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Members of the H-R Task Force for Affirmative Action met yesterday with a group of officials from the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) who next week will begin a compliance review of the Harvard Affirmative Action program...
...could add many examples. The point, however, is that Harvard is not taking affirmative steps to end its past practice of discrimination against minorities and women. Furthermore, the HEW office in Boston, which is charged with responsibility for monitoring the affirmative action laws is itself being sued for not enforcing the law. So the affected parties are left to fend for themselves. Once again women and minorities must create pressure on the federal government and on institutions like Harvard to end their practice of discrimination and to enforce the laws...
...measure that became the first testing ground in the election-year battle between the White House and Capitol Hill was the main appropriations bill for Labor and HEW. In one way or another, its varied programs touched the lives of millions of Americans: medical research conducted by the National Institutes of Health; community health services; drug treatment and prevention projects; Head Start, which gives special treatment to poor preschoolers; plans to retrain workers for better jobs. When Ford vetoed the bill on Dec. 19, the Democratic leaders in the House shrewdly decided against any immediate attempt to override. Instead, they...
...make her treatment at the GSD a test case against "old boy" hiring practices at Harvard that she believes discriminate against minorities and women. She waited until Bok took office in 1971--"there was no sense in doing this with Pusey," she says--and brought her complaint to HEW. After a year's investigation, HEW found that Hosken had suffered discrimination. Her case was "strange," however, according to Bob Randolph of the HEW Boston Civil Rights Office. "We didn't feel she was discriminated against because of her sex; the problems in this case were more personal." From an investigation...
...HEW's request, Kilbridge says, the GSD "spent hundreds of hours" preparing stacks of personnel records to demonstrate that it had considered Hosken's qualifications along with those of other applicants. That was three years ago--"they go away and never come back," Kilbridge says. HEW will be back, however, in the next few months to get additional information from the GSD and other departments...