Editorial
CORRESPONDENCE Feeney & Rome Ann Arbor, Mich. To the Editors: Apparently the recent report on the activities of Father Leonard Feeney and his group is expected to relieve concern rather...
...He was not the first to run into trouble on this score, and he won't be the last...
...Father Feeney's group constitutes a movement, with a deliberately adopted (Continued on page 318) NEWS & VIEWS: 290 CORR]~JJONDBNCE: 21)1 EDITORIAL: 291 W/~HINGTON REPORT: Equivalence and Equivocat|on: Frank Getlein 292 TSE FRENCH FACT: Jordan Bishop 294 DOING BUSINESS WITH DI[]SINESS: Peter Stein[els 294 CONFRONTING DOROTR1g DAY: Abigail McCarthy 297 AgIDEN AND W. D. YEATS: Edward T. Caliph 20B ANNE SEXTON AND GOD: William I. McGill 304 VERSE: Paul Petrie 296 TBE SCREEN: Colin L. Westerbeck, Jr...
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...As for our doing something ourselves, without paying tribute to the cartel, it's an unthinkable thought...
...Indeed, perhaps it would be better to talk in terms of "goals" rather than quotas, and in general affirmative action that "casts a wide net" is preferable...
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...For a long time," he said, "I didn't think quotas would work," but experience had changed his mind and he now favored them...
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...CALIFANO ON QUOTAS Joseph A. Califano Jr., Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, got himself burned recently in discussing racial and sexual employment quotas...
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...Indeed, the effort must be made, if we are to believe half the arguments about energy now being advanced...
...But if the heat is off Mr...
...We are willing to grant to Mr...
...2. Having been offered reconciliation with the Catholic Church, on what most people would regard as remarkably tolerant terms, a group at St...
...My own objections have been more capricious...
...At least two questions arise, however, of a kind that could be called religious or theological rather than purely administrative or disciplinary...
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...Either because of past or on-going discrimination against minorities or women" there should be "affirmative action to rectify the situation...
...By that, he said, he meant special training courses and an effort to reach out and find deserving people, but not quotas that would require the admission of a certain percentage of blacks or women...
...Califano: "How am I, as Secretary of H.E.W., ever going to find first-class black doctors, first-class black lawyers, first-class black scientists, first-class women scientists, if these people don't have the chance to get into the best places [schools] in the country...
...the profits have to be higher ever higher and then higher than that to get them to move and grant us the heat, light and power we need to keep those snowmobiles destroying the wilderness, those stink pots destroying the peace and quiet of a day on bay or beach...
...Private enterprise is the foundation of the whole system, but it had better not get too private...
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...Such has been the main line of objections to the dim sketch of the energy policy of the President...
...What he really meant, Mr...
...Just as the nation has never been able to bring up the oil from its own oil-rich land reserves without an elaborate system of leasing the land to the oilmen for tokens and then buying back the oil they bring up at full prices, so it would be heresy for the government even to think about using solar power for its own purposes, worse, perhaps, for the private citizen to do so...
...I am not sure what the ultimate technical, legal resolution of this case will be," he said...
...But it is important that we not lose the ability to have affirmative action programs which would give minorities and women the opportunity to get into the major graduate schools and universities in the country...
...Apparently no attempt was made to get these statements repudiated or to get any promise that similar statements would not be made in the future...
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...The Secretary started out, in an interview with the New York Times, by saying that it was possible and necessary to endorse preferential hiring and educational admissions policies...
...For this we are glad, for the Secretary's general remarks on discrimination show that his heart is in the right place, whatever protests that followed...
...Secretary for what they saw as an intention "to discriminate against whites and males...
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...I noticed in recruiting that if Commonweal- 291 you press people hard enough to cast the net wide enough, you find [minority and female] people...
...Correcting this state of affairs will take positive action on every level, educational and economic...
...We are not dealing here with relatively anonymous lay Catholics who may hold, privately, many deplorable opinions and may do a variety of offensive things, some of which they think are morally right, and who still take part, with a clear conscience, in the sacramental life of the Church...
