Students should be aware that one's academic disciplinary record can have serious long term implications. For example, law school admission offices require that you have the college notify them of any disciplinary records, including those involving academic integrity. Recently a winner of the Nobel Prize in biology was reprimanded because someone in his laboratory had falsified data in an experiment. A Harvard professor and past president of a national professional society had to resign when it was revealed that review articles which he had authored many years previously included many unacknowledged quotes and paraphrases from sources. The demand for absolute integrity in academic work applies to everyone.
Similar standards apply outside of academia.