Sabotage
Sabotage involves disrupting or destroying another person's work so that the other person cannot complete an academic activity successfully. Examples of sabotage include the following:
- Destroying another person's work (including documents, design, data, artwork, etc.)
- Not contributing to a collaborative effort adequately when required to do so
- Withholding information when it should be shared with others in a collaborative project
- Revealing confidential data about another person's project or procedures to others
- Disturbing the setup or calibration of equipment arranged by another person
- Colluding with others to falsely accuse others of academic dishonesty
- Installing viruses, spyware, or other damaging software in another person's computer
- Stealing another person's property, such as computers, experimental setups, data, or designs, to prevent that person from completing their academic activities
- Destroying books and materials in the library, laboratory, or similar places to prevent other students from completing their work successfully
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