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...women's groups have sent letters to Elliot Richardson '41, secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, charging that an HEW report on Harvard's hiring practices submitted last month is a "whitewash" of the University's treatment of women...
...letters came in response to an unreleased "letter of finding" which HEW investigators gave to Edward Wright Jr., assistant to President Pusey for Minority Affairs. The letter detailed HEW's objections to Harvard's hiring and promotion policies with regard to minority groups and women...
...HEW investigation began last April when investigators asked Harvard to open its personnel files to determine whether the University discriminated in hiring and promotion on the basis of race, religion, national origin, or sex. Such discrimination is prohibited to any institution receiving federal funds under Executive Orders issued by President Johnson...
Emeroinq Issue. Nonetheless, HEW's Office of Civil Rights concedes that it has found some form of racial isolation in approximately one-fifth of the 158 desegregated districts it has surveyed. When schools report their racial composition near the end of the year, officials expect the figures to show that about half of the South's students attend truly integrated schools-a tolerable record compared with those of many Northern districts, but not quite the record that is implied by the Nixon Administration...
Rarick went on accuse the college professors, involved in a recent HEW report on racial integration, with "lacking the courage of their convictions." He claimed that these professors "favor further disorders rather than stable classroom conditions...