# yet another draft question (education records) **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 5, 2004, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-draft-question-education-records/273175 "2004-11-05T13:56:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-draft-question-education-records/273175/1 "2004-11-05T13:56:02Z")
[http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=395](http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=395) > [@](#): > > Selective Service to match records with Education for compliance > > By John Byrne | RAW STORY Editor > > The Selective Service filed a notice in the federal register three days before the election to check the computer records of the Department of Education for compliance with a law that requires all students receiving federal financial aid to register for the draft, RAW STORY has learned. > > The notice, filed Oct. 28, was published today in the Federal Register. > > Former Reagan Assistant Defense Secretary Lawrence Korb, who now works at a progressive thinktank, downplayed the significance of the notice. He said that the law mandating financial aid students to register was put in place by a Democratic congress in the early 1980s, after many failed to register. > > … > > **Korb added that while not a procedure done annually,** the Selective Service is required by law to ensure aid students are registered. So, how many other times has this been done in the last two decades? ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-draft-question-education-records/273175/2 "2004-11-05T14:30:30Z")
> [@toadspittle](#): > > [bluelemurclothing.com](http://www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=395) > > So, how many other times has this been done in the last two decades? What? Someone deciding to enforce a law? All the time. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-draft-question-education-records/273175/3 "2004-11-05T15:06:29Z")
I may be wrong but I thought you had to put your Selective Service number on student loan applications. ---
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-draft-question-education-records/273175/4 "2004-11-05T15:40:40Z")
> [@EJsGirl](#): > > What? Someone deciding to enforce a law? All the time. Take your snarking to the Pit where it belongs. This is in GQ, you’ll note, not GD. I don’t want a debate. I’m asking a simple question, with a factual answer. Let me be blunt and clear for the less accomplished readers: \*\*On Oct. 28, the SSS filed a notice in the federal register to check the computer records of the Department of Education in order to ensure that all students receiving federal financial aid are registered with Selective Service. Former Reagan Assistant Defense Secretary Lawrence Korb, who was quoted in the article, says that the procedure (of checking the records of the Department of Education in order to ensure that all students receiving federal financial aid are registered with Selective Service) is not done annually. If the procedure (of checking the records of the Department of Education in order to ensure that all students receiving federal financial aid are registered with Selective Service) is not done annually, then how often during the past two decades _has_ the SSS gone through the procedure (of checking the records of the Department of Education in order to ensure that all students receiving federal financial aid are registered with Selective Service)?\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-draft-question-education-records/273175/5 "2004-11-05T16:21:55Z")
I doubt anyone here has the information you want. The cross-checking with the educational financial aid records is a bureaucratic function that probably receives little or no publicity. Why not [contact](http://www.sss.gov/CONTACT.HTM) the Selective Service System? ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-draft-question-education-records/273175/6 "2004-11-05T17:12:12Z")
Required notices in the Federal Register appear on: [ul] [li] November 4, 2004[/li][li] May 8, 2002[/li][li] November 15, 1999[/li][li] May 22, 1997[/li][li]November 18, 1994[/li][/ul] For the past ten years [according to this site](http://cryptome.org/sss110404.txt). ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-draft-question-education-records/273175/7 "2004-11-05T17:31:55Z")
I hereby eat my words, and tip my hat to **Duckster**. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2004, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/yet-another-draft-question-education-records/273175/8 "2004-11-05T19:08:33Z")
> [@Duckster](#): > > Required notices in the Federal Register appear on: > [ul] > [li] November 4, 2004[/li][li] May 8, 2002[/li][li] November 15, 1999[/li][li] May 22, 1997[/li][li]November 18, 1994[/li][/ul] > For the past ten years [according to this site](http://cryptome.org/sss110404.txt). Fantastic! Thank you.