Stop CUI (Chess under the influence)

This gives new meaning to the idea of taking a bathroom break before your game -- from the Chico (CA) Enterprise Record:

DURHAM -....the Durham Unified School District board of trustees...will be considering a range of drug and alcohol policies including one that would extend the random testing to students taking part in other extracurricular activities.

If that policy is passed the district would randomly test members of the campus Chess Club in the same way football, basketball or track team members are tested.

Groups specifically mentioned on the extracurricular activities list that could be subject to such testing includes: Academic Decathlon, Art Club, Associated Student Body officers and commissioners, Block D, California Scholastic Federation, Chess Club, Class officers, Drama Club, Future Farmers of America, Interact, [and] Student representatives to the high school site council and to the Board of Trustees.

Students in these groups, as well as the athletes who test positive for alcohol and drugs, are immediately removed from the team or group, but the policy includes ways for the offenders to earn their way back into participation.

Band members can also be tested but since band is a class, students with positive tests won't be ousted from required performances.

I guess I better not reminisce in this blog about the bus ride back from the 1979 National High School Chess Championships.