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...Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, the show features a cast of children, sarcastically belting tunes about the late messianic sci-fi writer and describing the trappings of Scientology, like auditing, the ARC Triangle, Xenu, and the Galactic Confederacy. Runs Wednesday through Sunday until Dec. 16 at varying times. BCA Plaza Theatre. Tickets $25 at www.bostontheatrescene.com...
...private charity focusing on breast cancer, urged consumers to start asking questions like how much of the money they spend on pink purchases will actually go to charity, what kind of activities does the charity support and what has its record been? In the same spirit, Breast Cancer Action (BCA), a grass-roots advocacy organization based in San Francisco, offers a consumer-education program and website called Think Before You Pink (think before you pink org) introduced four years ago. Jarmoska decided to give BCA the $5,000 she raised biking cross-country...
...money for breast cancer, critics of pink-ribbon funding say that even though a lot of money is raised, it isn't necessarily being spent in a thoughtful, coordinated manner. "There's a lot of duplication on how we fund research, and there are huge gaps as well," explains BCA executive director Barbara Brenner, who would like to see more research on the environmental causes of breast cancer...
...BCA starts sending letters or e-mails to black recruits telling them that “School X” is unfriendly to minority coaches, whereas another school on the recruits’ list, “School Y”, has been known to give minorities a fair shot in hiring, and has in fact hired black coaches, there stands the possibility that dozens of athletic recruits could avoid School...
...course, it is sad that major universities where hundreds if not thousands of black students attend school have not broken out of a racist, mid-century mindset. It is sadder yet that the BCA has to resort to such pressure to get schools to change their ways, when it is usually the other way around—universities changing society...