T h e u n i v e r s i T y o f T e x a s a T a r l i n g T o n
friday
april 10, 2009
since 1919
volume 90, no.
98
www.
theshorthorn.
com
INDEX
Your Day 2
News 3
Opinion 4
Sports 6
Walk-off Wonder The baseball team gives up lead only to
take it back in a...
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T h e u n i v e r s i T y o f T e x a s a T a r l i n g T o n
friday
april 10, 2009
since 1919
volume 90, no.
98
www.
theshorthorn.
com
INDEX
Your Day 2
News 3
Opinion 4
Sports 6
Walk-off Wonder The baseball team gives up lead only to
take it back in a dramatic fashion.
sports | pagE 6
By CarolINE BasIlE
The Shorthorn staff
University faculty members wonder if adding an honor code will
increase education standards.
In the 2007-’08 academic year,
the university handled 218 scholastic dishonesty referrals, an increase
from 110 in the 2006-’07 year.
During its February meeting, the UTA’s
Academy of Distinguished Teachers
expressed interest in researching the
concept.
Organizational behavior professor Jim Quick said the purpose is to
help ensure that students’ work —
like essays, research and papers — is
original.
In the academy’s Wednesday
meeting, Mary Lynn Crow, education professor and chairwoman,
presented research from various
universities with honor codes in
place, including th
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