make demands for mountains of data without consid-
ering the burdens imposed on the institution." And
sometimes those data are not even used by the
investigators. The report goes on to describe an
investigation in which the records of all students over
I the past six years were demanded. Negotiation re-
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i University. President Steven Muller says: "We spent im if   {li ; ;\,i,i   qq  
1 literally thousands of hours of staff time answering   ;T/A            
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look at Our affirmative action program—information T T X`       
we had already given to the Office for Civil Rights."   it ,2     R, N3`,
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in 1978 and found that more than half had been     {ifi , gi " 
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  all contacts concerned affirmative action.     it    
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` tion of colleges and universities is the growth of lW ,,.e*’  ··-· p    
bureaucracy on the campuses. "Internal bureaucra-     We   
cy," one university official points out, "has grown in  ff  i  ` 
order to confront and be complicit with other bu-
reaucracies; procedures have been elaborated; griev—  
ances have grown to glut the procedural mechanisms “
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  insidegthe university as it has long been elsewphere." ()I_d(‘l to Lonhont and be wmpllut
  It is this kind of situation which figured largely in with 0{h€l` bUl`€21UCI`21Cl€S·”
  the decision of an Ivy League vice president to leave
i the university. He explained that "being on a campus  
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