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...with five whites, four of them added fairly late in the game. Towards the end of last summer three members of the group and Dr. A. Stone Freedberg, professor of Medicine, wrote a letter to President Bok complaining about the exclusion of whites from the program. After University inquiries, HEW confirmed that the program is primarily intended for minority students...
...somewhat curious, then, that the plan was accepted with the number of modifications it demands. The explanation seems to lie in the fact that affirmative action does not become policy for the University until the plan is accepted by HEW. At the time of the acceptance, Walter Leonard, special assistant to President Bok and the University's coordinator for affirmative action, said that now that the government had endorsed the plan, the University could begin to implement the program. Perhaps HEW's feeling was that any plan was better than no plan. The University's willingness to spend thousands...
...However, HEW's acceptance of the plan has outraged several women's groups. Criticisms from women of the first draft of the present proposal, submitted last year, were incorporated into HEW's findings in its letter of rejection last June. Those groups now feel betrayed by the government's acceptance of the plan, and turning to other government channels for redress...
...guarantee is made that Harvard will conduct the complete review of salary equity which HEW cites as a deficiency...
Many women have decided that they do not want to wait for the HEW-approved El Dorado--which gives no promise of being achieved in spite of all the rhetoric and over 1500 pages of University proposals. Women Employed at Harvard have taken their complaint of salary discrepancies to the Department of Labor, which is now investigating...