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...Brown-Beasley has denied this accusation, and permitted an examination of his personnel record, which includes no negative information other than his recent termination on the many jobs he has held here over the last decade. Asked to explain, Champion said that Harvard prefers "not to fill personnel files full of adverse information." Brown-Beasley has also responded by asserting that Gibson's report to Champion contains several inaccuracies and by arguing that he was obliged, at times, to disobey Gibson because his "incompetent" directives could have led to costly errors such as damage to Harvard's computers...
...following is an examination of the major issues that Brown-Beasley has raised...
...Brown-Beasley's challenge of the competence of his superior, Fiscal Services Director Gibson, is one of the mainstays of his appeal. Brown-Beasley--who holds four graduate degrees including a masters from Harvard in Regional Studies-East Asia--notes that Gibson holds a graduate degree in theology and is listed in the 1975 Harvard Alumni Directory as occupied in the ministry. Indeed, Gibson spent ten years in Harvard's campus ministry before beginning to work in Harvard's Admissions and Financial Aid office...
Wyatt's special veto power helped generate much of the conflict among Brown-Beasley, Gibson and OIT staffers before the August 3 Holyoke Center incident over the computer, and it has also become the hub of Brown-Beasley's conflict of interest charges. The 36-year-old Brown-Beasley, who worked at OIT for seven months before working for Gibson, objected to many of the recommendations on computer systems and applications made by Wyatt and his subordinates at OIT. Having received the order to submit to Wyatt in such areas, Gibson continued to defer to the Financial Systems director. Brown...
...memo on the dismissal that "Within the office Michael frequently disparaged senior staff people within the University. Within Fiscal Services, I began to hear that he was talking about me behind my back and that the word most often quoted was his reverence to me as 'spineless."' Brown-Beasley does not deny that he called Gibson spineless; instead, he states that he did so not only to colleagues in Fiscal Services but also to Gibson's face during "cordial" conversations...