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DIED. Fred F. Finklehoffe, 67, Hollywood and Broadway producer-writer; in Springtown, Pa. Finklehoffe and John Monks Jr. wrote a parody of their cadet days at Virginia Military Institute that became the 1936-37 Broadway hit Brother Rat. Finklehoffe went on to produce other successful plays and revues (The Heiress, Showtime, Big Time). He also co-authored several screenplays, including For Me and My Gal and Meet Me in St. Louis, for which he received a 1944 Academy Award nomination...
...last year's massive cheating scandal, West Point just cannot seem to get back to normal. Last week, a three-general board of investigators reported that the military academy suffered from poor morale, resistance to change and "a slackening of the pursuit of excellence." Their report cited such cadet slang terms as "cool on academics" and "cooperate and graduate'' as indicative of the attitude of a large majority of a typical class. Perhaps worst of all, the officers said, "a relatively humorless atmosphere seems to prevail. A certain grimness marks many of the cadets...
...cadet who might have been expected to show more resentment than most is Timothy Ringgold, 24, expelled not for cheating but for saying that he knew of cases of unreported cribbing. Recalls Ringgold: "When I left, I threw away all my uniforms. I was sick of the academy." After he lost a federal court suit charging that the honor code was unconstitutional, he "floundered a lot" until he entered Arizona State University last spring. Then Eastern Air Lines Chairman Frank Borman, the former astronaut and old West Pointer ('50) who headed the commission that probed the scandal, wrote encouraging...
...West Pointers have welcomed the EE 304 cadets. Their return, Cadet Mark Wroth complained in a letter last June to the campus paper, "is a blot on the academy, regardless of our personal opinions." Some faculty members agree. The former West Point commandant of cadets, Brigadier General Walter F. Ulmer Jr., was reassigned last year when he opposed any leniency. Says one major: "We've lost credibility with cadets and we've lowered our standards...
...academy has changed since the scandal. That summer, it enrolled its first women plebes-and now has 177 female cadets. The academy has done away with the system by which cadets rate each other on leadership. It has also abandoned the general order of merit, which prescribed the ranking of each cadet by academic grades as well. Thus the class of '78 will be the first to have no "goat"-the cadet who got his diploma last because he had the lowest overall standing...