Student Conduct Code: Unacceptable Student Behavior

• Dishonesty, including: Cheating, plagiarism, or other forms of academic dishonesty that are intended to gain unfair academic advantage; furnishing false information to a University official, faculty member, or campus office; or forgery, alteration, or misuse of a University document or one of its auxiliaries.
• Disruption or obstruction of a University-related activity, or any on-campus activity.
• Willful, material and substantial obstruction of the free flow of pedestrian or other traffic, on or leading to campus or an off-campus University related activity.
• Disorderly, lewd, indecent, or obscene behavior at a University-related activity, or directed toward a member of the University community.
• Conduct that threatens or endangers the health or safety of any person within or related to the University community, including physical abuse, threats, intimidation, harassment, or sexual misconduct.
• Hazing: This includes any method of initiation or pre-initiation into a student organization, or any pastime or amusement engaged in with respect to such an organization which causes, or is likely to cause, bodily danger, physical harm, or personal degradation or disgrace resulting in physical or mental harm, to any student or other person attending any school, community college, college, university or other educational institution in this state.
• Use, possession, manufacture, or distribution of illegal drugs or drug-related paraphernalia (except as expressly permitted by law and University regulations) or the misuse of legal pharmaceutical drugs.
• Theft of property or services from the University community.
• Possession or misuse of firearms or guns, replicas, ammunition, explosives, fireworks, knives, or other weapons, or dangerous chemicals (without the prior authorization of the campus president) on campus or during a University-related activity.
• Unauthorized recording, dissemination, or publication of academic presentations (including handwritten notes) for a commercial purpose.
• Misuse of computer facilities or resources, including: unauthorized entry into a file, for any purposes; unauthorized transfer of a file; use of anothers identification or password; use of computing facilities, campus network, or other resources to interfere with the work of another member of the University Community; use of computing facilities and resources to send obscene, intimidating, or abusive messages; use of computing facilities and resources in violation of copyright laws.

Any violation of the Student Conduct Code may result in expulsion.

Use the information presented above to answer questions 41 through 43.

41. According to the passage, misuse of computer facilities or resources includes all of the following EXCEPT:

A. Using University computers to help disseminate literature regarding an upcoming protest.

B. Transferring files that are the property of the University without authorization.

C. Downloading music files from a pirated music site on University computers.

D. Using University computers to send abusive messages to a professor or fellow student.

42. Which of the following statements most accurately defines the main purpose of the passage?

A. Ensure all students understand what hazing is and that it is unacceptable.

B. Protect professors intellectual property rights.

C. Define unacceptable student conduct and establish possible University action.

D. Guarantee the safety of student possessions in their dorm rooms.

43. According to the passage, which of the following scenarios would NOT be a violation of the Student Conduct Code?

A. A student who records and sells a Professors lecture notes online.

B. A student group protesting the Chancellors State of the University speech.

C. An initiation ritual for a student organization that requires initiates to hold their breath under water for 3 minutes.

D. A student group who protests student parking fees by lying across the entrances to the parking facility.