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After training for four years with Loyola's ROTC, a high number of graduates from the program have served or are currently serving in the U.S. Army overseas. According to statistics from Major Rodney Baker, Loyola ROTC's Enrollment and Scholarship officer, about 76 percent of the ROTC alumni in the classes of 2004 through 2006 have gone on to full-time active duty in the Army after graduating from Loyola.

"I've been training up for this for so long. At some point you want to get out there and use the skills you were trained for," said Greg Galeazzi, senior ROTC cadet. It is a sentiment shared by many of the seniors in the ROTC program, who are as little as one year away from a possible deployment in Iraq or Afghanistan.

At Loyola and other Baltimore-area universities, confusion about insurance coverage and cost, as well as a lack of awareness, stands between female students and a new vaccine that may greatly reduce their risk of acquiring a sexually transmitted disease that may cause cervical cancer.

Loyola Founds First Honor Society for Writers Loyola's Writing Department has established the nation's first national honor society for Writing majors, Pi Epsilon Pi. The organization's first 19 charter members were inducted March 22. Junior and senior Writing majors are eligible for membership in Pi Epsilon Pi based on both academic accomplishments as Writing majors and their demonstrated leadership.

Tuesday, April 3 An officer reported to Avila Hall for a report of water balloons being thrown from a room there. Residents did not open the door at first and stated that they were asleep and didn't know anything about the water balloons. An officer found an empty water balloon package by the window, and the window was still wet.

The Student Government Association will hold general assembly elections beginning tonight at 6 p.m. and ending, Thursday at 6 p.m. The student body is encouraged to vote onBlackboard to elect members of their class to the assembly. Winners will be announced Thursday night by 9 p.

The Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus acknowledged last week that Rev. Brian Linnane S.J., removed a Jesuit clergyman from campus in March, according to an April 13 story in The Examiner. Bro. Claude Ory, S.J., arrived at Loyola in 2000 and has served as minister at Ignatius House.