Word: cadets
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...been the unwilling focus of discussions about gender and the law throughout the decade, stands to be the defendant in another benchmark sex-discrimination case. On Tuesday, a federal judge said the South Carolina military academy could stand trial for failing to prevent the hazing of a female cadet who dropped out in 1997. Under federal mandate, the academy grudgingly admitted its first female student in 1995, who left after just six days, complaining of being ostracized by male cadets. Four more women enrolled the next year. Two, Jeanie Mentavlos and Kim Messer, dropped out within six months...
After leaving his brother at the railway station, Peiji fought with the KMT and set about building a career for himself in Chiang Kai-shek's military. He spent two years in cadet school, and by 1960 he was promoted to captain. The same year he got married, but when his Taiwanese-born wife suggested they buy a house, Peiji said no. "At that time we all thought we were going back to China. What point in buying a house in Taiwan?" he says, laughing. "It was not until 1975, when Chiang Kai-shek died, that we changed our views...
...Harvard I sometimes forget about sacrifice, American idealism, true freedom. The self-important attitude of the place kind of does that to you. But when I'm at home in my New York mountains, with my brother who's a West Point cadet and my father who didn't go to college but served twice in Vietnam as a Marine, nothing seems more important than defending those things. Maybe I've just got a sentimental attachment to my brother's "Duty, Honor, Country" and my dad's "Semper Fideles." But I think it's more than that. In June...
...Smith was the quietest of the three. An Air Force ROTC cadet, he stressed over and over that he didn't want his comments to be construed as representative of the military's stance and provided little more than explanations of Harvard's current policy...
GRADUATED. NANCY RUTH MACE, 21, the first female cadet to finish at the Citadel; in Charleston, S.C. CHIH-YUAN HO, 23, and MELISSA KAY GRAHAM, 21, the first women to complete training at the Virginia Military Institute; in Lexington, Va. Mace, who received her magna cum laude degree from her father, the school's commandant of cadets, also announced her engagement to a classmate...