Comments on: The college entry bribery scam

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 04:26:36 +0000

CV – go back to the link for Dershowitz’s interview; he says pretty much the same thing, but that there aren’t enought super-rich donors to really influence the “pool” of students’ grades.

Here, with the second-rank-rich, it would seem that there are.

He also calls into question the value of said grades in the first place, which is a separate topic, but the connection is that, in an old-school school, the frauds would have been flunked out soon anyway, but now that is not going to happen.

(Super-rich kids were not to be flunked out, of course, but they were known to the administration and everyone played the game; this bunch were hoping to be anonymous frauds and just skate through like all the other substandard students.)

By: CV

CV — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 15:22:56 +0000

I’m seeing a lot of commentary online that says this scandal is not unlike that timeless practice of rich donors “buying” admission for less-than-stellar offspring (I.e. legacy admissions). As eyerolling and common as those practices are, they’re not illegal, and at least the school gets a building or professorship or whatever out of the “exchange” that can benefit other students. In the Varsity Blues scandal, it was out and out fraud, on so many levels it’s hard to know where to begin.

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 15:01:03 +0000

Why do these applicants need good grades to enter college when you can major in “studies” courses like these at a well known school?
http://globalstudies.virginia.edu/

By: Snow on Pine

Snow on Pine — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 13:07:02 +0000

They say that every crisis is actually an opportunity in disguise.

How about Hallmark taking this opportunity to make their series more relevant, spice them–as they say in Hollywood “dirty them up” a bit.

So, for instance, they could have “When Calls the Bailbondsman,” or “Hallmark Chicks in the Slammer.”

By: ymarsakar

ymarsakar — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 12:53:30 +0000

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-03-14/facebook-u-s-criminal-probe-is-said-to-extend-to-grand-jury

Technology is all fine and nice but when your rulers become technocrats… enjoy your luxuries: pet, livestock, and slave.

By: Snow on Pine

Snow on Pine — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 12:43:07 +0000

Everyone is outraged about this, because everyone can relate–they’ve worked a couple of jobs and studied their ass off to get into a good school and to help pay for it, or they’re presently or have paid a fortune in college tuition for one or more kid, or their kid–though a hard-working, very good student–was rejected by one of these schools.

To add insult to injury, we’ve got one of Laughlin’s daughters talking about how she really just wants to go to college to party and have fun on football days and, then, her making a killing doing a commercial for Amazon about all the crap she ordered from them for her dorm room.

By: ymarsakar

ymarsakar — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 12:26:50 +0000

Aesop I always thought the popular conception that North Korea and Jim Jones cults were the height of the Iron Fist to be rather naive and shortsighted. The height of the iron fist is that the ruled subjects and slaves believe they are free and having a good life. They could never envision or support a Civil War 2, because they prefer and are happy in their lives. It is extremely tiring and unstable to control the population with iron fists, fear, and guns. Sooner or later, once you look away for a second, revolution springs up. Or a foreign enemy hits you when you are dealing with local insurrections.

That is why the Western belief and faith in the scientific orthodoxy is useful for the Deep State and totalitarian regimes. The fools actually believe they know what science is just because their priests tell them what the theories of the day are. They are happy with this, with NASA, and so on.

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 12:03:34 +0000

I saw that one, AesopFan. It’s funny, and it’s not funny, because those aren’t actually women, and everyone knows it. It’s like the emperor’s new clothes; everyone is afraid to mention the problem.

By: Molly Brown

Molly Brown — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 02:18:16 +0000

Also, this is not about getting an education for these kids. It’s about being with ‘their kind’. They will take a no brainer major and join a sorority or fraternity – the real point of it all.

By: Molly Brown

Molly Brown — Thu, 14 Mar 2019 02:03:00 +0000

Mike K,
He He. You really gotta wonder. There is a lot of eye rolling going on where I am today. Visiting with my son and his fiance. Both USC STEM grads. Both my son and my daughter got National Merit Finalist scholarships – part of USC’s effort to get those SATs up. In my son’s freshman dorm was the son of a very famous Academy Award winning actor. My son would tell us about the clouds of mj smoke rolling out of his dorm 24/7, and how he slept though a gen ed class they were both in. When I think of the extra hoops my kids had to jump through because – you know – home schooled… So yes, you really have to wonder – rich celebrity parents – and they still couldn’t make the bottom cut…