LA Times usually lets me read 3 articles a month. Maybe because I enter through Google News.
This is the worst college corruption I have ever seen. If this article is accurate, this kid never went to class. Partied and drove around in $750,000 cars his entire time in LA. And a grad student at USC either wrote all of his papers or helped the prince's friend from Qatar do it. That grad student is now a university professor at Occidental. People were bribed with Rolexes and who knows what else to pave the way for his activities and non-attendance.
What stood out was that UCLA wouldn't have anything to do with these people.
This is worse than the SEC and their football players.
No one went to liberal arts colleges???
This is the worst college corruption I have ever seen. If this article is accurate, this kid never went to class. Partied and drove around in $750,000 cars his entire time in LA. And a grad student at USC either wrote all of his papers or helped the prince's friend from Qatar do it. That grad student is now a university professor at Occidental. People were bribed with Rolexes and who knows what else to pave the way for his activities and non-attendance.
What stood out was that UCLA wouldn't have anything to do with these people.
This is worse than the SEC and their football players.
(07-20-2020, 12:47 PM)SamuelMcF Wrote:(07-20-2020, 04:55 AM)Mick Wrote: Wouldn't surprise me much. I don't know that many people who attended USC, at least not really well. I know one person who started a dental tools company at the age of 19 and did very well, USC grad. All three of my stepsister's children attended USC. I know their mother had debilitating dyscalculia (all the women on that side of the family do), presumably her kids didn't inherit it. And one of the kids on my son's volleyball team went to USC. The only thing the parents had in common was that they were stinkin' rich.
My HS (if I said "exclusive, filthy rich LA private school" you can probably guess which one) fed ~90% of every graduating class into 3 "buckets" of schools:
- Stanford/Ivies/MIT/CalTech
- Northwestern/Duke/UChicago/WashU St. Louis
- USC/NYU/Michigan
Can confirm the third bucket fit the bill of "parents were stinkin' rich" for almost every kid, the general exception being engineering-focused kids who did well in STEM classes but didn't do much extracurricular-wise beyond maybe playing a sport or an instrument (thus competing for limited School of Engineering spots with thousands of other just-as-qualified kids who did exactly the same thing or more).
No one went to liberal arts colleges???