April 30, 1999

Law Barring U.S. Aid to Drug Offenders Concerns Administrators and Activists

By STEPHEN BURD

Critics says measure will be hard to enforce and will hurt only low-income students

Under ordinary circumstances, university administrators seldom see eye to eye with students lobbying to legalize drugs.

But at the University of Virginia, a new federal law that would strip students convicted of drug-related offenses of their Pell Grants and other forms of financial aid has both the aid director and the leader of a group that

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