Academy Superintendent

An article yesterday on the cheating scandal at the Nava Academy incorrectly attributed a comment Wednesday on the suspension of a department chairman to academy officials. In fact, professors at the academy made the comment.The Sun regrets the errors.The superintendent of the Naval Academy cleared the record yesterday of an engineering professor who had been suspended in the school's biggest cheating scandal in 20 years.Rear Adm. Thomas C. Lynch overturned the suspension of Professor Raymond Wasta and restored the five days of pay he lost over spring break.

It's time for Navy to put up or shut up.Either the Naval Academy should correct whatever is wrong with its football program or it should admit it's third-rate and play that kind of schedule.Navy won one game last year. It hasn't had a winning season in a decade.That's not second-rate. Maryland has been second-rate. The Terps play all Division I-A teams and win a few. Navy plays a lot of people a grade lower -- I-AA -- and still can't win. That's third-rate.And yet every year now it's the same thing at Annapolis.

The Napoleonic Wars and the Royal Navy had C.S. Forester. World War II and the U.S. Navy have Vice Adm. William P. Mack.The 76-year-old Mack, a former superintendent of the U.S Naval Academy, is the main author of a projected 10-volume fictional history of the American destroyers during the Second World War."It's a history of the feeling of sailors in World War II," Mack says. "The equipment and the facts are authentic. The only fiction is the characters."The first two books are "South to Java" (released in 1987 and written with his son, William P. Mack Jr.)

An article in yesterday's Maryland section incorrectly reported that Rear Adm. Virgil L. Hill Jr., the superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy, is retiring June 15. In fact, Admiral Hill is leaving the academy to take a post in Norfolk, Va.ANNAPOLIS -- Responding to anticipated budget cuts and a congressional mandate to reduce enrollment, the U.S. Naval Academy is launching a comprehensive study that could lead to a complete overhaul of the 145-year-old institution."This...

The Naval Academy Women's Club May Installation Luncheon will take place at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at Buchanan House, home of the U.S. Naval Academy superintendent.At the luncheon, 24 $1,000 scholarships will be given to 15 children of U.S. Navy and Marine officers, seven children of Naval Academy faculty and staff, and two children of enlisted personnel from the Naval Station.Information: 849-8315 or 263-7199.

WASHINGTON -- A breakdown in discipline at the Naval Academy contributes to an environment conducive to sexual harassment and discrimination, a civilian panel investigating the school reported today.The report by the academy's Board of Visitors' committee said cases of sexual harassment should be dealt with "very severely," and it advocated placing more women in leadership roles and lengthening the superintendent's term to a minimum of five years.Although the academy is committed in principle to equality, it should improve the integration of women at the Annapolis institution, the report said.