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CHARLESTON, South Carolina: Last month an embarrassed interim Citadel President R. Clifton Poole vowed to turn over to state authorities anyone found to be guilty of hazing former cadets Kim Messer and Jeanie Mentavlos. Friday he reversed course and said that charges by the two women that they were assaulted and sexually harassed will not hold up. "I think when we begin having these board hearings, the male cadets are going to deny a lot of these things. I think the male cadets are also going to have witnesses who are going to justify their denials." The Citadel head said...
...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...
...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...
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...
Last week Mentavlos and Messer, who have become friends, were busy settling in at their new school, the University of South Carolina at Columbia. It may take a little longer, though, before their faith in human nature is restored. "Hopefully," says Kulp, "they can find a place that finds it at least abnormal that students are being set on fire...