Academy questioned over food services, sex assault definition (Baltimore Sun)

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A Maryland senator said Monday she was frustrated by findings in a government report that the Pentagon has yet to establish uniform sexual assault and harassment reporting requirements for the nation’s military academies.</p>

<p>While Democratic Sen. Barbara Mikulski praised efforts at the U.S. Naval Academy to raise awareness and battle the problem, she said Defense Department leaders should be more out front on the subject.</p>

<p>“What can we get out of the powers that be at the Pentagon? This is not a treaty negotiation, though it seems like it,” Mikulski said at a quarterly meeting of the academy’s Board of Visitors, of which she is a member…

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