...A huge public clamor immediately ensued, with assorted unions taking large newspaper ads to protest against any suggestion of quotas and with 44 leading educators calling on President Carter to disavow his H.E.W...
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...Taken aback by the furor, Mr...
...To the Editors: Apparently the recent report on the activities of Father Leonard Feeney and his group is expected to relieve concern rather than to arouse it, and perhaps it has done so for some [Jan...
...Califano made his own views clear...
...Califano's amendments seem to have taken the heat off him, at least for the moment...
...With only all-time record-breaking profits, such as those recently enjoyed by the oil cartel, the cartelians dare not take the risk Of doing anything at all...
...Rest assured, it won't...
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...The same thing can be said in the cases of universities and colleges with only token blacks or women on their staffs or in their student body...
...Throwing a nickel-a-year per gallon tax rise on gas may indeed cut down on joy riding and drag racing--although that remains to be seen...
...In short, the first thought should not be a quota, but it should not be completely unthinkable either...
...1. Some writers for Father Feeney's movement have made anti-Semitic statements on occasion...
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...Califano, the national argument over quotas will not die, and should not...
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...Certainly one wants to see people who have bravely clung to a principle which, as they see it, is essential to Christian teaching, offered whatever consolation and honor the Catholic Church, which they believed that they were serving, can conscientiously provide...
...Califano's critics that quotas should not be the tool of first resort...
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...Father Feeney, however, continues to celebrate Mass for them and, it seems, to give them Holy Communion...
...And despite the protests of some segments of organized labor, when you find unions with a long history and a continuing practice of lily-white membership and hiring practices, a quota may simply be unavoidable...
...Califano cited the Harvard Medical School's program of giving several months of pretraining to members of disadvantaged minorities before they entered medical school...
...American society has long been permeated by racism and sexual bias, and verbal acknowledgement of this fact cannot cure the resultant evil effects in our society...
...In it he conceded that he had made a mistake when he said he advocated racial and sexual quotas as a means of redressing past discrimination...
...Califano tried to calm things down by giving the Times another, corrective interview...
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...Califano discovered that "quota" is an explosive word...
...And he made it clear that his position included quotas...
...Califano said, was equal opportunity for all...
...At that point Mr...
...The role of quotas in reversing patterns of job and educational discrimination is tricky and, above all, controversial, as Mr...
...WASHINGTON REPORT I I EQUIVALENCE AND EQUIVOCATION There have been moments following President Carter's address to Congress on the energy crisis when it has seemed that the main obstacle to solar energy flooding the land is that it's hard to make the sun a monopoly of the oil trust or your local light and power combine...
...But when you find, for example, a police or fire department in an overwhelmingly black area with no blacks, a quota may be the only answer to begin to deal with the problem...
...Serious efforts at redressing the balance pay off, in his view...
...Of quotas he now said, in a clear understatement, "It's obviously a nerve-jangling word...
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...The statements are not readily glossed over as politically anti-Zionist, or otherwise excused...
...Benedict's Center has refused...
...It is difficult indeed to understand how a priest can communicate a whole body of people who have been excommunicated and who have turned down the opportunity to be received back...
...Califano soon discovered...
...Califano's remarks came at a time when the Supreme Court had agreed to rule on the case of an applicant to the University of California medical school who has charged that he was denied admission because of a special program to admit minority students who, he argued, were less qualified than he...
...Job training efforts and serious attempts at remedial education can well be taken as indications of good intentions that make imposition of a quota system unnecessary...
...For helping to clarify this fact, we can thank Mr...
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...The first is simply that it has so far entered no one's head that by far the largest institutional user of energy of all kinds in this country is the Defense Establishment...
...As an example of what he meant on this score, Mr...
...The stage is thus set for a natiom/1 debate, with minorities and women seeking redress from past practices of bias pitted against white males who believe that they are now being made the victims of reverse discrimination...
...No doubt the effort will be made...
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