A student from Ohio University was expelled from the Semester at Sea program and put ashore in Greece for violating the University of Virginia’s honor code, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
The University of Virginia is an academic sponsor of Semester at Sea. The student plagiarized three sentence fragments and a summary of a movie from Wikipedia, according to the Times-Dispatch. A University of Virginia spokeswoman said that all students were thoroughly briefed early in the voyage on the honor code and its sanctions, which involve expulsion for just one violation. The student said her actions did not involve dishonest intent and were the sort of trivial violations the honor code is supposed to exclude. —David L. Wheeler
