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...frustrating three-month-long runaround that Dean Epps and other administrators have put the Society of Arab Students through has saddened and angered us, and has raised difficult questions about fairness and equal justice on this campus," the letter says...
...frustrating three-month-long runaround that Dean Epps and other administrators have put the Society of Arab Students through has saddened and angered us, and has raised difficult questions about fairness and equal justice on this campus. It seems as though a deliberate effort was made to delay justice for the Society. We cannot help but wonder whether the administration would have taken this long to address a similar complaint by a different student group. We hope that the decision reached by Dean Epps and the committee will not only address the unfair treatment of our grant application but will...
...since her parents had written first for Broadway. As a young reporter at the New York Post, Ephron presumed on her mother's acquaintance with her boss, the paper's owner, Dorothy Schiff, to present fellow reporters' complaints about filthy working conditions at the Post. Schiff gave her the runaround -- a dangerous thing to do to Ephron. Though she had been doing fluffy "women's items" at the Post, Nora discovered her real (and deadly) talent when she deftly beheaded Schiff in an Esquire article...
...Lasch's suspicions were further aroused when the Kennedys gave police investigators what seemed to be a runaround. William Barry, a former FBI agent who was staying at the compound, incorrectly told detectives that Senator Edward Kennedy had left for Washington when in fact he was having lunch at the Palm Beach estate. For two weeks the family rebuffed police attempts to survey the grounds where the alleged assault took place. That was sufficient time for the wind and sea to obliterate any evidence that might have corroborated the woman's story. A grand jury may decide this week whether...
Government concentrator Kelly also complains about the lack of thesis advisers. She says she was given a runaround when she went looking for a supervisor. When she asked three people for assistance--all of whom said they were either too busy or didn't think they could help her--she was given a list of other possible advisers to call...