[NU Sports] RE: Brandon Lee and student-on-student crimes

[Dennis W. Brandt]

> The issue is one of forgiveness. . .  Let's see how NU handles the McGee 
> DUI situation.  Doesn't the same
> standard apply at a minimum?

No, it doesn't.  McGee broke no law in drinking or even drinking to excess. 
He tripped over the line only when he backed his car out of the parking 
space.  Should he do it a second time. . . well, maybe East Stroudsburg 
State will need a coach just out of rehab.  Lee, on the other hand, broke 
the law the moment he broke into someone else's property, the moment he 
touched those credit cards, much less used them fraudulently, and the moment 
illegal drugs touched his hands.  Is he sorry?  I'm damn sure he is.  And 
ashamed, no doubt - finally.  The possibility of shame obviously afforded no 
behavioral barrier beforehand.  Maybe if he had been brought up in a society 
that still allowed moral judgments and resulting small shames to be part of 
life's learning process he would not have been so undisciplined and 
self-centered as to turn to criminal activity in his quest for instant 
gratification.  I sincerely hope you learned your lesson, Brandon, and live 
a near perfect life hereafter, but go be sorry at Illinois Central College.