WAC 132P-33-170   Violations.  Any student shall be subject to immediate disciplinary action provided for in code procedures and summary suspension rules who, either as a principal actor or aider or abettor:

     (1) Materially and substantially interferes with the personal rights or privileges of others or the educational process of the college;

     (2) Violates any provision of the Code of student rights and responsibilities;

     (3) Commits any of the following acts which are hereby prohibited:

     (a) All forms of dishonesty including cheating, plagiarism, knowingly furnishing false information to the college, and forgery, alteration or use of college documents or instruments of identification with intent to defraud.

     (b) Failure to comply with lawful directions of faculty, administrators and other regularly employed personnel acting in performance of their lawful duties.

     (c) Conduct which intentionally and substantially obstructs or disrupts freedom of movement, teaching, research administration, disciplinary proceedings or other lawful activities on the college campus.

     (d) Physical abuse of any person or conduct which is intended unlawfully to threaten imminent bodily harm or to endanger the health or safety of any person on college-owned or controlled property or at college-sponsored or supervised functions.

     (e) Malicious damage to or malicious misuse of college property, or the property of any person where such property is located on the college campus.

     (f) Refusal to comply with any lawful order to leave the college campus or any portion thereof.

     (g) Possession or use of firearms, explosives, dangerous chemicals or other dangerous weapons or instrumentalities on the college campus, except for authorized college purposes; unless prior written approval has been obtained from the dean of students, or any other person designated by the campus president.

     (h) Intentionally inciting others to engage immediately in any of the conduct prohibited herein, which incitement leads directly to such conduct. (Inciting is that advocacy which prepares the group addressed for imminent action and steers it to the conduct prohibited herein.)

     (i) Possessing, consuming or furnishing of alcoholic beverages on college-owned or controlled property or at college-sponsored or supervised functions where prohibited by law.

     (j) Disorderly conduct, including disorderly conduct resulting from drunkenness.

     (k) Engaging in lewd, indecent, or obscene behavior on college-owned or controlled property or at college-sponsored or supervised functions.

     (l) Using, possessing, furnishing, or selling any narcotic or dangerous drug as those terms are used in Washington statutes, except when the use or possession of a drug is specifically prescribed as medication by an authorized medical doctor or dentist.

     (m) Falsely setting off or otherwise tampering with any emergency safety equipment, alarm, or other device established for the safety of individuals and/or college facilities.

     (n) Theft or conversion of college property or private property.

     (o) Entering any administrative office or any locked or otherwise closed college facility in any manner, at any time, without permission of the college employee or agent in charge thereof.

     (p) Buying, copying, borrowing, or otherwise plagiarizing another's images, ideas, evidence, examples, opinions, or other original products or documents from published, unpublished, or electronic sources for the purpose of deceiving an instructor as to the product's origination.

     (q) Plagiarism is "the wrongful act of taking the product of another person's mind and presenting it as one's own" (qtd. In MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 4th Edition, 26). Plagiarism occurs when an author fails to give credit for:

     • Someone else's words;

     • Someone else's examples;

     • Someone else's ideas or opinions;

     • Statistics or other facts compiled by someone else;

     • Evidence or testimony taken from someone else's argument;

     • An image from another artist.

     (i) YVCC recognizes two types of plagiarism: Intentional and unintentional. Intentional plagiarism is the dishonest act of appropriating another's ideas, words, facts, opinions, or images with the intent to deceive others about the document's origin. Any student found to have committed intentional plagiarism shall be subject to disciplinary actions provided for in the Code Procedures and Summary Suspension Rules.

     (ii) Students may also commit plagiarism without intent to deceive. A student's intent to deceive shall be taken into account when instructors evaluate an act of plagiarism. All forms of plagiarism which an instructor determines to be unintentional should be treated as instructional problems to be handled within the student/instructor relationship with the instructor following, but not limited by, the penalty guideline below:

     (A) Student must resubmit the assignment after instruction but before an agreed upon due date.

     (B) Student can receive a lowered grade on the assignment, including "F."

     (C) Student can be advised to seek aid from the writing center or tutoring center as a condition before receiving a grade or resubmitting an assignment.

     The instructor need not take formal disciplinary action for unintentional plagiarism.



[Statutory Authority: RCW 28B.50.140. 99-13-140, § 132P-33-170, filed 6/18/99, effective 7/19/99; 82-01-079 (Resolution No. 81-4), § 132P-33-170, filed 12/21/81.]