I bet they're looking to see if PDJT donated money to any schools for his kids, or whether his father donated money to Wharton to get him in (which I very much doubt).
This has the potential to touch a lot of people in very high places, including in Congress, in the Supreme Court, and in the federal court system. Very big. So big, there's a good chance it will all be made to disappear.
For a liberal he’s usually spot on.
I highly doubt anyone is going to investigate the circumstances of PDJT’s acceptance at Wharton....50 years ago. And why do you doubt his father donated money to Wharton? Maybe he did. How do you think the Kennedy’s got into Harvard? The Bushes into Yale? etc. etc. Rich people donating money to get their offspring into top schools has been happening for quite awhile.
After these revelations, any company that is serious about hiring the best employees will administer its own tests to job applicants, and it will forget about whatever colleges applicants may have attended or if they attended college at all.
Look, at bottom, you know the fault of this lies in the fact that we’ve abolished grades at universities, in many parts of the country, nobody fails anymore cause if we went back to the situation that occurred when I started teaching at Harvard, almost sixty years ago, this couldn’t work, because these students would fail out.
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And there is the problem. The feedback loop has been deliberately broken. Now you just show up and you get a degree.
Well, in a way the scandal is a good thing as it exposes the crime and fraud that is “higher education”.
This will be old news by next week. Fines will be paid but new schemes will be put in place. Nothing to see here, move along now.
The only thing I disagree with him is about athletics... Universities should be about preparing for careers, and athletes are the absolute best at what they do, preparing for a professional career. As with all careers, only a few get to the top spots with the big money, but that is besides the point.
How do we think things are going to work out when government takes complete control of our medical care?
In this situation, people have pleased guilty to things that are not crimes.
How is this really any different than Harvard’s legacy admissions policy where every Kennedy that ever lived got in or even affirmative action where those of lower merit get in based upon their skin color?
It’s all just whoring. It seems people are upset because it was a few soccer coaches being bribed instead of the universities themselves getting a new building in exchange for admitting the spawn of the rich.
The Dersh is still an clear-minded guy who communicates well.
Buying a new building to get your kid in is not the same as what happened here. The coaches sold access that was not theirs to sell, it is the institution’s to sell.
The price increased to a new building 40 or 50 years ago. I bet this is just one scam they caught. This has been going on for years. You either pay someone to fix it or you check the Native American box.
I wish I new this crap back when I needed a defense for my poor academic performance. Think my mom will allow an appeal on such an old case?