I do mean an exceptional amount of stress. Some of the most stressed people I can recall encountering in my life are college students right before finals. I rec

I do mean an exceptional amount of stress. Some of the most stressed people I can recall encountering in my life are college students right before finals. I recognize the possibility that 2 of the 40 (really, in this case, just the 1 who’s “right on the bubble”) might be unjustly punished (expulsion) for a lapse in judgement. I also just mean to bring up the possibility; I don’t know what these students’ intentions were but I know what mine might have been. (For what it’s worth, I don’t mean to be arguing the points the person you were responding to is arguing. Many of those are rather weak but there are stronger arguments for a similar conclusion.)