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...prime difference between the way things are done at the Point and the way they are done on the Severn is that the Naval Academy system is somewhat more realistic in terms of human behavior. You are expected to conform to the Naval Academy's standards for behavior and its regulations. If you are caught committing a breach of conduct or an "offense," you are punished and pay the price. At West Point, the system, in addition to having the built-in potential for abuse also has the built-in mechanism for self-destruction pointed out in your article...
...they are also seeking out newsmen who will listen to their stories. Now that campuses elsewhere are quiet, and have been for several years, a wave of delayed-action student revolt is washing over the 174-year-old institution, where the best way to survive has been to conform. Cadets are demanding that they be given the same rights of due process that civilians enjoy under the law. Some young legal officers at West Point are siding with the cadets, claiming that hearings on code violations are often nothing more than kangaroo courts that flout the 14th Amendment...
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...
...content, including obscenity. But the FCC regulations, while also barring content control, provide that cable companies "shall establish rules ... prohibiting the presentation of ... obscene or indecent matter." In addition, New York City, which has the power to franchise further cable expansion, says the cable companies can only censor to conform to the "applicable" law-but does not specify which one. Appeals for governmental clarification having gone unsatisfied, Manhattan Cable took action on Blue, citing the impossibility of obeying the conflicting city, state and federal requirements...
...dorms. All recruiting (announcements, signs, interviews and contracting) is done off the campus, and has been for more than a year. Dean Epps charged in The Crimson that we are "violating the spirit, if not the letter," of the ban. If the spirit of the ban is to conform to the Rules and Regulations, then we have conformed to the spirit as well as to the letter, and the charge lacks substance...