Nomar and Professor Pedro

Discussions: Wednesday, September 22, at 6 PM and Thursday, September 23, at 1 PM in the Sunken Lounge of the DC Nomar and Professor Pedro An Honor Council Academic Trial Released Fall 2004 Introduction: Nomar was a student in Professor Pedro’s class. Nomar handed in a paper to Professor Pedro with several sections that Professor Pedro thought were not Nomar’s own work. After confronting Nomar about the paper, the parties agreed to contact Honor Council and submit statements. Honor Council came to a suspicion of violation. Fact Finding: Professor Pedro’s statement: Professor Pedro began by describing an event involving Nomar that occurred earlier in the semester. For an earlier assignment, Nomar turned in a paper that seemed unrelated to the topic assigned by Professor Pedro. Using an Internet search engine, Professor Pedro found that 98% of the paper had been taken from other sources. Upon confrontation, Nomar explained that he had turned in his notes and not his paper. He quickly returned to his room and emailed the correct paper to Professor Pedro. As a result of this event, Professor Pedro said that he would be more sensitive to potential plagiarism in Nomar’s future work. Later, Professor Pedro assigned a paper in which students were allowed to use outside sources. When reading Nomar’s paper, Professor Pedro noticed that two sections of the paper had awkward structures. Suspicious of plagiarism, he performed an Internet search and found that the sections had been copied word-for-word from two different sources. There were no citations that accompanied these sections of the paper. After confronting Nomar, Professor Pedro contacted Honor Council.