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Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) approached the council with the one-ring proposal. In the original version of the bill, HSA was specified as the ring vendor. The bill also included provisions for HSA to continue its sponsorship of the council’s movies nights. The final version, though, was amended to allow council President Matthew W. Mahan ’05 and Vice President Michael R. Blickstead ’05 to negotiate with various ring vendors and find the plan that would most benefit students...
...that microwaves do not violate any sort of state or local fire code, nor—according to the Cambridge Fire Department’s Fire Prevention Bureau—do they even constitute a particularly notable fire hazard (there are many microwaves available that are cheaper than the HSA microfridge and run on a lower wattage, low wattage being the alleged reason for the microfridge’s safe and legal status). Rather, it is the state sanitary code, which has nothing to do with fire safety, that forbids cooking appliances of any kind in dormitories. However, a follow...
...disappointed to see that the Feb. 9 article about Leverett House inspections (News, “Room Inspections Catch Leverett House Residents by Surprise) did not challenge the myth, perpetuated by Harvard Student Agencies (HSA) and University administrators, that possession of microwaves and other cooking appliances besides the HSA microfridge constitutes a violation of a “fire code.” In fact, this piece ignores the debunking work done on the topic by The Crimson’s weekend magazine, Fifteen Minutes...
...December, HSAs went into effect on Jan. 1, allowing you to save money in a tax-free account to pay for health-care costs. Individuals with "self-only" policies can make a pretax annual contribution of $2,600, and families can contribute up to $5,150 to an HSA account...
Cell phones became merely the emblem of the extravagance to which the city folk so recklessly surrendered. Spur-of-the-moment meals at expensive restaurants and $100 water cooler rentals from HSA came as naturally as the phrase, “I’m blowing up.” But Dartboard is not cool enough to blow up. Paying monthly fees is not what Dartboard had in mind when he imagined getting a B.A. So Dartboard gives up his aspirations of joining the aristocratic majority of cell phone possessors and reluctantly endures his perpetual lowliness. Maybe it?...