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...many cases brings the employee with a discrimination complaint into Leonard's office to meet with him and Powers. Leonard says he is often able to clear up a misunderstanding or "something wrong" without the complaint having to go through any formal procedure, either at Harvard, the MCAD, HEW, or the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the other federal agency charged with looking into employment cases...
...three agencies responsible for handling discrimination complaints in Massachusetts have joint-filing agreements with one another to prevent investigators in each group from "running up the same tree," John G. Bynoe, Director of the Regional Civil Rights Office of the HEW, says. Offhand, Bynoe won't say exactly how many cases involving Harvard are on his desk, but he says most of them are class-action suits that "list 22 universities as discriminators against women" and minorities. Bynoe says his office "doesn't consider them complaints. You almost get what you call people throwing everything into...
...HEW is responsible for enforcing Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and Title IX of the 1972 Educational Amendments prohibiting sex discrimination in schools and employment, in addition to executive order 11246. HEW can only deal with government contractors, since a termination of contracts is its only method of enforcement. If the MCAD or the EEOC finds probable cause for a complaint against Harvard, it is an occasion for HEW to investigate the possibility that discrimination exists throughout the institution. While some of the discrimination cases on record at the MCAD appear weak, the lawyers in Mass Hall...
Commented Dr. Theodore Cooper, HEW's assistant secretary for Health, whose staff prepared the report: "The data suggest that much improvement in health status could come from individual action." In other words, Americans still have not learned the most obvious lesson, that they can become healthier without their doctors' help simply by cutting down on drinking and smoking, exercising more and eating better...
...HEW runs more than 400 programs, employs 129,000 people and spends $118 billion, nearly one-third of this year's entire federal budget. To show its present snarl of red tape-and the need for reform-President Ford had a "mess chart" prepared on the health services provided by the department. The entire chart is shown on the opposite page (actual size: 4 ft. by 11 ft.). The adjoining segment is reproduced to give a closeup idea of its complexity...