Ooooops!!! It's a matter of Honor.........

It seems that the student body at the University of Texas @ San Antonio (UTSA) decided they needed a new Honor Code for Students. One that addressed the growing problem of plagiarism and cheating by students.

Definition: The act of appropriating the literary composition of another author, or excerpts, ideas, or passages therefrom, and passing the material off as one's own creation. (from Wikepedia)

They formulated a new Honor Code, published it on the Internet for feed back, and Kaboom!. It turns out the 'new' Code they had drafted had been lifted "word for word" from the Honors code at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Brigham Young had borrowed theirs from the Center for Academic Integrity and cited the Center as a source.

UTSA students didn't give credit to either BYU or the Center....

Now Pilgrims, if you thought that I was about to report that the UTSA kids were going back to the drawing board.... forget it! They will include the proper citation when they forward the purloined Code to the faculty senate. "We don't want to have an honor code that is stolen," the student in charge said. With a straight face - I am told...