Word: complained
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...departmental head tutors, in addition to having no incentive other than embarrassment to change their ways, complain that they face over-powering constraints on what they are capable of offering so many undergraduates, given the department's limited resources. They lament that they cannot ensure that upperclass students have access to residential advisors because this is the domain of the individual Houses. In response, the senior tutors within these individual Houses point out that it is the department's responsibility to advise its own students regardless of whether the House is able to hire a resident tutor in every large...
...Light finds that the most important factor contributing to a meaningful undergraduate academic experience at Harvard is participating in an intellectual experience that is sustained for one year or longer. Clearly more of Harvard's resources should be devoted to fostering such experiences, but for those departmental administrators who complain that they have no control over resources, there is already at least one example of a large department which managed to create a successful mentoring program without additional resources--biochemistry...
Still, players complain that not all costs arecovered...
...find a few things to complain about. The once standard fax utility, for instance, has vanished, though if you already have Microsoft Fax on your machine, you'll still be able to use it. And although most pre-Win 98 applications will work fine, old versions of disk utilities like Norton Antivirus will require upgrades. Games like Activision's Heavy Gear that use Win 95 movie features also might not work properly. (Microsoft says early bugs have been fixed; we'll see.) Then there's Win 98's gluttonous appetite for hard-drive space: if you upgrade, be prepared...
Although the poster in question had been hanging in Lowell House for at least four years, its placement was inconspicuous and the students and tutors I spoke with said they barely ever noticed it. But when people began to complain, the poster was immediately replaced with an innocuous watercolor. As Lowell House Master William H. Bossert '59 explained to me, there was no need to have a poster that offended somebody hanging in the dining hall, especially one without any monetary value...