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EDUCATION REPORT - Foreign Student Series #20: Military Colleges
By Nancy Steinbach


Broadcast: Thursday, January 13, 2005


I'm Gwen Outen with the VOA Special English Education Report.


Our Foreign Student Series continues this week with a report about military colleges in the United States. We will talk about two examples.


One is the Virginia Military Institute, known as V.M.I. V.M.I. is a public, four-year military college in Lexington, Virginia. It accepts women as well as men. Its one thousand three hundred students are called cadets.


New cadets learn some things from older ones. One thing the older cadets teach is the honor system. Cadets must not lie, cheat or steal -- and they must not accept lying, cheating or stealing by any other cadet.


Cadets who violate 1 the honor system are expelled 2. The school considers the learning of self-control to be an important part of a college education.


Lieutenant 3 Colonel 4 Stewart MacInnis is associate director of communications and marketing 5 at the Virginia Military Institute. He says V.M.I. has forty-five men and women from eighteen other countries this year. Their home countries include Canada, Kenya, Lithuania, Taiwan, Thailand and South Korea. These cadets are mostly studying business and international relations.


The cost for one year at V.M.I. for someone from outside Virginia is about twenty seven thousand dollars.


Another public military college in the South is The Citadel 6, in Charleston, South Carolina. It also accepts both men and women for its four-year program.


The Citadel has close to two thousand students. It says they receive a traditional military education. Graduates are not required to enter the armed forces. But about thirty-eight percent of them do enter the military after graduation.


This year, The Citadel has fifty-six students from thirty-two countries outside the United States. They are studying mainly business, science, computer science, mathematics and engineering. The cost is about twenty-five thousand dollars for the first year. After that, it drops to about twenty-one thousand dollars.


Internet users can learn more about the college at citadel, citadel.edu. The Web site for the Virginia Military Institute is vmi.edu. And all of the reports in our Foreign Student Series can be found online at voaspecialenglish dot com.


This VOA Special English Education Report was written by Nancy Steinbach. I'm Gwen Outen.



1 violate
vt.违反,违背,亵渎,侵犯,妨碍
  • Those who violate traffic regulations should be punished.那些违反交通规定的人应该受处罚。
  • Can they be allowed to violate rules and regulations at will?难道能容许他们随心所欲地破坏规章制度吗?
2 expelled
驱逐( expel的过去式和过去分词 ); 赶走; 把…除名; 排出
  • She was expelled from school at 15. 她15岁时被学校开除了。
  • After the outbreak of fighting,all foreign journalists were expelled. 战斗开始后,所有的外国记者都被驱逐出境。
3 lieutenant
n.陆军中尉,海军上尉;代理官员,副职官员
  • He was promoted to be a lieutenant in the army.他被提升为陆军中尉。
  • He prevailed on the lieutenant to send in a short note.他说动那个副官,递上了一张简短的便条进去。
4 colonel
n.(英国陆军、美国陆空军及海军陆战队)上校
  • It's a pity we didn't mend our fences with the colonel.可惜我们还没有和上校先生调整好关系。
  • An army major ranks between a captain and a colonel.陆军少校的军阶在上尉与中校之间。
5 marketing
n.行销,在市场的买卖,买东西
  • They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。
  • He often goes marketing.他经常去市场做生意。
6 citadel
n.城堡;堡垒;避难所
  • The citadel was solid.城堡是坚固的。
  • This citadel is built on high ground for protecting the city.这座城堡建于高处是为保护城市。
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