Show LAW AT THE 1 I NA V At ACADEMY Cadets Guilty of Hazing Can Be Punished Without Expel Expelling Expelling I ling Them Washington May lay 5 After consultation between the officials of the navy depart department department department ment and Admiral Sands superintendent of the naval academy the fate of thirty midshipmen has h been settled When the hazing Investigation was at its height the special board appointed by b Admiral Sands collected much evidence against many of the midshipmen of which the latter never knew Had the old law remained unchanged each of the bo ho T I have been hauled before a court e J ii 11 and if it convicted of haing would t i L t P e dismissed from the academy The board worked In se secret secret secret cret and consequently none of the boys knew just how far he had been incriminated incriminated by the testimony being taken from their ranks Meantime many of the youngsters lost ground in their studies because of secret apprehension under which they suffered Now however all doubt has been removed the new law has been applied and the superintendent has been allowed to fix the punishment to be meted out to each of the men found by b the board to have been implicated In hazing basing These punishments consist of the imposition of demerits of reduction in classes confinement to the limits reservation reser atlon and other penal ties of minor degree all of which have been welcomed by the l culprits as infinitely Infinitely infinitely to be preferred to the harsh sen sea tence of expulsion which heretofore has been the only punishment according to law |