ANSWERING THE QUESTIONS NO ONE ASKED: The colleges with the most ‘sugar babies’ in America.
Archive for 2019
March 16, 2019
BASEBALL GREAT LOU GEHRIG WAS A FRAT’S WAITER IN COLLEGE AND MANAGED TO OVERCOME THE TRAUMA: Author shines light on what it’s like being poor on a rich campus.
WELL, THAT IS AWKWARD: The latest opponent of the Green New Deal: The AFL-CIO.
THEY’RE BIG IN THE PARENTAL BRAGGING RIGHTS DEPARTMENT: Are elite colleges really a ‘golden ticket’ to a successful life?
March 15, 2019
AN EMAIL FROM YALE PRESIDENT PETER SALOVEY:
To the Yale Community,
I am writing about the actions I have taken in the wake of revelations regarding an ongoing FBI investigation into an admissions fraud scheme that targeted universities nationwide, including Yale. Dozens of people have been charged with federal crimes. These individuals allegedly bribed athletic coaches and standardized testing officials, or accepted the bribes, to deceive the admissions offices of universities. These dishonest and criminal actions are an affront to our community’s deeply held values of fairness, inclusion, and honesty. I am therefore initiating a number of actions to make sure we understand the full impact of this criminal scheme on our university and to protect our admissions processes in the future.
The FBI investigation has revealed that a Yale coach gave bogus athletic endorsements to two students, one of whom was admitted to Yale College. (For more information, please see this FAQ.) When applicants sign their applications, they attest that the contents are true and complete. Although I do not comment on specific disciplinary actions taken with respect to an individual student, our longstanding policy is to rescind the admission of students who falsified their Yale College applications.
The ongoing federal investigation has publicized wrongdoing by one Yale coach who participated in this scheme; however, I have decided that we must conduct our own searching review in order to learn whether others have been involved in activities that have corrupted the athletic recruitment and admissions process. We will retain external advisors to assist us. They will be asked to recommend changes that will help us detect and prevent efforts to defraud our admissions process. As part of this review, we will specifically examine the practices of commercial admissions consultants, whose work is conducted out of the view of admissions officers.
Since her arrival on July 1, 2018, and before we knew of the federal investigation or its findings, Director of Athletics Victoria Chun independently had begun to put in place new policies and procedures regarding the oversight and assessment of our coaching staff. The goals of her initiatives are to ensure that student-athletes receive an excellent education at Yale and to enhance the quality of our athletic programs. In addition, going forward, Ms. Chun will conduct a review of coaches’ proposed rosters of recruits before they are sent to the admissions office, and situations in which a recruited athlete fails to make a team will receive close scrutiny. These measures will help prevent opportunities for undermining the fairness and integrity of the Yale College admissions process.
Ms. Chun is working with Dean of Undergraduate Admissions Jeremiah Quinlan to implement a code of conduct for athletic recruitment. They also will design even more robust training for all coaches to ensure they understand our recruitment procedures and the ethical expectations involved in supporting student-athletes in our admissions process.
Athletics is part of the educational mission of Yale College. Under the Ivy League model, those who play on our varsity teams are student-athletes, and “student” comes first. Our sports teams engender pride among our whole community, and I have often said that we bask in their reflected glory, bringing the Yale College community closer together. The athletics program, including the varsity teams, is also an important part of the Yale College educational experience; students better themselves by playing their sport. They learn self-discipline, how to work as part of a team, how to subordinate individual ambition to a group accomplishment, and how to be resilient in the face of failure. These skills are important in every area of life, including academics.
As we proceed with these first steps, we may find that more actions are necessary. I will not spare our university any scrutiny that will help us to be better and bolster the integrity of our community.
Related: To Reduce Inequality, Abolish The Ivy League.
Plus: The College Formerly Known As Yale: Any renaming push on the Ivy campus should start at the top—with Elihu Yale, slave trader extraordinaire. “As an administrator in India, he was deeply involved in the slave trade. He always made sure that ships leaving his jurisdiction for Europe carried at least 10 slaves.”
WHAT EVERYONE NEEDS: The Ka-Bar Tactical Spork.
KURT SCHLICHTER: College scam? College is already a scam!
“I HAVE A PEN AND A PHONE:” Trump uses first veto to stop Congress from halting national emergency.
REFORM: A modest proposal regarding college admissions. “This isn’t an indictment of America but of the elite college cartel and the pathologies that it has enabled and exploited. It’s an indictment of the way elite colleges sell fast-passes to lucrative jobs on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley, of the manufactured scarcity that they have cultivated, and of the way they have avidly marketed that scarcity. When colleges sell access, or are so inept that they make it easy for the rich to buy access, this isn’t an indictment of American parents who pay for tutors or who diligently use their 529s to save for their kids’ tuition. This is an indictment of elite colleges. . . . Maybe elite colleges should put their money where their mouth is when they pontificate about the need to democratize opportunity, take a page out of the K-12 charter school book, and switch to lottery admissions.”
I made a similar admissions reform proposal a few years ago.
OCASIO-CORTEZ OPED: The Key To Stopping Mass Shootings Is To Pass Sensible Legislation Against Thoughts And Prayers. It’s satire, but is it really?
IS EVERY INSTITUTION CORRUPT? ‘Saturday Night Live’ Accused of Plagiarizing New York Comedy Duo’s Sketches. “Imagine, one day you come home and it looks like somebody’s robbed your house.”
OPEN THREAD: The weekend starts now.
COMING SOON: AOC-TV! The Revolution Will Be Streamed: Marxist Version of Netflix in Development.
This is one revolution the left can’t claim “it’s never been tried before.” Nothing will top 3CP1 when it comes to top quality Marxist television, comrade!
https://youtu.be/hS8yZnevvRk?t=863
THE 21ST CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: More Americans are dying from suicide, drug use and diarrhea, study shows.
RADICALIZATION AND DEGENERATION: Rod Dreher explores the Christchurch shooter’s chilling manifesto.
VETO O’ROURKE? BETO NOT PLAYING AS WELL OUTSIDE OF THE PAGES OF CONDÉ NAST:
● CNN Hammers Beto’s ‘White Maleness’ 52 Times In One Day.
● CBS’s King to Beto: Are You ‘Disadvantaged’ By Being a ‘Privileged White Man?’
● REVEALED: Teenaged Beto O’Rourke Wrote Fantasy About Murdering Children, Reuters Profile Says.
Kyle Smith writes that O’Rourke “might be the first person ever to run for the White House on a platform of asking the nation help him figure out who he is.”
Not necessarily — as a wise woman warned in 2008, “My fellow citizens, the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery.”
ROGER KIMBALL: Brexit, Trump’s wall, and the cynical inertia of the political class: In our democracies, politicians won’t do what people want.
That’s because they’re not afraid of the consequences.
AN EARTH-SHATTERING KABOOM: Ancient comet impact triggered fires, climate change.
THIS ISN’T SUPER SURPRISING: Patients prefer doctor video chats over in-person visits. Doctors’ offices are no fun.
THE 21ST CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED. Inside The Online Community Facilitating The Gender Transitions Of 5-Year-Olds.
NOT QUITE FRAZIER-ALI, BUT THIS IS WHAT ACADEMICS DO FOR FUN: Senator Josh Hawley and I Debate “Substantive Due Process”