In our Facebook Story of the Day for September 9, we're talking drug crackdowns at one Missouri college.
If you are looking to go to college and live it up with illegal substances, Linn State says not on our watch.
Linn State Technical College out of Linn, Missouri is implementing a drug screening program for the Fall 2011 semester ... and it goes for any new student seeking a degree or certificate or for any student returning after one or more semesters of non-enrollment who is seeking a degree or certificate.
Click here to read the policy online.
On it's website LSTC states that, "This program supports the LSTC mission to 'prepare students for profitable employment and a life of learning' by guiding students in the development of safe workplace habits."
Drug screening will occur 5 to 10 days into each semester and students must test negative to remain enrolled in the school.
They're testing for nearly everything ... cocaine, amphetamines/methamphetamines, marijuana, opiates, phencyclidine, benzodiazepines, barbiturates, methadone, methaqualone, propoxyphene, and oxycodone.
If you test positive, you have 45 days to rescreen and test negative. Students can't refuse the test either ... that would result in a student initiated withdrawal from LSTC.
The college has really thought of everything because in their Q & A section they ask, "Q = Does Linn State Technical College have a drug problem?" Their response is, "A = It is not believed that LSTC has any greater student drug use issue than other colleges, but we do differ in our mission and teaching environment."
Don't worry, school administrators and teachers aren't exempt from the new policy.
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