Joining the issue: one year network access shut off too much

Wendy Seltzer is right that a one-year shut-off of network access is arbitrary — and perhaps too harsh — a penalty for students.  It’s not written into the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that thou shalt cut off students from the Net for one year if they are repeat offenders of network policies (or federal law, for that matter!).  I suspect that Derek might feel the same way.