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...honor code could work anywhere, it would be at the nation's military academies. There academic and moral training extends 24 hours a day. The honor code of the Naval Academy is simple: "a midshipman does not lie, cheat, or steal...
...Yoon claims that the student body at Harvard would be effective at dealing with these types of incidents. The prestigious student body of the Naval Academy certainly did prove effective--effective at whitewashing their recent cheating incident...
...Naval Academy cannot make an honor code work, it seems unlikely that "a brief statement about morality, conscience and academic duty to be printed somewhere in the Handbook for Students" along with a short inscription on the inside of each blue book will be an effective substitute for the watchful eye of Mother Harvard...
...probably escaped the legal gauntlet of Tailhook with no more than the nonpunitive letter of caution he received last October. About 60 other Navy and Marine officers have been subjected to administrative discipline, a measure that can sometimes short- circuit a career. And the commander of the Naval Investigative Service and the Navy's judge advocate general were relieved of their commands. As for the Tailhook Association, the Navy severed all ties with it and warned service members away from the 1993 convention, which in any case was a tea party. Tailhook's main legacy may be to have shamed...
...Navy judge dismissed the final three cases arising out of the Tailhook scandal, claiming that they had been tainted by the actions of Admiral Frank B. Kelso II, Chief of Naval Operations; a fourth case was dismissed because of insufficient evidence. Kelso, the judge said, witnessed debauched behavior at the 1991 Tailhook convention and then tried to cover up his knowledge of the affair. Kelso denies being aware of any improprieties...