Code of Honor

ARMED FORCES

When examination time comes along, the 2,500 cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs are pretty much like college students everywhere. They bone up, take their tough tests, and then sweat out their grades. But some of them obviously have had less to sweat out than most. Reason: they cheated. The Air Force announced last week that a "well-organized" group of a dozen or so cadets stood accused of stealing examination papers and offering them for sale.

The school administration learned about the cheating when some cadets reported it to their superiors. There had been, of course, isolated instances of cheating discovered through the years, and the culprits had resigned from the academy. But this affair was more in the nature of a plot, recalling the 1951 West Point cribbing scandal that precipitated the dismissal of 90 cadets. By week's end 29 cadets at Colorado Springs had resigned, and more would certainly follow. Air Force Secretary

Eugene Zuckert said that probably 100 cadets, including 30 football players, had broken the ten-year-old academy's honor code, which says: "We will not lie, cheat, steal, nor tolerate among us those who do."

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