Section 203 from the Student Code of Conduct:
Sec. 203. Scholastic Dishonesty
A. The coordinator for Student Judicial Affairs or faculty may initiate disciplinary
proceedings against any student accused of scholastic dishonesty.
B. "Scholastic dishonesty" includes, but is not limited to, cheating,
plagiarism, collusion, falsifying academic records and any act designed to give
unfair advantage to he student, or the attempt to commit such an act.
C. "Cheating" includes, but is not limited to:
1. copying from another student's test paper;
2. using, during a test, materials not authorized by the person giving the test;
3. failing to comply with instructions given by the person administering the
test;
4. possession during a test of materials which are not authorized by the person
giving the test, such as class notes or specifically designed "crib notes."
The presence of textbooks constitutes a violation only if they have been specifically
prohibited by the person administering the test;
5. using, buying, stealing, transporting or soliciting in whole or part the
contents of an unadministered test, test key, homework solution or computer
program;
6. collaborating with or seeking aid from another student during a test or other
assignment without authority;
7. discussing the contents of an examination with another student who will take
the examination;
8. divulging the contents of an examination, for the purpose of preserving questions
for use by another, when the instructor has designated that the examination
is not to be removed from the examination room or not to be returned to the
student;
9. substituting for another person, or permitting another person to substitute
for one's self, to take a test;
10. paying or offering money or other valuable thing to, or coercing another
person to obtain an unadministered test, test key, homework solution or computer
program, or information about an unadministered test, test key, homework solution
or computer program;
11. falsifying research data, laboratory reports and/or other academic work
offered for credit;
12. taking, keeping, misplacing or damaging the property of the University or
of another, if the student knows or reasonably should know that an unfair academic
advantage would be gained by such conduct; and
13. misrepresenting facts, including providing false grades or resumés,
for the purpose of obtaining an academic or financial benefit or injuring another
student academically or financially.
D. "Plagiarism" includes, but is not limited to, the appropriation,
buying, receiving as a gift or obtaining by any means another's work and the
submission of it as one's own academic work offered for credit.
E. "Collusion" includes, but is not limited to, the unauthorized
collaboration with another person in preparing academic assignments offered
for credit or collaboration with another person to commit a violation of any
section of the rules on scholastic dishonesty.
F. "Falsifying academic records" includes, but is not limited to,
the altering of grades or other falsification of academic records such as applications
for admission, the award of a degree, grade reports, test papers, registration
materials and reporting forms used by the Office of the Registrar.

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