May 18, 2001

Critics Seek to End Ban on Aid for Students With Drug Convictions

By STEPHEN BURD

Rep. Barney Frank, a Democrat from Massachusetts, urged student activists and college-aid administrators who met here at Hampshire College this month to aggressively lobby Congress to repeal a federal law that denies financial aid to students who have been convicted of drug offenses.

"If between now and September a couple of hundred thousand college students, along with administrators, faculty, and parents, each wrote to his or her representatives, and to his or her two senators, and

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