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[originally from "comp.edu"]

At Rutgers, it isn't codified very well.  Class users are told that
the Rutgers Academic Dishonesty Policy exists, and applies to user
directories on the computers.  This policy is published in all sorts
of user handbooks we see here.  Also, a few professors require that
the directory where the class work resides be protected against all
group and world users.  These professors are rare.  Also, the
dishonesty policy is not veryh well implemented.  You get caught if a
TA or professor notices you cheating, but on projects this is not
likely.  Many students copy other's programs and simply change the
identifiers to get around text comparisons.

The ethics relating to malicious attacks (virii and such) are not on
paper or in any electronic form at all.  I have occasionally
questioned this.  If you break the rules, you hear about it, but on
occasion someone breaks the rules simply because they didn't know the
rule existed.  Also, the upper-level administrators are afraid to
create policy about computer use as the policies may require legal
scrutiny or differ with the highest Administration's ideas.  Thus,
Rutgers policy on ethics is rather ad-hoc, with many rules being
hidden until violated.

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