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