nyt's having a field day with the admissions scandal!

And big Shout out to the fabulous Donna Heinel for her wonderful leader ship and strong values! Thanks for bringing one more scandal to USC and being the liaison to this fraud. Let’s hear from this awesome coac

Read this response on NYT article and thought this one was so relevant to the OJ + Sister story. I think OJ was a victim of her parents ambition and greed and she sadly bought into the idea that the only way to get ahead was to cheat the system. Will wait to see how many other similar cheats we have her in school and I hope the admin people scrub the system and clean things up.

From NYT:
Serena Saxton
Hoggard High School, Wilmington, NCMarch 14
Times Pick
Over the past few days, I've heard a million different opinions from voices all over the world. I just want to quote a few lines from the article that I just couldn't stop thinking about. "The real losers in all of this are the children of these wealthy parents, who learn that cheating is the way to win in life. They have been failed by their parents and lost something precious: their self-respect," written by Jim Brokaw. The whole world is outraged but these kids are outraged and humiliated. They're slowly beginning to panic and wonder if any of their accomplishments had been real. If their parents would bend the rules for this, who knows what else they would bend them for? They're going to be in mental torment over this for a long and undetermined amount of time, and if anything, I just hope to shed light on that. We can still be angry at the parents while sympathizing for the kids as well.

So many great replys on NYT article: Love this one on Character and Self Respect. I hope that the students involved in the scandal think about this. I would wish this for their parents too but most of the parents are probably beyond help.

Celeste
EmiliaMarch 15
Today I have been channeling Joan Didion and was led to her 1961 essay in Vogue "On Self-Respect".

"Character—the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life—is the source from which self-respect springs."

Words can help to restore dignity. I suggest the parents and young adults involved start studying:

h t t p s : / / w w w . vo g ue. c o m/article/joan-didion-self-respect-essay-1961

Please IP Wanda Austin, do the right thing and expel all kids involved in this scheme whether they knew about it or not! The country is watching and we need you to make a tough decision and earn respect back for USC and it's hard-working students and professors!