Word: gripe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After finishing Mr. Smith's editorial, I was quite prepared to read some provocative commentary. Unfortunately, I started John Rosenthal's "The T.P. Squeeze." Has Reading Period been so taxing on Mr. Rosenthal's mind that the only topic he could write about was to gripe about Harvard's toilet paper? Surely there are better subjects for Mr. Rosenthal to write on. He, at least, could have addressed the real problem with the toilet paper--its extreme coarseness--rather than relating his little experiences with the various toilet paper holders...
Disregarding her leader's warning and following up on her earlier gripe, Delegate Lakhdhir moves that the council apologize in The Independent for the forum advertisement...
Ironically, Heimert has a gripe about SASC, and when he discusses the activists he becomes very adamant. He claims that members acted "unethically" in not identifying themselves when they called him for information about the program. And he says they illegally photocopied a report by a student who worked at a South African private school available in the Eliot House library. "I thought it was illegal to take reserve material out of library," Heimert says of the activists' actions...
Liberal faculty members have a similar gripe with McLaughlin. "[McLaughlin] has to make it clear what is and isn't tolerable activity. You don't go around kicking chairs from under people. Everybody's mother told them that," says Thomas Roos, one of McLaughlin's most severe faculty critics and a supporter...
...notorious "pre-med row" of the Cabot Library basement, a subgenre of gripe-graffiti has evolved. The subject-matter varies little in its scope, though the final form can be more biting than run-of-the-mill graffiti...