{"id":242,"date":"2008-03-28T11:38:28","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T18:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2008\/03\/28\/cheating-cheaters\/"},"modified":"2008-03-28T11:44:51","modified_gmt":"2008-03-28T18:44:51","slug":"cheating-cheaters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2008\/03\/28\/cheating-cheaters\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheating Cheaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was on another University Board of Student Discipline case yesterday.  (I was on the Board, not bringing a case forward.)  <a href=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2007\/12\/18\/life\/\">I mentioned a UBSD case previously<\/a> where I was on the board, and the case resulted in a big and complicated penalty.<\/p>\n<p>The penalty in this case (that we recommended to the President) was a new one for me, simpler, and fairly rare for SFU: permanent expulsion from the University.<\/p>\n<p>The case ended up being even more severe than I thought when I got there.  The core issue was impersonation during a midterm and final exam.  The student (the <em>real<\/em> student) had a previous academic dishonesty case, and there were some other aggravating factors after the case began.  Altogether, it ended up as a really serious case.<\/p>\n<p>Something I did learn is that <a href=\"http:\/\/laws.justice.gc.ca\/en\/ShowDoc\/cs\/C-46\/bo-ga:l_X::bo-ga:l_XI\/\/en?page=7&#038;isPrinting=false#codese:404\">impersonating someone in a final exam, or benefiting from it<\/a> is a criminal code violation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nEvery one who falsely, with intent to gain advantage for himself or some other person, personates a candidate at a competitive or qualifying examination held under the authority of law or in connection with a university, college or school or who knowingly avails himself of the results of such personation is guilty of an offence punishable on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Summary_offence#Canada\">summary conviction<\/a>.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The University likely won&#8217;t recommend charges in this case, but it&#8217;s good to know it&#8217;s an option.  Note that it&#8217;s the criminal code (police, handcuffs, and jail), not the civil code (fines and lawsuits).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was on another University Board of Student Discipline case yesterday. (I was on the Board, not bringing a case forward.) I mentioned a UBSD case previously where I was on the board, and the case resulted in a big and complicated penalty. The penalty in this case (that we recommended to the President) was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}