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...broadcast. Sosolimited looked a little tense before things got started, but as soon as the debate was over they pulled out a bottle of the sponsor’s specialty and toasted a job well done.The trio, which formed in 2003 while its members were doing graduate work at MIT by day and clubbing by night, wanted to send a political and cultural message, but more than that, they just wanted to nerd out together.According to Gunther, “We realized that if we put our heads together, we could really do some damage...
...become alarmed to discover just how little their students are sleeping. The problem is endemic to many institutions—according to a 2007 study, nearly 40 percent of college students reported feeling rested no more than two nights a week. As a result, several nearby colleges including BU, MIT, Tufts, and Wellesley, have initiated sleep-awareness campaigns to enlighten students about the need for Z’s. With 24-hour libraries, time-consuming extracurriculars, and easy access to caffeine and study-aids, many college students have forgotten how to go to bed and need reminding. The Boston Globe...
...reality is that there are so few students at ROTC anyway, so tomorrow if Harvard begged and pleaded the Pentagon to bring it back on campus, they wouldn’t,” Mawn said. “What has evolved around the country is core sites like MIT that service several different schools. MIT has the critical mass and good facilities and classrooms for the courses and drilling and other activities. There is no critical mass at Harvard...
Mawn added that he would rather see the Faculty officially recognize ROTC by sending the money it receives from ROTC scholarships—an amount that totals in the hundreds of thousands of dollars—to MIT to pay for overhead and other costs. He noted that Harvard used to make the payments but cut them off in the early 1990s. Since then, a group of alumni have been giving money to MIT to cover the administrative costs...
...event featured a panel of three China experts: Kennedy School professor Anthony J. Saich, MIT professor Yasheng Huang ’85, and William H. Overholt ’68, the former director of the RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy...