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...group's fact sheet says it appears unlikely that HEW will cut off Harvard's funds so that "pressure must come from within the University in demanding a plan that more conforms to the letter and the spirit...
Natalie L. Wexler '76, a spokesman for the Currier group, said yesterday that the present Harvard plan, approved by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) in mid-November, constitutes insufficient goals and timetables for hiring women...
...cause more trouble than other kinds of students?" About their teachers: "Do you think white teachers in this school are unfair to students who are not white?" The questionnaire was designed to measure racial attitudes, primarily in urban schools, and to see whether these attitudes were being improved by HEW-supported programs that were intended to do just that...
...questionnaire met with no serious objections, but in New York City it did. Protesting teachers and parents wondered whether the questionnaire was more likely to instill or reinforce troublesome racial attitudes than to measure them. Board of Education President Seymour Lachman graded the questionnaire "polarizing . . . inflammatory and racist." When HEW drew up a slightly modified version to administer this spring, the chorus of complaints quickly resumed...
Last week the department reluctantly withdrew it not only in New York City but across the nation. "The questions were sensitive," acknowledged a disappointed HEW spokesman. It was just as clear that HEW had been insensitive-and that once again the Government had been unwisely prying into the private lives and personal attitudes of the nation's citizens, notably children...