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...been criticized recently for a lack of sensitivity toward women's health needs; some critics have also suggested that UHS appoint an ombudsman...
Helen Nowlis, 57, a University of Rochester counselor and ombudsman, has become increasingly well known as a spokeswoman for those who feel that the nation is underestimating the complexity of the drug problem. As chairman of the U.S. Office of Education advisory panel on drug education, she has spent the past year crisscrossing the country to sell her point of view to state agencies, school systems and colleges. Her philosophy began to take shape twenty years ago, when she participated in one of the first comprehensive studies of the social, emotional and physical results of drugs, and concluded that "there...
...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...