Word: honored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Well aware that the honor code and its system of justice were causing problems, West Point's Berry set up a special committee in 1974 to see how the two "could be strengthened and improved." Composed of 14 officers and 16 cadets, the committee produced a two-volume report ten months before the present scandal broke. The academy is already instituting recommended procedural reforms aimed at removing the secrecy of the hearings and improving the individual's right to due process. For example, cadets appearing before an honor committee are now allowed to be present while witnesses...
...most significant recommendation, the committee urged that the system be modified so that dismissal would no longer be automatic for any cadet found guilty of an honor violation. The committee urged that cadets be punished according to the seriousness of their offenses; if mitigating circumstances were strong enough, a cadet could be let off with no punishment at all. To be put into effect, the reform authorizing discretionary punishment needed to be approved by two-thirds of the cadets; only 54% voted in favor last spring...
...could quarrel with Berry's contention that West Point has to prepare young men to perform honorably and reliably on the battlefield. The problem that he and the U.S. Army confront is how to revise the code, and the system of justice that goes with it, to foster a sense of honor in the cadets-a system that they can uphold with honor themselves
...light of Watergate and its aftermath and My Lai and the coverup, it is critical for the Army to act and act now, quickly and courageously and in support of the old system. The honor code has to be applied to the full letter...
...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 is so uptight that...