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...captain Tom Bixby notched the Crimson's only win of the match at 150 lbs. by downing cadet Bob Forbes...
Sixth man, Clancy Nixon, participated in the most lopsided match of the day, destroying cadet Brian Bruin...
Score a minor military victory for women. The Air Force ruled last week that pregnant cadets no longer need resign, or face expulsion from the Air Force Academy. They may simply go on "excess leave," without pay or allowances. The junior service concluded that they deserve the "equal protection" guaranteed any other cadet burdened with "temporary conditions that preclude participation in training." Like anyone with an incapacitating illness, a pregnant cadet may return to the academy's Colorado Springs campus when her "temporary condition" no longer exists. But she may not bring the baby along with her (women...
...Force ruling did not totally solve a pregnant cadet's problems. The woman still has to go away-on her "excess leave"-for an abortion. And while a cadet may have her baby if she chooses, she cannot marry until she has graduated. Motherhood, said the Air Force, is not sufficient cause to amend the traditional ban on marriage in all the service academies. Explained one Pentagon lawyer, perhaps too hastily: pregnancy is temporary but marriage is permanent...
...West Point graduate, I found your report on the recent investigation of the military academy [Oct. 10] to be somewhat misleading. Specifically, the "classic dilemma [of] whether placing unauthorized articles in a laundry bag is an honor violation" when taken out of context is sure to be misunderstood. No cadet has ever been found guilty of an honor violation by simply having some proscribed item hidden in his laundry bag. Indeed, I employed that tactic myself on numerous occasions when looking for a good hiding place. If, however, a cadet lied about such an item, then he would be guilty...