Word: cadets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...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...
Honor Boards. The charges stem from a take-home assignment given in March to 800 junior-year cadets in the Electrical Engineering 304 course. When instructors noticed that groups of papers had unusual similarities they asked the 88-member Cadet Honor Committee to investigate. In the end, 49 cadets were exonerated and 49-by unanimous votes of twelve-member honor boards-were found to have violated the code; three other cadets have admitted their guilt and resigned. Those of the 49 cadets tried and found guilty will be dismissed unless either the Superintendent of the Academy or the Secretary...
...scandal has touched off both criticism of and strong cadet support for the code. According to Plebe John Cook. the strictly enforced code "means you can trust each other completely." Adds Senior Cadet Hank Keirsey: "It's just something you accept absolutely. People's lives depend on our integrity." But another cadet complains that the "code doesn't really develop integrity because it is based on fear...
...Cadet Honor Committee Chairman William Andersen argues that the code is weakened when the automatic punishment of expulsion is meted out without consideration given to the circumstances of the violation. When asked to vote on the issue last February, 55% of the cadet corps were in favor of easing the code if there were mitigating circumstances. The measure failed to carry, however, because it fell short of the required two-thirds majority...