Posted on 08/26/2009 11:01:09 PM PDT by fiscon1
Colleges are generally known as safe, distinguished spaces for young people to explore their interests, prepare for a fulfilling career, and experience invaluable growth in their social, intellectual, spiritual, personal and professional lives. Sometimes, though, even the most reputable colleges are vulnerable to unethical, unfair practices that compromise the safety of students and integrity of the school’s reputation. Here, we’ll take a look at the top 10 college scandals of all time.
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How did the SMU Football Death Penalty not make the list?
What about the Boston College point shaving scandal?
Colleges are not always “safe distinct” places.
Not my list though I agree that both should have been on there.
I read the headline and thought, what a stupid article, I went to one university, I know of hundreds of scandals, there are hundreds of universities, people have gone to them for decades. There must be hundreds of thousands of scandals. Then I read the article. Administration scandals...ahhh. Thanks for posting. I successfully avoided all scandals.
Bah - they point to the Duke rape accusations themselves as the scandal, rather than the fact that the entire town and faculty tried to railroad 3 innocent men and slandered an entire team.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCNY_Point_Shaving_Scandal
Apparently scandals that happened more than 20 years ago don't count. If you weren't alive, they didn't happen, I guess?
big deal, childs stuff. how about wilt’s ‘golden rocket ‘88, ahem, ‘problem’ in ‘57-’58???
just read your page.....my favorite speech EVER in my long life......’rain of ruin from the air’, ‘if they do not now accept’ etc. etc. etc. when this country was the greatest on earth, still are but hemorraghing horribly now....
Yeah, if we had democrats (and republicans for that matter) with only 1/100th of the cojones “Give em’ hell Harry” had in today’s world, we wouldn’t hear a peep from little gnats like Kim Jong Il, Hugo Chavez, and that little midget in Iran.
problems in 57-58? I am not familiar.
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