Word: honored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commission did not find fault with the honor code in principle: "A cadet will not lie, cheat, steal or tolerate those who do." However, it urged some sharp modifications of the stern system. At present, it is all or nothing: if a cadet fibs about anything, however trivial, out he goes. But the system has broken down. The commission estimated that far more than the 152 juniors who were dismissed from West Point for cheating on an electrical engineering exam last spring were actually involved...
Said the report: "The commission is equally persuaded that scores of other violations of the honor code have gone undetected or unpunished and that during recent years, a substantial number of cadets have been involved in dishonesty, toleration and, on occasion, misconduct as honor representatives...
...impose lesser punishments for minor infractions-a practice followed by the naval and air force academies. It also suggested alternatives to tattling on erring cadets. Someone who catches a cadet violating the code might warn or counsel him. The commission urged both officers and cadets to participate in "honor education...
Army Secretary Hoffmann promised to act on the recommendations of the two reports. Even if he decides to reinstate the dismissed cadets, it is questionable how many will return since they have gone on to other things. Any change in the honor system must be approved by the cadets themselves, who only this month narrowly failed to reach the two-thirds vote necessary to amend the current system. But the weight of the Borman report is expected to change enough minds to modify the code in a subsequent vote. Says Cadet Peter Eschenbach, class of '78: "I used...
Whichever scenario is correct, says Astrophysicist Greenstein, "I find a certain pleasure and honor in belonging to the universe of stars, of these events that have created the materials of which the earth and I are made." It is a sentiment many can echo. The final consolation has always been, as humanity looking upward measured its own finiteness against the infinity of the stars, that it is better to have been for a season, even a moment, than not to have been at all. The stars thus are no less symbols in their newly understood mortality than they were, seemingly...