Last week, 16 West Point women posed for their Old Corps photograph—a time-honored tradition at the military academy where cadets pose for vintage-style photographs on the steps of the school’s oldest barrack—and dared to raise their fists in a gesture of solidarity. The women, all black, drew the ire of John Burk, a…
16 cadets posed for an “Old Corps” historically-styled photo on the porch of one of West Point’s oldest barracks while in uniform. They raised their fists in what could be interpreted as a gesture of solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, or a whole host of other historical political activism in the U.S.…
In what could be a bigger blow to his biography than potentially lying about stabbing a guy, Politico reports that Ben Carson’s campaign has admitted he lied about being offered a scholarship to West Point. This could be the end for him.
A West Point sergeant recieved a 33-month sentence after pleading guilty to allegations he videotaped female cadets without their knowledge.
Congrats to Forbes' Top 25 Best Public Colleges in 2013! Too bad one-fifth of them — including the very top three — are currently under fire for allegedly failing to report rape and generally sucking at dealing with sexual assault.
Two recent West Point graduates were removed from a basic officer leadership course at Fort Benning, Georgia by military officials in front of around 175 classmates yesterday morning. Our source says they're being investigated in relation to more serious charges tied to last spring's West Point rugby scandal regarding…
If you thought the NSA scandal was a disturbing reminder of the reality that we live in a world where fallible humans have access to virtually limitless power, wait until you hear about the latest military scandal. Turns out, under our very noses, a top official at West Point has been using his position to obtain all…
The U.S. Military Academy at West Point says it severely punished its men's rugby team for participating in a lewd email chain that was derogatory to women. A former cadet says that's misleading PR fluff. We got our hands on the emails about "rando skanks" and "black strap-ons" that reportedly prompted the nation's…
If only the military took sexual assault as seriously as West Point apparently takes rape culture: the academy recently disbanded its men's rugby team and punished 60 cadets after administrators found a “derogatory email chain” that illustrated “a culture of disrespect towards women.”
Yet another sexual harassment scandal has been uncovered in one of our nation’s proudest military academies. A sergeant first class on staff at the United States Military Academy at West Point has, according to Army officials, been charged with allegedly filming female cadets without their consent, sometimes when…
Just days after Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that the military would actually start punishing sexual assault rather than covering it up by gaslighting alleged victims with psychiatric diagnoses, two women who claim that they were raped while attending U.S. service academies sued military officials Friday…
[West Point, New York; December 1. Image via Getty]
"Was it harder to be a woman at West Point? Well, I don't know what it's like to be a man at West Point... Without role models, women didn't know what "right" looked like."- Colonel Deborah McDonald. [Readers Digest]
