Word: beasley
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That his ex-boss, the director of the Office of Fiscal Services, is incompetent. The director, a ten-year veteran of the Harvard campus ministry named R. Jerrold Gibson '51, is a "Sancho Panza," Brown-Beasley claims, who is not qualified to direct Fiscal Services and who cannot freely use the technical advice of his own staff on computers because of a special veto power created by Hale Champion, vice president for finances...
That Joe B. Wyatt, the newly appointed vice president for administration, made costly errors on computer systems and applications recommendations in his previous positions as director of Financial Systems and Information Technology and director of the Office of Information Technology (OIT). Brown-Beasley states that the Texas-born and-bred Wyatt's dual positions constituted a conflict of interest, offering Wyatt an unfair advantage in his attempt to improve operations of the once troubled computing center...
...Brown-Beasley has also charged that Champion and the Personnel Department have seriously mishandled his grievance case, failing to comply with requirements of the Harvard Salaried Personnel Manual and the common law tradition. In addition, he accused Edward W. Powers, associate general counsel for employee relations and Harvard's foremost labor relations troubleshooter, of telling him that the "reality" was that it would be virtually impossible to rehire Brown-Beasley even if he prevailed in his complaint. As a result, Brown-Beasley said, the University's general counsel, Daniel Steiner '54, pulled Powers off his case. Powers denies this charge...
Early last week, in the first formal decision in Brown-Beasley's appeal, Champion rejected the fired employee's appeal. The vice-president had conducted a personal investigation as head of the administrative department in which Brown-Beasley works: as head of Fiscal Services, Gibson reports to Champion. On September 15, Brown-Beasley informed Harvard that he wishes to push his appeal to the next step outlined in the personnel manual, a formal, trial-like hearing held before a three-member panel. That committee will present its findings to President Bok or Steiner for a final ruling...
...refusal of several principle figures, including Gibson, to comment last week hampered attempts to obtain administrative response to many of Brown-Beasley's accusations. Thus most of the questions he has raised remain unanswered...