Word: press
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Each year, the BAA must handle hundreds of applications from media groups around the world looking to come to the Hub for Marathon Monday. Understandably, some newspapers, radio and television units must be refused credentials; but one of the BAA's criteria for who will get those precious press passes severely tarnishes the glitter of the Boston event...
...arbitrary and ill-conceived decision, the BAA has chosen not to honor press requests from any college newspaper. That means the multitude of metropolitan Boston schools, whose students comprise a great bulk of the almost 8000 runners in the Marathon, will have no news of their athletes' accomplishments. The large, commercial dailies will not provide special attention to specific runners from specific schools--there are too many other concerns. Only the college papers have the space to write about their own athletes...
While reporters from Oregon, Arizona, and California sit comfortably in the Prudential Tower press offices, writers from the Marathon's own backyard will be excluded. The students of Boston treat the Marathon with great respect, and we deserve more than the back of the BAA's hand in return...
...Smythe division champs from Chicago had any pride, they would not even accept the first round bye. Eleventh overall, seven games under .500 in divisional hockey's equivalent to double-A ball, the Black Hawks have Tony Esposito between the twines, Tom Lysiak at center, Bobby Orr in the press box, and not much else. In fact, nothing else. Say good-bye to them in the quarters...
...lessons of that spring of a decade ago. Because, in fact, the strike was a good thing--it produced concessions, albeit small ones, on each of the issues of concern to the students of that day. The victories were hard-fought--most of the violence that so alarmed the press was in fact directed against student demonstrators by the police Pusey had called in--but they were real, vivid proof that students can, when they choose, have an effect on even this school. In the ten years that have passed since then, however, those voctories have slowly eroded--partly from...