Word: vitzthum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rambunctious Adolescents. The flap over grade fixing brought into the open the smoldering feud between the civilians on the faculty and the Navy. Many of the civilians feel like "second-class citizens," and a number have resigned. One of those quitting in protest, English Teacher Richard C. Vitzthum, 29, accused the academy of treating its "civilian faculty as a commodity which it has bought like provisions for the mess hall." Paradoxically, despite the protection of the flunk quota, overall attrition is high: 35% of the average freshman class of 1,300 drops out by graduation. One reason is the hazing...