Word: complain
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When Harvard Law School (HLS) student Rachel E. Morrisey e-mailed a dean in December to complain about unidentified males peeping in dorm bathrooms, she didn’t know she would initiate a change in the way the University responds to safety concerns...
Harvard students love to complain...
We’re concerned about global warming, global AIDS and globalization. We form organizations to “raise awareness,” but too often that’s where things stop. Fortunately, some students aren’t content to just complain. The recent call for seniors to boycott the Senior Gift until Harvard sells its stock in PetroChina is a rare and worthwhile attempt to get Harvard students...
...Faculty complain that Summers is intimidating, and there is no doubt that he can be. Complaints that he has silenced people, however, need to be rounded out. He seems not yet to have fully found his way in making the transition from faculty member to President, and, alas, the two are not the same; criticism from the President feels different than criticism from a colleague. But that is different from refusing to tolerate dissent. I’ve crossed swords with him in more than one setting, and while being criticized directly and forcefully by the President can be unnerving...
...those are the lines the Faculty has drawn, then what are the dots? Many in the Faculty are particularly incensed at the disappointing Curricular Review, so it serves as an appropriate case study. They complain that he uses his deans to do his dirty work on this one—top down—such as when Dean of the Faculty William H. Kirby heavily “revised” the preliminary Curricular Review report last spring. As for problems with transparency, a Faculty member told me anonymously that, “The rest of the Faculty community...