Word: hsa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even if Ryan had not been shouldering Nelson's work load the first semester, he would still have been busy beyond the call of duty. In addition to being president of HSA. Ryan was also president of the College Bartenders Service in his home town, Garden City, N.Y. The business folded after the Christmas season, and Ryan insists that he spent no more than 30 hours on the College Bartending Service since its inception. He refused to say when it began...
While The Crimson was investigating HSA, an outside travel agency, Uni-Travel, filed in the face of a University ruling that gave HSA virtually exclusive rights to set up charter and affinity group flights for the Harvard community. Uni-Travel in early February offered Harvard students, employees, and families a round-trip affinity group flight to Acapulco over Spring vacation. Ryan had complained to Dean Epps about Uni-Travel in February 1971, when Uni-Travel organized a Europe flight with the help of a Law School student Daniel Steiner '54. General Counsel to the University, began putting pressure...
Steiner in February 1972, pledged "We will try to stop them (Uni-Travel). Unfortunately for HSA. Steiner soon became needed for more pressing matters--the issues of whether SDS could hold its national convention on the Harvard campus and then in April, the Gulf Oil proxy vote and the ensuing takeover of Massachusetts Hall...
Even it Steiner had put all his power to the test, his backing of HSA would have been like the Marines backing a regular regiment of Thieu's Army. On May 5, 1972, HSA was forced to mail out cancellation notices to those who had subscribed to five of its seven charter flights to Europe. HSA, due to competition from lower-than-ever youth fare rates, could simply not corner the Harvard market as it had done in the past...
...Although HSA bungled the transportation to Europe, for those who still got there, HSA published last year a very well-written guide, Let's Go: the Student Guide to Europe. Behind their high quality publication, bitter disagreements existed between Ryan and Donald C. Thomas III '72, the publishing division manager who resigned in September 1971. Ryan, Thomas and a third student had vied for the HSA presidency the previous Spring in a close contest...