Plagiarism: intellectual theft

By Kaitlin Strohschein.
At BCC, students may receive failing grades and ultimately be expelled for cheating and plagiarism, according to the Arts and Humanities Division Web site. “It’s [plagiarism] an academic crime, a form of theft,” said Roger George, an English instructor at BCC. Plagiarism, as defined by the Arts and Humanities Division Web site, is “passing off someone else’s ideas, words, or images as your own