One More Foul Blow

The latest fell stroke in the campaign of our federal bureaucracy to de-privatize everything and everybody is a ukase issued by a female functionary of HEW: a decree that, beginning this term, all universities and colleges that accept students who receive grants, scholarships, or loans through the medium of HEW must comply with all sorts of federal regulations—particularly with “Affirmative Action” directives.

Mark you, the independent universities and colleges in question don’t themselves receive grants or loans from the Federal Government: rather, some of their students (perhaps only a handful) are the beneficiaries of HEW largesse. Even so, the “independent” college president is supposed to obey Big Brother, or Big Sister.

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The latest fell stroke in the campaign of our federal bureaucracy to de-privatize everything and everybody is a ukase issued by a female functionary of HEW: a decree that, beginning this term, all universities and colleges that accept students who receive grants, scholarships, or loans through the medium of HEW must comply with all sorts of federal regulations—particularly with “Affirmative Action” directives.

Mark you, the independent universities and colleges in question don’t themselves receive grants or loans from the Federal Government: rather, some of their students (perhaps only a handful) are the beneficiaries of HEW largesse. Even so, the “independent” college president is supposed to obey Big Brother, or Big Sister.