Word: complained
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...this practical cohabitation brings about a catalog of ethical puzzles. What is the proper protocol in such circumstances? Is it appropriate to ask your neighbors to turn down the music, or stop having loud sex against the wall? Do you complain, or do you put on your headphones, crank up your iTunes and sulk? Is it polite to giggle about your neighbors’ private lives with your friends in the dining hall (and then write about it in the student newspaper)? At what point are you no longer a neighbor, but a voyeur...
...bomb on Gomorrah. Or Baghdad. I’ll leave the comparable horror of nuclear disaster up to your imagination. From the single-tear no-friends tenor of your note, I bet you read sci-fi. You probably have braces too. Anyway, if you’re going to complain, write to Stephen Fee. Yours, The FM Ethicist
...also said that an NCAA committee is considering reforms that could include making data public, though he did not say when the decision would be made. Despite compliance, some NCAA schools oppose EADA requirements because preparing reports requires time and hundreds of thousands of dollars each year. They also complain that the reporting is disconnected from how athletic departments operate. But some legislators worry that the report’s problems have broader implications for gender equality in college athletic programs. Mass. Senator Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 called the report?...
...things we students have in common—from pro-18th Amendment teetotalers to wild frat boys. Ten at night to two in the morning is party/study/deep conversation time. Phoning anyone before noon is considered rude because it may interrupt prime bedtime hours. We complain that 10 a.m. classes are too early. And many would gladly give up breakfast entirely in exchange for a late night snack fix. What’s ridiculous is that deep down we all know that this way of living is crazy. We continue to happily munch Tommy’s Pizza?...
...working conditions, better incomes and better education. Since they don't get money from Beijing, they collect it from the farmers, many of whom are too poor to pay fees, taxes and other levies. This burden has been a classic cause of rural unrest. Faced with excessive fees, farmers complain to higher authorities, petition Beijing, sue the local government or, in more radical cases, surround government buildings and burn offices...