Word: complained
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...large classes, the manners established during "shopping week" tend to last all term. Last fall, I gave a Core course with an enrollment of 155 in which people walked in every day 10 or 15 minutes early, disrupting the lecture in the process. These same people would then sometimes complain to me that they had missed important announcements about exams and papers, though in all fairness the situation did improve after I informed the students of my feelings about...
...boisterous "college-like" behavior; it appears that the basic expectation is that students conduct themselves like miniature professors. This expectation is not fair, and the structure of the Ad Board is unfair as well. It is high time that students, the victims of this injustice, start to complain so that future classes won't have to go through tomorrow what we are regrettably forced to today...
...repeal of unitary taxation, which would save foreign companies operating in California as much as $500 million in state corporate taxes. Strongly backed by Japanese and British interests, the bill has been debated in each of the past three sessions but has yet to come to a vote. Insiders complain that legislators are dawdling because they have become hooked on the thousands of dollars of lobbyist lucre it generates. Another example: between 1979 and 1982, California's oil industry spent $2.5 million to prevent the imposition of a severance tax, which is a levy on oil shipped...
...members of the West Hollywood Munchkins Play Group, convene three days a week in cramped West Hollywood Park. They unlock a wooden shed, pass out toys and warily eye the winos by the shuffleboard court and the gay men seeking casual sex around the shrubs and public toilet. "We complain to the police, and they arrest these perverts in the toilet," Abrams says. "Look, I don't care what they do, but I don't want it in front of my kid. We want a separate children's toilet...
Some students also complain that controversial quotes in The Crimson are a sure way of being summoned to speak with Upton. They point to an incident last month in which outspoken activist Jamin B. Raskin '83 told The Crimson that the "administration rounded up the usual suspects" in the Lowell House investigation, and that there "were headhunters on the Ad Board who smelled blood this time." Upton immediately called him in to discuss the matter...