Article: COLUMN: Financial aid is for tuition, not addiction

Simon Perng
University Wire
10-30-2001
(Daily Bruin) (U-WIRE) LOS ANGELES -- In their latest assault on personal responsibility and standards, campus leftists and socialists sniped at the new financial aid ineligibility rules, defiantly defending student drug use. These new rules in the Higher Education Act of 1998 would deny financial aid eligibility to those that have been convicted of drug offenses with penalties ranging from one year to indefinite ineligibility.

Many have spun and contorted this issue as a silent attack on youth, the poor and people of color. So far, their diatribes have yielded mixed responses. But just two weeks ago the UCLA Financial Aid Office proudly announced ...

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