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Schorr, a two year City Year team captain, said the Servathon, an event in which volunteers collect sponsors for their donated time, helps to fund the charitable organization's operation throughout the year...
According to Nancy M. Kinchla, OIT's manager of planning and administration for the network services division, the problems at Harvard appear to stem entirely from collect calls made to administration numbers and then transferred to outside phone lines...
...England Telephone has refunded all the money lost to the University, and is attempting to solve the problem, Kinchla said. The only way to stop fraud completely would be to block all collect calls, she said, but legitimate collect callers would be cut off as well. Currently, the company is working on blocking specific institutional numbers from the University phone lines...
...Generally we get someone pretending to be a professor calling collect. One time they said they were Professor Goldberg," he said...
Even if all 30 employees are counted as "savings," that probably adds up to less than $1 million (figuring $30,000 a staffer), which still leaves Knowles with roughly $3 million in savings to collect. Fortunately--for Knowles, at least--Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait and the economy tanked...