Re: Honor Systems
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The only person I know who ever had to go in front of the honor committee had turned in a paper where a section set apart from the text as a block quote had a blank footnote - he missed it in proofreading, but it was pretty clear from the formatting that he wasn't claiming the text of the quote as his own. For not having a citation, he was forced to leave school for a year - this was the least severe punishment the honor committee gave out.
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Huh - this exact thing happened when I was an undergrad (Yale, no honor code). Some Indian dude my year - same offense same punishment. Since I didn't personally know the guy I always thought it might be some kind of urban legend or the story was missing pertinent details (like, the dude actually cheated somehow).
I understand plagiarism is a huge issue and should be dealt with harshly, but this seems ridiculously over the top for what is basically an undergrad-level academic oversight (it's less forgive-able an offense as a graduate student, imo).
-Al
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