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Army boasts a squad built around a bunch of good freshmen and a few steady upperclassmen. Ray Bosse, the star plebe, is the best all-around swimmer on the squad. His best times include a 2:02.61 in his specialty, the 200-yard individual medley this year...
...began on Oct. 21 in Room 4714 of the 47th Division barracks. One of two plebes who occupy the room said that he awoke to see a life-sized apparition of a 19th century officer emerge from a wall. The vision receded before the plebe could summon his roommate. The next night both saw the ghost. The story eventually reached the ears of Cadet Captain Keith Bakken. He and another upperclassman commandeered the room a few days later. The ghost promptly appeared before Bakken's confederate, but receded into the wall again. Bakken, who is still a firm nonbeliever...
...some courses, like plebe (freshmen) Math, the Cadets are graded daily, and in all classes, lists ranking the students in order of performance are posted monthly. Where the student sits in the classroom is determined by his monthly rank. No one even considers cutting classes at West Point. The students time up outside the classrooms before entering to facilities attendance taking, and the sight of a halfway-in a classroom building filled with line upon line of uniformed Cadets is a strange one for a civilian getting his first look at the Point...
...plebe rules are among the more controversial aspects of the West Point experience among Cadets themselves. SCUSA participants were permitted to attend classes with the Cadets, and is several section meetings of a course on "The Psychology of Leadership," the outsiders turned the classroom into a forum for debate on the plebe issue, and on the value of West Point itself...
...arguments against the plebe rules were obvious: the rules are unnecessary and degrading, designed primary to rob Cadets of their self respect in order to weaken any will they may have to resist West Point socialization...