Section R7-4-101. Definitions

In this Code of Conduct, unless the context otherwise provides or requires:

1.        “Aggravated violation” means a violation which resulted or foreseeably could have resulted in significant damage to persons or property or which otherwise posed a sub- stantial threat to the stability and continuance of normal university or university-sponsored activities.

2.        “Board” means the Arizona Board of Regents.

3.        “Cheating” means intentionally using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, information or study aids in any academic exercise.

4.        “Controlled substance” means a drug or substance listed in schedules contained in A.R.S. §§ 36-2512 through 36- 2516.

5.        “Distribution” means sale or exchange for personal profit.

6.        “Fabrication” means intentional and unauthorized falsifi- cation or invention of any information or citation in an academic exercise.

7.        “Faculty” means all employees of the Arizona Board of Regents in teaching, research, or service, whose notice of appointment is as lecturer, instructor, assistant professor, associate professor, professor or otherwise designated as faculty on the notice of appointment. Graduate students who serve as assistants, associates or otherwise, are aca- demic appointees as well as graduate students but are not members of the faculty.

8.        “Group” means a number of persons who are associated with each other and who have not complied with univer- sity requirements for registration as an organization.

9.        “Illegal drug” means any drug whose use, possession or distribution is prohibited or restricted by provisions of Title 13 of the Arizona Revised Statues, and includes, without limitation, narcotic drugs, dangerous drugs, mari- juana and peyote.

10.     “Organization” means a number of persons who are asso- ciated with each other and who have complied with uni- versity requirements for registration.

11.     “Plagiarism” means intentionally or knowingly represent- ing the words or ideas of another as one’s own in any aca- demic exercise.

12.     “President” means the president of the university or a designee.

harm to persons or property or which would otherwise be

likely to result in interference with university or univer- sity-sponsored activities.

14.     “Student” means any person registered or enrolled in one or more classes except a faculty member or full-time employee who takes any course as a privilege of employ- ment. Graduate students who serve as assistants, associ- ates or otherwise, and all other students employed part- time are classified as students rather than faculty or other university employee.

15.     “University” means the appropriate university involved: The University of Arizona, Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University, and any other university governed by the Arizona Board of Regents.

16.     “University campus” means all land, buildings, facilities and other property owned, used or controlled by the uni- versity.

17.     “University community” means university students, administrative and staff personnel, members of the fac- ulty and all other university employees.

18.     “University property” means all real and personal prop- erty owned by the university or owned by the Arizona Board of Regents and used by the university and includes all such property in the possession of or subject to the control of the university.

19.     “University-sponsored activity” means any activity on or off campus which is initiated, aided, authorized or super- vised by the university.

20.     “Weapon” means any object or substance designed to inflict a wound, cause injury, or incapacitate, including, without limitation, all firearms, pellet guns, switchblade knives, knives with blades five or more inches in length, and chemicals such as “mace” or tear-gas, but excluding normally available over-the-counter self-defense chemi- cal repellents.

Historical Note

Adopted effective August 10, 1983 (Supp. 83-4).