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Hearst asked his former Poonmate to contribute to the paper's Sunday supplement. And under the alias of "Phin," Thayer published a series of ballads and humorous poems of which only "Casey" made history...
...wasn't the first time, of course, that the SPH has faced charges of misappropriation of funds. Way back in 1975, when one-time SPH faculty member Dr. Phin Cohen charged Harvard officials with actively misusing federal research funds--and then told the NIH about it--the battle began. Then in May 1976, an NIH audit concluded that the school's department of Nutrition had overcharged the federal government by $132,000 and the agency told Harvard to give it back. The University concurred with the findings and returned the money in September 1976--in an effort...
Harvard Assistant Professor Phin Cohen, an M.D. and biochemist, was studying human blood chemistry under a $200,000 research grant from the National Institutes of Health in 1972, when an aide to his department chairman asked him to sign a form. Innocuously titled "Report of Expenditures," it was designed to explain how Cohen's federal research money had been spent. Trouble was, the copy shown Cohen was blank. He asked for a list of expenditures. No, he was told, other researchers customarily signed blank forms. Administrators filled in the items later. Cohen persisted, and was warned by the School...
...years since he left Harvard, Phin Cohen has been working part time in student health services and industrial medicine. Outside of work he has trans formed himself into an avenging angel of bookkeeping; invoking the Freedom of Information Act to gain access to HEW audit files, he has made a nationwide study of the accounting practices of 100 colleges. Among his findings: overbilling of federal research grants for medical insurance; hiding cost overruns with "journal transfers"-the practice of billing one project for work done on another...
...Phin Cohen, former professor of Nutrition at the School of Public Health, had also petitioned HEW for a copy of the report. Cohen, whose testimony before Congress sparked the audit, is suing Harvard, charging he was not reappointed to the school's Faculty because he publicly 600 transactions charged to federal funds were being misused by his superiors at the school...