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...King thinks a fare increase is going to eliminate the deficit, he will have to raise fares to three or four dollars per ride," Thomas Ziola, the board's budget analyst, said yesterday. King justified the fare hike by saying, "I believe in the users paying... What the user does not pay is paid by the taxpayer...
...didn't meet up with Olive until late May, more than four months after Olive left HDNS. Then, Epps' compassion for Olive--who, the dean learned, was a "drug user"--blinded him to his duties as HDNS's overseer; he took pains not to upset the former manager. But students and even Times officials allege that Olive was a cocaine dealer on campus well before he left HDNS. Had Epps known this, he would have treated Olive more harshly, since University policy is to prosecute campus drug dealers: "My actions were based upon the assumption that he was simply...
...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...
...late May, when he talked to Olive for the first time since the discrepancies had been discovered, he decided not to prosecute the former manager because of "concern for Olive's personal situation." Epps said he learned through discussion with the former manager that Olive was a "drug user," an allegation on which Olive refused to comment this week...
Although sources said this week they believe Olive sold cocaine during his tenure, Olive refused to comment on that charge; and Epps said he was unaware of the allegations. "My actions were based upon the assumption that he was simply a user and not a dealer, and if there had been evidence he had been trafficking then it would have become a disciplinary matter," Epps said...