Word: coded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then they ask these men to turn each other in on honor code violations. It really is a terrible bind for the cadets...
...cadets who violated the honor code by cheating on a relatively insignificant exam knew that West Point graduates had not hesitated to lie in Viet Nam-falsifying body counts, concealing the bombing of Cambodia, covering up My Lai. Indeed the commander of the Americal Division, which included the platoon led by Lieut. William Galley at My Lai, was headed by Major General Samuel Koster, who became superintendent of West Point in 1968. Two years later, Koster resigned after he was accused of taking part in the campaign to cover up the facts about the massacre at My Lai. Koster...
...adolescents are skeptical to some extent," says Ulmer, "and the line between skepticism and cynicism is a thin line." There is mounting evidence that many cadets in the junior class-if not in the corps as a whole-are becoming increasingly cynical about the honor code and system. Part of the reason is the code's extreme rigidity. Part is the growing feeling among some cadets that their fellow students on the Honor Committee are as sternly self-righteous-and occasionally as sadistic-as a Puritan elder in early Massachusetts. Says a high Pentagon official: "We have to moderate...
Important as these problems are, many critics of the honor system believe the fundamental fault lies in the nature of the code itself and the way it dovetails with life at West Point. In addition to having to live by the honor code, a cadet has to conform to hundreds of regulations contained in a manual known as the Blue Book. Life at West Point consists in large part of finding ways around the regulations; if a cadet is caught, he is disciplined. But, strictly speaking, many violations of the regulations could be interpreted as violations of the honor code...
...also argues that the code has such strict penalties that cadets tend to cover up wrongdoing. During his time at West Point, he says he was told that only 10% of the cheating was reported. "It's a rather ironic fact," he says, "that the code weeds out some cadets who are honest enough to report themselves for honor violations...