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...MACE WINDU Episode I --Jedi Master and the oldest human on the knight's governing council...
...page student rule book range from loss of merit points to "observation placement"--meaning a student must lie on the tile floor of his room all day, not sitting up except for meals and bathroom breaks. And parents sign a contract allowing the school to use handcuffs, mace and stun guns on their children. "Restraints are rare," says Jay Kay, a former San Diego gas-station and mini-mart manager who owns and operates Tranquility Bay. "But we take them seriously, and we train for them...
...suicide, with the locked-room angle thrown in to ensure prime-time coverage? Or could Izzi, a writer known to be fanatical about research, have been trying to find out how it felt to dangle by the neck outside an office window? In his pockets, besides a can of Mace, several hundred dollars in cash and a set of brass knuckles, were three computer disks. It has been reported that although the disks don't add up to a book and are unlikely to be published, they describe a scene almost exactly like that of the author's death--right...
...that these two 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...
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...