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...mantra for so long that no one really remembers how it got started. The only cooking appliance allowed in Harvard dorm rooms is the microfridge, rented from Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) for the low, low price of $250 a year plus deposit. But the conventional wisdom is wrong. HSA??s microfridge is just as illegal as any other microwave, rice cooker, coffee pot or teapot that students might secret away in a corner of their room. But Harvard administrators don’t know this, and for about seven years, they’ve been protecting HSA?...
...says its microfridge is allowed in dorm rooms because of the low wattage it draws from electrical circuits, making it less of a fire hazard. But that’s not true. For one, other microwave ovens run on lower wattage than HSA??s and retail for about a third the price of HSA??s device. Second, the real obstacle to having cooking appliances in dorm rooms is not the city fire code but the state sanitary code, which expressly forbids cooking appliances of any kind in dorm rooms. HSA was never exempted from these regulations...
...just had some insurance and liability issues that wouldn’t pan out, and throwing the party wouldn’t be the best course of action for us at this time,” said Derek M. Zanutto ’04, assistant manager of HSA??s bartending course...
...meets weekly with each of the managers for HSA??s programs, runs meetings for the board of directors, analyzes the company’s financial status, works on the budget and develops strategies for HSA??s presence online...
Rita Tobias, the owner of The Tennis and Squash Shop also located in HSA??s Mt. Auburn Street building, said that her store would be unaffected by any decision of HSA to terminate The Wrap’s lease...