Word: hdns
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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...
Recently Dean Epps "co-signed $14,000 in loans and used $2,000 in 'discretionary funds'... to pay off the debts and expenses incurred by Harvard Delivery News Service (HDNS)" that resulted from embezzlement of about $6000-$7000 by HDNS's former manager. In conversations after the signing, Dean Epps learned that former manager, Martin Olive, was a cocaine user. Is it too naive to associate cocaine use with embezzlement of large sums of money? Yet despite a perhaps logical association, Epps has chosen not to prosecute because of "concern for (Olive's) personal situation...
...Epps and Olive agreed that Olive would instead make a $5000 restitution to the service in a series of payments. So far, Olive has paid only $1400 of the total, and HDNS still has a $5000 debt with Cambridge Trust...