reporter lori perez essays there are plenty of views on what the punishment should be. >> if you are fraud, what right have you to be there at all? >> reporter: attorney steve meister says u.s. hean should take away the degrees of any alum found who to have gotten by fraud. colleges have broad discretion to protect the system by which degrees are awarded, and should, because >> if they don't do it, they undermine the integrity of any degree they award to anyone else. >> usc has eight suspicious cases where alums used ringleader services, and is considering revoking the gr anyo volved >> i don't think they should take away the degree, if they've completed their course work, but there should be some penalty. >> it's a case to case basis, probably. i mean there has to be some sort of conflict, this can't go through a system the wrong way, and have this rewarding the same rewards. >> reporter: one student said something akin to major-league baseball asterisk. keep the degree with a checkmark. >> that falls under like barry bonds, they will take his degrees away because he did steroids. >