Bradley's university-wide policy can not be ammended by individual professors. If a student is accused of plagiarism, a report must be filed with our judicial system. The student can get a "0"/ "F" on the assignment, but not in the course (unless the loss of points leads to an overall low % and earned failure). The faculty member would expect to be asked for proof. I had a student sub in an entire paper last year. He flunked the assignment. I caught him by reading the paper, deciding that it wasn't student work, and searching for it. Found it right off. I spin assignments (never the same one twice); I make my assignments very specialized to my course (making it somewhat difficult to use foreign/imported/lifted stuff) and I grade very carefully. "The trouble" isn't much worse, from my experience, than it was "before." In fact, I think it's generally easier to catch cheaters now than it was before search engines. I gave up spending long nights in the library trying to track down obscure references . . . the kids would just come back with "well, I found that at the library AT HOME" . . . and I was pretty much outta luck. One addition: our students are increasingly worse at differentiating between quality information and junk (let alone between good and bad research). [all undergrads here] peace Edward Lee Lamoureux, Ph. D. Associate Professor, Speech Communication and Multimedia Editor, Journal of Communication and Religion Bradley University Peoria IL 61625 ell@bradley.edu http://hilltop.bradley.edu/~ell Fax: 309-677-3446