Word: program
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...show proffering wisdom on the primaries. We write for FM, not The New Republic. Noah Oppenheim '00, the closest we had to a guru on political affairs, was the spokesman. The rest of us had to try and look intellectual. With the first notes of music, Chris started the program: "John McCain stole the show from George W. Bush for the Republican Party, and it looks like George can't use Mummy and Daddy for votes. Let's play Hardball." As he glared menacingly at the camera, we suppressed our laughter. The camerawoman kept zooming in on Jordana Lewis...
ROTC students keep a low profile. Hidden away at MIT since 1969, when the University pushed the program off campus, the hardy band of students would probably duck the radar screen completely if not for their mandatory uniformed-Mondays. But their military existence, packed with discipline and drills, is more than just days of slick dress blacks and hats...
...life of a ROTC student begins at 5:30 a.m. at least twice a week. On one dreary, wet Monday morning at 7, eight members of the Navy ROTC program climb on the shuttle that whisks them to MIT. The damp day is scheduled to start with a bang: a thermodynamics quiz. So as the bus rattles down the road, Raymond L. Andrews '03 frantically tries to cram half of the book into his brain while the other ROTC students are huddled in the back, trying to stay warm while quizzing each other on the first and second laws...
...rookies to the program, Jeffrey C. Munns '03, sits in the back row of the classroom listening intently to the teacher share his nautical tales. Munns always knew he would wind up here. Growing up in a military family, he felt compelled to carry on the family tradition. "The 'duty to serve your country' kind of thing was instilled me as a child," he reminisces. "And then there also was the issue of scholarship-[the government] pays for tuition, books, fees, and so on." For others, the money factor was key in drawing them into ROTC and devoting years...
...outnumber women in the program, but women keep on pace with their male counterparts. Porges admits that being a woman in the ROTC "has provided for unusual experiences since, as would be expected, I find myself as a minority amongst a primarily male group." That status though, has not hindered her from advancing in the field. Porges boasts, "Women are given the same opportunities as the men in all ROTC endeavors-a fact that can be clearly seen by the number of women we have as midshipmen leaders in our battalion. I, in fact, was 'Battalion Commander,' the top midshipmen...