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...Jack M. Garvey, 47, who worked as a shuttle driver for five and a half years, said he was dismissed Friday without a formal hearing and that he was not given any severance package except for the paid vacation days he had accumulated...
...firing stems from an altercation involving Garvey and football players Danny P. Lane ’07 and James R. Velissaris ’07 on the day of the team’s annual barbeque in Currier House. While the altercation has resulted in no arrests, Harvard coach Tim Murphy suspended Lane and Velissaris for the team’s opening game next season...
...Garvey said today that after the barbeque, members of the team—many of whom appeared to be inebriated—tried to board the shuttle of another driver, Gabe Pognon, with tables and grills. Garvey said that Pognon and the football players were involved in a “heated discussion,” so Garvey stepped out of his shuttle to address the situation...
...Garvey said Velissaris tried to get on his shuttle with a table, and that when Garvey told him that he could not, Velissaris cursed at him several times...
Blacks don’t have a monopoly on poverty and suffering, but suffering and poverty have a near-complete monopoly on black folk everywhere. In his famous “Handwriting on the Wall” speech, Garvey declared, “Whether it is Africa, or America or Europe, the world is cold and indifferent to the Negro.” In light of the global community’s refusal to forgive the debts of predominantly black developing nations, to fulfill its promised contributions to fighting AIDS, to meet or even seriously consider the millennium development goals...