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Captain Arthur Lincoln, a lawyer and West Point graduate who represented some of the cadets at one point during the proceedings, estimates that 90% to 95% of all cheating incidents are not reported. Cadet Timothy Ringgold, who is accused of tolerating cheating, claims that "roughly one-third of my junior class cheated, and the other two-thirds tolerated...
...always, the Long Gray Line will provide a magnificent and stirring spectacle. But this year the excitement of graduation day at West Point will be marred by doubts, confusion, bitterness and fear. Dozens of the marching cadets may be dismissed from the United States Military Academy within weeks. There is talk that scores, even hundreds of others may be in deep trouble before the current investigations have run their course. The most serious cheating scandal in its history is shaking West Point-a furor that has set cadet against cadet and threatens the basic nature of the institution itself...
...scandal revolves around the honor code of the corps, which states with neither equivocation nor mercy: "A cadet will not lie, cheat or steal, or tolerate those who do." The "toleration clause" includes those who know that others have cheated but have not turned them in. For all found guilty, there is only one punishment: quick and automatic dismissal from the academy. Times may change and values fade, but West Point continues to rely on its uncompromising code, no matter how impossible to attain it may seem to the rest of society...
Honor committees composed of cadets hear 100 or so cases a year. Most are for violations of the code in dealing with absurdly picayune incidents, such as a cadet's lying about having shined his shoes. When he was Secretary of the Army, Howard ("Bo") Callaway complained, "The honor code often deals with trivia." No matter: the trivial could get a cadet "separated"-expelled-as surely and swiftly as the significant...
...twinbill opener against the Cadets went 13 innings, after Army tied the game up at 5-5 with a run in the seventh inning. With Linehan performing well in the extra innings, the Cadet offense was held at bay until the 13th when Dale Apple tripled to leadoff the inning...