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There has been much misunderstanding about the affirmative action program and Harvard's relationship to it. HEW has asked institutions receiving federal funds--Harvard receives $66 million annually--to create a plan to end discrimination in the hiring of women and minority group members. In addition, HEW wants these institutions to draw up goals and timetables to increase the pace of minority and woman hiring--in other words, to put the plan into operation. The government threatens, but virtually never acts, to cut off federal funds of an institution which drags its feet on affirmative action...
...toward the modest goals called for in the just-approved plan, a plan which is still inadequate. The present proposal does not provide for salary equity review in the case of salary differentials between men and women. It contains cumbersome and intimidating grievance procedures and weak management training programs. HEW still requests further analysis of Harvard's tenure-granting procedures. A number of women's organizations have already filed objections to the plan for these and other reasons...
...believes the HEW-approved plan is "insufficient" and "has too many holes," Carolyn Schneider, a spokesman for the Eastern Massachusetts Chapter of NOW, said yesterday. She added, "it is clear Harvard is below national levels" in the employment of women in high level positions...
...much Bob sacrificed in government service." The guests at the private party in Perino's restaurant (menu: roast beef and apple cake à la mode) represented a well-heeled selection of the Southern California Establishment, including onetime Haldeman associates former Communications Director Herbert G. Klein and former HEW Secretary Robert H. Finch, Nixon Contributors Justin Dart and Holmes Tuttle, U.C.L.A. Chancellor Charles E. Young and Los Angeles Herald-Examiner publisher George Hearst Jr. Explained Klein: "Finch and I had our differences with Bob. But this isn't a time to ignore a man who is down...
Several women's groups as well as HEW said that Harvard's previous policy could be construed to discriminate against women applying for positions in departments in which their spouses were already employed...