This memo was staffed at some point. So, West Point staff officers sat down and the only clubs they could actually name were all minorities/women.

Then it got sent to legal review and legal also couldn’t come up with any other clubs so they added the “all other clubs will cease until they are reviewed”

All these fine leaders at West Point staff have no clue what clubs actually exist that may be in violation but they damn sure knew all the minority clubs needed to be axed immediately.

Society of Women Engineers? You...You're cancelling SWE?

But it's like...*the* engineer professional society for women. This isn't just a like 'yay women' club. This is like...IEEE for women. It's meant to be a professional engineering society.

What...What a stupid thing to do. Like I get it, some of these are identity based and are going to be cultural gatherings that may not, you know, strictly be 'professional' in nature.

SWE *does* serve a professional interest. Frankly I'm surprise to see they had it labeled an 'affinity' club and *not* under the academic clubs.

Also, SWE doesn't exclude men. Men can be members of SWE. Even the USMA page of it (when it existed) explicitly lists that.

Would it be safe to assume that the Corbin Forum isn’t a fan club for Corbin Bernsen?


Lol. It's a women in Army leadership association. Named after Margaret Corbin, the first American woman to receive a military pension (half that of a man's) after she disguised herself as a man during the Revolutionary War and got her arm blown off by a cannon, eventually being retired.

It was established in 1976, the first class to allow women into USMA. So it's certainly a lot of history lost with one tippytap on the keyboard.