HSA ENTERTAINMENT AGENCY

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Flattered as I am by the fact that the HSA's "increased capital and manpower" have been mobilized on behalf of us overworked entertainers, there are still a few points in the recent Student Calendar article which might stand clarification.

Disregarding the style of the piece (following the example of its author), I question first whether the HSA has quite covered all the possibilities when it claims that any student has the "opportunity of joining its agency, or using both the Student Employment Casual Office and the agency." A student can register with only the Casual Office if he wishes; one does not have to put one's finger in the HSA's corporate pie.

I also question the logic of asserting that HAS's great resources can encourage "a constantly growing variety of skill, and faster service than can be provided with the limited resources of the Student Employment Office, which must be concerned with the problems of hundreds of students." While most of us yield to no one in our admiration of HSA's resources, we are nonetheless under the impression, I think, that it too is concerned with the problems of hundreds of students. Thousands, maybe. Mr. Burke, the article should have said, is Director of HSA and Director of Student Employment.

The article notes that "there will always be customers desiring the lower prices of entertainers whom they secure" through the Casual Employment Office. The implication is that we "interested parties who wish to limit or eliminate competition" might not measure up to somebody's standards. That, gentlemen, hurts. Especially since HSA doesn't review the qualifications of the entertainers it plans to advertise.

I expect the HSA will sell me my ring and beer mug, type my thesis, and perhaps print my diploma. Its centralization of these things is fine, but centralization of entertainers is an unfortunate overextension of interests, and no service at all. Max Byrd '64.