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...CLAUSE on sex discrimination which started University headaches. In 1970, Bernice Sandler, then president of the Women's Equity Action League (WEAL), a nationwide women's group, discovered that, under the executive order, women could file complaints of discrimination against Universities--and that the department of Health, Education and Welfare was obliged to investigate the charge. If HEW found "substantial or material violation" of the provisions in the executive order, the university faced loss of Federal funds...
Under the order, WEAL and other women's groups have filed more than 150 formal charges of sex discrimination since January, 1970. Of more than 200 complaints filed against colleges and universities between January, 1970 and January, 1972, HEW received more charges of sex discrimination than of discrimination against all minorities put together. Stanley Pottinger, director of the Office of Civil Rights, claimed in a letter in January to a women from the National Organization for Women (NOW), that his office had a backlog of more than 100 cases. "Given the limits of our human power" he admitted some cases...
...order which the Department of Labor released on January 30, 1970. The order, Title 4, requires Federal contractors to submit a general plan for ending discrimination, and also to set goals and timetables for correcting existing situations in the affirmative action plan. This came out at the same time WEAL and other women's groups began using their new-found legal resources...
...Women did everything from demanding to see the Secretary of Labor to letter campaigns; at one point, they (the government) were receiving so many letter they had to hire a full-time letter reader," a WEAL spokesman explained. "Because of the publicity and pressure, women were asked to come in and give comments on the order. There was a very direct result from this pressure...the government never moves until someone puts on pressure...
...opinionation. A review of Persona is remarkably evasive, a Bergman beatification with nothing but gratitude to show for itself. Attacking film violence, he hits some home truths about its brutal, de-personalizing necessities, but is too general and removed from specific detail to be persuasive. One of his Common weal theater pieces is, in fact, a conscious (and hilarious) demonstration of how unexamined criticism comes to be written when the drama considered is flaccid...