Word: steiner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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 on the law student and a few months later, the University protected HSA's monopoly by making it a violation of University regulations for a student to organize a non-HSA charter flight. Legally, HSA had no grounds to complain...
...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 if 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...
...CFIA TRASHING was condemned almost unanimously by the community. President Bok said it was an action with "no purpose to be gained other than mindless violence." The Crimson editorially condemned the attack "without qualification" and characterized it as "aimless violence." Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, estimated that about $25,000 damage had been done to the building. Student volunteers and Harvard policemen worked late into the night to clear up the wreckage. The trashing probably had a salutary effect on attendance at the upcoming mass meeting: students became even more determined to translate their outrage into effective...
...However, Steiner also disclaimed any role, and said he thought that Whitlock and Stevens had been in charge. Stevens could not be reached for comment last night...