er children emulate. Youngsters want to run the football like Brad Muster, or shoot a basketball like Todd Lichti. As a result, it is a bad influence for youngsters to see their stars drop dead from cocaine overdose. Keeping these role models drug free is imperative to slowing current trends. One way of doing so is the instigation of mandatory drug testing of all college athletes. If not producing admirable role models, these tests would simply protect the athlete's health, keeping heroes like Len Bias out of the grave and on the basketball court.
The NCAA's desire to impose mandatory drug testing on college athletes has met violent opposition from campuses nationwide. The students' first argument is that the existing methods of testing are not reliable. Roger P. Maickel, Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology at Purdue University, testified that urinary drug testing can give false results 15 to 20 percent of the time. He states that "a conflicting set of variables precludes urinary drug tests from bein
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