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

[szeller at comcast.net]

Perhaps enough folks didn't hear, but McGee's charges were all dropped. There is no DUI situation.

Scott Zeller MD
Med '86

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From: "Dennis W. Brandt" <tbng at comcast.net> 

> > 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. 
> 
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