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...illustration at random: the patriarch devises a system for beating the weekly lottery. His scheme to fulfill this child-like desire is a transparent cheat any kid could see through. Three blindfolded children select numbered balls from three bags. The patriarch invariably holds the number they choose. (The correct balls are frozen, so the children can feel which ones to pick...

Author: By Eleni Constantine, | Title: Memories of a Senile Elephant | 10/14/1976 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Upstaging the Goat | 6/14/1976 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Upstaging the Goat | 6/14/1976 | See Source »

...restoring man from evil sovereignty, we must cheat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Secret Sayings Of 'Master' Moon | 6/14/1976 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: THE CODE: A GOOD ANACHRONISM | 6/7/1976 | See Source »

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