Plagiarism
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Plagiarism is the biggest area of
increase among the different types
of academic dishonesty, said Chris
Loschiavo, University director of
student judicial affairs.
“You know that it’s a big prob
lem when www.plagiarism.com
exists,” he said.
The Web site is a tool for profes
sors to determine what percentage
of a paper has plagiarized content.
It employs powerful search en
gines to review the many Internet
sources from which a student may
take information.
“It appears with the advent of the
Internet we are in a bull market for
plagiarism,” said Barbara S. Glatt,
an executive at plagiarism.com.
Traditional plagiarism is still a
problem, too. Students report pla
giarizing because they found a
source that precisely expressed
their point.
“I have plagiarized because I
was really stuck for an idea, and
right before me was the perfect
thing to say,” said Jenny, a sopho
more history major. “I was success
ful; the teacher didn’t even notice. ”
The English and composition de
partments are especially vigilant in
efforts to stop plagiarism, Gage said.
“Students ought to learn how to
use sources and that if they do pla
giarize, the institution cares and
will take it seriously,” he said.
Cheating affects all students
and faculty
“Academic dishonesty is some
thing that the University takes
very, very seriously,” said Glen
Banfield, a student defender with
the office of student advocacy who
has worked with many academic
dishonesty cases.
The University has explicit
policies for dealing with plagia
rism and other forms of academic
dishonesty. Punishments range
from community service to expul
sion, in rare cases.
Cheating is not a victimless
crime. Cheaters, honest students
and the University as a whole are
harmed by acts of academic dis
honesty, experts say.
Some students think that aca
demic dishonesty is not hurting oth
ers, that it’s just helping themselves.
“That’s not right. Dishonesty
has a corrosive effect on atmos
pheres of trust and respect in the
classroom,” said Tom Dyke, Uni
versity vice provost for research.
Students who choose to cheat
miss out on important lessons.
“Most lessons in personal integrity
are learned indirectly,” Gage said.
The choice not to cheat when
given the opportunity is one such
lesson.
“It’s the responsibility of the in
stitution to help students learn that
lesson through its policies,” he said.
Cheaters may face more tangible
consequences as well. A student
caught cheating will have a difficult
time getting into graduate programs
and law schools, Banfield said.
Students who are not cheating
get hurt by cheaters, Loschiavo said.
A student who graduates by
cheating their way through school
may not be able to perform in the
job market. This reflects poorly on
the University and employers may
be less likely to hire another Univer
sity graduate in the future, he said.
Honesty is important outside of
the classroom, Dyke said. “Re
search in all fields really depends
on mutual respect and trust. ”
Research is usually done as a
team. If part of that team is dishon
est, it can have dramatic results on
the team, he said. •
Falsifying results in research
can have real economic costs. Oth
er researchers may waste time and
money conducting experiments or
studies based on previously con
ducted, inaccurate research.
There have been very few prob
lems with dishonesty in research
at the University, Dyke said.
Security
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“One of the areas in computer
science that we focus on is cryp
tography, which deals with securi
ty issues,” she said. “And we’re
also offering a minor in computer
information technology, which
deals mainly with security issues
in networks in businesses.”
National computer security
concerns will only increase, espe
cially with the shortage of skilled
information security workers,
Clinton said in a Jan. 7 speech.
“We need to do more to bring
r
people into the field of computer
security,” Clinton said. “That's
why I am proposing a new pro
gram that will offer college schol
arships to students in the field of
computer security in exchange for
their public service afterward.”
The Clinton Administration has
expressed concern about the
threat of foreign “cyber terrori sm,”
where countries using computers
as weapons gain top-secret infor
mation or disable computer-based
programs vital to national defense.
If the proposal is passed by Con
gress in the 2001 budget, the first
students to receive the scholar
ships would likely be from one of
seven universities recognized last
year by the National Security
Agency (NSA) as being “Centers
for Excellence in Information As
surance Education. ”
Of those seven, only one school
is on the West Coast—the Universi
ty of California, Davis. Each of these
schools offers specialized degree
programs in information security.
The schools worked closely with
the NSA to develop curriculum
and expand programs, said Allan
Berg, director of JMU’s information
security program. The scholarship
proposal highlights the shortage of
skilled information technology and
security workers, Berg said.
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