Word: maces
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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...
...first military ball and spent the summer in rigorous ROTC training at Fort Knox. "She's got grit," says Harvey Messer, who adds that he is nevertheless worried about the reception she will receive this week. "She's still our baby. We want her to be O.K." Nancy Mace, 18, is the daughter of retired Army Brigadier General J. Emory Mace, Citadel class of '63, who remains the school's most decorated alumnus for his service in Vietnam. Until recently, Mace confesses, he was among those who balked at integrating the school. Now, though, he says...
Many at the Citadel--which over the years has graduated countless members of South Carolina's ruling class--are choosing, like Mace, to be gracious in defeat. Most are simply relieved the battle is over. As Bryant Butler, the 23-year-old Regimental Commander of the Corps of Cadets, says, "Not one male incoming freshman I've talked to said he didn't want to attend because women would be here. As a matter of fact, some said they felt more comfortable now that the decision was made." And when alumni learned of a woman who had been accepted...
...fans adopted the team as if it had been around for years," says TIME Denver bureau chief Richard Woodbury. "People have waited 30 years for this moment, and these guys arrive last year and suddenly win it." Some fans took the celebrating too far: Denver police had to use mace and batons to disperse about 3,000 unruly fans who were setting fire to newspapers, breaking windows and turning over park benches. Police arrested 15 revelers and three people were hospitalized with minor injuries. -->
...school's most vocal conservatives tend to gravitate toward the Dartmouth Review, an independently-funded newspaper which Mace calls "a bastion of not only conservative intellectual thought but also of dignity and tradition, the cloth that binds our society...