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...change this public image, Henshaw's words are true today. Oddly enough, one of the surrounding institutions that has conspicuously outdistanced Harvard of late is the U.S. government. Last June the Department of Health, Education and Welfare published a set of proposed regulations for the implementation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which forbids discrimination on the basis of sex in educational institutions on pain of losing federal funds. HEW invited comment on the regulations before publishing them in final form, and last month Harvard submitted its comments. These comments are largely the complaints of an institution...
...volume affirmative action plan and designs of equal-access admissions in the near future, administrators have come to believe in the public image they have tried so hard to promote in the forefront of the fight against sex discrimination. As a result, one group of comments on the Title IX proposals is comprised of protests against detailed regulations, on grounds that such close supervision is unnecessary, and indeed sometimes offensive. The regulations require, for example, that institutions determine annually, by a method approved by HEW, what sports men and women students are interested in; Harvard complains that this...
...object to the regulations based on the assumption that Harvard can be trusted to implement Title IX by itself indicates an unwillingness that is suspect given Harvard's record. A similar unwillingness is manifested in another section of Harvard's comments, those objecting to "ambiguities" in the regulations. One of these comments worries about the distinction between programs receiving and programs benefiting from federal aid. Another points out that there is no definition in the regulations of what constitutes "previous discrimination." A third simply argues that the section on athletics is "replete with ambiguities," without specifying what Harvard sees...
...passed by the Senate, the anti-busing measure would prohibit federal agencies from requiring "school systems" to keep track of their minorities--students or teachers. Should colleges be included in its catch-all jurisdiction, as some on the Hill have said is likely, affirmative action and Title IX programs would be undermined...
What was Harvard doing all the while? No one is quite sure. Certainly, Harvard has been more persistent of late in telling Washington what's wrong with affirmative action and Title IX than what's right--and worthy of defense--in such programs...