A 1998 law created by Rep. Mark Souder (R-Ind.) to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 strips students convicted of selling or using drugs of their federal financial aid. During the 2000-01 academic year alone, more than 47,000 applicants for federal financial aid were stripped of some or all of their assistance because of past drug convictions. Even Souder is pushing to change the 1998 law. It is time to rethink the negative effects of denying people the best weapon for fighting poverty – education.
GW's Virginia campus, located in Loudon County, is growing. The acquisition of the PSINet building and its surrounding land for $27 million gave the Loudon campus an additional 40 acres of space, nearly doubling the size. And GW reports that tuition dollars from students on the main campus have not gone toward campus improvements, no small accomplishment for a University that is getting very creative in coming up with some sound business partnerships.
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Jason SafdieOpinions Editor
Picture this. You are 26 years old and have just been elected to the U.S. Congress where you will serve in the House of Representatives as its youngest member. No one in your family has ever held elected office. Your parents call you crazy. But as loving parents often do, they support your quest, regardless of how outlandish it may seem.
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Carolyn Lunman
Former President Lyndon B. Johnson once said, "We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex industrial society." It is for this reason that the landmark Higher Education Act was passed in 1965 to insure every child in America more equal access to education. In 1998, Rep. Mark Souder (R-Ind.) tacked a provision onto this law that is against the very spirit of the Higher Education Act.
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Dave Smith
Hopefully, you have received this e-mail from one of your friends concerned for the health and well-being of Jessica McKinley. Jessica is a 17-year-old girl from Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, who lives with a fatal case of agoraphobia, the abnormal fear of being in open spaces. She has lived all of her life indoors, and now, thanks to the internet, my best friend can forever visit foreign lands and the town next door right from her seat by the fridge in her father's den.
The Freshman Block Party is just that, a freshman party. It was planned by freshmen for freshmen ("We Wanna Ride, April 4). Upperclassmen were invited to come by and enjoy the concert, but they were not the target audience. It's not as if upperclassmen have been attending every year and suddenly this right was taken from them. If you even remember the last Freshman Block Party, you went when you were freshmen and now the current freshman will go. Get over it.
Can the GW community lighten up just a little? It seems as though every week a GW student is complaining about how an article offended them in some ridiculous way. To say that The Hatchet loses credibility because it has a little fun on April Fool's day is just absurd.
In reference to the ("Snatchet distasteful") letter in the April 4 Hatchet, I ask Aaron J. Aisen to quit whining.
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Russ RizzoEditor in chief
The reviews are in. Some were disgusted, some were insulted but the overwhelming majority of our readers who contacted us have taken the April Fool's issue of The Snatchet in the spirit it was delivered. We were crude, impolite and crass, but we just wanted to make you laugh.
