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...first glance, the mass dismissal seemed a severe, regrettable but eminently clear-cut and righteous act of disciplinary surgery, performed in the interests of the Army's loftiest ideals. The facts, as announced, were few and terse. The Academy's honor code-by which every cadet is not only duty-bound to shun lying, cheating and stealing, but to report his own transgressions and those of his fellows -had been broken. Academy officials had learned, from one cadet's report, of wholesale cribbing for examinations. Concerned for the Academy's integrity, the Army then arranged...
...called it one of the most "painful" decisions of his life. The morality of the country, the three-man board felt, would be endangered if it allowed any compromise of the honor of men who were to lead their fellow citizens to battle. And a breach of the cadet code also involved a fundamental consideration -a cadet's place on the graduation list determines his place in the Army hierarchy; one who cheats gains a lifelong advantage over those who do not. The board's recommendation: dismissal...
...news, handed out at West Point in a mimeographed, flatly worded communique made even the college basketball gambling scandals pale in comparison. The honor code had been set up in 1817 by the "Father of West Point," stern Sylvanus Thayer, given its final shape during the tour of General Douglas MacArthur in the '20s, and came to occupy in a West Pointer's mind, Ike Eisenhower once said, a position "akin to the virtue of his mother or sister...
...These lands may be the area of decision in the struggle between the West and Communism. If either of the great forces wins Islam as ally, the scale of power is tipped. To the West, opportunity beckons from one side of Islam - its God, its acceptance of the moral code, its protection of private property. To the Kremlin, opportunity beckons from another side of Islam - its poverty and corruption, its long acceptance of tyranny, its ingrained hatred of Christendom...
...Limited by their self-imposed code...'on the one hand' and 'on the other hand'...teachers hesitate to teach their students how to choose among opinions, and hesitate themselves to choose." They are reluctant "to be explicit on questions of value. Social 'science' no longer embraces knowledge of the good. Values are left to personal 'attitudes,' and to tamper with these is to expose the teacher to the charge of...'indoctrination...