Word: beasleys
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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...
...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...
...Brown-Beasley's case is further complicated by several procedural questions he has raised about his dismissal and appeal. For one, he argues that Gibson violated regulations in the personnel manual that call for "progressive" discipline of employees, including a warning letter before suspension and a suspension before discharge. One section also reads: "An employee should not be disciplined or discharged in haste or anger. If a serious incident occurs which may warrant discharge, the employee should be suspended pending investigation...
Gibson apparently did not follow these steps in disciplining Brown-Beasley, who received neither a warning letter nor a suspension. However, Edward W. Powers, associate general counsel for employee relations, called attention last week to another clause in the manual that permits "discharge without prior warning or suspension" in the case of "very serious offenses, for example, serious dishonesty, including theft of University1