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...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...
...quarreling, against his boss's orders, with another employee whom he felt was endangering an expensive Holyoke Center computer, Brown-Beasley is fired. Hiss boss, R. Jerrold Gibson '51, director of the Office of Fiscal Services, has taken none of the "progressive" disciplinary steps mandated by the salaried personnel manual: informal oral warnings recorded by the employer, warning letters and suspension...
This is where Brown-Beasley's banana converter comes in. Since the August 4th firing Harvard's defense has leaned partially on a disturbingly vague clause in the personnel manual that reads, "Discharge without prior warnings or suspension may be justified for very serious offenses, for example, serious dishonesty, including theft of University property." (Harvard's arguments also rest on the University's contention that Brown-Beasley, who admits he is eccentric and hard to get along with, has a record of difficulties in jobs he has held at Harvard since 1969. But Brown-Beasley's University personnel file contains...
...reports from students holding recent summer jobs show that most undergraduates worked as manual laborers or low-skilled workers--for example, carpenters, garbage men, nightclub bouncers, and janitors...
Fewer students were hired as research assistants, newspaper reporters, camp counselors, and in other fields the OCS-OCL reports showed were popular with Harvard students. Students who did find these jobs earned considerably less than those with manual labor jobs...