Five months after becoming two of the first four women to enter the Citadel Military College, two female attendees left after they were forced to sing obscene songs, drink iced tea until they vomited, then had their sweatshirts doused with nail polish remover and ignited—all of which were a tradition in Echo company, of which the girls were members.

Commenting on what she regarded as her shabby treatment in her farewell statement, one of the girls asked her male classmates to "take a long look at how they view their girlfriends, wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters."

[Ed.: The New York Times reported that first-year cadets must memorize ritualized answers to questions posed by upperclassmen. For example, the question "How is the cow?" (which means "how much milk is left in the carton?") must be answered with: "Sir, she walks, she talks, she's full of chalk, the lacteal fluid extracted from the female of the bovine species is highly prolific to the Nth degree, sir!" with N representing the number of glassfuls left in the carton. Any other answer by the cadet would be punishable.]

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