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...CITADEL ERUPTS AGAIN...
...found the departure of female cadets Kim Messer and Jeanie Mentavlos from the Citadel disturbing [SOCIETY, Jan. 27]. The two claimed sexual harassment and vicious hazing, and it is hard to comprehend that people would behave so horribly to other human beings. This is just a school, right? It's not as if lives were at stake or actual combat was going on. And even if that were so, I can't understand how washing someone's mouth out with cleanser helps prepare for combat. However, my time in the U.S. Army taught me a lot of things...
Your story stated that half the Citadel's freshman female cadets have quit the school. Yes, it's true that 2 out of 4 dropped out, but what about the 81 men who also quit out of a class of 581? And while most "knobs" drop out during the first few weeks of the semester, these women hung in there until the bitter end. The two remaining women cadets continue to do well at the Citadel. After reading about the vicious hazing, which supposedly builds character but instead seems to keep these students at a juvenile level, I can only...
...near famous are the internal fires of fear and grief stoked. The death of Ennis Cosby is a tragedy, unquestionably, but others will die similar deaths in Los Angeles, New York City, Washington. Will those deaths incite the nation to show outrage against violence? MICHAEL TIMOTHY WATERMAN Washington THE CITADEL ERUPTS AGAIN...
...found the departure of female cadets Kim Messer and Jeanie Mentavlos from the Citadel disturbing [SOCIETY, Jan. 27]. The two claimed sexual harassment and vicious hazing, and it is hard to comprehend that people would behave so horribly to other human beings. This is just a school, right? It's not as if lives were at stake or actual combat was going on. And even if that were so, I can't understand how washing someone's mouth out with cleanser helps prepare for combat. However, my time in the U.S. Army taught me a lot of things...