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DATE: FRIDAY, May 18, 1990                   TAG: 9005180427
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-11   EDITION: METRO 
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NAVAL ACADEMY HAZING PROMPTS INVESTIGATIONS

The widely reported hazing incident at the U.S. Naval Academy in which a female student was handcuffed by male midshipmen to a urinal as other men jeered and took photographs has triggered a spate of investigations of sexual harassment and other alleged misconduct at the prestigious military college.

Rear Adm. Virgil L. Hill Jr., superintendent of the academy at Annapolis, has ordered two special inquiries, while the House Armed Services Committee moved to open separate probes of the hazing episode as well as other reported incidents.

These include the alleged rape on campus of a woman by a midshipman, and a break-in at the engineering department and possible tampering with exams the night before a final examination.

Gwen Dreyer, 19, the victim of the handcuffing, resigned from the academy last week, citing her humiliation and outrage over the Dec. 8 incident and the way the Naval Academy handled it. She said the hazing was the culmination of a series of other incidents in which she and other female midshipmen were subjected to sexual harassment and discrimination. - The Washington Post 


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