Women at USAFA

Good Luck, JetSet15!

BCT is the exciting part of the doolie year; stand firm for the fire-hose of boring tasks that also require excellence.

Several books on USAFA have been published on what we call the ten per-centers--the 10% of people who take up 90% of a commander's time. Lehmkuhl's memoir, Here's What We'll Say, also comes to mind, and it gives a scary take on sexual assault on men.

I hope that my memoir, Groundbreaker, will soon be finished and published (I have a literary agent and am going the traditional publishing route). My memories, based on the incidents I recorded in my diary, will be more mainstream and applicable to both male and female cadets.

BTW, if you only refer to the males as "guys" or "men," be sure to only refer to yourselves as "gals" or "women." Girls need protection; women are the protectors.
 
I agree with katamonk and jetset15; I have never felt safer than I do at USAFA. My male squadmates in both my freshmen squad and new squad are like brothers. At what other college can a woman walk across campus alone, at night, and feel perfectly safe?

AnneMartinFletcher, I'm interested to read your memoir!
 
As you know many of these incidents involve consumption of many alcoholic beverages. I recognize things can happen anywhere, but check out the current issue of Princeton Review where they rank USAFA in top universities with low alcohol and drug use. Drinking on campus is not tolerated and if a cadet gets caught off campus violating the law concerning drugs or alcohol, they are punished far more severely than at a civilian university. I think policing alcohol on campus has an effect in cutting down these types of incidents.
 
thealt said:
As you know many of these incidents involve consumption of many alcoholic beverages. I recognize things can happen anywhere, but check out the current issue of Princeton Review where they rank USAFA in top universities with low alcohol and drug use. Drinking on campus is not tolerated and if a cadet gets caught off campus violating the law concerning drugs or alcohol, they are punished far more severely than at a civilian university. I think policing alcohol on campus has an effect in cutting down these types of incidents.
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For what it's worth, you CAN drink on campus. Just not in the dorm. Unless things have changed, Arnold Hall is open for drinking for those 21 years and older. Again; unless things have changed.
 
True. Hap's serves beer (the cadet bar in A-hall). It is open to 2 digs and firsties on certain evenings.
 
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