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Mrs. Jones' Dic
Mary And
Dear Diary: S1
They're digging up my.front fc
yard! Honest! Somebody over in in
archaeology decided they could tt
find some wells, or something, o- w
ver on the Horseshoe. Now all
these people are running all over fi
the place, crashing in the house st
looking for free Kool-Aid, wash- ti
..ing their dirty hands and faces in ti
our fountain. Honestly, I don't tr
know what. that Hal Brunton is
up to this time, but I. hope he's a]
making enough money for it. All rr
these construction crews are rais- C
ing enough hell. b:
Like the other day...I took the V
rooster for a walk and thought
we would truck on over towards tl
the Humanities Building, as the i
kids say. Well, we got to Pickens M
Street, and there were bulldozers ti
and trucks and foul-mouthed I
construction people running a- o
round, throwing things at each n
other. b
I went up to a man who looked s
like the boss (I mean, what did I b
know? They were all standing a-*
round looking like they weren't r
doing anything, but this one had L
a Bic pen in his pocket, which a
makes him official, I suppose.) tj
Anyway, I asked this man if he ti
knew what was going on, and he v
said Hal Brunton had told Doug
Fitzgerald, who told him, that b
they were going to dig up Pickens
Our Times
The Silent
BY SMITH HEMPSTONE F
ti
At West Point they call it the S
Silence, and it is invoked against e
a cadet found guilty by his peers t
of an honor violation when that I
cadet refuses to resign and can
not be discharged because of lack ti
of legal proof. C
It means that, for the duration h
of his stay at the military acade- C
my, no other cadet will speak to a
him except on official business. V
He rooms alone, eats alone, ex- I
ists in a silent world of averted i
gazes. In the end, most cadets r
cannot endure it; they resign. t
James J. Pelosi endured the c
Silence for more than a year and c
a half. The ordeal stripped 26
pounds from an already lanky a
frame, but the other day the
youngster graduated from West
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BRIT TONS
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The Man
reet while everybody was away
the summer and they were go
r to lay a section of 1-26 right
rough campus, and that Hal
is going to get a bundle from it.
So,- I figured I would try to
id Hal and see why the con
uction crews'couldn't be a lit
quieter. And do you know
at I almost got hit by a dump
ick? It was awful.
I wandered from site to site,
d I saw that things were pretty
ich the same all over...workers
Ilygagging around, throwing
icks at each other. Why, when I
is over at Bates West, the man
io had the Bic pen there said
at the place wouldn't be ready
time for people to move in
hen they got back to. school in
e fall. That gave me an idea.
n going toask 'om if we can't
>en up some of those extra
usty old rooms and start a
arding house. He always did
y I needed some kind of hob
r to keep me out of mischief.
I finally found Hal poking a
und a patch of grass beside the
ndergraduate Library. I tried to
k him about all of the construc
n, but before I could say any
ing, he asked, "Hey, Mary,
hat can I build here?"
[ told him I really didn't know
it that it was left up to him.
"Hey, I got it. What about a
World O
)int to become Second Lieu
nant James J. Pelosi, USA.
3me few of his fellow shavetails
fen shook his hand and spoke
> him, and he concluded that he
id no regrets.
Pelosi had been convicted by
ie 44-member cadet Honor
Dmmittee (of which he himself
id been an elected member) of
)mpleting an answer on an ex
nination after the order to cease
ork had been given. At West
aint, that is construed as cheat
g, since it gave Pelosi (who de
ied the charge) an unfair advan
ge over those in his class who
utifully dropped their pencils on
ammand.
The Long Islander refused to
acept the Honor Committee's
dict and appealed his case to
board of officers. Midway
UPSTAIRS
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parking lot for Hondas? No,no.
Hell, we could .always use ano
her reflecting pool."
I started to walk- away. The
rooster had already gotten tired
and left. When I was leaving, I
heard him mutter, "You know,
nothing irritates me more than to
have a patch of grass lying around
here without building something
on it. It really doesn't look pro
per. Grass! Ugh! The color
green...just turns my stomach
unless it's money. Money! Money
money money..."
I hear he does that often.
Just goes on for hours.
All for now,
Mary Jones
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through the hearing before the
officer board, the case against
him was dismissed on the order
of Lt. Gen. William A. Knowlton,
West Point's superintendent,
when Pelosi's lawyer pointed out
that the Honor Committee had
seen a note from a high-ranking
officer to the effect that the case
should be expedited because it
was a clear-cut honor violation.
At that point, the Silence was im
posed on Pelosi.
Now nobody compelled Pelosi
to attend West Point, where he
was receiving an education worth
at least $50,000 at the taxpayers'
expense. Nor can he or any cadet
plead ignorance of the code
which states that cadets will not
"lie, cheat or steal, or tolerate
those who do."
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gress
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Pelosi, of course, made neithe
claim. He simply said that he wa
not guilty of the violation witt
which he was charged. The offi
cer board did not rule on thi
substance of the case; it simp:
dismissed the charges because o
evidence of 'command influence.
That Pelosi elected to endur
the Silence and accompanyinj
aberrational harassment (his mal
was destroyed, his locker wa
vandalized, he was threatene4
with bodily harm if he presume4
to wear his class ring) amount
to strong circumstantial evidenc
in his favor: A guilty man woul4
hardly endure so much so suc
cessfully.
Nobody is going to argue tha
lying, cheating or stealing is
good thing. And there is some
thing to be said for the premis
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r that honor is like virginity: You
either have it or you don't.
But it is demonstrably true
- that West Point's Honor Code is
not working very well, either on
r the banks of the Hudson or on
r those of the Mekong: At present,
some 19 cadets are under investi
gation for participating in a phy
sics cheating ring; the acceptance
I of unearned decorations for valor
t by some West Point graduates in
1 Vietnam and the attempted
I cover-up of the My Lai massacre
; by others are matters of record.
The Pelosi case seems to indi
I cate great injustices can arise
- from a simple code mercilessly
applied in an authoritarian setting
t by young men eager to preserve
a the reputation of the Institution
-which sustains them and of which
a they are a part.
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