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...women were slackards," says Towle. She notes that cadets reported that the two would often stay up past lights-out, then check into the infirmary to take a nap under the pretense of feeling ill. Some cadets note the Citadel's two other female cadets, Nancy Mace and Petra Lovetinska, whom peers ranked as "some of the best cadets this school has ever seen, have reported no incidents while at the school. Still, whether they were slackers or not doesn't mean you should have to endure having fingernail polish smeared on and ignited, as Messer and Mentavlos claim they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Was it Hazing? | 2/21/1997 | See Source »

Some students on campus also question Messer's and Mentavlos' accounts, pointing out that Nancy Mace and Petra Lovetinska, the two other female knobs, are doing well. These people argue that the hazing was not about gender but about perceived weakness, especially as two males were being hazed at the same time; and of the 581 entering freshmen, 81 so far have dropped out. "Because it happened to others doesn't make it right," responds Mentavlos' lawyer, Timothy Kulp, who says his current bedside reading includes both The Lords of Discipline, Pat Conroy's famous novel about hazing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AND THEN THERE WERE TWO... | 1/27/1997 | See Source »

Nevertheless, talk on campus persists that Messer and Mentavlos were not making the cut, while cadets commonly use superlatives when talking about Mace and Lovetinska. Says Brett Strand, a junior: "I've heard it from more than one person, they're some of the best knobs we've ever had." But Gibson insists that his client, Messer, a member of ROTC in high school, was as tough as they come. Adds Kulp: "Were this a situation where after the first week [Mentavlos] was calling it quits, as did a number of male cadets, maybe that might be worthy of analysis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AND THEN THERE WERE TWO... | 1/27/1997 | See Source »

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