Attendance and class participation may affect borderline grades at semester's end. Ethics Indiana University has guidelines for proper academic behavior. Cheating, plagiarism, and other forms of intellectual dishonesty and academic misconduct will not be tolerated. Cheating is dishonesty of any kind with respect to examinations, course assignments, alteration of records, or illegal possession of examinations. It is the responsibility of the student not only to abstain from cheating, but, in addition, to avoid the appearance of cheating and to guard against making it possible for others to cheat.
Plagiarism is the offering of the work of someone else as one's own.
Honesty requires that any ideas or materials taken from another source for either written or oral use must be fully acknowledged. The language or ideas taken from another may range from isolated formulas, sentences, or paragraphs, to entire articles copied from books, periodicals, speeches, or the writings of other students. . . . Any student who fails to give credit for ideas or materials taken from another source is guilty of plagiarism. In addition, all cell phones and beepers should be turned off while in class since operating such electronic equipment is disruptive to the class. If we need to devote more time to a specific subject or introduce a new topic, we will do so as appropriate.