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...started last December with a snowball fight; by last week it had blown into multiple investigations into how women and plebes are treated at the U.S. Naval Academy. After Midshipman Gwen Dreyer hit a male student in the face with a well-aimed snowball, he and some buddies retaliated by handcuffing her to a urinal and photographing her in that humiliating situation. No one, including Dreyer, reported the incident, but when her father complained, Dreyer, who had previously talked of enrolling at Caltech, quit the academy...
...resulting furor, other abuses came to light: a midshipman had been bound and taped to a chair by classmates who thought he had lied; another had been forced to eat and drink until he vomited. Last week Rear Admiral Virgil Hill, the academy superintendent, announced stricter punishments, including dismissal, for physical "horseplay" involving unwilling participants...
...solution is not for liberal, Harvard-educated officers to infiltrate the military and counteract the backwardness and intolerance running rampant in the ranks. The likes of Navy Midshipman Sumner E. Anderson '92, who called homosexuality "deviant behavior" and "a disease," cast doubt on this approach...
...highlight for Sean M. Doherty '90, a midshipman first class in Navy-ROTC, has been his experience on an attack sub in San Diego...
Maybe the ROTC programs will someday meet the criteria Harvard establishes for its affiliated organizations. If they do, Harvard and ROTC can talk then. But for now, Harvard's council should just sit and wait. David E. Carney '89 Midshipman, USNR...