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From: ag5@pucc-k (Henry C. Mensch)
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Subject: "Universities need not verify draft status of students . . ."
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Date: Tue, 6-Nov-84 14:11:47 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  6 14:11:47 1984
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	Lifted from the Chronicle of Higher Education 7 November 1984:

Universities Need Not Verify the Draft Status of Students who get aid
	in 1985, U.S. says

Washington, D.C.:  Colleges and Universities will not be required to
verify the draft-registration status of students who receive federal
financial aid next year, education Department aides say.

	Most male students will still have to certify to the government
that they have registered for the draft in order to receive aid, however.

	Financial-aid officers pressed the department to drop the
verification requirement because they said it would force them to become
"policemen."

	Under a 1982 law -- often referred to as the Solomon amendment,
after its chief sponsor, Rep. Gerald B. H. Solomon, Republican of New
York -- young men are not eligible to receive federal aid unless they
have signed up for the military draft.

	Originally, the Education Department planned to ask financial-aid
officers to begin providing proof in the 1985-1986 academic year that they
disbursed aid only to young men who had signed up with Selective Service.
This year, students must simply sign a form certifying that they have
registered or that they are exempt from registering because, for instance,
they are female or too old.

	Concerned that the current system might make it too easy for 
students to say they had registered when they actually had not, Education
department officials had planned to ask colleges to follow stricter rules
for making sure financial-aid recipients were complying with the law.

	However, a survey by the department found that over 95 percent
of the students who signed the certification form had provided accurate
information, so officials decided that the stricter enforcement measures
were unnecessary.  They said the regulations were being revised accordingly.

	In addition, colleges and universities that can easily identify
students who are exempt from registering for the draft will no longer 
be asked to require them to sign forms certifying that fact.  For example, at
women's colleges, where all the students are exempt, financial-aid officers
would not be expected to follow the Solomon amendment regulations.

	"We're delighted," said A. Dallas Martin, Jr., executive director
of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators.
"That's exactly what we were asking them to do.  We still feel it's an 
unnecessary paperwork burden, but this gives us the flexibility we need."

	In July the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the
controversial law by a vote of 6 to 2.

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