Word: hsa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...view of the long-overdue protests which have arisen concerning the propriety of the charter-flight operations of the HSA. I wish to add my tale of woe to the collection. Early in the spring of last year, I obtained a reservation for a trip to Europe, and pre-paid the entire amount, as required by the HSA. Late in April or early May, concluding that my financial condition required me to take a summer job in the U.S. rather than touring Europe, I attempted to cancel my reservation and obtain a refund...
...shorten the story, to this day I have been refused the refund of a single cent by the HSA, although my cancelation was nearly a full month in advance of flight. This is a staggering individual loss, in the face of the profits of HSA which must run in the thousands of dollars ($10 per head times at least 100 in each plane times 10 to 12 charter flights). It is not clear that even their unconscionable contract covers my case, and I have been refused access by Mr. Burke to look at their records to ascertain this...
They rejected the application of two students who challenged the seven-year-old HSA monopoly and whose charges led to the investigation. But they decided to establish a committee that would meet once or twice yearly to review the HSA's charter-flight accounts...
Members of the committee, according to Watson, will be "impartial people who are not familiar with HSA" and who not on its board of directors. Watson himself and Deans Monro, Glimp, and von State are among those disqualified by being directors...
...Administration's verdict on charter flights followed a 90-minute meeting yesterday morning at which Watson and others questioned HSA officials on a report by Dustin M. Burke '52, the general manager...