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...Conrad ’02-’03 does an admirable job exposing Harvard Student Agencies’ (HSA) MicroFridge monopoly (Magazine, “What If It Were All a Lie?,” Oct. 10). However, the article neglects to mention one additional absurdity in HSA??s rental program. MicroFridges can be purchased directly from the manufacturer—Mac-Gray, the same company that services Harvard’s laundry machines—through their website collegerefrigerators.com. Buying the same microwave outright costs hundreds of dollars less than what HSA charges for four years?...
...what about HSA??s microfridge—is that forbidden as well...
...contacted Robert Bersani, the head of Cambridge’s Department of Inspectional Services, to find out what specifications a microwave would have to meet to qualify for use in dorm rooms. Were there microwaves other than HSA??s microwave that might qualify...
...microfridge when it really does not? No one’s really sure. HSA first started selling the microfridge seven years ago, eons ago for a company whose employees turn over every four years. Institutional memory just doesn’t go that far back. Robert Rombauer, HSA??s general manager and one of the company’s six full-time adult employees, says he doesn’t know who was in charge of getting approval for the microfridge, or with whom they spoke to try to get that approval. Z. Anthony Ekmekjian...
...HSA??s rentals agency owes most of its cash flow to the microfridge’s success. They rent it for one year for almost the same price it would cost a student to buy one new from the manufacturer, and the rest is profit. Without the microfridge, HSA Rentals would be left hawking window fans, lamps, and computers, and they don’t have a monopoly on any of those...