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When Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) brought his plan for fighting rising college tuition costs to a public hearing in Boston yesterday, he ran into opposition from some unexpected sources - some students, a college president, and the department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW...
...Mary F. Berry, assistant secretary for education at HEW, said that preliminary estimates indicate the TAF will cost nearly one and a half times the projections made by Silber and Kennedy. Berry--who argued with Kennedy over the effectiveness of current student programs--cited an outside analysis estimating the TAF would cost $7 billion a year for 43 years; Silber later said a more likely figure would be $45 billion a year for twenty years...
While stressing that she was not speaking for the Carter administration, Berry added that HEW suspects that inflation would result in "a huge effective subsidy from the taxpayer" and that some aspects of the plan "would intrude into decision--making processes of private institutions...
...been excluded in favor of less qualified blacks. In an early draft of a brief stating the Government's position on that "reverse discrimination" case, McCree came down in favor of affirmative action, but explicitly against quotas. After loud protests from black leaders and some Cabinet officers, including HEW Secretary Joseph Califano, McCree and Assistant U.S. Attorney General Drew Days, who is also black, changed the emphasis considerably. Avoiding the question of quotas, the final draft strongly argued that race can be "a factor" in professional-school admissions...
...Complaint-Mobile hit the road more than a year ago as a result of a $35,000 Law Enforcement Assistance Administration grant and an overage truck donated by United Parcel. It handled over 300 complaints in its first year, recovering $7,500 in restitutions. The Complaint-Mobile has received HEW funding for next year, and will add a small claims court educational project to its list of van services...