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Boston Herald: College hockey schedule is a grueler
Is college hockey, with its 7-month, 35-game season, losing sight of the spirit of amateur competition and causing college athletes unnecessary stress? “The season is way too long,” says BU Terrier hockey coach Jack Parker (SMG’68, Hon.’97), in the October 1 Boston Herald. “The only reason why we play like we do is because everybody else does. When I first started coaching we used to start practice on October 15 because it was a lucky day. It was my daughter Allison’s birthday. . . . I don’t propose we go back to that, but the fact of the matter is these kids never get a chance to be regular students. From the day they arrive until the day they finish classes almost, they’re in-season. I think that’s tough on them.”
Boston Globe: Merck controversy highlights problem with drug ads
Merck and Co.’s decision to withdraw its arthritis drug Vioxx on September 30 did not shock some observers: the drug was shown years ago to have potentially harmful effects on the cardiovascular system. But critics say that Merck television advertisements that ran as recently as last July downplayed its potential dangers. “Certainly it’s an ethics issue,” says George Annas, an SPH professor of health law, in the Boston Globe on October 1. “This is an example of why direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription drugs that have major potential side effects is just a very bad idea. In theory it is educational. But it doesn’t educate; it just misleads.”
Star Tribune ( Minneapolis): Kerry must hit Bush hard on Iraq
“The only way Kerry can win this election is by making it a referendum on Bush’s foreign policy, and that really means a referendum on the war in Iraq,” says Andrew Bacevich, a CAS professor of international relations and director of the Center for International Relations, in the September 28 Minneapolis Star Tribune. “We need to see who controls the conversation the rest of the way. If the basis on which Americans decide how to vote is Kerry as a flip-flopper — and there’s plenty of evidence that he is a flip-flopper — then President Bush has a pretty good chance of winning. But if we’re focused on the justification for the war in Iraq . . . President Bush has a lot of explaining to do.”
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October 2004
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