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Article: Inducting new plebes: The Naval Academy's Class of 2010 includes a record number of women and lots of diversity.
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
- Article date:
- June 30, 2006
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Byline: Bradley Olson
Jun. 30--More women were inducted into the Naval Academy's Class of 2010 Wednesday than in any previous class in the school's 161-year history. The 273 women also make up 22 percent of the 1,218 students who entered the academy, the highest percentage in school history and second among service academies only to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, where women make up 28 percent of the student body. "In 1980, we admitted about 80 and in 1990, we did 136, and [now] we will have some 270," Vice Adm. Rodney P. Rempt, the academy superintendent, said Tuesday. "That's huge progress." The others who went through "induction day" - where incoming ...