Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, May 6, 1994                   TAG: 9405060058
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: B-6   EDITION: METRO 
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ETC.

"Children, students, do not have to surrender their right to privacy in order to secure their right to participate in athletics," the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a case from Oregon.

The court said random drug testing has generally been allowed only to ward off "some terrible threat to safety . . . an airplane or train wreck, or a gas pipeline or nuclear power plant disaster."

The ruling comes three days after the U.S. Supreme Court denied review of a similar decision by the Colorado Supreme Court, barring random testing of athletes, trainers, managers and cheerleaders at the University of Colorado.