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...ANNOUNCEMENT OF VIOLATION OF THE HONOR CODE BY 90 CADETS U.S. MILITARY ACADEMY WAS A PROFOUND SHOCK TO US ... MORE DEPLORABLE IS THE FACT THAT SUBJECT HAS BECOME CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE IN PRESS AND AMONG OUR PEOPLE. WHEN ISSUE OF VIOLATION OF HONOR CODE BECOMES OVERSHADOWED BY CONCERN OVER LOSS OF ATHLETIC STANDING, THE EVER-INCREASING APATHY TO NATIONAL MORAL TURPITUDE ... BY THE AMERICAN PEOPLE [IS] ALARMING. [IN THE PAST] SOME CADETS FAILED TO LIVE UP TO RIGID REQUIREMENTS AND WERE QUIETLY DISMISSED. THE REST OF THE CORPS WENT ON TO GRADUATE AND SERVE OUR COUNTRY . . . NOT ALL WERE TO BECOME...
...academic system giving identical exams to successive groups of students is not only lazy, but is naively begging and teasing its students into corrupting themselves . . . Such a code of honor is un-worthwhile and undesirable...
...Annapolis, we had no fetished code of honor, but enjoyed the more realistic system of breaking rules with risk of consequent punishment if caught. No classmate would report another classmate, but with all upperclassmen plus the officers of the executive department as a police force, only the first class was able to get by with very much. Infractions of the generally accepted moral code (including cheating) were held to a minimum by the general disdain of the regiment for such practices and any infraction of either the moral code or of major Academy regulations were reported even by classmates...
...September 1944, while Allied armies inched painfully up the Italian boot, three Americans from the U.S. Office of Strategic Services parachuted down on Mt. Mottarone in northern Italy, 100 miles beyond the battle lines. Big cargo chutes floated down arms and a powerful radio. Their mission, which bore the code name "Chrysler," was to make arrangements with partisan groups-Communists, Socialists, Catholics, independents-for the supply of arms. The U.S. recognized the value of partisans who killed Germans behind the lines, but some U.S. officials also realized that certain of the partisans were more interested in fighting for the postwar...
...seems inexcusable," says the University of Chicago's chief examiner, "to place the burden of honesty upon the students.") Only one university in ten trusts its students enough to maintain an honor system. Crowed the Stanford Daily: "As long as schools like West Point supposedly have an honor code, Stanford need not take pride in the mere possession of one; but to have one that works-that indeed is something to shout about...