Law Targets Student Aid for Drug Crimes
Provision Rescinding Financial Packages Criticized for Affecting Only Non-Affluent
By Sanhita Sen
Special to The Washington Post
Tuesday, August 30, 2005; Page A15
One graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, the other from Princeton University. Both used drugs including marijuana and hallucinogenic mushrooms. Both were caught.
But where these students' paths diverge -- the first lost his financial aid package and was suspended, the second got a slap on the wrist and continued his studies uninterrupted -- demonstrates how a little-known 1998 federal law exacts serious consequences for some students but leaves others unscathed.
By Sanhita Sen
Special to The Washington Post
Tuesday, August 30, 2005; Page A15
One graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, the other from Princeton University. Both used drugs including marijuana and hallucinogenic mushrooms. Both were caught.
But where these students' paths diverge -- the first lost his financial aid package and was suspended, the second got a slap on the wrist and continued his studies uninterrupted -- demonstrates how a little-known 1998 federal law exacts serious consequences for some students but leaves others unscathed.
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