Misunderstanding Academic Integrity

• JoBo S
  March 31st, 2008 at 5:36 pm

  I bet the parents who paid the tuition for those students are so proud….

• aaron
  March 31st, 2008 at 5:51 pm

  Was that done as like a really ironic joke or were the kids really just that dumb?

• E
  March 31st, 2008 at 6:35 pm

  Too damn funny! It’s a smart time saving move though maybe their learning something down there. I’m sure they’d fit in well with the current business world.

• HaricotVert
  March 31st, 2008 at 6:57 pm

  They could have just cited their sources…

• Alex
  March 31st, 2008 at 7:09 pm

  Good students copy, great students steal.

• bean
  March 31st, 2008 at 7:10 pm

  Plagiarizing honor codes is actually a time-honored tradition in America; it just doesn’t get reported very often.

• su.wei
  March 31st, 2008 at 7:12 pm

  that is hilarious

• clinton labombard
  March 31st, 2008 at 8:01 pm

  …only to find out the idea was stolen from BYU.

• SenorMysterioso
  March 31st, 2008 at 8:20 pm

  Im not seeing a problem here

• daggerphish
  March 31st, 2008 at 9:39 pm

  this story smells of rich irony!

  i’m not gonna lie, it smells like pure gasoline…

  cheating-> works every time 60% of the time

• xander
  March 31st, 2008 at 10:50 pm

  and what does their borrowed legislature say about this?

• X-Shark
  April 1st, 2008 at 12:29 am

  Where is the problem. If it has already been done better than you can do, why change it?

• bazik
  April 1st, 2008 at 4:19 am

  hilarious

• luke
  April 1st, 2008 at 7:53 am

  hilarious, oh wait I plagiarised bazik,

  “hilarious” - bazik, 04/01/2008

  There that is better.

• bob
  April 1st, 2008 at 9:42 am

  | Good students copy, great students steal.

  Poor students copy.
  Good students do it themselves.
  Better students steal.
  Great students don’t get caught.

  and

  Grad students don’t do anything.

• OddNumber
  April 1st, 2008 at 10:15 am

  If they copied it “word for word” then they are just stupid lazy people who didn’t take their task seriously. These are probably a bunch of kids that thought it would help pad their resumes or look good on a grad school application.

• Paul
  April 1st, 2008 at 12:48 pm

  Typical everyone in college cheats. And how can you be so stupid.

• empty-minded
  April 1st, 2008 at 3:38 pm

  I give kudos for their response to getting caught. I see a prosperous future for these kids in public relations or politics.

• CheeseDuck
  April 1st, 2008 at 6:42 pm

  Sweet, sweet irony!

• Buzz
  April 2nd, 2008 at 1:33 pm

  Ugh please.

  How is replicating another school’s law / rule / code plagiarism? That falls in the realm of fair use. Lots of governing organizations “steal” ideas from others policies, by-laws, and regulation. There is no need to cite.

• Cindy
  April 2nd, 2008 at 3:58 pm

  Maybe they’re just trying to make a point. If not, then that’s just sad.

• ted
  April 2nd, 2008 at 6:35 pm

  Borrowing ideas is one thing. Borrowing text word-for-word without acknowledging your source is plagiarism.

  Every student in every college/university has the rules about plagiarism hammered into their noggins from Day 1.

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