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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...federal mandate, the academy grudgingly admitted its first female student in 1995, who left after just six days, complaining of being ostracized by male cadets. Four more women enrolled the next year. Two, Jeanie Mentavlos and Kim Messer, dropped out within six months. Of the remaining two, one graduated magna cum laude in May and the other is scheduled to graduate with honors this year. It?s the two who got away who pose the problem for the Citadel ? both have filed discrimination suits. Messer?s was settled out of court last year, but on Tuesday a U.S. district judge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Citadel Snaps to Attention | 10/20/1999 | See Source »

Eighty-four students will graduate summa cum laude and 516 magna cum laude. Four hundred and forty-three will graduate cum laude in a field of concentration and cum laude general studies degrees to 353. Non-honors degrees will be given to 162 students...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Gudrais, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard To Award 5,647 Degrees | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

...rules limiting the number of magna cum laude and cum laude graduates to the top 40 percent of the class mean that 36 percent fewer students than last year will receive honors, according to an HLS news release yesterday...

Author: By Gregory S. Krauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New HLS Grading System Reduces Honors Graduates By More Than Half | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

Students with a General Average of 7.20 or higher were designated as summa cum laude, while a 5.8 and a 4.85 was necessary to receive magna cum laude and cum laude honors respectively...

Author: By Gregory S. Krauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New HLS Grading System Reduces Honors Graduates By More Than Half | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

...system, only the top 10 percent of students-- excluding summa cum laude recipients--can be designated as magna cum laude, and only the next 30 percent as cum laude...

Author: By Gregory S. Krauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New HLS Grading System Reduces Honors Graduates By More Than Half | 6/10/1999 | See Source »

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