ACADEMIC DISHONESTY
Cheating includes:

• Submitting material that is not yours as part of your course performance, such as copying from another student’s exam, allowing a student to copy from your exam;

• Using information or devices that are not allowed by the faculty; such as using formulas or data from a home computer program, or using unauthorized materials for a take-home exam;

• Obtaining and using unauthorized material, such as a copy of an examination before it is given;
  

• Fabricating information, such as the data for a lab report;

• Violating procedures prescribed to protect the integrity of an assignment, test, or other evaluation;
  

• Collaborating with others on assignments without the faculty’s consent;
  

• Cooperating with or helping another student to cheat;
  

• Participating in or performing other forms of dishonest behavior, such as having another person take an examination in your place; or altering exam answers and requesting the exam be regarded; or communicating with any person during an exam, other than the exam proctor of faculty.

Plagiarism includes:

• Directly quoting the words of others without using quotation marks or indented format to identify them.
  

• Using sources of information (published or unpublished) without identifying them.
  

• Paraphrasing materials or ideas of others without identifying the sources.
  

• Themes, essays, term papers, tests and other similar requirements that are not the work of the student submitting them.
  

• When direct quotations are used, they must be indicated and when the ideas of another are incorporated in papers they must be appropriately acknowledged.

When a student is unsure about something that he/she wants to do or the proper use of materials, a faculty member should be consulted for clarification.

Generally, if a student writes while looking at a source or while looking at notes taken from a source, a footnote should be given.  Whenever any idea is taken from a specific work, even when the student writes the idea entirely in his/her own words, there must be a footnote giving credit to the author responsible for the idea.  The student should never retain a sentence pattern and substitute synonyms for the original words.  Paraphrasing means alteration of sentence pattern and changing of words.  Any direct quotation should be footnoted or documented in an acceptable fashion. Methods of documentation vary, and it is possible to cite in the text itself, rather than in a footnote. The student should give credit in a manner specified by the instructor.

AIDING AND ABETTING
No person shall help, assist, facilitate, or promote the commission of a crime or university violation.  This prohibition encompasses all assistance rendered by words, acts, encouragement, support, actual or constructive to render assistance or aid in the accomplishment thereof, by encouraging, counseling, or inciting its commission.  Anyone who by any word, deed, or act directly or indirectly urges, encourages, supports or otherwise instills in the mind of another the will to so act shall be considered a principal in the commission of said crime and shall be punished in the same manner.

ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES

1. No person may consume or  possess any alcoholic beverages,  containers, or bottles in the residence halls, in university buildings, or on any property or public location belonging to Jackson State University.
   

2. The possession, sale, distribution or furnishing of alcoholic beverages is prohibited in the residence halls, in university buildings, or on any property or public location belonging to Jackson State University.
   

3. Students who behave in an intoxicated manner as a result of the use of alcohol or require staff assistance shall be subject to disciplinary action.
   

4. The playing of games (or competitions) involving the use or consumption of alcoholic beverages is prohibited on the campus or at events sponsored or supervised by the university.
   

5. Common source containers are prohibited in residence halls and on University-owned property.
   

6. Possession of any alcohol paraphernalia is prohibited.
   

7. Empty alcoholic beverage containers (bottles, cans, etc.) are prohibited in/on University owned or controlled property.

DRINKING AGE LAW, MISSISSIPPI
Effective Oct. 1, 1986, it is illegal for any person under the age of 21 to possess or be sold, given, or furnished beer or light wine.  This law has serious consequences for persons who provide or sell beer and light wine to individuals under 21, as well as for underage drinkers.

BRANDS AND TATTOOS
No individual or organization may require others to be branded or tattooed.  (See Hazing in the Student Code of Conduct.)

CRIMINAL ACTS
Students who are arrested by authorities because of violation of criminal law are subject to suspension until the matter is settled by the police department or by the court.  The nature of the offense and the settlement will determine what action, if any, will be taken by the University.  The student may also be subject to the University’s disciplinary process.