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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...
...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...
...first major scandal at West Point occurred in 1951, when 90 cadets were forced out for cribbing on examinations, including 37 members of the football team. In 1966, 42 cadets departed after having been accused of cheating. Four years later, West Point's honor code was amended to include the phrase forbidding any cadet to tolerate wrongdoing by another. In 1973, 21 cadets were sacked for cheating or condoning cheating...
Four have already resigned (their names are still kept secret); the other 48 are now having their cases reviewed by five-member officer boards, each chaired by a full colonel, which have the power to reverse the findings of the Honor Committee and declare a cadet innocent...