Word: hsa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resignation letter, Thomas said HSA interfered with his academic work. Thomas is from Kirkland House, and Arthur Smithies, master of Kirkland House, is the member of the Commission of Inquiry who suggested the Commission's investigation of HSA last Spring...
...should be added that Thomas's reaction to Ryan is atypical. Most division managers respect Ryan's capabilities and some of them even honored his request to refrain from saying anything substantial to The Crimson. Ryan started as a bartender his freshman year, and worked his way up the HSA ladder. He became the manager of the catering division, one of the agency's most profitable enterprises...
...February, only about half the students working for HSA catering were on scholarship. During Christmas and summer in 1971, HSA catering employed a few people who had absolutely no affiliation with the University. "During a very peak season, there may have been one or two employees who are not Harvard students. When I was made aware that that happened, those employees got no more jobs." Ryan said, "What we have to do is make better efforts earlier to recruit people to work over Christmas...
Ryan himself has called the catering division HSA's "biggest offender" for not hiring scholarship students. Since February HSA has steadily increased the percentage of scholarship students it employs in the catering division. Weekly reports of the number of jobs given to scholarship students are now sent to the Student Employment Office...
...catering division also got a taste of strong competition last Spring when one of its former secretaries started Independent Student Agencies Inc. Bartenders for ISA received $3.25 per hour with no four-hour minimum. HSA charged the former secretary with taking unfair advantage of its customer files: most ISA employees had worked for HSA as well. Sometime over the summer, however, ISA folded in ignominious straits...