Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!topaz.rutgers.edu!msmith From: msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith) Newsgroups: comp.edu Subject: Re: Rules of ethics for CS majors? Message-ID: Date: 14 Jan 90 20:48:49 GMT References: <1990Jan14.124008.28784@lth.se> Organization: Rutgers - The Police State of New Jersey Lines: 27 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. Mark -- Mark Smith, KNJ2LH All Rights Reserved RPO 1604 You may redistribute this article only if those who P.O. Box 5063 receive it may do so freely. New Brunswick, NJ 08903-5063 msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu