Word: cadets
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...typical cadet in the class of 1976, which is graduating this week, had a B+ average in high school. He was a letterman in some sport (33.8% captained a team) and scored 554 on the verbal scholastic aptitude test and 624 on the mathematics test-not up to the average scores of Harvard or Yale, but well within the reach of such excellent schools as the University of Michigan or Georgia Tech. All of the cadets were nominated for a place in the class by authorized officials, notably U.S. Senators and Congressmen. Many had wanted to enter West Point since...
...pace at the Point can be brutal. Reveille at 6:10 a.m., duties or study at 6:40 a.m., classes from 7:50 a.m. until 11:55 a.m., and on through the day at double time until taps at 11 p.m. For many exhausted cadets, the major recreation is sleeping. There is still some hazing at the Point, such as forcing plebes to know the number of lights in Cullun Hall (340) and the capacity of Luck Reservoir ("Seventy-eight million gallons, sir, when the water is flowing over the spillway"). But the sadistic practices of the past have been...
Important as these problems are, many critics of the honor system believe the fundamental fault lies in the nature of the code itself and the way it dovetails with life at West Point. In addition to having to live by the honor code, a cadet has to conform to hundreds of regulations contained in a manual known as the Blue Book. Life at West Point consists in large part of finding ways around the regulations; if a cadet is caught, he is disciplined. But, strictly speaking, many violations of the regulations could be interpreted as violations of the honor code...
...study of the honor code released last October by the Federal Government's General Accounting Office, which acts as an investigating agency for Congress. The G.A.O. study said "the toleration clause" is one of the biggest problems for the members of the corps, and the longer a cadet stays at West Point, the more tolerant he tends to become of wrongdoing. Some cadets felt that maintaining a friendship is more important than reporting a fellow student and that the penalty of banishment from West Point was too harsh for minor offenses...
Force Academy, the cadets are not supposed to tolerate infractions, but they are encouraged to talk privately with a suspected wrongdoer to learn his side of the incident. If he has a reasonable excuse, the matter can be dropped then and there. Even if the reviewing committees eventually find a cadet guilty, they can mete out punishment short of dismissal...