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Judging from the Nixon Administration's past performances, the standards of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare cannot be so stringent that this University cannot fulfill the requirements. And Harvard has never maintained, at least publicly, that it considers the HEW standards unreasonable. Instead, Harvard has repeatedly answered the HEW requirements with the most minimal programs clothed in even more numerous policy statements of commitment to nondiscrimination and equal employment...
...course, the University has only distributed publicly an abridged edition of the document it submitted to HEW for approval. And although the school is not required by governmental directive to divulge the contents of its plan to its students or faculties until the plan is accepted by HEW, Harvard surely has nothing to lose by making all of its plans available to concerned groups...
Failure of the University to comply with HEW standards regarding recruitment and hiring of women and minority group members could cost Harvard all of its Federal contracts, about one-third of its total income. And in an era when every institution cries about depleted revenues, Harvard has an obligation to think twice the next time HEW rejects its affirmative action proposal, and the University is forced to spend another quarter of a million dollars to draft an acceptable plan...
...Corporation appointees and salaried workers who attended the meeting cited several examples which demonstrated that women's wages remain much lower than those of men within the University. They said that Harvard's current affirmative action plan which is under consideration by HEW is not effective in implementing equal conditions for women employees...
...Burger does not hew to the scholarly tradition of true "judicial restraint." Indeed, says Simon, the President did not want more judicial restraint, as he frequently claimed. He wanted politically conservative Justices who would be as assertive in rolling back new rights as the Warren majority had been in establishing them. Simon contends that in at least three out of four of his choices, Nixon got what he was looking for. William Rehnquist, for instance, "is an activist every bit as tenacious as William Douglas."And Harry Blackmun, like the Chief Justice with whom he almost always votes, also seems...