[24314] in APO-L
Re: [APO-L] Toast Song
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Cashman)
Tue May 25 15:14:17 2004
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 12:13:59 -0700
Reply-To: Derek Cashman <derek_cashman@yahoo.com>
From: Derek Cashman <derek_cashman@yahoo.com>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
In-Reply-To: <001701c441c4$9e72dde0$aaedaf80@famtree>
This is actually not a true, "legal precedent," since
the Naval Academy changed their song without any court
order to do so. Furthermore, we as an organization are
in no way bound to follow the decisions of other
schools and/or organizations.
Nonetheless, it is definitely related and somewhat
interesting.
> I have found a legal precedent, I believe, to
> removing "men" from the Toast
> Song. This would not specify what should replace
> it. I was reading a
> acquaintance brother's Web site, and this brother
> commented on how we our
> Toast Song is always an issue. This brother linked
> to a CNN article
> explaining a change removing "men" from the Naval
> Academy's Alma Mater. The
> Academy went co-ed in 1976 just as we did, although
> I'm not sure relatively
> when the first female enrolled. Here's the link:
>
>
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/05/20/naval.academy.song.ap/index.html
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Derek J. Cashman, Ph.D. (derek_cashman@yahoo.com) (derek.cashman@vcu.edu)
Department of Medicinal Chemistry
MCV Campus of Virginia Commonwealth University
Technology & Electronic Communications (TEC) Coordinator
National Media & Technology Committee
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