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...Education and Welfare sent along Form 639A (Assurance of Compliance with Title IX) to be filled out, Grove City's President Charles MacKenzie ignored it. Since the Government was not funding the college, and since Grove City has no sexual discrimination, MacKenzie reasoned, the form did not apply. HEW did not agree. Its weapon, in cases of noncompliance, is to cut off Government funds...
Glazer added that the rapid expansion of government leads to a situation where "a congressman stops understanding a bill at its second revision, his staff stops understanding it at the third revision, and no one understands it after that, except maybe someone at HEW...
...American colleges begin competing noisily for students and funds. To make matters worse, the council confirms, "fraud, error and abuse" are on the increase among both students and schools. Defaults on low-interest federally insured student loans have totaled $668 million since 1967. And a report by HEW'S inspector general says the incidence of fraud and abuse in the $3.6 billion spent on five major student-financial-aid programs may run as high...
While most of the AIAW delegates arrived in high spirits, buoyed by HEW Secretary Patricia Harris' recent strengthening of Title IX, the conference soon grew grim with word from New Orleans that the National Collegiate Athletic Association, at its annual meeting, had considered starting its own national championships for women...
Remember too that the hottest conflict over civil rights came during the same period. After all the grief I got from my Mississippi-born parents over my views on race, try to understand my irritation at the recent HEW television piece where high school students watch a film on segregation and then go to the lunch room. The black kid says, "See, there's no sign saying Colored Sit Here." And the white kid says, "yeah, our generation seems to have gotten it all together." Pretty smug, baby...