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

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<p>Navy spends less on food for mids than for sailors</p>

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The Naval Academy is looking to modernize its kitchen and hire more cooks, academy leaders said yesterday while briefing the school’s civilian oversight board.</p>

<p>Stories about the quality of food and food shortages at the academy began to emerge in late summer. That’s when the school’s new superintendent, Vice Adm. Jeffrey L. Fowler, changed the number of required meals the entire 4,400-member Brigade of Midshipmen must eat in the mess hall each week. He changed it from six to 15. </p>

<p>“Since last August, the admiral and I have received e-mails and phone calls and letters from loving mothers … The reality of it is, we did get ahead of ourselves in moving up from the six to the 15 meals a week,” the board of visitors’ chairman, Craig J. Duchossois, said during the meeting yesterday…

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