Word: cadet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...harassment, which took place at a training camp last summer, came to light in a report to Goodpaster after a two-month investigation by the Academy's inspector general. He found that in another case, a cadet was forced by male classmates to strip; then he was tied up and his genitals were sprayed with shaving cream. Some hazers dressed up in mock Ku Klux Klan robes and hoods fashioned out of bed sheets. Academy authorities denied that the cadets were being racist, and in fact at least one black cadet donned a K.K.K. costume. Said Goodpaster: "These aren...
...clash between military regulations and human nature has produced inevitable problems. An upper-class male was suspended for two years recently by the cadet honor committee on charges of telling a female cadet that he would like to know her better, then denying to his company executive officer that he had made the statement, which he wrongly thought violated a regulation against "fraternizing" with a plebe. His denial of the incident broke the honor code. If he decides to return to West Point, some cadets say that he will be "silenced," meaning that classmates will not speak...
Sums up Jim Henderson, who is steadily dating fellow Cadet Debbie Widick: "A few of the guys are jealous...
...Says Cadet Denise Dawson, in her fourth year at the Point: "As soon as a guy is in the room it's like a little alarm sounds, and everybody has to walk past the door...
...similar spirit, male cadets have formulated an unwritten rule prohibiting serious dating by cadets in the same basic unit, the company, which numbers about 100. The cadets are taught that each company is supposed to function as a whole, just as it would under combat conditions. This was the rule that was violated by the female cadet who was forced to bite off a chicken's head. She and her boyfriend, the son and daughter of military officers, had dated as plebes, and when they wound up by chance in the same company at summer camp, they began going...