Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like somebody dying," murmured Seattle Lawyer Archie Greenlee. They had a right to be shocked: both men are parents of cadets who were suddenly dropped from the roster of the U.S. Air Force Academy last week in the wake of the widening, deepening stolen-exam scandal. At Colorado Springs, academy officials sealed off the grounds as tightly as a SAC base on alert, while special investigators from Washington grilled an estimated 700 members of the 2,500-strong cadet wing. By the end of the week 93 students had resigned from the academy - and before the investigation is completed, anywhere...
Without question, the Air Force scandal is something far worse than the 1951 cribbing uproar at West Point, where 90 cadets (including 43 football players) were expelled for exchanging exam questions. That involved an informal, illegal help-your-buddy system. But the ugly Air Force incident at Colorado Springs was a clear case of common, profit-motivated theft...
...scandal possible was the academy's rigid honor code-and, perhaps, the high-pressured tempo of a relatively new institution still on shakedown maneuvers. Academy exams, like those at approximately one-fifth of the nation's colleges, are conducted on the honor system, without proctors. At Colorado Springs, students may take the same tests days apart. As potential officers and gentlemen, cadets are expected not to cheat. Those who fail to report a cribber are subject to the same stiff punishment (expulsion) as the cheater himself.* The cadet manual warns that "there will be no shading, no equivocation...
Demanding & Rigid. Discipline at Colorado Springs is regarded as even more demanding and rigid than at the other academies, largely because of the junior service's desire for instant excellence. Air Force graduates have won nine Rhodes scholarships, seven National Science Foundation grants and six Fulbright awards. But another result of the academic and disciplinary pressure is the dropout rate, which is considerably higher than at the other military schools. Two years ago, 93 cadets resigned in a mass protest against certain rules; in 1964, another 90 tried to withdraw for reasons never made public...
...isolated instances of cheating discovered through the years, and the culprits had resigned from the academy. But this affair was more in the nature of a plot, recalling the 1951 West Point cribbing scandal that precipitated the dismissal of 90 cadets. By week's end 29 cadets at Colorado Springs had resigned, and more would certainly follow. Air Force Secretary