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As mentioned in the [url=<a href=“http://donut.caltech.edu/about/boc/ug_handbook.php]Honor”>http://donut.caltech.edu/about/boc/ug_handbook.php]Honor</a> System handbook<a href=“under” title=“Nullifying the Unfair Advantage”>/url</a>: The decisions of the Board of Control are never intended as punishment.</p>
<p>As cghen mentioned, the purpose is to reverse just any unfair advantage, and no more. Even under the Protection of the Community stage of the case, where the BoC can in rare severe cases suspend people, etc., the handbook emphasizes explicitly, This is not an attempt to punish.</p>