What he did was foolish, irresponsible, and hurt the team. But it's also totally human and in the grand scope of things pretty insignificant.
If twenty years ago the life of an average Engineering Student at UB was under a microscope, I'm sure I could have made the papers at least once for being a clueless chucklehead.
People make stupid mistakes in life. The Lord knows I can pile my mistakes up a mile high and they did not stop when I hit age twenty or thirty. I'm pretty sure when forty rolls around I'll still make some mistakes.