Word: classing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...vast majority of rules are still enforced and the list of taboos is long. Each class is given a demerit ceiling for each month; going over the linit earns a cadet several hours of "walking the area," a practice of being forced to dress in formal uniform, mount rifle upon shoulder and walk back and forth in the courtyard. If you skip a class, you automatically "walk...
...uniformity of military life pervades the classroom. Cadets carry identical three-ring binders to class, embossed in one case with the words "Duty, Honor, Country, Automotive Engineering." When the colonel-professor holds up a piece of engine to demonstrate a point, he remarks casually that it comes from an M-60 tank...
...those not cut from the more normal white, male and army background, the pressure is even tougher. One hundred nineteen women entered in the Class of 1980 but only 62 made it through. During survival training, some of those women were allegedly singled out by officers for participating in exercises like biting the head off a live chicken. Although there remain those who refuse to accept women's presence at the academy, the atmosphere is much improved. "If you don't look for feelings of resentment," says one woman cadet, "you're not going to find them...
...minorities and the poor, the increasingly heterogenous nature of the corps has made things easier than before. The fourth class system makes those in the same class equal, regardless of whether they're rich or poor. And things have come a long way since Black cadets got "silenced" because of the color of their skin. An intensive minority recruiting drive has upped the proportions and eased the pressure. "When my father went here," one Black cadet says, "the pressure on Blacks to perform was greater than anyone else. If you didn't make it, you were living proof that...
Like all lecturers, he uses his first-day speech to cover his grand designs for the course. "What do you think leadership is?" he asks the class. One answer, a little timid: "Does it mean when someone can make other people do something they don't want to?" Henderson looks around the room, unsatisfied. Another reply, this time more confident: "It means having the respect of others and influence over them," a red-headed boy says. But Henderson just pauses, stares at his desk, glances at the class, and then says, "Class, leadership really boils down to the golden rule...