Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Michael W. Brown-Beasley is no dummy, and he does, so to speak, have a banana converter--the Harvard University Salaried Personnel Manual. So while his discrimination complaint, filed with the Office of Civil Rights (OCR), may seem like callous or misguided exploitation of public interest in the recent "Harvard prostitution scandal," it is in fact a serious attempt to attack what Brown-Beasley sees as procedural errors in his firing. The complaint is also hardly a random shot in the dark: since being dismissed as assistant to the director of Fiscal Services on August 4, Brown-Beasley has been...
...RACIAL discrimination complaint is hardly the only turf on which Brown-Beasley is waging his fight. Indeed his full-time battle to overturn his dismissal--marked by at times daily distribution of accusatory, informational or questioning letters to members of the administration--has generated additional disputes that have helped stalemate his appeal proceeding. One of the less substantive disagreements, the mini-war of nerves over Harvard's non-recognition of Brown-Beasley's student nominee to the appeal panel, suggests not only the degree of legalism in Brown-Beasley's appeal efforts but also his overwhelming suspicion of Harvard...
...life during the twentieth century, Spender tells of a poets' conference he attended at Harvard during the early '50s. To a full auditorium, Randall Jarrell lamented the obscurity of poets in modern society. Spender, as a foreigner and member of the audience, wondered why Jarrell chose to address this complaint to an adoring crowd. Gradually he realized that Jarrell was attacking elitism...
...into an American country wifehood that the teasing promise of her intricate and highly individual childhood declines toward case history, and static, predictable domestic woe. Stephanie's cries rise to heaven like those of De Sade's Justine, a girl, one recollects, with far more justification for complaint. Paul, Stephanie grants, is a splendid lover, a fine husband, a kind man, a devoted father-as handsome, she reports, as Jimmy Stewart. But he doesn't want to live in the city. And he doesn't talk to Stephanie enough. "Our silence festers," she confides...
...most common complaint concerns racial bias. Mean SAT scores for blacks, according to an August, 1975 article by Susan Schwartz McDonald in the Philadelphia Inquirer, average about 100 points lower than mean scores for whites. Brill claims that he found a study that showed a gap of 133 points between the median scores of black and white males on Law Boards. Some, including the folks at ETS, argue that the lower mean scores simply reflect inequalities in the educational system--differences in previous training. Executive Vice President Solomon insisted to Brill that the tests "have actually opened doors" to minorities...