Word: cadet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commission did not find fault with the honor code in principle: "A cadet will not lie, cheat, steal or tolerate those who do." However, it urged some sharp modifications of the stern system. At present, it is all or nothing: if a cadet fibs about anything, however trivial, out he goes. But the system has broken down. The commission estimated that far more than the 152 juniors who were dismissed from West Point for cheating on an electrical engineering exam last spring were actually involved...
...corps' Pershing Rifles fraternity. According to police, he and nine other pledges were taken to the island as part of the fraternity's initiation rites and told to play the part of war prisoners withholding military secrets. Playing Fitzgerald's interrogator was James Savino, 21, a cadet officer in the ROTC unit. Savino emphasized his questions by jabbing a knife into the narrow plaque.Somehow one jab missed the target. The knife plunged through the main artery of Fitzgerald's heart, killing...
...Says Cadet Gay Gray of Dallas: "We know the eyes of America are upon us." The academy's superintendent, Lieut. General Sidney B. Berry, knows it too. Reminded that he once threatened to resign if women were accepted at the Point, the general said last week: "It was rather adolescent on my part. But I got over it and decided to do what a good soldier does-get on with...
Trouble began after a mixer one evening last March, when she and a male cadet, whom she loyally refused to identify-he apparently was her financé, Mark Lewis, 22, a senior from Las Vegas-went to bed in her dorm room. Most colleges officially frown on student sex on campus but handle the matter by looking the other way. Not so the Merchant Marine Academy, which classifies copulation in the barracks as conduct unbecoming and worthy of dismissal...
Sort of Scapegoat. Donnelly and her companion were discovered in bed by her roommate and a male cadet, who explained later that they were looking for some aspirin. The male cadet, known on campus as "Turkey," tipped academy officials, who pressured Donnelly to resign but did not discipline her bunkmate. According to the academy's account, he had burrowed deep under the covers and could not be identified. Said a spokesman: "We knew only that he had blond hair. When we called in her boy friend, who has blond hair, he denied the incident." But Donnelly insists that everyone...