2 Coast Guard Academy Cadets Punished For Racial Harassment

NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) – Two white cadets at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy have been punished for harassing a black classmate.
A spokesman for the academy in New London, Connecticut, says the commandant of cadets ruled at a hearing Thursday that the cadets violated regulations andordered discipline including demerits and marching tours.
The academy says one of the cadets played a racially offensive song in the black cadet’s room.
After leaving to tell a peer counselor, the black cadet