Thirty-three women Faculty members and administrators earlier this month sent a letter to Bok urging him to give higher priority to the University's affirmative action plan and requesting a forthright statement of its policy on the matter.

Ursula W. Goodenough, assistant professor of Biology, said yesterday that she and the other signatories had received no direct reply to their letter.

Published Statement Sufficient

Bok said he considered his statement on affirmative action which The Crimson published Tuesday to be a reply to the women's complaint.

Goodneough said Bok's statement was an inadequate reply to their request for a detailed statement on the University's policy.

Leonard said that his office had mailed ample material to every dean and department chairman explaining the HEW requirements. "Everyone who reads should be familiar with the requirements under affirmative action," he said.

Franklin L. Ford, acting dean of the Faculty, said yesterday he had not heard of "that particular phrase 'goals and timetables.'" He said that as far as he knew, the affirmative action plan did not include these target figures, and added, "I haven't been asked as dean to do anything I would find hard to live with."

Bok has frequently expressed reservations about the value of goals and timetables on the faculty level as a measure of the effectiveness of other affirmative action measures. He says such figures would be unreliable and nearly impossible to gather.

Bok informed the deans in a memo circulated last semester that HEW requires that goals and timetables be set by every faculty, and in some larger faculties by smaller units, presumably by department.

Affirmative action assistant Barad said that the goals and timetables set for the Faculty comply with Bok's specifications in his memo.

Leonard said that he thought he had made it clear that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences should set its target figures department by department.

"Sure, it's difficulty to set these figures," Leonard said. "It's also difficult to accept that a man my color is an equal, but that's no excuse for saying it can't be done.