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NATION, Page 31American NotesWEST POINTDiluting the Honor Code
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.
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.