Status Updates From The Boo

"Seeing the Regimental Commander handled with such impropriety is something like watching the rape of the Pope." I think this is rape reference #4

"The cadets ignored the General’s car, for it was commonly conceded among the Corps that you could be raping a Vestal Virgin and never merit a glance from the exalted eyes in the back of the great Cadillac. The green Comet called for vigilance." Third time

Pat Conroy warned me this was going to be bad but ughghghhhhh

This Bits and Pieces section is mind-numbingly awful

I'm ten percent in and he's already mentioned rape twice, but I guess he wouldn't be Pat Conroy if he didn't

"Yet no rule encompasses enough flexibility to offer a break to a boy who is the product of one of these homes." Surprisingly thoughtful exploration of the barriers that make it so we're not all on equal footing, especially for the time period

"The Boo, grand wizard of discipline who..." OMG that's the best term you could come up?? Conroy warned in the new introduction the writing was bad but so far it's been the choices...

"If you barfed on the president’s wife or raped a Charleston debutante, you would face The Boo on his territory and under his terms." Are these comparable? Common and likely? Jeez

"...college which stresses patriotism over every other virtue; an eccentric leftover from the Old South when the gentlemen of the manor departed from home to be hardened under military regimen. The Citadel is part of the South and southern tradition. She proclaims with unconcealed pride the role played by her sons in the Civil War." The contradiction here just remains unaddressed, as it always does in the South.