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Sources say Vallier and Dowling sparred over alleged inconsistencies in the operations manager's handling of the security unit...
Department sources say hiring new supervisors from among the guards in a deeply divided unit would have created even more turmoil. Vallier says that such a move, in a guard service that has lost money in recent years, doesn't make economic sense...
Some of those standards are derived from the Marshall Report, an investigation of guards' claims of discrimination completed during the summer of 1993. While claiming that allegations of discrimination were false, the report indicated that the unit had been mismanaged and proposed 17 different changes...
Vallier's ultimate goal is making the department--particularly the guard service--a more viable business. While it is part of the University, Harvard's various departments hire the unit like they would an independent contractor...
...recent years, graduate schools have chosen private security firms over the Harvard guard unit. Last spring, the Law School, citing problems with the quality and cost of the Harvard service, dumped the University guards for officers from Security Systems, Inc. The Business School is now weighing a similar change, sources...