Cheat: According to the Office of the Dean of Students, cheating is “the use of unauthorized materials, information, or study aids in any academic exercise; the alteration of any answers on a graded document before submitting it for re-grading; or the failure to observe the expressed procedures or instructions of an academic exercise.” ("UCLA Student Conduct Code")
Outside of academics, people cheat on their taxes, cheat on their boyfriends or girlfriends, drive in the carpool lane even when they’re alone. Whether you’re cheating in school or cheating somewhere else, cheating is not a good thing.
Fabricate: According to the Office of the Dean of Students, fabrication is “falsification or invention of any information or citation in an academic exercise." ("UCLA Student Conduct Code")
Outside of academics, people fabricate excuses and stories for all kinds of things—just think about excuses people use when they’re pulled over by CHP officers on the freeway. Fabricating is essentially lying, so whether you’re at school, at work, or at play, fabricating is not a good thing.
Plagiarism: Presenting someone’s words, ideas, data, or any other work that can be considered intellectual property, as if they were your own. ("UCLA Student Conduct Code").
Multiple Submissions: According to the Office of the Dean of Students, multiple submissions is “resubmission in identical or similar form by a student of any work which has been previously submitted for credit, whether at UCLA or any other school, college, or university in one course to fulfill the requirements of a second course, without the informed permission/consent of the instructor of the second course; or the submission for credit of work submitted for credit, in identical or similar form, in concurrent courses, without the permission/consent of the instructors of both courses.” ("UCLA Student Conduct Code")
Multiple submissions outside of academics—you wouldn’t file the same tax report for 2004 and 2005, right? And you probably wouldn’t wear the same wedding dress to your first, second, and third weddings.
Facilitating Academic Dishonesty: According to the Office of the Dean of Students, facilitating academic dishonesty is “knowingly helping another student commit an act of academic dishonesty.” ("UCLA Student Conduct Code") This is like driving the get away car. Just because you didn't enter the bank and rob it, you'd still go to jail.