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...HEW ombudsman revealed last week that U.S. colleges endorsing Rhodes scholarship applicants may be in violation of the 1972 Education Amendment. Title IX of the Amendment prohibits sex discrimination by educational institutions receiving federal financial assistance...
Regardless of this British law, if the Amendment is violated, HEW could withhold federal funds from American colleges which refuse to endorse female applicants...
...August 1973, three members of the poor whites group and Dr. A. Stone Freedberg, professor of Medicine, wrote a letter to President Bok outlining their grievances. As a result of the letter, Walter J. Leonard, special assistant to Bok for Minority Affairs, wrote HEW to ask about the specific terms of the funding for the Health Career Summer Program. John G. Bynoe, director of the regional HEW Office for Civil Rights, wrote back last month and affirmed that the grant is "primarily intended for specific racial and ethnic minority students...
Press Pounding. Nixon plunged into a flurry of activity designed to show that he was still leading the nation. He startled HEW officials by insisting on rushing an education message to Congress before his State of the Union message, which will be delivered this week. "It was just chaos, really," said one HEW source. "You wouldn't believe the wild-ass way this was developed." Perhaps as a result, the message contained nothing substantively new. Yet while the White House was preoccupied with showing Nixon in motion, it failed to lobby effectively on its foreign aid bill. The House...
Last year an HEW grant paid for 150 of the 162 students enrolled in the program. Only one of the Students was white...