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Football’s loss a win for NU students
Northeastern University was correct in dropping its football program, which will allow it to put greater resources into academic needs, as well as other sports. (Boston Globe, 11/23/09)
Drug firms’ tired song and dance on reform
In the summer, the drug companies offered $8 billion a year over 10 years in drug cost cuts. Big Pharma has taken the savings off the table. A new AARP analysis has found that drug companies raised their prices for prescription drugs by 9.3 percent over the last year, amounting to $10 billion in new revenues. (Globe Columnist, 11/20/09)
Changing the climate on Capitol Hill
President Obama needs to shut down business as usual against climate change at home before he can make progress abroad. (Globe Columnist, 11/16/09)
Give college athletes a cut of the action
It is galling to have 25 universities, 23 of them public institutions, willing to pay $2 million or more for football coaches at this nadir of the economy, with soaring tuitions and slashed state budgets for faculty. But if colleges are that crazy to blow this money they should include the players.
(Globe Columnist, 11/13/09)
Taking a walk shouldn’t be a contact sport
While the Boston area is ranked among the best places for pedestrians in the United States, there is much that could be done to improve safety and the outdoor experience for walkers and bike riders. (Boston Globe, 11/9/09)
College presidents are flunking the salary test
Compensation packages bear no resemblance to the world beneath college presidents. The American Dream is being fogged as parents drown in debt, students spend more time working to pay off campus fees rather than studying, and professors try to feed the brains of students with slashed resources. (Globe Columnist, 11/6/09)
NFL’s brain-jarring hits reverberate through time
Without a serious change in how the head is used in football, there is no telling what damage we will see tomorrow. In the pros, players have grown so much bigger and faster that what was once a collision between a Volkswagen and a bus is now between an sport utility vehicle and a semitrailer. (Globe Columnist, 10/30/09)
The wisdom of two education giants
Theodore Sizer and Gerald Bracey, who both passed away last week, would have said a lot worth listening to about the proposal by a state commission to raise the legal school dropout age in Massachusetts from 16 to 18. (Globe Columnist, 10/26/09)
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