European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 06, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Monday june 6, 1977 the stars and stripes Page 27 West pointers two thirds of cadets ousted last Yearin cheating scandal returning this month by James Feron West Point. . Not two thirds of the West Point cadets ousted in last year s cheating scandal will be return ing later this month after spending their time As army privates College seniors pizza stand operators or Short order Cooks. Ninety six of the 151 cadets who left under an army leniency plan that acknowledged the . Military Academy s own shortcomings will resume their training after six months to a year of self selected work or study programs which were broadly supervised by the army. But the Academy has changed As Muchas West Point officers believe the cadets have. The new procedures Many of them imposed on the 175-year-old institution under official pressure will require that the returnees be Given special briefings touring them up to Date. They will learn that the Honor system has been completely revamped with due process now a crucial element. Cadets May now violate the Honor code without being expelled. Teaching procedures have been modified and take Home examinations of the Type that led to the cheating scandal have been eliminated. It has been a year of other changes Forest Point. One innovation the admission of women will necessitate a special Brief ing for the returnees. A spokesman said they would be advised How to relate to the women who will become yearlings or second year cadets. The returning cadets will go to the acad Emy on june 22 and 29 for resumption of training and. In the majority of cases to face a crash summer course in electrical engineering 304, the subject that led to their downfall. The cheating which Many still maintain included hundreds of others who were not prosecuted consisted mainly of what had become commonplace collaboration this on a 10-part examination to be completed in the Barracks. They used each other papers or suggested which pages of a text Book contained similar by the Academy involving Selec Tion and prosecution of those allegedly involved questionable Legal and disciplinary procedures and other actions Long consid ered routine at West Point attracted the attention of Congress and led to major re forms. Then Secretary of the army Martin , stepped in however even before the Academy s procedures had Bee fully evaluated by an impartial commis Sion and virtually guaranteed readmission of the implicated cadets under a super Vised plan. Henry James could fill another 27 note books with the stories of the ousted third year cadets said col. Jack l. Capps. Head of the Academy s English department who headed the nine member readmit Sions committee. He commented on the 15 cadets who had spent their time As army privates saying that the majority had achieved distinction in one Case under a lieutenant who had been a fellow Cadet. The leadership ability instilled at West Point had quickly emerged he said with some former cadets being named Soldier of the their service in the lowest enlisted ranks was seen As punitive outside the Mil itary establishment the reactions of other soldiers and officers were different Capp said. He indicated that the attitude was one of live and let with the former cadets accepted on their merits even by those at West in the ousted group went to col lege with five attaining Bachelor s de Grees during their civilian year. Each will receive another degree with his commis Sion next summer As a member of the West Point class of 1978.the cadets who chose to spend their year under Broad Academy supervision engaged in a wide variety of work from pumping gasoline to working As Security guards. The program was conceived As a com Promise Between the permanent expulsion that had been routine at West Point for violators of the Honor code and immediate return if the proceedings leading to or including the expulsion had been found officials under Hoffmann s guidelines asked that cadets seek official approval for what became a special ver Sion of the Junior year abroad a time for reflection perhaps. Although school or military service was recommended almost any worthwhile and consistent Endeavor by the ousted cadets seemed Mohave been sanctioned. Russian actress Victoria Fiodorova Pouy right is greeted in Moscow by her former actress Mother. Zoya in her reunion in Moscow first visit to her Homeland since she moved to the . In 1975. She is accompanied on the month s visit by her Hus band pan american Pilot Frederic Pouy and son Christopher who is being embraced by Bis grandmother. A West Bank demons Raf on fizzles Kamallah. Occupied West Bank a five Arab agitators were detained sunday in the occupied West Bank a Mili tary spokesman said but mass demonstrations planned to Mark the 10thanniversary of israeli occupation fizzled in Llie Sulla Summerl eat ,. Uin Nablus a traditional Center of Arab nationalism groups of students tried to or Girini i a protest Cru Rich while merchants shuttered their shops in a Trade military spokesman said five of the students were arrested and. After burning tire in the Middle of the Street the rest went Home peacefully the Palestine liberation organization radio in Lebanon had called on West Bank ers to strike and demonstrate against israeli Rule on sunday which Markrof 10years since the oui rank of the 1967 mid East War. But students who make up the bulk of most protests were tied up study ing for year end exams and others were discouraged by the 95-Dcgrec heat. Merchants in Lia Mallah and Hebro also went or partial strike but business was reported usual in other town despite the quiet reinforced Border troops patrolled the West Bank in Aihini in Tolin Jim is my armoured cars two men spent their time working in a ordnance depot in Annapolis. They were tabulating data on radar equipment Capps said which is a bit ironic consider ing their background in . 304," the electrical engineering course. We found that one Cadet was t getting our letters he said because his parents were not forwarding them. They did twant him to return. We reached him anyway and he is among those a few followed the established proce dures maintaining Contact with West Point until the Academy informed the that they were being invited Back. At that Point they said. No thanks " Capps said apparently feeling they had proved a Point some turned their backs some cadets i Igried in the interim foreclosing any Chance of returning handsome turned their backs on a military career almost immediately declining to respond to any letter. Three former cadets became infamous among their Peers easing into a life of Carefree pursuits in a Southern resuming cadets will be scattered in Cadet companies although not the ones they left for their senior would like to integrate them As much As possible said maj. Miguel Monte verde a West Point spokesman. Their return has not met with Universal approval however especially in the receiving class of 1978. This hostility sur faced briefly in an Exchange of letters published in the last Issue of Pointer View the Cadet newspaper which has also been revamped to include controversial Issue that were once ignored. Urges acceptance Robert Stackhousr i who will graduate wednesday with 729 other cadets in the depleted class addressed next year s senior class in the newspaper saying Many of you have expressed anger at the readmission and have complained that you will be tarnished by the presence of these asked that the returnees be accepted with an open Mark b. Wroth said his class of 1978 did not need such lectures they have also come officially from officers although it was True he said that Many of my classmates myself included Are not enthused about the readmission of cadets who have committed Honor he said he Felt it was a blot on the strained feelings Are also evident among the families of returning to the Homes of three such returnees selected at random elicited three reject ions by mothers we can t this is not a Good time and he s not at Homeland won t 4 cadets 5 officers App said the readmission committee had consisted of four cadets two each from the losing and receiving classes and five officers representing the Academy s administrative educational Legal and medical the 151 cadets forced to leave because of the cheating scandal 130 elected tomake initial applications for return. Sever Al others who had left for other Honor violations during the same period accepted the same total of 105 cadets eventually decided to seek readmission of whom All but a few were accepted. Capp would not explain the rejections except to say they dealt with specific Lufthansa office firebombed Genoa Italy Upil someone fire bombed the Genoa office of the West German airline Lufthansa and police arrested an italian philosophy student who ran from the scene. Damage was slight. F olice identified the suspect As Robert Garigliano 23, an extreme leftist. They said he May have acted to protest the German government s policies against sex Tiv i in
