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- <text id=89TT1662>
- <title>
- June 26, 1989: American Notes:West Point
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- June 26, 1989 Kevin Costner:The New American Hero
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 31
- American Notes
- WEST POINT
- Diluting the Honor Code
- </hdr><body>
- <p> If Washington politicians strictly followed the U.S. Military
- Academy's hallowed honor code, the great ethics war in the nation's
- capital would be over, and all the scoundrels would be gone. "A
- cadet will not lie, cheat or steal, nor tolerate those who do," the
- West Point creed commands. But while Congress and the
- Administration struggle to clean up their act, the fortress on the
- Hudson seems set to lower its ethical guns ever so slightly.
- </p>
- <p> After an eight-month study, an Army commission has proposed
- that the wording of the code be changed to "nor tolerate such acts
- by other cadets." The aim is still to condemn the foul deed, but
- now also to keep a more open mind toward the individual who
- committed it. This would give the cadet honor boards greater leeway
- in deciding punishment and thus enable an offender to remain at the
- Point with a chance to prove himself. Although the academy
- superintendent has long had less dire options, expulsion has been
- the usual fate.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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