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Everybody was worried. North Carolina University officials did not want their school to become the first state university system ever to lose federal funding in a desegregation dispute with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. HEW Secretary Joseph Califano did not want voters in tobacco country to become even angrier at him (and at the President) in the wake of his antismoking campaign. Besides, a legal row with the state could slow school integration...
...Califano telephoned an invitation to North Carolina's Governor James Hunt: How about a last-minute meeting to work out a compromise? Hunt agreed, and the university drew up a $40 million plan for new academic programs and building renovation at the state's five predominantly black campuses, where 70% of the state university's 20,500 black students are enrolled. To pay for the improvements, the Governor agreed to pass up a planned $40 million tax cut. But the effort failed. The university concluded that HEW'S demands were "rigid" and last week sued...
Joseph A. Califano, secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW), has not yet made a decision about the new requirements, although he was to announce his decision April 1. Califano may submit the legislation to Congress...
...Califano told the eastern branch of the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) that if big revenue sports do not receive an exemption, the House Appropriations Committee might act to prohibit use of HEW funds for enforcement of Title IX, Andronike Janus, assistant director of athletics, said last night...
Janus said Califano told the meeting there was a chance Congress would consider an amendment exempting college athletics from Title...