But most of the infractions, which were discovered and reported by Athletic Director Betsy Mitchell in 2011, were the result of Caltech's unusual class registration system.
Mike Paluchniak, a junior guard on the basketball team, said there was a noticeably different tenor regarding class registration in the past year.
Dozens of colleges have begun their own voting registration drives in orientation programs, class registration, intranet Web sites and other interactions crucial to campus life, institutionalizing services that had often been left to outside efforts.
"They wanted to keep me on the roster because the more girls they have on the roster, the more positions they have to give for the guys' teams," she said, adding that a former assistant coach had told her she would receive running shoes and priority class registration as a reward for staying on the rosters.
Class registration will open soon!
There was student orientation, class registration, new books, the works.
When Tech switched to online class registration, Burdell took every course offered that term.
At Harvard, Laura Simolaris from Institute of Politics inserted a table with laptops into the class registration process and signed up a third of the freshman class in a single afternoon.
Others come with all the bells and whistles -- early class registration privileges, separate dormitories, designated faculty advisers, special academic and social programs, and even funded travel.
In 1969, Georgia Tech computerized its class registration, believing it had successfully found a way to keep students from registering Burdell for class that semester.
Some of that assistance involves technology, such as sending text messages reminding students of class registration deadlines, and some requires increased personal interaction, such as mounting last-minute appeals to improve financial aid grants.
