Thursday, October 13, 2005
I ate my homework
Fight the man!!! There's that law thingie that says drug offenders can't get as much college money from the feds.
But the future of the law is in jeopardy as legislators take their first steps in loosening the provision through a bill that would limit the penalty to students who commit drug crimes while in college.
The remainder of the article contains exactly 0 references to any legislators who are taking steps to loosen the provision.
Critics of the law said it disproportionately affects minority groups and lower and middle-class students from going to college.
Now, you can see by the nonsensical sentence structure that the writer was maybe concerned about the absurdity of the idea. Federal financial aid as a whole disproportionately affects minority and lower and middle-class students, but nobody's throwing any fits over that.
Senior Prathna Mehta said the law forces students to pay for mistakes and that students should not be denied an opportunity like higher education because of it.
Ouch. The law forces students to pay for mistakes! How awful!!! Yes, maybe The Daily Cal screwed up on the quoting, so maybe Prathna deserves some slack, but...
"I think it is discriminatory because it enhances stereotypes," she said. "People who are more well-to-do can get away with (drug offenses)."
What the hell are you talking about now? How does it enhance stereotypes?
But other students said those with prior drug convictions should still pay the price.
"If you really want to go to college then you'll make it happen," said freshman Nicole Carlotto. "There is all kinds of help out there."
In journalism training: "While other students do say 'this,' we won't actually quote any of them. Instead, we'll quote someone who says something completely unrelated."
Maybe the staffers were just stoned when they wrote this piece.
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