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Alumni may think military schools do not change, that all graduates go through the same education and training. But there are distinct generational differences. Choosing the Harder Right is the untold compelling story of a very complicated event from the perspective of Cadet Timothy Ringgold, who publicly challenged the institution he loved-not because he was one of the accused, but to render loyal aid to hundreds of his fellow West Point cadets.
Standing up to an establishment as powerful as the United States Military Academy at West Point-with its 174 years of tradition, alumni, enrolled Corps of Cadets, administration, faculty, and the US Army behind it-was not an easy undertaking. It was Tim Ringgold's way of "choosing the harder right instead of the easier wrong, " and never being content "with a half-truth, when the whole can be won." ( excerpt from the Cadet Prayer ). The largest cheating scandal of any service academy in history, the events of 1976 were the catalyst that forged a better West Point.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Praise for Choosing the Harder Right: West Point’s 1976 Cheating Scandal
- Title
- Copyright
- The 1951 Cheating Scandal
- Table of Contents
- Author’s Preface
- Chapter 1: From Staunton to West Point
- Chapter 2: The Honor Code
- Two Years Later: Cow (Junior) Year: FALL 1975
- Chapter 3: The Announcement
- APRIL 1976
- Chapter 4: The Cheating Scandal Becomes Public
- Chapter 5: The Vietnam War and General Koster
- Chapter 6: Meeting with the Under Secretary of the Army
- Chapter 7: The Honor Captain
- Chapter 8: Meeting with the Law Professor
- Chapter 9: Cadet Steven R. Verr & Cadet James J. Pelosi
- MAY 1976
- Chapter 10: Found Guilty of Toleration.
- Chapter 11: Transient Barracks
- Chapter 12: Blowing Shit Up
- Chapter 13: ABC News
- Picture Section 1
- Chapter 14: Mr. Norman Augustine’s Response to Senator Barry Goldwater
- Chapter 15: Conversation with Fred Kass
- Chapter 16: Commandant Brigadier General Walter F. Ulmer, Jr
- Chapter 17: CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
- Chapter 18: Newsweek Fame
- Chapter 19: Shades of Gray
- June 1976
- Chapter 20: June Week
- Chapter 21: Graduation Day
- Chapter 22: Father Thomas Curley
- Chapter 23: June 9 Hearing
- Chapter 24: President Ford Defends Code
- Chapter 25: Trip to Washington, DC
- Chapter 26: The Senate Hearings Begin
- Chapter 27: Congressman Thomas Downey Testifies
- JULY 1976
- Chapter 28: A Resurgence of Hope
- Chapter 29: Time for a Compromise
- AUGUST 1976
- Chapter 30: Congressman Downey’s Ad Hoc Hearing
- Chapter 31: The Cheaters Plus One
- Chapter 32: Transcend the Limits of Duality
- Chapter 33: One-Year Reflection
- September–December 1976
- Chapter 34: A Letter from an Astronaut
- 1977–1978
- Chapter 35: Return to West Point
- Chapter 36: Steady March to Graduation
- Picture Section 2
- Epilogue: Written by Colonel Timothy Ringgold, US Army (Ret.)
- References
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix