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...black cook who last week was suspended for five days from his job in the College's central kitchen has charged that his supervisor discriminated against him by distorting allegations of tardiness and absenteeism...
Shaeffer said Simpson refused last week to arrange a meeting between kitchen management and Walter J. Leonard, special assistant to the president and supervisor of Harvard's affirmative action plan, to discuss Glass's suspension...
...including minorities, into their communities. The town of Hempstead, L.I. (pop. more than 800,000), for example, which adjoins New York City, has been denied $758,000 in federal aid because it did not propose an acceptable low-income housing program. Admits Francis Purcell, the town's presiding supervisor: "Most of the people in our communities are viciously and violently opposed to having low-income housing. They've all run to get away from the deterioration of New York City...
...promoted kitchen men to cooks at least five times in my experience without posting the job, purely on the basis of favoritism. Even when the worker promoted really deserves the promotion, he is made to feel that it is being done as a personal favor from his supervisor and that he owes a debt of personal gratitude. This is insulting to the dignity of the worker promoted, as well as unfair to the workers who don't even have a chance to be considered for promotion...
...aren't employees allowed due process? Due process is necessary in the courts and should be prevalent at Harvard, especially since Harvard trains so many judges, lawyers, ambassadors and cabinet members. All people have a right to a fair trial and the right to face their accusers. The supervisor who suspended me was not even present at the hearing, nor was there any statement of his case against me. I only learned Montville's version of what had happened when Sweeney sent me her ruling on the case. Her ruling sided with his distorted version of the events, which...