Yale defies uncle sams's drug law: school promises financial aid to those denied by federal policy. (Update).Yale University Yale University, at New Haven, Conn.; coeducational. Chartered as a collegiate school for men in 1701 largely as a result of the efforts of James Pierpont, it opened at Killingworth (now Clinton) in 1702, moved (1707) to Saybrook (now Old Saybrook), and in 1716 was is now the fourth IHE IHE Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise IHE Institutions of Higher Education IHE International Institute for Infrastructural, Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering (historical acronym only, replaced by: IHE Delft, the Foundation) to fly in the face of to defy; to brave; to withstand. to insult; to assail; to set at defiance; to oppose with violence; to act in direct opposition to; to resist. See also: Face Fly federal policy and help students who lose financial aid because of past drug offenses. Yale is responding to the Drug-free Student Aid Law, which was championed by U.S. Rep. Mark Souder (R-IN), and passed in 1998. As we reported last month, even Souder is rethinking the law, claiming that the Bush administration has gone too far with it, and is denying aid to students who have turned their lives around. Yale will give scholarship money to those convicted of drug possession in the past. How much the university will give was not stated at press time. Yale's action reflects similar policies set by Hampshire College (MA), Swarthmore College (PA), and 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. (WA).--JMA |
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