1. - What´s your name? (you can use a Nickname or handle if you don´t want to give out your real name).
My name is Liliana Carolina Becerra Vargas.
2. - What are you studying? How long have you been studying at Tec?
I’ve been studying Law, for one and half year.
3. - Could I ask you a few questions about ethics at college?
Yes, why not , haha.
4. - As members of the academic community, teachers and students have the responsibility to obey ethical principles; do you think there should be some punishment for those who don´t respect that?
Yes, because this way the people would do the necessary to respect values, and they would not do anything wrong again.
5. - Do you think that academic honesty is central in the educational process?
Yes, because in order to graduate honesty is fundamental and if as students we do not keep this value, as workers will never do.
6. - Do you know what cheating is? Do you consider cheating an ethical issue at college? Could that be a reason to get expelled?
Yes, because you cannot graduate from an institution where one of its major ethical principles is to form professional with values.
7. - Have you ever brought a cheating sheet to a test?
Not, it would be to fool myself.
8. - What do you do think about the students who cheat on a test? In your opinion, what would be an appropriate sanction for them?
They don’t realize that those who they are actually doing wrong is themselves. They only seek to pass for a mark grade, and not for their knowledge, for me a fair sanction would be to expel them.
9. - Do you know what plagiarism is? It is representing the ideas, words, or data of another person or persons as one´s own. Do you think plagiarizing is a quite common practice among students nowadays?
Yes, I believe that the majority of the students do not consider this action dishonest, that’s why they keep doing it.
10. - What could we do to prevent or sanction plagiarism?
We might put a pecuniary fine for doing such an act.
11. - What do you think about discrimination based on race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, etc?
It is not to have values, because we all are equal.
12. - Have you ever seen any member of the academic community engaged in discrimination or any other misconduct?
No.
13. - If you saw anyone engaged in ethical misconduct, what would you do? Would you confront him or tell another person?
I would face him in that moment.
14. - In your opinion, what would be an example of unethical behavior?
To take a leak (urinate) in thoroughfare.
15. - Do you totally agree whit the moral code and school rules dictated by the university? If not, say why?
Yes, because it is dealing with people’s behavior, with ethical values to be able to make a change.