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Most West Point cadets in cheating scandal are athletes
New York Post ^ | December 30, 2020 | Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

Posted on 12/31/2020 12:37:23 AM PST by karpov

The majority of cadets caught cheating on a math test at the West Point military academy are athletes — including two dozen members of the Army football team playing West Virginia in Thursday’s Liberty Bowl.

Of the 24 Army Black Knights embroiled in the scandal, 17 remained in uniform as of Wednesday — and a few have already played in games this season, USA Today reported.

They remain on the team because West Point Superintendent Lt. Gen. Darryl Williams suspended the school’s policy of barring cadets who violate the academy’s honor code from representing the school in public.

The honor code is engraved in a monument at the Hudson River front school: “A cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.”

In all, 55 of the 73 cadets caught cheating on the May calculus test at the upstate New York school are members of sports teams and squads at the academy in the largest cheating scandal there in 44 years.

The test was administered online because of social-distancing restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In 1976, 153 cadets were caught cheating on a mechanical engineering exam.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: collegefootball; football; westpoint
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To: karpov

Both and obviously yes.


21 posted on 12/31/2020 2:29:36 AM PST by Hulka ( )
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To: karpov

Because they are black. The Supe is black and read his quote about whynhe suspended HC punishments, right out of the Leftist playbook. He’s also an Obama general.


22 posted on 12/31/2020 2:57:14 AM PST by usafa92 (Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America!)
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To: DeplorablePaul

They all made exactly the same mistake on their exams


23 posted on 12/31/2020 2:57:17 AM PST by rdcbn1
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To: Thunder 6

Look at the bright side, very few of those guys are going on to military careers


24 posted on 12/31/2020 3:03:12 AM PST by rdcbn1
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To: Covenantor

As the superintendent presiding over “the largest cheating scandal in 44 years” you’d think that both he and the commandant would be looking at being relieved for “lack of confidence”. Other officers have been relieved for being lax.


25 posted on 12/31/2020 3:14:00 AM PST by Tallguy
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To: Vehmgericht

Sinking to the lowest common denominator; mediocrity rules...


26 posted on 12/31/2020 3:29:37 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Tallguy

You are applying logic from a time when this country, and the Academy, represented a very different institutions. When you have meaningless “endless wars”, often the best & brightest start to avoid the military; they understand it no longer has anything to do with protecting us so much as exporting liberalism abroad. Sadly much of the military is an employer of last resort for many otherwise unemployable people.


27 posted on 12/31/2020 3:33:40 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: karpov

Athletes = majority Amish ?


28 posted on 12/31/2020 3:36:54 AM PST by sushiman (i)
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To: rdcbn1

Just heard a news story that a much higher percentage of applicants passed the bar exam this year (remotely) than last year (in person).

Whodathunkit?


29 posted on 12/31/2020 3:37:04 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: karpov

“Athletes” (wink wink) is West Point for Urban Yutes.


30 posted on 12/31/2020 3:45:26 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: karpov
"in an Oct. 23 memo, Williams wrote that the policy “resulted in an inequitable application of consequences and developmental opportunities” for some cadets."

Translation: "The cheating policy doesn't matter, if you're black".

31 posted on 12/31/2020 4:29:53 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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To: norwaypinesavage

Another case of Black Privilege here.


32 posted on 12/31/2020 4:41:04 AM PST by lodi90
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To: karpov
Williams wrote that the policy “resulted in an inequitable application of consequences and developmental opportunities” for some cadets.”


33 posted on 12/31/2020 4:59:18 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: Covenantor
"West Point Superintendent Lt. Gen. Darryl Williams suspended the school’s policy of barring cadets who violate the academy’s honor code from representing the school in public."

That pretty much explains why the honor code and discipline were suspended from West Point. They probably were suspended for at least one cadet decades earlier.

34 posted on 12/31/2020 5:18:42 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: Tallguy

A career Field Artillery officer, Lieutenant General Williams most recently served as the Commander, NATO Allied Land Command, in Izmir, Turkey. Prior to this, he served as the Commander, United States Army Africa (USARAF), in Vicenza, Italy; the Deputy Chief of Staff G3/5/7 of United States Army in Europe, located in Wiesbaden, Germany; the Deputy Commanding General for Support for the 2nd Infantry Division, Republic of Korea; and Commanding General for the United States Army Warrior Transition Command and Assistant Surgeon General for Warrior Care and Transition. REMF


35 posted on 12/31/2020 5:19:50 AM PST by Bookshelf
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To: karpov

Disgraceful. No one is willing to start at the top?


36 posted on 12/31/2020 5:28:32 AM PST by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: karpov

Every single one of the students should’ve been immediately suspended and then kicked out. Allowing them to stay for any reason, especially because they’re on the football team, it’s outrageous and stains the reputation of the school. Maybe the school should consider shutting down their football team for a few years or permanently. It is definitely not essential for the school mission.


37 posted on 12/31/2020 5:56:36 AM PST by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Worker)
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To: Bookshelf

The generals should be dismissed.


38 posted on 12/31/2020 6:00:45 AM PST by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Worker)
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To: karpov
theses cadets should all be removed from west point and have to serve as enlisted for the remainder of there service. for every one of them going to school at west point there are 20 trying to get in. Anyone willing to cheat at west point can not be trusted to lead men into combat situations. We as a nation depend on are officer corp too have higher standard of behavior and to internalize things like integrity. the willingness to cheat to achieve a goal is indicative of an officers willingness to not fallow illegal orders, there willingness to hand over control to civilian authority and understanding that it might mean standing against that civilian control when there control is counter to the constitutional restraints that are in place.
39 posted on 12/31/2020 6:10:15 AM PST by PCPOET7 (wwg1wga)
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To: Bookshelf

In Spades.


40 posted on 12/31/2020 6:10:26 AM PST by .44 Special (Tiamid Buacach!)
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