Responding to their peers’ growing willingness to cheat and plagiarize, some students at the University of Texas at San Antonio proposed a new honor code for the school. Only one problem: A good chunk of the code’s wording seems to match that of Brigham Young University’s honor code—and never gives the Utah school proper attribution.
San Antonio students say it was an honest mistake, but experts believe it’s a sign of the times.
“That’s the consequence of the Internet and the availability of things,” said Daniel Wueste, director of the Rutland Institute for Ethics at Clemson University in South Carolina. “It doesn’t feel like what would be in a book. You Google it, and here it comes.” (Associated Press)