i think that students recieved what they earn. no i dont think that the University honor code is too harsh. First of all students should go to teachers when having troubles. I believe that the university is preparing students for the real world, and in the real world you can be doing stupid things with no consequences.People think that just copying a sentence is not going to harm anybody, but the true is that it's someone's else work!!! I dont think that nobody is responsible except the student. Unless if the student is not well inform then i would think that the teachers are responisble. I think that every english teacher should inform alittle on plagiarizm. in every class when i have a project teachers always give students a brief info on it and "they are not english teachers". My teachers always warn us about the consequences and they always do plagize, is not worth it! So maybe the schools might be reponsible also. bottom line students should be more aware of what is plagiarizm.