Word: complainer
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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...
...illegitimate unless it provides the answer to a test question, wins a grant or looks good on a transcript. And faced with the weaknesses of the undergraduate curriculum, such as a flawed Core curriculum, large class sizes, inadequate mentorship and so on, we are more likely to complain about what isn't being provided for us, if we even react at all, and less likely to take things into our own hands--to experiment with finding ways to make our education more enriching...
...Nobody's going to listen to me if I say anything" she said "If the students complain, maybe they'll do something. I can't say anything. I'll stay quiet...
...like clockwork, each group spending about two hours. Typically, they ignore the town and climb the ruins instead, returning to their hotel in Cuzco to rest before rushing off to see Machu Picchu on the last day of what is usually a three-day tour. All the while they complain of the altitude sickness that often comes with the area's 13,000-ft. elevation. They have seen the famous ruins, but they are probably missing what is still alive in the Sacred Valley of the Inca, cradle of one of the world's great civilizations...
...thousands of electric-shock riot shields for crowd control to police in Turkey, where torture is "widespread," according to State Department human-rights reports. South Africa's new CMax prison for hardened criminals is considering buying Stun Tech's shock belt over the protests of human-rights groups, which complain that Nelson Mandela's government allows prisoner abuses...