Patrick takes Mass. primary in convincing fashion

Early after the polls closed Monday night in the Massachusetts Democratic primary for governor, the results showed a clear victory by Deval Patrick. Patrick ran away with a 49 percent support across the state, handily defeating the original front runner State Attorney General Tom Reilly, BC Law '70, and business success Chris Gabrieli. Patrick's past as general legal council for big businesses like Coke, as well as serving as a civil rights adviser to former President Bill Clinton turned out to be a convincing argument for Democrats, and his poll numbers climbed drastically in the last few weeks. If he were to win this fall, he would be the first black governor in the state. He will now face current Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey - who would be the first woman governor - in the gubernatorial race, with Election Day on November 7.

International

The United States is using its nuclear arsenal to intimidate the world, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told delegates Tuesday at the opening of the United Nations General Assembly. He said that Iran was pursuing nuclear technology only for peaceful purposes. "If the governments of the United States or the United Kingdom, who are permanent members of the Security council, commit aggression, occupation and violation of international law, which of the organs of the U.N. can take them to account?" he said. "You deserve an opportunity to determine your own future," said President George W. Bush earlier in the day in remarks directed to the Iranian people. "Your rulers have chosen to deny you liberty."

On Campus

Michael Behe, a professor of biochemistry at Lehigh University, will hold a lecture and discussion titled "The Case Against Darwin" at 7 p.m in Robsham. Behe will share his controversial insights about evolution and natural selection. According to Behe, a human's biological system is too complex to have evolved over time. The only possible explanation for this complexity is that it must have been created by some "intelligent designer." Behe's secular arguments, along with his established credentials within the biochemistry field, made him one of the intelligent design's first mainstream proponents. Behe puts forth these views in his controversial book, Darwin's Black Box.

BC grad and former Mass. governor King is dead at 81

Former Massachusetts governor Edward J. King, BC '48 and Hon. '80, died Monday. He was 81 and had been in declining health through the year. King, who was governor from 1979 through 1983, is remembered for his storied upset over then-incumbent Gov. Michael Dukakis in the 1978 state Democratic primary - setting up the famous rematch four years later in which Dukakis defeated King. While governor, he saw job creation as the primary engine for social as well as economic progress. "Gov. King served with distinction and dignity," said Gov. Mitt Romney (Mass.-R) in a written statement.

Universities

MBA students cheat more often than their peers in other disciplines, a recent survey found. Fifty-six percent of graduate business students admitted that they had cheated at least once in the last year, compared with 47 percent of non-business students, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer, which reported on the survey. The main reason that those surveyed told researchers for cheating was that they thought others were doing it. "The fact that other people are doing it creates an environment where this is normative," said Kinda Klebe Treveino, one of the researchers and a professor at Penn State's Smeal College of Business.

An emerging trend: Princeton too will end early admission

Princeton University announced Monday that it will end its early admissions program beginning with those applying in 2008. The decision comes a week after Harvard made national headlines with a similar announcement and reflects the emerging trend in higher education of reevaluating the equity of admissions processes. By moving to a single application deadline, the universities hope to provide less-affluent students with a more equal opportunity for admission. The decision is also motivated by an intention to ease the pressure on high school students, who now are increasingly finding themselves grappling with the college decision in the beginning of their junior year or earlier.

Local

A juvenile was arrested in connection with a gun recovered from behind Brighton High School recently, reported the Allston-Brighton TAB. Police will be charging the minor for possession of a firearm and possession of ammunition. The gun was discovered on Sept. 8 by a couple out for a walk. The police took the gun and were continuing to monitor the area when they observed a young male approach the spot where the gun had been discovered, as if to look for it. He was arrested, taken in for booking and his parents were called.

Under Reported

Authorities in New Jersey are accusing a doctor of stealing a hand from a medical school cadaver and giving it to an exotic dancer, the AP reported. The dancer reportedly kept the hand in her bedroom, preserved in a jar of formaldehyde. Friends say that she called the hand "Freddy." Ahmed Rashed, the doctor who is still in a residency program, pleaded not guilty and is free on $1,000 bail. The hand was discovered in July when police were called to Kay's home on a report that a roommate was suicidal. The roommate was not home, but Kay was. She pleaded not guilty to unlawful possession of human remains.