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Huntington Theatre offers discounts to faculty, staff, and alumni
The Huntington Theatre Company, Boston University’s theater company in residence, is offering a special BU subscriber rate for its 2005-2006 season, which opens in September.
Discounts are available for faculty, staff, and alumni on four-, five-, six-, and seven-play subscriptions. Subscribers also enjoy other benefits, such as a flexible exchange policy and behind-the-scenes newsletters.
“The support we’ve received from the BU community is wonderful,” says Rita McAteer, the Huntington’s marketing director. “This is our way to say thanks.”
The season opens on September 9 with Tom Stoppard’s classic drama The Real Thing. The other six shows include A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, The Sisters Rosensweig, with Andrea Martin and Blair Brown, and two world premieres: Carol Mulroney by Stephen Belber, whose play Match was performed on Broadway last year, and Mark Wolf’s The Road Home. Wolf’s award-winning Another American, Asking and Telling consists of stories of gay U.S. soldiers.
For more information, call 617-266-0800.
BMC appoints local attorney to biosafety lab executive committee, will create community liaison group
Boston lawyer and community leader Wayne Budd has been chosen to serve as the public member-at-large on the executive committee of the National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories (NEIDL) Institute, Boston Medical Center announced May 23. The committee will advise the director of the NEIDL Institute on the scientific research and operational activities of the BMC-operated biosafety lab in Boston’s South End.
In addition to Budd, who is a senior counsel in the litigation department of Goodwin Procter, LLP, the executive committee consists of the associate directors of the NEIDL Institute, the provost of the medical campus or a designee, and the CEO of BMC or a designee. Budd, who specializes in business and commercial litigation, had previously been a partner at Goodwin Procter, from 1993 to 1996, and U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts, from 1989 to 1992.
In addition, BMC has announced the formation of a community liaison committee, which will facilitate public participation in the biosafety lab. Comprised of six committee members who are not employed by BU or BMC, it will review the projects and activities of NEIDL. Boston Medical Center will solicit nominations for the committee in the coming weeks.
BU to host 2007 America East men’s basketball championship
The America East 2007 men’s basketball championship will be held at Agganis Arena, the conference’s athletics directors announced after a May 25 vote. The nine-team championship tournament will include a first-round game on March 2, 2007, and quarterfinal and semifinal games on March 3 and March 4, respectively, with the championship game, on March 10, at the home court of the higher seeded team, as is tradition. BU hosted the tournament in 2003 and 2004, as well. “We are proud to welcome the America East men’s basketball championship back to BU and our new world-class facility, Agganis Arena,” says Mike Lynch, director of athletics. “Agganis Arena serves as a showcase for Boston University, the BU athletics programs, and the America East.”
Third-year law student wins jury trial
In his last weeks as a law student, recent graduate David Loughnot (LAW’05) won his first jury trial in Boston Municipal Court. Loughnot, a student in Professor Eva Nilson’s criminal clinic, was allowed to practice under the state’s Student Practice Law, which allows a third-year law student who has completed certain course requirements to practice law under the supervision of a licensed attorney. Loughnot defended a client accused of selling counterfeit designer handbags and won the case, arguing that the client did not know the bags were counterfeit. Approximately 40 students participate in the criminal clinic each year, Nilson says, but they rarely have the opportunity to participate in jury trials because so many cases are settled through plea bargains. “It was quite a triumph for us,” she says, “and for the client it was wonderful.”
Frankl speaks out for MassHealth dental benefits
School of Dental Medicine Dean Spencer N. Frankl spoke at the State House on May 16 as part of a campaign organized by Health Care for All’s Oral Health Advocacy Task Force to restore dental benefits under MassHealth, the state’s Medicaid program. Dental benefits were cut from the state budget in spring 2002 by Jane Swift, who was acting governor.
Budget negotiations in the House closed April 29 without restoring the benefits; as a result of lobbying by Health Care for All the Senate Ways and Means Committee restored dental benefits May 17 for pregnant women and mothers with children under age three. In addition, the committee included language allowing MassHealth dentists to cap their caseloads.
“We maintain separate insurance systems for medical versus dental care, and dental care benefits are the first cut when money is scarce,” Frankl told lawmakers. “This is fiscally irresponsible because the cost of treating advanced dental disease and providing emergency care are far greater than the cost of preventing disease to begin with. Almost all oral diseases are preventable and manageable if caught early.”
When the state eliminated most adult dental benefits under MassHealth in 2002, SDM instituted the Boston University MassHealth Patient Upgrade Program (BUMP-UP) to help cover the newly uninsured.
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