Word: beasleys
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...much of an "Old Guard" Democrat . . . Civil rights champion since student days . . . Speaks up for blacks, women and other minority groups as director of IBM, Scott Paper, Chase Manhattan Bank . . . Member of prestigious Washington law firm with strong middle-of-the-road Democratic ties . . . Protestant . .. Married to William Beasley Harris, an attorney with the Federal Maritime Commission...
This would not necessarily move the appeal hearing ahead. Brown-Beasley has declared that Diamond will also not act until two Harvard officials--Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, and Walter J. Leonard, special assistant to the president--respond to several inquiries Brown-Beasley has made about affirmative action policy and aspects of the appeal procedure, and until Brown-Beasley has initiated possible litigation on those responses. Both Steiner and Leonard have refused to reply, asserting that they may eventually be involved in judging the appeal panel's recommendations, which are assessed finally by the University's president...
...this case some of Brown-Beasley's arguments are weak, but several raise serious questions that Steiner's arguments do not answer. On the one hand Leonard is probably right not to rule now on Brown-Beasley's query, a request for an investigation of his racial discrimination complaint, which would best first be handled by the appeal panel. Yet it is hard to understand why Steiner--who for one need not, as Brown-Beasley notes, ultimately rule on the case--will not respond to certain fundamental procedural questions Brown-Beasley has raised. These questions include: 1) questions about...
...administration is no stranger to labor battles: over the last year alone it has squared off against individual workers (such as Sherman Holcombe), unions (the dining hall workers), and labor organizers (District 65). But intra-management challenges like Brown-Beasley's are something new to Harvard and apparently something about which the University has much to learn...
Though not surprising, it would be sad if Harvard continued to mistake Brown-Beasley's peculiar manner--his profuse letter-writing, his occasional self-righteousness and his inordinate suspicion--as reasons to treat his charges lightly. On procedural grounds Brown-Beasley has a strong case against Harvard, and beyond this there remain the serious substantive allegations he has made about the operation of the Office of Fiscal Services and, more generally, the application of computers at Harvard. Apples, oranges and bananas aside, there's more to the Brown-Beasley controversy than fruit cocktai