What this means is if he gets arrested and is found possessing illegal substances then we will test him to see if he is using illegal substances or not. Overall, drug testing of our athlete would be a basic violation of privacy rights, unless there is evidence that they are using these illegal substances. Justified to just target athletes. We understand that athletes have a greater amount of performance enhancing drugs available to them than a music or band student, but any student that is using any of these drugs that can harm their body is doing so, whether they are an athlete or not. We believe that there is much less drug use by athletes than by non-athletes.
Athletes understand the consequences from using a drug better than non-athletes.
An athletes whole life is about staying healthy and fit. They understand that although it might be helping a performance right now, later drugs could be hurting the athletes performance. We feel that if the college was going to accept the proposal and test for drugs they need to test non-athletes as well as athletes. There is only one problem with doing this. This would not look good for Concordia because drinking is against school policy.