NO SCHOOL AID FOR DRUG OFFENDERS

Re: Antidrug overkill, editorial, July 26.

It sickens me that illicit drug-using college students somehow believe that
they are entitled to federal student aid after they have been found guilty
of a drug offense. Nowhere does the law in question state that students
must leave their institutions of higher education due to a drug offense.
All it states is that the federal government will suspend, for a defined
period of time, their ability to have the taxpayers pay for their education.

It stands to reason that students who can afford to support a drug habit
could surely afford to pay their tuition for a little while. If anything,
having their funds go to paying their own tuition might serve to decrease
their drug budget, thereby assisting them with said "rehabilitation."

Let's not enable drug-offending students by continuing to subsidize their
drug habits with free taxpayer dollars.

Jarrod Pietras

Holiday