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Just out ▼ octotw r 4, 1 9 9 « ▼ 7 Are you ready for H onest A nswers about protecting your financial future? Military muscle For two years, Reps. Gerald Solomon (R- N.Y.) and Richard Pombo (R-Calif.) have been drafting legislation to ban federal grants and con tracts to colleges that ban the Reserve Officer Training Corps or military recruiters because of discrimination based on sexual orientation, re ports the Army Times. This year, the two have succeeded in attaching amendments to three 1997 appropriations bills, already passed by the House, for the departments o f Labor, Health and Human Services and Education; Veterans Affairs and {Housing and Urban Development; and Energy jand Water Development. Similar restrictions apply to Defense Depart- jment appropriations. The new bills are o f particu- ilar concern because they would prevent the schools jfrom receiving aid for students as well as prohibit Jresearch grants. In a letter to Sen. Mark Hatfield (R-Ore.), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Commit- jtee, Robert Atwell, president of the American Council on Education, said, “We find it very troubling that funding for research and student aid would be made contingent upon governmental review of institutional policies that are unrelated to science or education.” Reps. Solomon and Pombo have also tough ened the language o f their proposals to retroac tively deny appropriations to schools that are considered anti-ROTC and to include all o f a college even if only one of its branches enforces a ban on recruiters. The Senate versions of the bills in question do not include the amendments. Assuming the bills pass, the fate of these provisions will be decided by the House-Senate conference committees that meet to iron out the differences between the House and Senate bills. Freedom medal at last Civil rights heroine Rosa Parks received the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Sept. 14 at the age of 83. Parks is remembered for refusing to surrender her seat, as required by law, to a white passenger on a bus in Montgomery, Ala., in 1955. She was arrested and jailed, prompting a yearlong boycott o f the city bus system by African Ameri cans and their supporters, which eventually re sulted in the integration o f buses and other public facilities in Alabama. Parks now lives in Detroit, where she remains an active force in the Rosa and Raymond Parks Institute for Self-Development, an organization that promotes leadership and civil rights aware ness among young people. Human chain to surround Capitol for AIDS event While the 45,000-panel AIDS Memorial Quilt is on display in Washington, D.C., thousands of concerned citizens will gather for Hands Around the Capitol, an event organized to raise aware ness, commemorate loss and demonstrate com mitment to ending the AIDS crisis. The event is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 12, and begins with a celebrity kick-off at the Capitol Building at 1:30 pm. “Hands Around the Capitol will be a human chain o f concern and remembrance for the 320,000 American lives already claimed by the epidemic, and a reminder to our elected officials that we remember, we care and we vote,” says Fred Miller of AIDS Action Council. ADAPs face funding crisis Results of a survey conducted by the National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors show astronomical increases in costs for state AIDS drug assistance programs, according to a Reuter story. The assistance programs are meant to subsidize care for patients who are too poor to pay for treatments themselves, but not poor enough to qualify for Medicare. 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