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If NU 's  law school can  put someone like Bernardine Dohrn on its faculty, giving tBrandon Lee a second chance in view of how he has changed should be an easy call.

John DeGroat
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> I  disagree completely.
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> I feel bad for him, but his mistakes were pretty  big.
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> The substance abuse I can forgive, but bringing back an athlete  with a 
> breaking and entry conviction(especially in campus housing) is not  the 
> message NU wants to send out to perspective students.  Campus  safety 
> is already an important issue and this would aggravate the  issue.
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> I agree with most of  the others here.  Every institution in  America seems 
> to give 2nd chances-(in my mind ,unfortunately 3rd and 4th chances  as 
> well--see NBA, MLB, etc, etc) -NU would be  setting a higher statndard  by 
> requiring 
> that there is some evidence that he has learned and desreves a 2nd  chance, not 
> just to give a second chance--Do it with a zero and i mean zero  tolerance 
> level--Heck even IU gave the General a 2nd chance (and he was quite a  bit older 
> when he made his mistakes-)- and throwing a plate or a vase at a  secretary's 
> head is more egregious than breaking and entering--not to mention  about a 
> half dozen other mistakes made by Knight for whcih he was given another  chance
>  
> Harry
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