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[BUKU PANDUAN PELAJAR/ STUDENT HANDBOOK] 2021/2022

11. SEXUAL HARASSMENT CODE

Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) has certain procedures to handle complaints regarding sexual
harassment. Sexual harassment is defined as unwanted or uninvited sexual acts that cause discomfort to
the receiver. Those acts may cause the person to feel assaulted, violated or threatened. Sexual harassment
can be categorized into five forms:
a. Verbal – e.g.: words, jokes, comments, or conversations with sexual innuendos.
b. Nonverbal – e.g.: seductive staring, provocative lip licking, sign or body language that indicates
sexual activities.
c. Visual – e.g.: showing pornographic materials, pictures, drawings or writings.
d. Psychological – e.g.: continuously repeating unwanted social invitations.
e. Physical – e.g.: indecent acts such as touching, slapping, pinching, caressing, rubbing, hugging,
kissing, and sexual assault.

The university regards sexual harassment and those who are sexually harassed or victimized seriously.
Students are asked to file reports should they experience the above matters. Your courage can help us
overcome this issue and prevent other students from being sexually harassed or victimized as well.
Should you encounter or experience any problems that can be defined as sexual harassment, please report
to your Mentor/Counsellor/Head of Department/Deputy Dean/Dean or any staff whom you can trust. All
enquiries and reports are confidential.

12. PLAGIARISM

a. Students should not plagiarise other people’s ideas, writings, data or inventions.
b. For this purpose, plagiarism includes:
i. The act of taking other people’s ideas, writings, data or inventions and claiming those
as their own; or
ii. Any attempt to make or the act of making or passing off other people’s work as their
own

c. Without compromising the broad definition given in (b), students are plagiarising when they:
i. Publish any abstract or summary, scientific or academic paper, a book or part of a book
written by several people as their own;
ii. Include themselves or allow themselves to be included in any abstract or summary,
scientific or academic paper, or a book without contributing anything;
iii. Force others to include them as joint researcher or author without contributing
anything;
iv. Quote academic data based on research with other people, such as laboratory or
fieldwork findings, whether published or not, and claim the data as part of their
academic research without acknowledging the others or the original source;
v. Use research data from joint research without obtaining permission from or
acknowledging the other researchers;
vi. Copy other people’s ideas or work in any form, either written, printed, or electronic,
in slides form, teaching materials or research instruments, and claim those as their own
either directly or indirectly;
vii. Translate whole or part of other people’s writings or inventions and present the
translated version in any form as their own;
viii. Quote, paraphrase or change other people’s ideas from writings or inventions and
rearrange the ideas in any form without proper referencing.

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