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Harvard officials said yesterday they are not actively enforcing provisions of a written oath required by a seven-month-old federal law in which some financial aid recipients promise they will not use drugs.
"The law is an inappropriate imposition on federal aid programs," said James S. Miller, director of financial aid. "The University is not an enforcement agency, it is a steward of funds only."
The law, which applies only to Pell Grant recipients among student aid beneficiaries, denies federal funds to anyone convicted on federal or state drug-related charges, and is part of the 1988 Anti-Drug Abuse Act.
The library loophole was just one of an array of misdeeds reported to the Glenn committee by some of the Federal Government's 23 inspectors general, whose semi-independent offices were created in 1978 to ferret out abuse in the departments and agencies to which they are attached. Glenn has...
HUD inspector general Paul Adams had repeatedly warned his boss, Secretary Samuel Pierce, about the problems and had been repeatedly ignored. Last week the Government Accounting Office reported that the losses in just one HUD program, the Federal Housing Administration, totaled $4.2 billion -- five - times the amount the Reagan Administration...