I find I have a student who tells me he has been allowed by other instructors to turn in his papers late without consequence. I reviewed verbally with the student that papers late will be lowered in grade, etc. The assignment was described in the syllabus. The assignment was gone over in class. The assignment was gone over in lab. A reminder of the due date was given both in class and in clinical group. The assignment was due yesterday. At clinical the student mentioned he had trouble emailing me the paper. I told him to bring it in and hand it to the administrative assistant if he could not email it. Now the paper is one day late. I do not have it. I am prepared to mark the paper down 5% a day. My guess is he will say there is a computer glitch. I received all the other students' papers. Can I say he should have checked to see that the paper was sent before he concluded it was especially if he was having "trouble" emailing it to me? This is really happening today.