more on The draft is dead, right? -- it's as dead as it has been

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Jim Warren <jwarren () well com>
Date: November 4, 2004 6:21:27 PM EST
To: dave () farber net
Cc: David Lesher <wb8foz () nrk com>
Subject: Re: [IP] The draft is dead, right? -- it's as dead as it has 
been

> From: David Lesher <wb8foz () nrk com>
> ...
>     1. Name of participating agencies: The Selective Service System
> (SSS) and the Department of Education (ED).
>     2. Purpose of the match: The purpose of this matching program is to
> ensure that the requirements of Section 12(f) of the Military Selective
> Service System Act [50 U.S.C. App. 462 (f)] are met.
> ......


The selective deletion of the remainder of the Federal Register notice 
is rather misleading.  The next part sez, in substantive part:

http://ifap.ed.gov/fregisters/doc0016_bodyoftext.htm

2. Purpose of the match. The purpose of this matching program is to
ensure that the requirements of section 12(f) of the Military Selective
Service Act (50 U.S.C. App. 462(f)) are met.
    3. Authority for conducting the matching program. Computerized
access to the Selective Service Registrant Registration Records (SSS
10) enables the Department of Education to confirm the registration
status of applicants for assistance under Title IV of the Higher
Education Act of 1965 (HEA), as amended (20 U.S.C. 1070 et seq.).
Section 12(f) of the Military Selective Service Act, as amended (50
U.S.C. App. 462(f)), denies eligibility for any form of assistance or
benefit under Title IV of the HEA to any person required to present
himself and submit to registration under section 3 of the Military
Selective Service Act who fails to do so in accordance with that
section and any rules and regulations issued under that section. In
addition, the Military Selective Service Act and section 484(n) of the
HEA which allows the data match to fulfill the statement requirement
specifies that any person required to present himself and submit to
registration under section 3 of the Military Selective Service Act file
a statement that he is in compliance with the Military Selective
Service Act. ...


I.e., the matching is for the purpose of enforcing long-standing 
requirements that students seeking federal grants and benefits must 
have registered for the non-functioning draft.

--jim


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