Bribery is the price of admission to some of America’s ‘best’ schools
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2019
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Unqualified kids are admitted to some of America’s most prestigious institutions. Parents, administrators and coaches face criminal charges. Should higher learning be about more than status, money, prestige and power? Also: Boeing, the FAA and two deadly crashes.
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| 0:00.0 | We're not talking about donating a building so that a school is more likely to take your son or daughter. |
| 0:06.0 | We're talking about deception and fraud. |
| 0:09.0 | Fake test scores, fake athletic credentials, fake photographs, bribed college officials. |
| 0:15.0 | Tonight, career fallout for actress Lori Lachlan days after rushing back from the set of her hallmark show to face arrest in that college admission scandal. |
| 0:24.9 | USC told us in a statement that current applicants caught up in the scandal will be denied admission. |
| 0:30.4 | You know how conspiracy theorists say everything is rigged for the wealthy and famous? |
| 0:35.3 | Well, as a wealthy famous person, let me just respond by saying, |
| 0:39.1 | you're absolutely right. |
| 0:47.7 | Wealthy parents, bribe counselors and coaches |
| 0:50.9 | so unqualified students can fake their way |
| 0:54.0 | into America's most prestigious |
| 0:55.8 | institutions. I'm Arvin Alney. Our main topic today, the scandal in higher education as |
| 1:01.8 | seen by veteran insiders. How did this happen? And what's the message about the value of |
| 1:07.3 | America's elite institutions of higher learning. |
| 1:17.2 | But first, it's only happened once before, a criminal investigation of two deadly crashes of Boeing's latest aircraft. The 737 Max went down in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. |
| 1:25.1 | The U.S. finally joined other countries in grounding the plane when passengers began |
| 1:29.3 | changing their schedules to avoid getting on board. |
| 1:32.3 | Questions have been raised about Boeing's relationship to the Federal Aviation Administration |
| 1:37.3 | in certifying the plane to fly with new software that pilots were not told about. |
| 1:43.3 | Dominic Gates is aerospace reporter for the Seattle Times. |
| 1:47.3 | He's covered Boeing since 2003. One former chief counsel of the FAA says this is the last thing |
| 1:54.4 | you need, a criminal investigation, when the priority is to find out what happened and fix the plane. |
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