Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...filed the first HEW complaint against my graduate school (the G.S.D.) "for discrimination against women and minorities." Largely through my efforts the university was compelled to release the first Affirmative Action plan (which was promptly found to be "unacceptable" by HEW). Due to my complaint and continuing efforts the GSD was investigated in detail and found wanting: considering that the GSD in 30 years had never hired one single of its own women graduates it was not hard to see the facts. Based on the GSD case the investigation of the rest of the university followed...
Administrators in general and Dean Rosovsky in particular have been less than ecstatic with the performance of the Committee on Houses and Undergraduate Life lately. This week Dean Whitlock and Rosovsky told the Faculty Council about some of the problems with the CHUL--which boil down to a complaint that it does not give full considerations to the really important issues of undergraduate education here...
...student wants to challenge the accuracy of the material in his file, he must put his complaint in writing and submit it to the registrar's office, which will then pass it on to the Committee on Privacy, Accessibility and Security of Records for resolution...
Chloe, the narrator of Fay Weldon's new novel speaks for all women who believe that their intellects will never free them from their biology. To her credit, Author Weldon sees high comedy in this complaint. Her characters-Chloe, Marjorie and Grace-do indeed twitch to nature's rhythms, but the thralldom of their bodies is endlessly amusing to their unfettered minds...
...learned to wade daringly into ideas and only skim the surface off life itself; when one person catalogues life's vicissitudes, he jolts many others out of an unwitting stupor. Nin laments our cultivated numbness in the latest volume of her diary with an observation that parallels Miller's complaint in Cancer...