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In addition, there are other problems with the supposed grade decline evidence. The last semester of the three was the semester of the controversy, which obviously would be so distracting that one scarcely needs a date rape at the beginning to explain a grade decline. So we have two semesters left, one of which is a 2.97. Surely the Panel is making a leap in thinking that a decline that may have been from 3.17 to 2.97 suggests (let alone needs) a trauma of any kind.