Today's Clips (3/13/19)
DAVIDSON IN THE NEWS

Davidson’s Jon Axel Gudmundsson was named the Atlantic 10’s player of the year Tuesday. He’s joined on the all-conference first team by Wildcats teammate Kellan Grady.

A practice offers a window into this amazing rise.

ADMISSIONS SCANDAL

A new college admissions scandal is just the latest proof of a grossly uneven playing field.

Charges against parents accused of gaming the admissions process are a defense of the institutions’ property, not of meritocracy.

The bribery scandal is no more abhorrent than the completely legal industry that helps many wealthy kids get into the schools of their dreams.

Recruiting scandals typically focus on coaches and players, but in this latest one it was parents using sports to game the system.

Federal prosecutors charged dozens of wealthy parents, including prominent figures in law and business and two Hollywood actresses, with using bribes, bogus entrance-exam scores and faked athletic achievements to get their children admitted to elite colleges.

The federal admissions-cheating case highlights the intense pressure families feel to not only get their child into a good college—but into the best college possible.

The man at the center of what prosecutors allege is a more than $25 million scam to help wealthy families bribe their way into elite colleges is 58-year-old William Rick Singer.

In the 1993 episode, Loughlin's character, Aunt Becky, doesn't let her husband get away with lying to get their twin sons into an elite preschool.

Bill Ferguson, the head volleyball coach at Wake Forest University, has been put on administrative leave after being charged Tuesday with racketeering in a massive national college admissions bribery case

In the American blood sport of college admissions, the rich have long had more levers to pull.

“These mothers and fathers live in a world in which the mark of good parenting is substantially tied to where one’s children are admitted.”

One college counseling company charges up to $1.5 million for its perfectly legal services.

College admissions processes are shrouded in mystery. When Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman were indicted in a college cheating scandal, everyone took to Twitter to express outrage and confusion. The thing is, it happens much more often than not.

Celebrities like Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin don’t need to resort to criminality to get their kids into elite schools — college admissions already favor the wealthy.

The details of an elaborate scam for buying seats at elite colleges are striking. But the themes at the heart of the saga are all too familiar.

IN OTHER NEWS

The White House is weighing a measure that would require colleges and universities to take a financial stake in their students’ ability to repay government loans.

Republicans introduced a bill in the N.C. Senate on Tuesday that would roll back tuition surcharges for students at UNC system schools who take too much time and too many credit hours to get their degrees.

TRADES

Students at Sarah Lawrence want to review the tenure of a conservative professor who criticized student affairs programs as ideologically "lopsided."

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