Word: hdns
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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When the answer to the Boston Globe's rhetorical slogan, "Have you seen the Globe today?" became a definitive "no," several students took Harvard Delivery News service (HDNS) to court this spring for failing to either deliver their newspapers or to reimburse them for undelivered issues...
Archie C. Epps III, Dean of Students, who oversees HDNS was not available for comment yesterday...
Matthews and Esty took Mitchell W. Smith '82, the manager of HDNS, to court in March, challenging HDNS' policy of refunding at the newsstand price only those students who bought the undelivered issues. HDNS agreed to refund at a lower cost those students who did not claim they had bought the undelivered issues...
Matthews and Esty, however, could not collect the original sum of more than $200 that they claimed HDNS owed a large group of Winthrop House students. The Small Claims Court would not allow them to represent persons who were not present at the hearing...
Matthews and Esty claim the judge's ruling calls for HDNS to base all refunds on the newsstand price. However, Smith said he would not change his policy of paying the lower price to those students who did not buy replacement newspapers...