Word: cadets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
...final court of appeals at West Point is Berry. As superintendent, he has the power to overturn the findings of the review board and decide that a cadet is innocent. But even then, the absolved cadet's classmates may shun him as a pariah. To some zealots who swear by the honor code, the very fact that a cadet is accused of wrongdoing is reason enough to condemn him -a situation that shows how a system designed to develop honor can be warped to foster dishonor...
...unpopular decision, and Verr's troubles were only beginning. He found himself shunned by many of his classmates, although the practice-known as "the silence"-has been officially banned at West Point since 1973. In that year, wide publicity was given to the case of Cadet James J. Pelosi, who was subjected to this treatment for 19 months after having been reinstated on a legal technicality, although he had been convicted of an honor code violation. Referring to Verr's experience, Cadet William Andersen, the present head of the Honor Committee, issued a statement declaring that "a significant...
...case of Cadet Timothy Ringgold shows how absurd the honor system can be. After the engineering-exam scandal broke, Ringgold, who was not accused of cheating, and other cadets happened to meet with Army Under Secretary Norman R. Augustine. During the talk, which was supposedly off-the-record, Ringgold said he felt cheating was "widespread" at the Point. Another cadet who was present felt duty-bound to charge Ringgold with toleration...