Apr 9, 2008

No honor in their Honor Code

Students at the University of Texas at San Antonio wanted an honor code that discouraged cheating and plagiarizing.

Only one problem -- the wording in their honor code draft appears to exactly match another school's code — without proper attribution.

The student currently in charge of the honor code project said it was an oversight, but cheating experts say it illustrates a sloppiness among Internet-era students who don't know how to cite sources properly and think of their computers as cut-and-paste machines.

More of the story here.