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“Publicly they are going to deny it exists. But privately these guys are admired–the bad boys, the really cool guys who break as many regulations as possible, the rebels who sit in the back of the room and throw spitballs at the nerds sitting in the front row.”

–Annapolis, Md., lawyer and Naval Academy alumnus Jeffrey McFadden, who says administrators refuse to admit that a macho culture that celebrates rule-breaking is to blame for a rash of scandals involving midshipmen.