Word: testing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...current violations grew out of a take-home electrical-engineering examination in March. A total of 823 second classmen-or juniors-took the test. So far, four cadets have resigned after being charged with cheating on the exam. Forty-eight others have been found guilty by honor committees; these cadets are awaiting review of their cases by 13 boards composed of officers. At the same time, instructors are going over the papers submitted by nearly 100 other cadets...
Later the same day, the instructor found another test paper with wording identical to the one that bore the footnoted confession. The hunt was on. Soon 117 papers with suspiciously similar phrasing and matching misspellings were discovered. The Honor Committee, composed of 88 cadets from the top two classes, formed seven subcommittees of three students each to study the suspect papers and interview their authors...
...typical cadet in the class of 1976, which is graduating this week, had a B+ average in high school. He was a letterman in some sport (33.8% captained a team) and scored 554 on the verbal scholastic aptitude test and 624 on the mathematics test-not up to the average scores of Harvard or Yale, but well within the reach of such excellent schools as the University of Michigan or Georgia Tech. All of the cadets were nominated for a place in the class by authorized officials, notably U.S. Senators and Congressmen. Many had wanted to enter West Point since...
...have had scandals of their own. In 1974 seven midshipmen were forced to resign for cheating on a celestial navigation exam. At Colorado Springs, 109 cadets (including 29 football players) were forced out in 1965 for stealing and selling exams or tolerating the practice; 46 left after handing around test questions in 1967; and 39 were banished for cheating or tolerating those that...
...Kennedy, a man who Johnson believed lived only to reclaim the Kennedy throne. We find out Johnson feared that Bobby Kennedy would attack him for being "unmanly" and for betraying the John Kennedy tradition if he pulled out of Vietnam. And, in what is getting to be the classic test case of whether a president of the United States is "going bananas" we get this glimpse of Johnson under siege...