Can you tell me a little more about the regalia? MIT is crimson and grey, of course, but do the funny-hats-vs-mortarboards have any significance? Do Institute profs only get to wear the MIT colours if they've graduated as well? Finally - who's the guy with grapes up his sleeve? ;)
-- Chris Neuman, September 10, 1998
I found the following paragraph on your page.
"An Indian swami guy whose presence was never explained (I later learned that he is the MIT chaplain) gave an invocation that nobody understood. My friend Rajeev says that it ended with the standard "peace", "peace", "peace", which he found ironic considering that India had just exploded five atomic bombs."
I fail to understand the irony. What has the Swami ,who is the MIT chaplain, got to do with India exploding five atomic bombs. Or am i to assume that by virtue of him being an Indian, somehow makes him responsible, and thus the irony ????.
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-- Roshan D'Souza, February 10, 1999
When I was a teenager the 80' I used to play my little game identifying 'undercover' workers for the secret services. This was happening in Romania during Ceausescu's dictatorship. It wasn't a strenuous task as anyone could spot the grey overcoats. And now, ten years later, I was suprised to notice from your pictures that in US, government security agents look surprisingly similar like our former "securitate" agents. Hmmm....!
-- Bradut Boghita, August 21, 1999
Maybe "peace, peace, peace" was a request made of the world's governments (Clinton in particular?), rather than a statement that peace exists now.Those orange hats are unusual. What do they (with the remainder of the outfit) signify?
-- David Bessey, October 12, 1999
Philg wrote, "A reporter later asked me what I'd thought of Clinton's speech. I replied that "I was flattered that the President of the United States chose to visit MIT but I wish that he had said something."I've said the same thing myself...over and over....
For a person who graduated from Oxford University and is also a Rhodes Scholar, he's got the whole world fooled, including himself!!!
-- Marika Buchberger, October 24, 1999