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...Washington, Correspondent Eileen Shields found that reporting the story required expertise in all three subjects, but especially one she happens to have mastered. A New York-based business reporter for four years, Shields was assigned last year to cover HEW. "I thought I left economics reporting behind," she says. "But the health care story, with its barrage of statistics and efficiency rating figures, is as much about business as anything else." The story also required healthy feet. Shields loped through the labyrinthine corridors of the HEW building, lurked about the halls of Congress and made several trips to the White...
There her complaint vanished into the bureaucratic maze. So she took her case to federal court. But a lower court and a court of appeals both told her that she had no right to sue. Only HEW, they ruled, could enforce the section of the civil rights laws, Title IX, that bans sex discrimination against students and applicants to educational institutions receiving federal funds. Since HEW is hopelessly backlogged with discrimination complaints and reluctant to use its only sanction-stripping an institution of federal funds-Cannon was back at Square...
...suits against schools and colleges. Women's groups immediately hailed the decision as a breakthrough for women's rights. So did White House Special Assistant Sarah Weddington, who argued that it was better to have individuals assert their rights in court than rely on an already overburdened HEW. Legal experts noted that the decision will not only make it easier to bring sex discrimination cases but racial discrimination cases as well, since the statutory language of Title VI (race) is the same as Title...
U.N.C.'s suit, filed by Washington Attorney Charles Morgan, is a basic challenge to all HEW desegregation efforts in Southern colleges and universities. Morgan, a former American Civil Liberties Union counsel, told a U.S. district court in North Carolina that the state has "a higher level of desegregation than most other institutions of higher education North and South." Last fall its predominantly white campuses had a greater percentage of black students than Harvard (6% vs. 5.02%) and the State University of New York (5.2%). At U.N.C.'s Chapel Hill campus, blacks in professional programs such as medicine...
Morgan contends HEW should no longer require detailed desegregation planning from North Carolina. He argues that the state's history of de jure segregation-the basis of HEW'S demands-has become legally irrelevant. If upheld, Morgan's argument could undermine university desegregation agreements negotiated by HEW with Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Oklahoma and Virginia...