Word: cheatings
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Andersen was a zealous upholder of the code (which states that "a cadet will not lie, cheat or steal, or tolerate anyone who does" and which demands expulsion as the sole penalty). With West Point in the midst of the worst cheating scandal in its 174 years, the seniors who won their second lieutenants' bars last week were endorsing a strict construction of the code...
...hearings. He agreed to consider convening a three-judge panel to rule on the code's constitutionality, but he left little doubt about his own view. "It does seem to me," said he, "that the U.S. Military Academy is entitled to have its cadets not lie, steal or cheat...
...restoring man from evil sovereignty, we must cheat...
...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...
...would not change the part of the code that says a cadet will not lie, cheat or steal. As for the toleration clause, if a cadet directly knows of wrongdoing, he would still be required to report it. If he hears secondhand, he would not be required. My notion of the way an honor code should function is what happens at the University of Virginia. At initiation, students will be told, "All right, ladies and gentlemen, we don't lie, cheat or steal, and now we'll talk about your curriculum." At West Point, the whole thing...