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...HEW Says Harvard Is Still Off Balance...
Undergraduates interested in the University's Affirmative Action program have come to expect rejections by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) of Harvard's ever-changing proposals. Ironically, a group of women who work in the University organized last year to form "Women Employed at Harvard," whose acronym (WEH) contains the letters which haunt Massachusetts Hall...
...June 13, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare rejected Harvard's affirmative action proposal. HEW's main objection to the plan, which was submitted May 1, was that it did not breakdown by department the goals and timetables for the hiring of women and minority group members...
...tough thinking seemed all too rare at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and in 1970 Richardson was picked to supply it as Secretary. Though critics contended that he weakened the drive for school desegregation by failing to support busing with sufficient enthusiasm, Richardson was notably successful at HEW. After last year's election he was picked to succeed Melvin R. Laird as Defense Secretary but held that job only three months before Nixon chose him in May to repair the Watergate damage as Attorney General...
Backing the conclusions, HEW Secretary Caspar Weinberger declared that "nothing shall take precedence over an individual's constitutionally guaranteed rights." Well said, but do the new guide lines apply retroactively to all the people whose records were compiled in the White House in violation of every one of those principles...