Paschall Letter Challenges HEW Guidelines

Paschall Letter Challenges HEW Guidelines

President Davis Y. Paschall wrote an opposition letter to the Health, Welfare and Education committee's mandate to integrate the College

This edition contains an article regarding President Davis Y. Paschall’s response to the integration mandate. The Health, Education and Welfare committee (HEW) requires that a “higher institution of learning” must integrate in accordance with the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The regional HEW committee found in its report that the college had shown reluctance to integrate and shed its history as a “white institution.” Regional HEW committee leader, Eloise Severinson, recommended that the college revise its academic criteria “so that the potential for the academic success of black students is determined by means other than Scholastic Aptitude Tests (SAT).” In a letter to the HEW committee, President Paschall opposed this policy, stating that he would be reluctant to lower admissions standards in fear that it would cause William & Mary to become ineligible for financial assistance. Paschall also stated that he would consider it a violation of the law to discriminate in favor of black applicants.

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Friday, October 2, 1970
Volume 60, Number 4

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1970

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