Word: verr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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STAN BARANCZAK and Mark Fusco will drink a toast, While Garry Trudeau leads a Richard Pipes roast. Brian Byrne, Stacy Campbell and fair Aglaia Senese Each at 14 Plympton will renew their lease. Saul Chafin and Steve Verr will elbows bend To down a glass at their lawsuit's end. Tis a season of mistletoe, turkey and slush For Czeslaw Milosz, Fred Jewett and preppy George Bush. Don Fleming, the cager and evolving Steve Gould, But not Joe Duarte, whose regime will be fooled. Adam Ulam, Ron Erhardt, and talkative Ed Reischauer Gaye Williams, the Space Shuttle and the diamond...
Chafin was accused of assaulting Steven R. Verr '79 on February 10. Verr, now a student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, testified yesterday that, after he called Chafin a "lackey," the chief jabbed him with his index finger, grabbed him in a headlock, and "pummeled...
...Verr said he may now file a civil suit against Chafin in connection with the incident. "Based on what the judge found. I think a civil suit would sail through." Verr said, adding he would be more likely to file suit if Harvard withheld financial aid funds or took other action against...
Detailed descriptions of a brief encounter between Chafin and Verr dominated the four hours of testimony. Verr, the only witness called by the prosecution, said he called Chafin a "lackey" after the chief refused to divulge the reasons behind a meeting he had requested with the student. Chafin said University officials had informed him Verr had been expelled, and said he had therefore summoned him to tell him he was "being terminated" as a student security guard...
...When Verr did not know of the expulsion--which has since been revoked--Chafin made several calls during the meeting to Harvard officials asking for confirmation. When he repeatedly refused to tell Verr who he had called or what they had said. Verr referred to Chafin as a "lackey" at least twice, and the altercation ensued...