Cheating Scandal Rocks Air Force Academy

Privileges for cadets at the Air Force Academy were restored Tuesday after the entire 4,000 member corps were confined to campus during the weekend following a cheating scandal.

Twenty-eight freshmen are suspected of cheating on a basic-knowledge test that doesn't count toward their GPA, but is required for first-year cadets. The entire corps remained on campus to reflect on the honor code, which forbids lying, cheating, stealing or tolerating those who violate it. Nineteen admitted sharing answers of the quiz with others.

Cadets caught cheating can be expelled or placed on probation.

An academy spokesman said cadets made several suggestions on ways cadets could live by the code, and those plans will be distilled in the next several weeks by a task force of cadets and officers.

"The individual behaviors I was beginning to sense, those that caused me to conclude we needed to have a serious, strategic pause, can never become business as usual here," Superintendent Lt. Gen. John Regni said in a statement addressed to cadets. "They are incompatible with our academy and they will not be tolerated. I turn to you in that regard to continue to move forward."