Word: gripe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...P.O.W. camp." Go a few steps inside the bleak main gate and the mood changes dramatically. There is dancing nightly to the driving beat of rock music and strobe lights in the recreation center's Club Intersport discotheque; upstairs, a movie theater is S.R.O. Village swingers, meanwhile, gripe about an 11 p.m. curfew and the strictly enforced regulation that men cannot enter women's residences. "This would be a great place," quips British Bobsledder Tony Norton, "if it weren't for the Olympics...
Direct Flights. Charter flights are notorious for late takeoffs and other delays. New Yorkers Levi and Jeane Pace, who are veteran travelers, recently visited the Bahamas on an O.T.C. and found it "very well-organized." Their only gripe-checkout time at their hotel was noon and their plane did not leave until 6:30 p.m. Increasingly, tourists will be able to fly on major airlines rather than lesser-known charter outfits...
Some students gripe about the teachers and the school's academic program. Several said that the school did not offer courses in areas which they were interested in. Some complained that most of the teachers did not care about students, adding, however, that there were some who were always willing to help them after school. "The students have no say in anything," one girl declares. "The teachers is always right and the kid never...
...most of you the next four years will be marked by a profound lack of interest in the administration. But sometime or another you may have a gripe with the University. Whether the problem be an unjustified tuition raise or a simple room change, if it involves bending the rules then you'll probably wind up in Massachusetts or University Halls, the homes of the Harvard administration. And when you get inside it pays to know who has the power to bend them...
...check into the matter for you, finding out what the proper channels for remedying your gripe are and what your chances are of getting it solved...