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Monday
!U JAZZ BAND: is seeking new members in all sections. For audition and
foearsal information contact Steve Gentry at 693-7413.
TUPENT GOVERNMENT: is now accepting comptroller applications. Informa-
jnend applications are available in 219 Pavillion, or call 845-3051.
saJDENT GOVERNMENT - EXTERNAL AFFAIRS: Volunteers in Public
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chr i. Cards are available in 221 Pavillion and must be returned by 5 p.m. Fri-
• o® 7 K
I^RhA ZETA: will have Monday Night at the Movies at 7 p.m. in Kleberg
ige.
IAMPRALS: Outdoor soccer entries close today and basketball and pre-
bn basketball entries are available in 167 Read. For more information con-
|P.J. Miller at 845-7826.
1AMURAL BASKETBALL OFFICIALS: will meet at 6 p.m. in 164 Read.
Tuesday
5IES FOR JACK KEMP:will meet at 7 p.m. in 402 Rudder.
fHOLIC STUDENT ASSOCIATION: will meet for a discussion group at
in the All Faiths Chapel.
IIU SAILING CLUB: will meet at 7 p.m. in Rudder Tower. Everyone is wel-
PROCESSING MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION: will have a mem-
1 nnwthip drive in the lobby of the Blocker building from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. and a gen-
d thtiraj business meeting at 7 p.m. in 150 Blocker.
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est Point cadet:
dismissal caused
|r refusal to haze
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fht J$|RPUS CHRISTI (AP) — A
talkciL Point cadet, ranked academi-
the top five percent of his
laimed he has been kicked out
i refine academy because he refused
n forHe freshmen.
■ Jan. 5, John Edwards, 24, of
bet^land, Texas, returned to the
wetmS Military Academy after
con rilmas leave and was told he had
ar ini:hdismissed,
a sp
fame as pretty much of
shock. I had to convince
gs anff nother for a few min-
^les that it wasn’t a practi-
allet i/ joke. I he idea o f being
. xkcd out of the (West
academy for not
filing at the pie be s
:omr enicd pretty radical. ”
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-John Edwards
pes Edwards, who carried a 3.59
creatffde point average, said he was dis-
ty, Vised because he refused as an up-
iHissman to enforce something
Balle: academy calls the “Fourth Class
'ged tern.”
)rs to|t’s something Edwards just calls
:and:;izing.”
to irThe hazing of plebes — the fresh-
mssc® tit the academy — by upper-
farcli ssmen is not physical, but a verbal
:ompai« psychological form of abuse,
be snair ajrds said.
let i:He described the practice as “hu-
liating and degrading” and said
ut willjvpwed during his first year at
at doe Js tlPoint that he would not do it
ther sf^njhis turn came,
he adi£diivards said plebes are forced by
both ! upperclassmen to walk at a quick
Kiround the campus. They also
nailer,’required to eat at a position of at-
ortha'tion, memorize “useless informa-
allasrf 1 like menus” and are “yelled at
e nJstkntly” by upperclassmen if re-
son saTenients are not met, he said,
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Jnique calendar features
highlights in black history
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Officials at West Point refused to
comment on the circumstances of
Edwards’ case. But Maj. Bruce Bell,
a spokesman at the academy, de
fended the Fourth Class System as a
necessary part of officer training.
“If I’m to become a good leader, I
have to learn how to follow,” Bell
said. “In that first year, we want to
provide that transition from high
school. It’s to develop discipline:
that’s the Fourth Class System.”
Edwards was in the middle of his
third year at the academy earlier this
month when his tactical officer,
Capt. Joseph Martz, informed him
he had received a second consec
utive F in “Military Development’
for not supporting the Fourth Class
System.
Military Development is not a
course but a grade assigned each se
mester by the tactical officer based
on 12 “leadership dimensions” such
as “decision making” and “devel
opment of subordinates.”
Bell acknowledged that a cadet
could hold an excellent academic
and disciplinary record but still be
dismissed because of “inability to de
velop militarily.”
Bell said students can he dis
missed for a number of reasons, in
cluding refusal to support the
Fourth Class System. “It’s not like it’s
never happened before,” Bell said.
Edwards said he was told by the
academy’s deputy commandant that
his dismissal could not be appealed.
“It came as pretty much of a
shock,” Edwards said. “I had to con
vince my mother for a few minutes
that it wasn’t a practical joke. The
idea of being kicked out of the aca
demy for not yelling at the plebes
seemed pretty radical.”
Technically, Edwards remains in
the Army until his separation is fi
nalized by the Department of the
Army, but he no longer has an obli
gation to the military.
“I know my chances are slim, but 1
want to try to get back in,” he said.
H RTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Al-
~^2>ugh most people know who Mar-
Luther King jr., Booker T.
“*^TBlhington and Jackie Robinson
Te they may not be so familiar
IIONth the names of Richard Allen,
■beth Evelyn Wright or Zoi'a
:ale Hurston.
03 ' M ie common thread that links
jite §|| six people is that they all have
Jin profiled in the Black History
rpTilctidar, which has been published
since 1982 by Aetna Life
KVd Casualty.
calendar documents many of
■■■•ntci history’s most significant politi-
j, educational, cultural and sports
hievements. Valerie Canady and
taff work from -March to Octo-
ach year, compiling 12 profiles
‘65 other items in the calendar,
cording to Canady, some lesser
i^n black achievers are included
order to raise people’s awareness
f not so renowned, but signficant,
s. Among them: Richard Allen,
der and first bishop of the Afri-
Methodist Episcopal Church;
beth Evelyn Wright, founder of
■)orhees College in Denmark, S.C.,
<d| Zora Neale Hurston, author,
rist and anthropologist.
The calendar contains informa-
p ranging from the birthdays of
JB famous individuals as Lena
tome, Jesse Jackson, Whitney M.
—"jung Jr. and Willie Mays to such
milestones as the first black admiral,
^^Huel L. Gravely Jr.; the first black
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U.S. Supreme Court justice, Thur-
good Marshall; the first black
woman federal judge, Constance
Baker Motley, and the first black
general in the Marine Corps, Frank
E. Petersen Jr.
“Among the sources we refer to
for material,” Canady says, “are the
Negro Almanac, the Schomburg
Center for Research in Black Cul
ture, the Smithsonian Institution,
colleges, churches, old books and lo
cal libraries.
“Some information is obtained in
a matter of minutes, while other
items can take days and even weeks.”
She says that for the 1988 cal
endar, her staff spent weeks digging
up information for an item on the
Tuskegee Airmen, which dealt. w r ith
black aerial pioneers who broke the
segregation barriers and served in
the U.S. Army Air Force during
World War II.
“The person who knew the most
about the Tuskegee Airmen was on
location shooting a TV show in an
obscure Southern town, and since
we were on deadline we had to con
tact him,” she says. “It took some
doing but we finally reached him.”
The artwork for the calendar was
done by Carl Owens, whose works
are displayed in private and public
collections, in the Smithsonian Insti
tution and in a number of black mu
seums around the country.
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