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...rain is falling in the north quadrant of the United States Military Academy. The fog from the Hudson River has rolled in over the campus and the great mass of uniformly gray buildings that are West Point has become indistinguishable from the atmosphere. In the courtyard, a brigade of cadets--dressed in gray rain slickers, gray caps with gray rain hoods, and gray trousers--lines up for formation and review. It looks somber and depressing, one first class cadet (senior) says, but look on the bright side. Things get even worse during January and February (they call it the "period...
...until he won his way to the Latin chair at University College, London, that Housman wrote in 1895 most of the Shropshire poems. They exhibited an intense and sometimes alarming ardor. When he read of the suicide of a homosexual cadet, for example, Housman wrote...
...Women cadets did not do as well at military science (tactics) and engineering as the men, but did somewhat better in the humanities and social sciences. At graduation, there will be only one wom an (Rhodes Scholar-elect Andrea Hollen) in the top 5% of the class, along with 43 men. Yet in some ways female members of the Class of '80 have entirely won the hearts and minds of some male cadets-and vice versa. Soon after graduation 30 of the 62 graduating women will marry cadets or recent West Pointers. The Cadet Chapel is scheduled for weddings...
...know the difference between a cadet and trash?" a cadet says to the reporter as she sits down at a large kitchen table. "Trash gets taken out twice a week." Jackets off, white nonregulation T shirts and bright suspenders prominently displayed, 15 to 20 male cadets lounge in a colonel's big staff house. Across the way in Eisenhower Hall the autumn cadet hop is about to get under way. Spirits are very dampened by the afternoon's 55-0 football game, the latest in a string of defeats for the once proud Army team. Why are these...
...male cadet seems deadly serious as he pulls the reporter aside for a private conversation: "The guys in my class are dreading graduation." He speaks earnestly of the sense of loss brought about by the arrival of the women. "We've written to ask President Carter, who's been invited to our graduation, not to play up the woman issue," he continues. "After all, it's our graduation...