Word: dormaid
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Several leaders of the student-run cleaning service DormAid are facing the threat of legal action from Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) for an alleged violation of their contracts as former HSA employees...
...DormAid co-founder Michael E. Kopko ’07 and his colleagues Jorge R. Aviles ’07, Christopher N. Acton-Maher ’07, and Robert D. Cecot ’08 all decided to resign from their managerial positions at HSA on Aug. 5 to concentrate their efforts on the expansion and maintenance of DormAid...
Five days after their official resignation, the DormAid executives each received a letter from HSA’s lawyers. According to Kopko, the letter alleged that the students had committed a breach of contract by quitting their HSA jobs and misappropriated intellectual property by using HSA management techniques at DormAid...
...this, first formed in the prep academies and magnet schools where so many were conditioned to this kind of privileged life, then refined and reinforced by the divisive institutions of our Harvard lives—from official policies and regulations to the student snobbery of final clubs and DormAid...
While the freshman dorms and most of the houses eventually allowed DormAid to operate under a strict “one-strike” policy, Mather and Lowell have refused them the privilege. The service will ultimately be up and running on campus next year and, according to Kopko, its mere existence reflects the value of resilience for any start-up enterprise...