Word: ombudsman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still while he speaks. He moves about all the time, gets up, takes a few steps, sits down, stalks back and forth as if every argument were a kind of hand-to-hand struggle with a wily opponent." Castro has spent altogether too much time serving as a national ombudsman, Karol complains, forever touring the country and leaving the government to bureaucrats. "The new proletarian class," reports Karol acidly, "is quite unable to control and use the bureaucracy for its own ends as the bourgeois used...
Student Turf. One apparent payoff is a new Isla Vista tolerance for the police. Residents cooperated in the search for the recent bank bombers, and two young suspects with no apparent political motive were quickly rounded up. Somewhat belatedly, the university has joined the I.V. reformers, appointing an ombudsman and a full-time I.V. coordinator. The California regents recently voted to spend $600,000 in Isla Vista during the next two years. Planning will consume $50,000. Some of the funds wilt purchase a vacant lot that I.V.ers turned into a park. Nonetheless, Chancellor Vernon Cheadle still seems baffled...
...innovation that Hamburg has instituted is the appointment of a member of the Psychiatry Department as an ombudsman-a neutral investigator in disputes between faculty and administration, faculty and students, or administration and students...
Suggestions from the floor included "maternity leave," day care centers. a job placement service, an ombudsman, and the creation of places for women who want to return to the Graduate School after leaving the University...
...typical problems: requests for moving off-campus, all sorts of special room or board considerations, special arrangements for independent study work, and academic problems in general all lead students to see Epps. Epps acknowledges that his office often functions as a complaint bureau; he sees himself as an ombudsman, exercising judgment appropriate to each case. Epps describes his role as a dialectic relationship with students as both "friend and critic." While on the one hand he is the one administration official who accommodates student problems on a personal level, he is also in the position to exercise critical judgment...