Kim charged in a post that Tsai had implied andthe HCL president was "pig-headed andself-centered." Kim said that he based thisstatement not just on Tsai's resignation letter,but on other posts which directly attacked him.

Kim said in an interview yesterday that messageposted in newsgroups "have to be taken with agrain of salt, because people tend to be a lotfreer in what they say and it's a lot easier tomake unqualified accusations."

Both he and Holland denied the existence of theconflicts Tsai wrote of in his resignation post.

"It's easy to misunderstand what people aresaying in terms of his allegations about theinternal conflicts," Kim said, "I'm sorry he feltthat way, but I didn't see those internalconflicts."

Later in the interview, Kim acknowledged theexistence of conflicts but said they did notaffect the computer society's workings.

"We did not let these conflicts--and I'll befrank, they did exist and who they existed betweenwas irrelevant--affect the HCS," Kim said.

"Everyone on the board and other active membersmay not have liked each other that much, but thatdid not at all affect how we dealt with the HCS'sKim said. "I think that's a testament of maturityto the 1993 board that everyone was able tosuppress their differences with the other membersin order to see the HCS progress."

But while the HCS president defended therelations between members of his organization, healso acknowledged that the recent split of twoformer HCS executives to form a new publicationhas drawn considerable publicity.

"A lot of focus has been on Jeff [Tarr] andIshir [Bhan]--they've been getting a lot ofpublicity lately," Kim said.

Tarr, a former HCS president, and Bhan, aformer editor-in-chief of the review, recentlyfounded Digitas, a new student group intended toexplore and advocate emerging technologies. Thetwo did not resign their HCS memberships, however.

Tsai refused to discuss the formation of thenew group in light of his allegations of conflictwithin the HCS. "I also think it will be betterthe HCS. "I also think it will be better for both[HCS and Digitas] if I don't say anything either[about the personality conflicts]," he saidyesterday.

Tsai said the fall issue of the review wasclose to completion when financial difficultiesprevented its publication. Review staffers hadalready finished "editing and laying out all thearticles for the fall issue of [the review]," hesaid.

Ho, the business manager, said the completedfall issue was never published because thepublisher refused to print any more issues untilHCS had reduced its debt with the company to an"acceptable" sum.

The HCS inherited a $5,000 debt with itspublishers from last year because of the cost ofputting out the review and Computers atHarvard, an annual publication distributed tothe entire student body, Ho said.

The 1993 Computers at Harvardpublication cost an additional $10,000,increasing the HCS debt to $15,000, he said.