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...appropriation hearings, witnesses from the Environmental Protection Agency claimed that they were unable to control toxic substances because they could not hire enough staff. HEW lamented that it could not correct abuse and error because of missing personnel in its newly created Inspector General's office. What reason did the scandal-ridden General Services Administration give for not speeding up its investigations? Because of Leach, there was a paucity of gumshoes...
...University of North Carolina is struggling to reach a compromise with HEW, which has accused the university of racial discrimination and threatens ,to withhold $20 million in federal funds. In North Carolina, division between black and white colleges persists; the state is reluctant to abandon some traditionally black colleges that want to maintain their identity. Those who fear Caesar can also point to the case of Pennsylvania's Grove City College, a small, religiously oriented school that, on principle, has never taken a penny in federal aid. The Government sent Grove City a letter calling it a "recipient" of federal...
...Harvard, however, the results would not be quite as dramatic. Most colleges and universities provide an average of ten sports for men and six for women, according to a recent Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) report. Harvard now has 19 sports for men and 17 for women...
...legislation in 1974, failure seems to have intensified the fight against Title IX. Joyce wants his colleagues to stop Title IX, break away from the NCAA and form their own athletic association. In this way, the big sports revenue schools, which have already flaunted the legislation, could ignore HEW rules, pay the fine and compete under their own auspices...
...EXEMPTION effort fails, the lobbyists will try to bar HEW from using its funds to enforce the legislation. This would mean that colleges and universities could disobey the legislation without fear of federal scrutiny. There is reason to suspect that such disobedience would be widespread: since the three-year transition period for compliance with Title IX ended last July, HEW has received more than 100 allegations of sex discrimination in athletic programs...