Contacted Sunday, Dean Dunlop called the letter "full of crazy inaccuracies."

"Questions are raised that simply don't make very much sense," Dunlop said. "They have no understanding of the way Harvard works. For example, they cite lady and men teaching fellows and ask why they're paid different salaries, but ignore whether they're dealing with 2/5, 3/5 or 4/5 appointments."

"I know of absolutely no case where a Faculty member is paid less because of being a woman," he said.

According to one University source, the HEW action will cost Michigan $5.5 million to fund the evaluation and pay women reparations. The University of Pennsylvania, meanwhile-not yet approached by HEW-announced Friday several new guidelines and programs to provide equal opportunity to women in the university.

"Our action is less because of the Federal Government pressing us, but more because of the humanness that universities stand for," said Pennsylvania president Martin Meyerson. "We should be concerned not just with half of humanity, but with all of it."

The new guidelines provide that before any academic or non-academic appointment can be made, it must be shown that "the best women and other neglected groups have been sought to fill the position."