Higher learning. (Campus Drug Wars).AT A RECENT drug legalization LEGALIZATION. The act of making lawful. 2. By legalization, is also understood the act by which a judge or competent officer authenticates a record, or other matter, in order that the same may be lawfully read in evidence. Vide Authentication. rally at the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). at Los Angeles, defiant students smoked joints on the grass. Meanwhile, sober administrators circulated yellow flyers warning that drug convictions are grounds for denial of federal financial aid. Not if activist students have their way. The law in question--an amendment to the Higher Education Act The Higher Education Act may refer to an Act of either the Congress of the United States or of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
"It's antithetical to deny people education if we seek to make them responsible and contributing adults," says Aaron Marcus, one of two Hampshire College students who in 1999 spearheaded a successful effort to set aside $10,000 from the university's annual budget, creating the first fund of its kind. At least three other schools have established such funds. These include the private institutions Yale University (which announced its fund in April) and Swarthmore College as well as Western Washington University Western Washington UniversityWWU or Western) is one of six state-funded, four-year universities of higher education in the U.S. state of Washington. It is located in Bellingham and offers bachelor's and master's degrees. , a state school in Bellingham where the student association raised $750 by selling ads in a discount coupon book. "There's no taxpayer or private donor money in it," the association's president explained in a press release. Marcus, now a law student at the University of Minnesota (body, education) University of Minnesota - The home of Gopher. http://umn.edu/. Address: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. , is on the board of an organization called Students for Sensible Drug Policy Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) is a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit advocacy organization founded in 1998 by a small group of students responding to that year's reauthorization of the Higher Education Act of 1965, which contained a provision denying student loans (SSDP (Simple Service Discovery Protocol) The Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol that finds UPnP services on the network. The description of services returned from an SSDP request may also include a URL that provides additional information. See UPnP and SLP. ) designed to promote "open, honest, and rational discussion of alternatives to our nation's drug problem," he says. The student governments of 67 colleges and universities across the country have signed SSDP's resolution asking Congress to repeal the aid provision. The group has an online petition at www. raiseyourvoice.com. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), along with 23 co-sponsors, has drafted a bill to overturn the law. "The authorities previously had the discretion to bar aid to people based on the severity of their crime and whether they are taking steps to rehabilitate themselves," Frank said at a 2001 press conference. "My bill would simply restore that discretion." |
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