Nigeria, Feb. 17 -- Arguably the easiest conclusion from the decision of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka to expel Goddy-Mbakwe Chimamaka Precious, over her gratuitous assault on a lecturer from the university's Department of Theatre and Film Studies is that we are agreed on the need for punishment. Beyond this, though, since the case broke, public commentary has stumbled on the purpose, justification and ethical implications of punishment. By far the greater number of commentators, that I have read and listened to, have plumped for a punishment commensurate with the offence. Consensus seems to be that a university undergraduate, expected to be "worthy in character and learning" upon graduation, cannot have the instincts and morals of ...