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Opinion. Argues that the male bond at the United States Naval Academy is created through exclusion of women and homosexuals, either in particular or in the abstract. How the students responded to a poetry class that featured gay poets, like Walt Whitman and soldiers from World War I; Group loyalties at the Academy; How women are seen at the Academy; How the military remains deeply male; The students' fear.

Annapolis, Md. THE idea of a football star receiving lenient treatment after testing positive for drug use would raise no eyebrows at most colleges. But the United States Naval Academy ''holds itself to a higher standard,'' as its administrators are fond of saying. According to policy set by the chief of naval operations, Adm. Gary Roughead, himself a former commandant of midshipmen at the academy, we have a ''zero tolerance'' policy for drug use. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]