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Los Angeles Times: Child-care needs different for nonstandard workday employees
An article in the September 2 Los Angeles Times by Caryl Rivers, a COM
professor of journalism, concerns the impact irregular work schedules
have on child-care needs. "Although fewer Americans are working the
standard 9-to-5 workday, the world remains structured as if they were,"
she writes. "Meeting the needs of children is a huge challenge because
the parents are out of sync with the timetable of the larger society."
Rivers and coauthor Rosaline Barnett, director of the Community, Families,
and Work program at Brandeis University, propose a solution to the problem
- creating a system for civilians that's similar to the military, which
has 24-hour child care, transportation systems, and health-care for their
personnel.
Boston Globe: To advertise or not to advertise on
9/11
As Boston-area TV and radio stations firm up their programming
schedule for the upcoming anniversary of September 11, one unresolved
issue is whether or not to air ads or air fewer ads throughout the day,
reports the August 30 Boston Globe. Some companies, such as TJX, which
lost seven employees in the terrorist attacks, Dunkin' Donuts, Gillette
Company, and the Stop & Shop Supermarket Company, will pull their
ads for the day. Some media outlets will run commercial-free segments
or air public service messages. Tobe Berkovitz, a COM associate professor
in the department of communications, advertising, and public relations,
says that while most people think Americans will be offended by commercials
that air on September 11, a poll taken last year after TV networks pulled
ads indicated that many consumers wanted them back. According to the survey,
many thought that the best way to honor the victims and defy the terrorists
was to resume business as usual. "The people saw commercials as a
part of normalcy," Berkovitz says.
Guardian Unlimited (Britain) and The Monitor (Africa):
BU offers African rulers viable exit strategy
It was announced recently that Kenneth Kaunda, the 78-year-old
former president of Zambia, will be the first participant in Boston University's
Lloyd G. Balfour African Presidents in Residence program. Britain's Guardian
Unlimited praises the University's
"pioneering new fellowship programme" in an August 28 article
and says that "the move is a rare publicity triumph for the university,
which is usually overshadowed by its better-known neighbour, Harvard."
Charles Stith, a former U.S. ambassador to Tanzania and director of BU's
African Presidential Archives and Research Center, agrees that getting
Kaunda is "a real coup" and hopes that the former president
will be the first of many African former leaders to come to Boston. "What
we're doing represents an example of the potential opportunities after
the presidency," Stith says. "If that can serve as an impetus
for some folks to move on, then we're happy." Although acknowledging
that Kaunda ruled a one-party state for 19 of his 27 years in power, he
did leave office peacefully after losing a re-election bid. Stith hopes
future candidates in the program show a commitment to the democratic process.
The Monitor (Kampala, Uganda) reports on August 30 that Ugandan President
Yoweri Museveni and Frederick Chiluba, who replaced Kaunda in Zambia,
have also been considered for the program.
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September 2002
Boston University
Office of University Relations