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Trial Division – ss. B.i.1(b) and B.i.3(b) of the Code – unauthorized aid or unauthorized assistance and cheating, academic dishonesty, or academic misconduct – Student knowingly used or possessed an unauthorized aid, or obtained unauthorized assistance and knowingly engaged in a form of cheating, academic dishonesty or misconduct, fraud or misrepresentation in order to obtain academic credit or other academic advantage in connection with a term assessment – Student did not appear – Rules 9, 16, 17, and 61 of the University Tribunal’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (“Rules”) – University’s Policy on Official Correspondence with Students – ss. 6 and 7 of the Statutory Powers Procedure Act (“SPPA”) – reasonable notice was provided – a commercial tutoring service distributed a study guide that contained questions that were essentially identical to those on the Student’s version of the assessment – the Student admitted to paying a tutor to check his answers during the assessment – finding of guilt – final grade of zero in the courses; five-year suspension; six-year notation on transcript; and a report to the Provost for publication.