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Last week the House and Senate conferees clarified Title IX, which prohibits sex discrimination in educational institutions receiving federal aid, by removing the record-keeping provision, saying that it imposed an "unreasonable amount of paper work...
...EFFECT OF these essentially irrelevant comments, if HEW pays attention to them, would be to narrow the regulations' scope, and to pare down HEW's enforcement ability. Once again, then, whether Harvard's suggestions are valid depends on whether Harvard can be trusted to implement Title IX without close supervision. In a third group of comments, those which claim that the regulations "do not provide sufficient safeguards for women," Harvard seeks to show that it can be trusted, and that indeed it is in a position to give advice on the matter. One of these comments objects to the prohibition...
...willing to make a few concessions to them. It is unwilling, however, to make structural changes and to accept women as full members of the University community. It is because of this reluctance on the part of Harvard and other institutions that federal legislation such as Title IX came about and and it seems that only legislation or the threat of legislation has prompted Harvard's initial steps towards eradicating sex discrimination--its affirmative action plan and its designs for equal-access admissions...
...several years, women athletes had to fight for equal facilities; in June the Title IX regulations requiring that men and women have equal access to sports were published and by September the athletics department had worked out a comprehensive new plan for sharing up facilities and practice time...
Harvard's comments on the proposed Title IX regulations show that it is still unwilling to take bigger steps on its own. Until it can prove that it is, legislation will be necessary to force Harvard to abandon its position as a landmark in the history of discrimination against women...