News
Rep. Molinaro (R-N.Y.) Says Rep. Santos (R-N.Y.) Should Resign
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Rep. Marc Molinaro has called for the resignation of embattled Rep. George Santos, a fellow Republican, following a New York Times exposé of his lies about his personal life.
Admissions
EDITORIAL: The Small Things
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The biggest college admissions scandal the FBI has ever prosecuted: wealthy individuals paying for their kids’ admissions into elite institutions with fake athletic records and artificially inflated test scores. And a Cornell alumnus, Gordon Caplan ’88, is among the offenders. This scandal goes to the root of a noxious, pervasive problem in higher education — the influence of money on opportunity. Though the $500,000 in bribes from actress Lori Loughlin to the University of Southern California is an extreme example of this national problem, universities like Cornell let wealth legally influence their admissions in small but unfair ways every year. While our University is “need-blind” for domestic applicants, we do not remove money from the admissions process.
bribes
PINERO | The Real College Admissions Scandal
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We call education an “investment,” which typically refers to money spent with the eventual expectation of a return. My rough calculation of the number of students and the average cost of tuition indicates that over $400 billion is “invested” in college every year. For scale, with that money you could own JPMorgan Chase, Facebook or Johnson & Johnson and still have the equivalent of Alaska’s GDP to spare. This week, dozens of parents and administrators were arrested on fraud charges in relation to a sprawling scheme for admission to some of the nation’s top colleges. These parents “invested” six- and seven-figures to cheat on standardized tests and manipulate the athletic admissions process to ensure their children’s acceptance.
Admissions
Gordon Caplan ’88 Paid $75,000 to Rig His Daughter’s ACT Score, the FBI Says. He and Nearly 50 Others Were Charged With Fraud.
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An elite education is said to be priceless — at least, that could be the motivation behind the actions of Gordon Caplan ’88, who allegedly wired $75,000 to procure a fabricated, inflated ACT score for his daughter.
Food Lab
New Controversies Emerge Surrounding Cornell Professor’s Fundraiser and Studies
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Following the retraction of six of his studies, Prof. Brian Wansink, founder of Cornell’s Food and Brand Lab, has now been exposed for not following through on a project that raised over $10,000 in an online fundraiser.