ond or third lime were suspended from sports for up to throe seasons. James Acton tried out for the footliull team when he was a seventh-grader in fall 1991, but he was suspended after he refused to be tested for drugs His parents. Wayne and Judy Acton, sued the sc hool distric t in federal court Their lawsuit said The court soul it will hear the Veriumia School District's argu ment that mandatory drug testing "may he the only effective way to deal with a drug abuse epidemic among school children " the policy violated James' right. under the Consti tution's Fourth Amendment, to be fnni from unrea sonable searches. A federal Judge ruled against the Actons, but the 9th U.S, Circuit (Jourt of Appeals reversed. It said school officials hat) failed to justify random testing of students who are not individually suspected of drug use The school district's appeal relied heavily on a IUH5 Supreme Court ruling that said the need to maintain order in public schools can justify less Fourth Amendment protection for students. But the Actons' lawyers said school officials did not prove drug use was a major problem, or that there had been any drug related sports injuries They said only two students tested positive in three years of testing. The case is Vernonia School District vs Acton, 94-590. TUESDAY November 29, 1994 VoJunic lv\uc M O'Berry tops First Team All Pac-10 List Herman O ' B e r r y heads a list of live Oregon Ducks named to the 1994 All- Pac 10 Conference Football Team's First T earn OBERRY Additionally, three Ducks received second team honors, and eight received honorable mention First Team Offense QH Danny O'N'ert. Orvypin KB N'apolmm Kaufman. Wash KB Onhwnutt (Artur, Arunun WK luilin Armour. Stanford VVK knydiawn lulmum I .SI 11 Mark Brunimr. Wa»h Ot. Tony Boutlh, 11M. Ot. )i not than Ogdon. U(XA Ot. Frank (.•arcto, VVa«h Ot. Warnor Smith. Anmne Ol. Mil.- Flanagan DCI.A f’k Stovo Mt Uuighlin. Ariwma A I' Kn k v Whitt If. Oregon First Tram Drfrnsr 1)1 (dunt F?km. W^h St i)I Don S4M, Wuh St t)F I)«fWH Kenny Wheaton. Oregon i)B Smgor Mobley. Wash St I)B Haggle Tongue, Oregon St P John Stonehouse, USC KS Tyrone Hdwards. C atllfornta Oregon Honorable Mention OT Steve Hardin. OlTf Keggie (or dan, NT Sllila Malepeai, FLCrUtin Mr.Lamorn. OT Willy Kife, MLB Rich Ruhl. HS Jeff Sherman. TH Joah Wilcox