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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The penalty is out of the proportion for the offense.

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Agree here. I don't get those crowing in the rosy glow of judgmentalism. These are kids, no matter what documents they signed. Had this been a repeat offense, then I would support the expulsion. But for kids away from home for the first time and still in teenage mode it makes Northeastern look more bad than the kids. A more proportionate punishment would be to send them back home to study remotely for the year. Expulsion for a first time offense (and for the crime of gathering in a hotel room) is overly dramatic. It's very petty. [/quote]

They are trying to show other students they mean business. Adults following through is a good thing.

Most good parents already know that lesson.[/quote]

I went to a fancy Ivy and most of my classmates were well behaved and smart (after all, we had to be in order to get into the school in the first place). But we were still kids when we arrived on campus. Many of us, nice kids from good families with loving and responsible parents, still made mistakes in our first year. It's all part of growing up. That's why I side with leniency in something like this situation. Sending these 11 kids home for the rest of the semester is sufficient punishment and matches the crime. Not only is expulsion excessive, it also doesn't teach the 11 kids a lesson they can learn from. They are viciously punished for doing something no one would have batted an eye about back in January. [/quote]

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