Choosing the Harder Right
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Choosing the Harder Right

West Point's 1976 Cheating Scandal

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eBook - ePub

Choosing the Harder Right

West Point's 1976 Cheating Scandal

About this book

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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Information

Publisher
Koehler Books
Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9781646633876
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Praise for Choosing the Harder Right: West Point’s 1976 Cheating Scandal
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. The 1951 Cheating Scandal
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Author’s Preface
  8. Chapter 1: From Staunton to West Point
  9. Chapter 2: The Honor Code
  10. Two Years Later: Cow (Junior) Year: FALL 1975
  11. Chapter 3: The Announcement
  12. APRIL 1976
  13. Chapter 4: The Cheating Scandal Becomes Public
  14. Chapter 5: The Vietnam War and General Koster
  15. Chapter 6: Meeting with the Under Secretary of the Army
  16. Chapter 7: The Honor Captain
  17. Chapter 8: Meeting with the Law Professor
  18. Chapter 9: Cadet Steven R. Verr & Cadet James J. Pelosi
  19. MAY 1976
  20. Chapter 10: Found Guilty of Toleration.
  21. Chapter 11: Transient Barracks
  22. Chapter 12: Blowing Shit Up
  23. Chapter 13: ABC News
  24. Picture Section 1
  25. Chapter 14: Mr. Norman Augustine’s Response to Senator Barry Goldwater
  26. Chapter 15: Conversation with Fred Kass
  27. Chapter 16: Commandant Brigadier General Walter F. Ulmer, Jr
  28. Chapter 17: CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite
  29. Chapter 18: Newsweek Fame
  30. Chapter 19: Shades of Gray
  31. June 1976
  32. Chapter 20: June Week
  33. Chapter 21: Graduation Day
  34. Chapter 22: Father Thomas Curley
  35. Chapter 23: June 9 Hearing
  36. Chapter 24: President Ford Defends Code
  37. Chapter 25: Trip to Washington, DC
  38. Chapter 26: The Senate Hearings Begin
  39. Chapter 27: Congressman Thomas Downey Testifies
  40. JULY 1976
  41. Chapter 28: A Resurgence of Hope
  42. Chapter 29: Time for a Compromise
  43. AUGUST 1976
  44. Chapter 30: Congressman Downey’s Ad Hoc Hearing
  45. Chapter 31: The Cheaters Plus One
  46. Chapter 32: Transcend the Limits of Duality
  47. Chapter 33: One-Year Reflection
  48. September–December 1976
  49. Chapter 34: A Letter from an Astronaut
  50. 1977–1978
  51. Chapter 35: Return to West Point
  52. Chapter 36: Steady March to Graduation
  53. Picture Section 2
  54. Epilogue: Written by Colonel Timothy Ringgold, US Army (Ret.)
  55. References
  56. Acknowledgments
  57. Appendix