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T May Eliminate Two Green Line B Stops
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The Secret’s in the Spit
Dental researcher looks to saliva for novel celiac disease treatment
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Birth of Anesthesia: the Play
Huntington’s Ether Dome a bloody tale of greed, deceit…and progress
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Alcohol Enforcement Patrol Stats 2014
Numbers from last weekend
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Thomas Menino (Hon.’01), director of BU’s Initiative on Cities, signs copies of his recent book, Mayor for a New America, during an event at the Castle October 16. Menino was mayor of Boston from 1993 to 2013. Photo by Cydney Scott
Behind the Vapor
In less than a decade, e-cigarettes have gone from being marketed as a safe, tobacco-free alternative to conventional cigarettes to a rapidly expanding, wildly controversial, and largely unregulated $3 billion global industry that has health officials, policy makers, and researchers scrambling to learn one thing: how safe are they?
What’s Up BU?
Thursday
- Career Directions: Starting Your Journey3:30pm
- Processing Ethically Strong vs Problematic Television Commercials presented by Dr. Esther Thorson, Missouri School of Journalism4:00pm
- Developing Indicators of Impacts and Change in the US - Sustaining National Assessments of Climate Change5:00pm
- Eat Your Way Through BU6:00pm
- XIX Ibero-American Film Festival7:00pm
- Eve Ensler's THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES7:30pm
Friday
Don’t Miss
Processing Ethically Strong vs. Problematic Television Commercials
Associate dean for graduate studies and research and director of research for the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute, Esther Thorson explores how young adults respond to commercials that are ethically and culturally problematic. The results may surprise you. This lecture is part of the Dr. Melvin L. DeFleur Distinguished Lecture Series. Reception to follow. Photonics Center, Colloquium Room, 8 St Marys St.; free and open to the BU community.
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Athletics Headlines
- M. Basketball. Men's Basketball Announces Broadcast Schedule October 22, 2014
- W. Ice Hockey. No. 6 Terriers Open League Play at Maine October 22, 2014
- M. Soccer. Defensive Miscues Cost No. 20 BU in 3-1 Defeat at BC October 21, 2014
Series Spotlight
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Nightlife: Boston Poetry Slam
Spoken word community provides platform for performance poetry
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Nightlife: Friday Night Trivia at Trident Booksellers and Café
Food, fun, and flummoxing trivia on Newbury Street
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Nightlife: Knight Moves
A new haven for board-game lovers comes to Brookline
In Your Words
“I don't really see how anyone can possibly view this as a negative thing. It is a state of the …”
Science Gets a Front Door on Comm Ave
10“Good to see that there are plenty of useful idiots out there willing to promote a fabricated controversy to ensure …”
Behind the Vapor
8“Awesome! Great improvement to an already spectacular Science Department at BU! ”
Science Gets a Front Door on Comm Ave
10“In her piece in the New York Times, Ruth Padawer focuses on the issue of women's colleges admitting, and conferring …”
POV: Expanding the Definition of Women at Women’s Colleges
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