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...Education and Welfare sent along Form 639A (Assurance of Compliance with Title IX) to be filled out, Grove City's President Charles MacKenzie ignored it. Since the Government was not funding the college, and since Grove City has no sexual discrimination, MacKenzie reasoned, the form did not apply. HEW did not agree. Its weapon, in cases of noncompliance, is to cut off Government funds...
While Grove City was getting no direct federal aid, its students were receiving some $618,000 a year total in individual loans and $110,000 in Basic Educational Opportunity Grants (BEOG). Unless Form 639A was filled out and returned, warned HEW, the Government would cut off all that money. Given such a threat, Grove City College and four students sued to block the HEW action...
...college, since students (or parents) ultimately pay them back. As to BEOG money, while it does go to the college, Simmons ruled that the Government has no legal right to penalize individual students as "a remedy for coercing the college." In perhaps the unkindest cut of all, Simmons declared HEW guilty of bad forms. Number 639A technically should not be used to check up on Title IX compliance, said he, because it contains a passage about sexual discrimination in faculty hiring, though Title IX applies only to students...
Glazer added that the rapid expansion of government leads to a situation where "a congressman stops understanding a bill at its second revision, his staff stops understanding it at the third revision, and no one understands it after that, except maybe someone at HEW...
...American colleges begin competing noisily for students and funds. To make matters worse, the council confirms, "fraud, error and abuse" are on the increase among both students and schools. Defaults on low-interest federally insured student loans have totaled $668 million since 1967. And a report by HEW'S inspector general says the incidence of fraud and abuse in the $3.6 billion spent on five major student-financial-aid programs may run as high...