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...LEARNED in elementary school about common denominators--before you subtract apples from oranges you must turn everything into bananas. It seemed last week, momentarily, that that's what Michael W. Brown-Beasley had forgotten to do: here was an ex-Fiscal Services employee arguing a case of reverse racial discrimination by comparing Harvard's handling of his dismissal for insubordination (apples) to its treatment of a one-time Buildings and Grounds superintendent arrested for threatening a Radcliffe student he allegedly had pimped for (oranges...
...Michael W. Brown-Beasley is no dummy, and he does, so to speak, have a banana converter--the Harvard University Salaried Personnel Manual. So while his discrimination complaint, filed with the Office of Civil Rights (OCR), may seem like callous or misguided exploitation of public interest in the recent "Harvard prostitution scandal," it is in fact a serious attempt to attack what Brown-Beasley sees as procedural errors in his firing. The complaint is also hardly a random shot in the dark: since being dismissed as assistant to the director of Fiscal Services on August 4, Brown-Beasley has been...
...REVIEW OF the circumstances of Brown-Beasley's and the superintendent's departures suggest a solid prima facie case against Harvard, although not necessarily on racial discrimination grounds. Take first the case of the B&G employee, Julian K. Fredie: arrested on July 27 for threatening a Radcliffe student, Fredie is suspended with pay. Two weeks later, shortly after his conviction on the criminal charge, Fredie resigns from his job at Harvard...
...about the same time Brown-Beasley is receiving markedly different treatment. After quarreling, against his boss's orders, with another employee whom he felt was endangering an expensive Holyoke Center computer, Brown-Beasley is fired. Hiss boss, R. Jerrold Gibson '51, director of the Office of Fiscal Services, has taken none of the "progressive" disciplinary steps mandated by the salaried personnel manual: informal oral warnings recorded by the employer, warning letters and suspension...
...held for 15 terms (but not, of course, his role as Speaker) will be more or less filled by State Senator Wes Watkins, 37, of Ada, Okla., who had a harder job defeating five other Democrats in the primary than he did in whomping Republican Challenger Dr. Gerald Beasley Jr., 50. The new Speaker of the House will be Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill Jr., 63, the burly, Boston-area Irish politician who had been Majority Leader. As usual, O'Neill had only token G.O.P. opposition in winning his 13th term...