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| Drugs Trigger Withdrawal of Student Financial Aid |
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Posted by FoM on August 27, 2001 at 07:38:06 PT By Maureen Groppe, Gannett News Service Source: USA Today 
The millions of college students heading to campus this fall might not include an estimated 28,230 who were denied federal financial aid because they have admitted to a recent drug conviction. This is the second school year that federal student aid has been contingent on a clean drug record, but it's the first time aid is being denied to applicants who leave the drug-conviction question blank on their aid applications. That could keep 11,417 more students from getting assistance. Snipped Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help |
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| Comment #5 posted by sm247 on August 27, 2001 at 17:40:03 PT |
| I do not remember any letters from Mr. Souder asking support for his "legislation last year to make that change" Nor do I remember anything on the web about it. I thought only ssdp and norml were attacking this issue. Gov J for President of the United States!!! [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #4 posted by Robbie on August 27, 2001 at 10:10:39 PT |
I have no love for Billy Bubba, but I don't blame him for continuing drug war attitudes and policies that were already in place. (I never really expected somebody like Clinton to actually be a leader on any issue, but after "...but I did not inhale" it was definitely not going to be the drug war.) Besides, he enacted the law, but if the student didn't answer, noone questioned it. George Dumbya is the one who said that all students had to answer, and that a non-answer would deny them aid. [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #3 posted by E. Johnson on August 27, 2001 at 09:17:09 PT |
| Vote the perp out of office? The big prick who signed this into law is already out of office. He's out there in Harlem now looking down on all the young lives he's ruined, with the blessings of their parents. [ Post Comment ] |
| Comment #2 posted by Patrick on August 27, 2001 at 08:04:18 PT |
| "This law is mean-spirited, counter-productive, and plainly idiotic. My solution: write it off the books, and vote its perpetrator out of office." I just read another fine example of our tyrannical government locking someone up. This story is about a freelance writer and her research into a Houston murder... My Turn: My Principles Have Landed Me in Jail We the People must wrestle our democracy away from career politictrats who consistently think the government is to be used for their personal oppression of others. [ Post Comment ] |
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Comment #1 posted by Ethan Russo, MD on August 27, 2001 at 07:53:54 PT:
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| "Souder ---tried unsuccessfully to pass legislation last year to make that change." There ought to be a law against bureaucratic blunders such as this, where the framers don't bother to proofread, or consider the repercussions of their reflex excesses. This law is mean-spirited, counter-productive, and plainly idiotic. My solution: write it off the books, and vote its perpetrator out of office. [ Post Comment ] |
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