Word: beasleys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this hardly destroys Brown-Beasley's basic dispute. The facts of his case suggest quite strongly not only that Harvard erred in his dismissal but also that the personnel manual provides insufficient protection for salaried employees. It seems arbitrary, for example, for Harvard to cite the "very serious offenses" clause when other disciplinary rules in the manual state...
...alarming--as Brown-Beasley himself has noted--that these procedures--which provide Harvard such amazing latitude--are essentially part of the University's affirmative action plan. What besides the cumbersome appeal procedure is to prevent a racist or sexist supervisor, for example, from using the escape clause to justify abrogation of "progressive" discipline...
...RACIAL discrimination complaint is hardly the only turf on which Brown-Beasley is waging his fight. Indeed his full-time battle to overturn his dismissal--marked by at times daily distribution of accusatory, informational or questioning letters to members of the administration--has generated additional disputes that have helped stalemate his appeal proceeding. One of the less substantive disagreements, the mini-war of nerves over Harvard's non-recognition of Brown-Beasley's student nominee to the appeal panel, suggests not only the degree of legalism in Brown-Beasley's appeal efforts but also his overwhelming suspicion of Harvard...
...dispute centers on whether Harvard has "failed" to officially recognize Glenn E. "Buddy" Diamond '78, Brown-Beasley's student nominee to the three-member appeal panel. Harvard argues that it has notified Brown-Beasley of its recognition directly and Diamond indirectly--by sending him a photocopy of its letter to Brown-Beasley. University officials also state that they have no right not to recognize Diamond and therefore no real obligation to recognize him officially. However, both Brown-Beasley and Diamond suspect that Harvard wants to block the sitting of an undergraduate on the appeal panel, and partially for this reason...
...result, Diamond and Fiscal Services Director Gibson's representative, Thomas O'Brien, have not yet met to name the third or "neutral" member of the appeal board, raising the possibility that O'Brien--and eventually Harvard--will argue that Brown-Beasley's case has gone "stale." It seems at this point, with Harvard's public statement that it cannot block Diamond's membership on the panel, that Brown-Beasley and his representative should move on to more substantive disputes...