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As the stands begin to fill and the fans ready themselves for the beginning kick-off, some notice the line of players is missing something…. or someone. Some ask their friends “where’s so and so,” or “wait, what happened to what’s his face.” The answers to a lot of they’re questions may just be, “skipped, have to work, sick or their simply injured.” For some players though the answer is chemical violations or as many people know it “minors”. So far this year there are 10 minors on record. In other words “right now we have low use or people just are not getting caught,” said activities director Mr. Hegseth. Last year in the 06-07 years we had 31 total, that is 14 in 06 and 17 in 07. In 05-06 we had 37 in total. So it seems that the number of violations have decreased in the past 2 years, but it is still a problem. Many people do not know the exact penalties of chemical violations which means drug or alcohol use. The penalties occur as follows: 1st offense- 2 games or 2 weeks (whatever is bigger), 2nd offense- 3 weeks or 6 games, 3rd of- fense- 4 weeks or 12 games, and it just goes up from there. CHS has never had 1 student with over 3 violations so they have never had to decide what the higher penalties may be. These are the basic penalties that happen no matter what, for players who are captains, they can lose that position. If players are set for an award those can be taken away and the penalties can even go as far as losing a scholarship. “I think kid’s should be able to do what they want, their shouldn’t be any penalties,” said Tyler Fulton, “people are smart, I don’t think there are many minors cause people don’t get caught,” said Paul Engst. Many students know about the amount of chemical use in our school and many believe that CHS has the biggest chemical use record in the state. Hegseth- “I think it’s a partnership, I think sports help stay away from chemical use.” Having penalties in sports does help keep chemical use lower but nowhere near non-existent. In the end, people should avoid use over-all due to the possible health, social, intellectual, and of course educational problems it can pose for them. ]]> Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:36:04 GMT