The Griffin: volume 57, issue 04 - Oct. 3, 1986

              The heart of the policy is the sequence of events that will follow a positive test and subsequent testing. The testing will consist of the collection of urine sample and the use of spectography to determine the presence of any drugs. "Through this program, participants will receive instruction about the hazards of substance abuse and misuse." and Rehabilitation Policy," is geared toward education and helping instead of punishment. The purpose of the policy states: Photo by KRIS BL4ZZO Canisius defensive end Mark DiPirro grabs a hold of St. Lawrence quarterback Will Howard as Jerry Polakiewicz (94) rushes in to lend a hand. The Griffs routed the Saints 41-0 to up their record to 2-1. See story on page 12. The Griffin Wednesday obtained a copy of the final draft of the revolutionary sports drug testing program to be implemented here to Canisius. The plan will be released in its final form some time in the next few days. The plan, the first of its kind in the area, calls for random drug testing of all athletes, cheerleaders and team managers. "We're hoping to start handing out consent forms to the athletes next week," said Dean of Students Thomas E. Miller. The actual implementation of the program could commence as soon as next week. Also, any player that Head Trainer and Team Physician Pete Koehneke feels exhibits symptoms of drug use can be selected for testing. by Mark Mende College Ready to Release Athletic Drug Testing Policy The program, which is entitled "Drug Education, Screening "Failure to execute the required consent form or undergo drug testing at any time will render the student immediately ineligible to practice or represent Canisius College in the inter-collegiate athletic program, and could result in the student athlete's loss of grant-in-aid the following year . . Each player will be given a consent form that must be signed. The policy states the consequences of refusal to sign the form: A section of the policy reads: "Should an individual exhibit physical signs of possible substance abuse, the team physician will have the authority to select that person for screening in the interest of the individual's welfare." Questions Force Reevaluation of WCCG Budget Allocation The budget proposal, which was to have been discussed at Tuesday's senate meeting, will be reevaluated by the finance committee Monday. The committee will then present its proposal to the student senate the following night. A proposed $7,092 budget allocation to campus radio station WCCG was stalled Tuesday after several student senators and executive board members expressed concern that the finance committee's recommendation required extracting such a large amount of money from the contingency fund. by Kevin Saville Among those concerns, Greco said, was a reluctance to give the station its entire allocation at once when the usual procedure in such cases is to deliver a partial allocation "Based on the questions of individual finance committee members and executive board members, I made a decision not to recommend it (the budget allocation) to the senate tonight," said Undergraduate Student Association Treasurer Jim Greco '88 Tuesday. "It wasn't the opposition that bothered me, it was the questions that people had." When asked why the finance committee recommended the contingency fund for WCCG's allocations and not for CCTV, Greco responded, Icont'd on page 5) "Contingency is very large ($13,000). It's student money. I don't see why students shouldn't benefit from it," he said. Greco, who said he has supported the use of contingency since he was elected treasurer in April, defended using the fund. the third week of school," said Kohler last week. CCTV's bid for additional funding failed. "I think we should be real careful about the way we talk about the contingency fund in The finance committee's recommendation to utilize the contingency fund seems to represent a departure from its position of last week when debate arose in the senate regarding an additional allocation of $2,000 to campus television station CCTV. Members of the finance committee, including Sen. Doug Kohler '88, said then the use of contingency would be premature. want to give out any money when there's no certainty to perform." "Give them money in phases . . . If they perform, give them more money," he said. "I don't USA President Ange Buscemi '87 was among those who questioned a "lump sum" allocation. Buscemi said he favored allocating WCCG's budget in phases. Additional funding would be based on the performance level of the radio station. "People had problems giving CCG the lump sum," said Greco. "They wanted to see what WCCG could do." and give the club the option to request additional funding later in the year. Hitler's intense popularity among the German people and Nazi Party is, therefore, curious. Mommsen accounted for their admiration by noting Hitler's use of propaganda. When speaking to the German people, Hitler utilized his powers as a propagandist. Among the members of his party, these tactics would not have been so effective. However, Hitler's few attributes, according to Mommsen, included his ability to act as mediator whenever political conflicts arose within the Nazi Party. And more importantly, outside his role as mediator, Hitler rarely engaged in the vicious "in-fighting" of the party. (cont'd on page 4) a man who "does not possess extraordinary qualifications to control a regime of this [the Nazi Party's] size." Mommsen describes Hitler as "shy, reluctant, non-communicative." Thus, Mommsen says, "A great many initiatives . . . were not inaugurated by Hitler himself." Scholar Offers Different Perspective of Nazi Third Reich Mommsen traced Hitler's career to expose by Molly McCarthy Professor Hans Mommsen, a leading scholar in the study of Nazi Germany, spoke to a group of students in the Grupp Fireside Lounge last Tuesday afternoon. His lecture, entitled "Flight from Reality: Hitler as Party and Dictator in the Third Reich," featured a departure from traditional theories about Hitler's influence on the actions of his regime. Mommsen criticized the views of historians of the intentionalist School, who interpret the events in Germany during Hitler's "reign" through a psychoanalysis of Hitler. Mommsen disputed this school's perspective and added that Hitler "may be even meaningless." What is essential, believes Mommsen, is not a singular biographical approach but a realization of the "variety of an open society" which existed in the Nazi Party. Professor Hans Mommsen offered students and faculty a different angle of study on Hitler and the Third Reich Tuesday in the Grupp Fireside lounge. Photo by rick rybarczyk Serving The College Community T7JZ7 Z^1 T? T J7J7T\T 1 ritL {jKlrrlry VOLUME LVII, NUMBER 4 Saint-Busters . . . FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1986 A second positive test wiU Icont'd on page 9) After the first positive test, the student will be required to go to two counseling sessions. A second test will be scheduled, but no action against the athlete will be taken.