Page 16/The Battalion/Friday, October 31, 1986
Cadets say
racial hazing
uncommon
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) —
Like a scene from “The Lords of
Discipline,” five white Citadel ca
dets dressed in sheets and towels
entered the room of a black cadet,
shouted obscenities and left a
burned paper cross behind.
While last week’s incident sent
shock waves through the campus,
both black and white cadets agree
the hazing doesn’t reflect the racial
atmosphere at the state military col
lege.
“1 don’t think there are any ten
sions,” said Craig Burgess, a 21-
year-old senior from Lake City,
S.C., and one of 126 blacks in the
college’s 1,960-member corps of ca
dets.
“A lot of the corps is hostile to
the press because they think every
thing is being overdrawn,” he said.
The five unidentified white ca
dets, charged with “conduct dis
creditable,” have been brought be
fore a disciplinary board and could
be expelled. College president Maj.
Gen. James Grimsley Jr. is expected
to announce a punishment today.
He also has called for a general
study of campus race relations.
The incident occurred in a bar
racks similar to that in which novel
ist Pat Conroy spent his years at the
school in the 1960s, about the time
the first blacks enrolled.
Conroy drew heavily on his expe
rience for “The Lords of Disci
pline,” an unflattering novel about
life in a Southern military school
which centers around the hazing of
a black cadet. The novel later was
made into a movie.
“You can’t compare then to
now,” said Terry Adams, a 19-year-
old black junior from Washington,
D.C. “The times aren’t even compa
rable. The ’60s were a turbulent
time as far as civil t ights. This is
1986.”
Since Conroy’s time, hazing and
physical abuse that were once part
of life for all first-year cadets at The
Citadel have been outlawed.
Last week’s incident occurred in
the room of black cadet Kevin Nes
mith, who slept through the inci
dent.
The Afro-American Society,
which claims 75 black cadets as
members, believes the five whites
should be expelled, says group
president Kenny Gordon, 20, of
Willingboro, N.J.
But he said the incidentisanj;,
lated event and race relations,,
no different on campus (to® a
where else. He said hekas^i
some instances of racialimm^.
on campus but he said ^
them were major.
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incidents on campus thisstu kl
one, a white cadet told a raci^B
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