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I honestly don’t understand why this is a bigger deal than what happened at UNC. There was a 30 year scandal of fake classes at the university and somehow degre
by brightball 8y ago
I honestly don’t understand why this is a bigger deal than what happened at UNC. There was a 30 year scandal of fake classes at the university and somehow degrees are intact, accreditation remains unchallenged.
But a few rich kids getting into schools where they don’t deserve to be is a national scandal?
- gatherhunterer 8y agoIf there is wide field of political candidates and one of them is a former reality TV star, who is going to get the most national media attention? Americans are more interested in celebrity drama than anything else. Quality education is a rock bottom priority.
- cribbles 8y agoThe UNC scandal’s beneficiaries were athletes from predominately lower-to-middle class backgrounds. They weren’t competing for the same post-grad jobs and internships as the general applicant pool. They were on an athletic track whose post-grad opportunities were essentially totally different from most of the campus body. This is annoying if you think universities shouldn’t have high-budget, self-standing athletic programs coupled to their putatively academic mission, or that even if they do, they should play by the rules. But this doesn’t raise the same ire as the observation that wealthy people can simply buy their way into the academic track. At least the athletes had to have athletic merit.
- brightball 8y agoOh no, the way they avoided NCAA sanctions was specifically because the fake classes were available to the general student body and NOT taken predominantly by athletes.
- Meekro 8y agoI think the only reason the government is treating it so seriously is, this time, the university is the victim.
- twosheep 8y agoYeah Matt Levine made that point this week -- the damaged party in this case is the university, who had admission slots basically resold in a different market