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Article: Hazing illegal but persistent.(hazing of women cadets at the Virginia Military Institute)
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- Black Issues in Higher Education
- Article date:
- January 9, 1997
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CHARLESTON, S.C. -- The kind of hazing that allegedly happened to two female cadets at The Citadel in recent months is nothing new.
Jeanie Mentavlos of Charlotte, N.C., and Kim Messer of Clover, S.C., alleged that they were physically and verbally hazed by upperclassmen after suffering stress fractures that exempted them from rigorous marching and other military training. The alleged hazings were made public December 13 and college administrators asked the State Law Enforcement Division and the FBI to investigate.
Although school regulations and state law prohibit the practice, allegations of hazing incidents have persisted. Some cases have been ...