Cheating, lying. or failing to report same are all considered serious charges that can get you kicked out of the service academies. I had a friend in the USAF Academy in Colorado Springs.
I am curious why she was allowed to get her diploma.
“ I am curious why she was allowed to get her diploma.”
Perhaps because there were so many people involved that it would have looked bad for the Naval Academy to expel all of them.
I follow the Tour de France. There is some way that cyclists get dropped from the Tour if they are more than a certain amount of time behind the winner (the number 10?) that day. if too many people would be dropped from the Tour at one time, then they waive that rule.