The Associated Press reports that a group of students at the University of Texas at San Antonio were tasked with coming up with a code of academic integrity in order to combat plagiarism. Now these students are being investigated for plagiarising their code from that of Brigham Young University.
JoBo S
I bet the parents who paid the tuition for those students are so proud....
aaron
Was that done as like a really ironic joke or were the kids really just that dumb?
E
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
They could have just cited their sources...
Alex
Good students copy, great students steal.
bean
Plagiarizing honor codes is actually a time-honored tradition in America; it just doesn't get reported very often.
su.wei
that is hilarious
clinton labombard
...only to find out the idea was stolen from BYU.
SenorMysterioso
Im not seeing a problem here
daggerphish
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
and what does their borrowed legislature say about this?
X-Shark
Where is the problem. If it has already been done better than you can do, why change it?
bazik
hilarious
luke
hilarious, oh wait I plagiarised bazik,
"hilarious" - bazik, 04/01/2008
There that is better.
bob
| 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
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
Typical everyone in college cheats. And how can you be so stupid.
empty-minded
I give kudos for their response to getting caught. I see a prosperous future for these kids in public relations or politics.
CheeseDuck
Sweet, sweet irony!
Buzz
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
Maybe they're just trying to make a point. If not, then that's just sad.
ted
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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