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The Amherst Student

Volume 152 • Issue 1

The Amherst Student

The Newspaper of Amherst College Since 1868

Thursday, March 23, 2023

Andrew Epstein

Contributing Writer

Number of Articles: 1

First Article: April 25, 2001

Latest Article: April 25, 2001

War on drugs hits college admissions

By Andrew Epstein

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April 25, 2001

The success of Steven Soderbergh’s “Traffic” has turned the spotlight on one of today’s most important and ignored issues. The film conveys the U.S. government’s futile effort to eradicate drugs from the cultural landscape. And now, the Drug War has hit college campuses in the form of the Higher Education Act (HEA) drug provision of 1998. The repressive ideology behind the War on Drugs will cost American taxpayers over $19 billion next year under President Bush’s budget, with half the budget be

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