Commentary
Clackamas Print
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
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Drug testing no good Hilton in jail
Nicholas Baker
The Clackamas Print
What right do businesses
have to interfere with employ
ee recreation? Whether it’s
legal or illegal, they should
not have the right to impose
limitations, even if the time is
spent using illicit substances.
The most compion method
of testing for illicit substanc
es in an employee’s system
is a. urinalysis (colloquially
known as a “piss test”). Like
other drug tests, it doesn’t
detect the test subject’s cur
rent level of drug intoxication,
as it takes anywhere from six
to eight hours after drug con
sumption fbr the substance(s)
to be metabolized and
excreted
in
urine.
Instead, it detects
usage of substances
within the last few
days, weeks, of
even months.
Something
else
discon
certing about
urinalysis is
that it has
been known
to
produce
false
posi
tives. Drug
testing meth
ods can pro
duce false pos
itives because
of certain foods
and medicines.
For instance, eat
ing poppy seed
muffins may cause
a person to test posi
tive for opiates. Nyquil
may also produce false pos
itives for opiates, metham-
phetamines and/or MDMA.
Usually, they do not show
Certain antibiotics may eve/
cause one to falsely test posi up in a urinalysis for more than
two days after consumption,
tive for cocaine use.
Pro-drug testing zealots and in a saliva test for more
often fight for having drug than 12 hours, and therefore
testing in the workplace still will play a problem with
because it helps keep the cost employer drug testing since
of health insurance down for they will more than likely go
employees who choose not undetected.
In all reality, drug testing
to use drugs. They argue that
those who use drugs often only proves effective in catch
have higher medical costs as a ing those who use marijuana,
result of their substance use.
which is less harmful than
This idea proves false tobacco and alcohol. Unlike
when considering the drugs the two, it has not led to any
that do cause health problems recorded deaths, nor does it
and physical addiction (ie: lead to physical dependency,
cocaine, amphetamines and brain damage and the decline
opiates).
of organs.
Now, marijuana should not
be ignored all together, as
long as one does it in his
or her own recreational
time and not while
working.
All and all,
current
drug
testing poli
cies
are
wrong.
If
drug test
ing
is
allowed to
be part of
I the work-
I place, it
' should be
I advanced
to
tar
get those
who
are
intoxicated
at the time
. of
testing
and not those
who choose to
intoxicate them
selves in their own
private time.
Jesse Dees
The Clackamas Print
A 23-day stay at the “cross
bar hotel” is what billion-dol-
lar princess Paris Hilton has
earned herself from her most
recent screw-up.
Earlier this month, the
hotel heiress broke the terms
of her probation by driv
ing with a suspended license.
Along with that, she is also
dealing with an ongoing libel
and slander suit against her
from actress Zeta Graff.
There has been some relief
in the fact that Hilton’s sen
tence was recently reduced
from its original 45 days to
just 23. But though it is an
improvement, I believe it
is still too harsh a punish
ment.
If it was being done to
teach her a lesson, it would
be completely different.
However, in the current situ
ation, I feel that the jpdge is
just trying to make an exam
ple out of sweet Paris. I think
the courts should just let it
go, because a 23-day stay
in lock-up for a star such as
Hilton is nowhere near what
everyone else would experi
ence in jail. She will have her
own cell, eat her own food
and wear her own clothes.
All that is being taken
away from her is her outside
life, and no one can be sure
that she will even have to stay
for the entire 23 days - I am
sure that she will get good
behavior brownie points.
Thè facts are simple: why
should she be punished ... if
she is- not really being pun
ished?
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Tired of femi nazis? Time for guys to take a stand
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This column is just for you guys.
It has recently come to my attention
that in the process of developing
equality for women, the fair and
just treatment of men has somehow
fallen to the wayside.
A man is considered a pig -
an utter chauvinist - if he uses
a woman for sex or money, but
women use men all the time for
their own selfish personal benefit
and no heads are turned. She is
considered proactive, a pioneer of
modem society.
When I was in the sixth grade,
I sat behind this girl named Julie
Reynolds in science class. One day,
Julie’s pencil rolled off her desk and
onto the floor. She didn’t drop it on
purpose; it just fell. She promptly
turned to the closest boy and said,
“Tyson, will you pick up my pencil
for me?”
I watched in amazement as
Tyson picked up the pencil.
What had just happened? Julie
was much closer to the pencil than
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Tyson was; she could have easily
picked it up herself. In the same
hand, Tyson could have just as eas
ily told Julie to get bent and pick up
her own damn pencil.
This was my first experience
with man-abuse.
When it comes down to it, it’s
not a matter ofgender at all. Women
don’t force men to do inane favors
for them at gunpoint Ifia man
chooses to sell himself out for a
coquettish “thank you,” that’s his
own ignorant fault. A weak bitch is
a weak bitch, be it male or female.
The reason people find fault
with the way men use women is
that it’s scandalous. Using women
for sex and money reflects badly
on both sexes, not to mention that
it’s an incredibly lazy way to be
resourceful. At least when women
use, their greedy actions reflect cre
ativity and insight.
Things have gone too far. It’s
time for you guys to take a stand.
Men are under the false assump
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tion that women hold all the cards is that the man brings it on himself.
when it comes to sexual power. Fellows, I encourage you to take
This is an illusion.
action immediately.
She looks like she’s
Not only must you
holding a full house,
stop abiding to our
but she’s bluffing.
petty, demeaning
“A weak
Confidence is a state
commands, but you
bitch is a
of mind - not a right
should also adopt
of passage.
the female way
weak bitch,
While you boys
of attaining domi
be it male
were so busy trying
nant rank in the
orfemale.”
to take our pants off,
exchange.
you failed to real
The next time
ize that you weren’t
you have one of
Dr. Kim
wearing them in the
your female friends
relationship. Not only
over, ask her to take
have women suc
your garbage out
ceeded in shattering
before she leaves,
the glass ceiling; we’ve also man and see what happens. If this works,
aged to demolish the male ego.
then call her next week and tell her
You don’t have to have vagi to clean your room for you. You
na-envy anymore, manly mates. may also want to recruit your more
STAND UP! Man-abuse is ram burly lady pals to do some yard
pant, and the double-standards have work for you.
got to be stopped.
Don’t be a victim to yourself
The most devastating part about any longer. Just say no to man
this tragic development in history abuse.
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