Word: hdns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...performs a service that people count on. So in a way Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, did nothing wrong--legally or ethically--when he helped obtain $14,000 in loans and used $2000 in College discretionary funds to assure against the bankruptcy of Harvard Delivery News Service (HDNS) last spring. Had conditions provided no other solution, Epps' actions would have merited the respect of those who subscribe to The New York Times and the Boston Globe, even though Harvard has no legal responsibility for HDNS. But given the situation that led to his financial juggling. Epps (who calls...
...that what happened last year was entirely the dean's fault. To be sure, Martin Olive '78-4, manager of HDNS off and on for four years until last January, is directly culpable for the hideous financial mismanagement of the service. Olive allegedly (he refuses to comment on this) skipped town at the beginning of the spring semester with $6000 to $7000 of HDNS in tow, leaving the service with more than $14,500 in unaccounted-for check stubs and about $10,000 in debt. When Epps and Mitchell W. Smith '82, Olive's successor since last February, attempted...
...this conclusion begs the real question, which is how Olive succeeded in getting away with what he did (to this day, his only reparation to HDNS has been an agreement to pay it $5000). Subscribers complained of highly erratic delivery throughout the fall, and even the Times and the Globe decided they had had enough of the elusive manager so far back as last November. On any other campus, newspaper officials could have fired the delivery service manager for failure to perform up to par. But because Epps insists that he oversees the service--and that only he can make...
...began to go downhill for him more than two years ago, when the Times forced him to perform yeoman's work in starting up circulation after the fall 1978 newspaper strike. Failing two courses as a result, Olive says he began experiencing personal problems which led him to abuse HDNS; and a Times official says he believes Olive began mixing his personal money with HDNS funds at about that time...
...Epps had kept a close eye on HDNS's books then, he would have noticed the trouble in time to prevent last year's debacle. But the dean saw only the veneer: Olive was increasing subscriptions, he seemed dedicated, complaints were sporadic. True, Olive's responsibilities stretched the manager thin--aside from his administrative and academic duties. Olive used his own truck to drop papers off at delivery sites every morning at 5 a.m. But the Times official did not appear concerned; he and Olive got along well...