Word: honored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case of Cadet Timothy Ringgold shows how absurd the honor system can be. After the engineering-exam scandal broke, Ringgold, who was not accused of cheating, and other cadets happened to meet with Army Under Secretary Norman R. Augustine. During the talk, which was supposedly off-the-record, Ringgold said he felt cheating was "widespread" at the Point. Another cadet who was present felt duty-bound to charge Ringgold with toleration...
...Augustine, nor was there any evidence to back up what he had said. According to Ulmer, the outspoken Ringgold then told him the authorities were looking in the wrong place for culprits. Asked Ulmer: "Are you telling me that you have firsthand knowledge of cadets who have violated the honor code apart from what we know?" "Yes, sir," said Ringgold. Ulmer promptly advised him that he would have to go before an honor code review board once again. Ulmer later explained that he was "morally obligated" to turn Ringgold in after the cadet had volunteered the information. Ringgold...
Even as they search for reasons for the mass violations of the honor code, academy officials are convinced there is no basic flaw in the nature of the cadets who are attracted to West Point. Indeed the quality of the cadet corps is impressive, as is the incoming class of 900 men-and for the first time, nearly 100 women-that will attend Beast Barracks this summer...
...back of a classroom, while the "engineers" sit up front and get special privileges. Still the electrical engineering exam that is at the root of the current scandal was worth only 5% of the final grade in that course. Indeed the students being hauled before the Honor Committee included good students as well as borderline cases...
...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...