Naval Academy News

This story originally appeared in PW Comics Week July 7, 2009 Sign up now! by Laurel Maury -- Publishers Weekly, 7/6/2009 2:30:00 PM The Naval Academy has published a free comic book aimed at attracting minority kids to the service academy.

"Naval Academy Professor Challenges Rising Diversity," ran the headline in The Washington Post.

It took Kevin Jackson two tries to get on the county Board of Education. He was nominated for the post last year, but didn't get the governor's appointment.

As the man accused of killing his former girlfriend and her new boyfriend in Annapolis faced a judge in a bail hearing yesterday, the apparent crime of passion began reverberating across the lives of families and friends.

Elbert Gardner Jr. was in his basement apartment late Tuesday night when he heard his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend together in her bedroom.

Anyone who knows James R. Frezzell well will tell you he's seldom at a loss for words.

About 1,230 freshman, or plebes, reported to the Naval Academy yesterday to start their military careers.

Wednesday marked that crucial day in the American calendar year when new "plebes" -- incoming freshmen at Annapolis' United States Naval Academy -- give up their freedoms to go study submarines or whatever, with shaved heads, for the next four years.

Wave goodbye. Get in line. "Hurry up and wait" for your uniform, your medical exam and a crash course in saluting.

Ronald Allen, 18, of Seattle, Wash., learns the proper way to wear his cap during Induction Day at the Naval College in Annapolis, Maryland on Wednesday, July 1, 2009.

Either Barack Hussein Obama is guilty of treason, as formally charged in a March, 2009 federal criminal complaint filed by retired Navy Lt.

An Annapolis alderman and mayoral candidate charged with sexually assaulting a male midshipman was the subject of a 1986 restraining order after his wife accused him of beating her, court documents show.

The U.S. Naval Academy Band's Concert Band performs at 8 p.m. at the City Dock. Fireworks at approximately 9:15 p.m. will be launched from Farragut Field, on the Naval Academy yard.

When Tish Wold went to her 20-year college reunion, many of the women didn't remember all the men.

A Montgomery County assistant state's attorney will take over the prosecution of Annapolis mayoral candidate Samuel E. Shropshire, the city alderman accused of groping a Naval Academy midshipman, as Anne Arundel County prosecutors seek to avoid an appearance of a conflict of interest.

A Rockland man is about to embark on a career as a member of the U.S. Navy's submarine corps.

What if you were a 13-year-old Cordova Middle School student and the U.S. Naval Academy handed you an invitation to spend six days at its Summer Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Program in Maryland? That is just what happened to Harrison Alexander Morrow.

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, has been appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy Board of Visitors.

Reporting from Baltimore -- The floors were lacquered and shining, the grass was mowed and the handicapped-access tracks and ramps in the new, $800,000 home in Pasadena, Md., were ready for use.

The Naval Academy's emphasis on creating a more diverse brigade of midshipmen has led to an admissions process that unofficially but effectively sets up separate tracks for white and nonwhite applicants in violation of federal law, one of the school's professors has charged.