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...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...
...also quit out of a class of 581? And while most "knobs" drop out during the first few weeks of the semester, these women hung in there until the bitter end. The two remaining women cadets continue to do well at the Citadel. After reading about the vicious hazing, which supposedly builds character but instead seems to keep these students at a juvenile level, I can only ask, What company would want to fill its jobs with men who set people on fire and force them to sing obscene songs? MARY SHELTON Riverside, California...
...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...
After reading about the vicious hazing, which supposedly builds character but instead seems to keep these students at a juvenile level, I can only ask, What company would want to fill its jobs with men who set people on fire and force them to sing obscene songs? MARY SHELTON Riverside, California...
...long history in the corps, and a few young jarheads last week jokingly called it a "Marine sewing circle," insisting that the ritual is an integral part of Marine bonding. But even some men who have been pinned warn that the tapes depict a form of hazing far more vicious than the customary single punch. Bernard Trainor, a retired Marine lieutenant general who lectures on national security at Harvard, has fond memories of the day he received his punch 32 years ago in Vietnam. "I never questioned it," he says. "It was part of the rite of passage." The senior...