Since the day this story broke I have been reading everything; all the updates, stories, post and news reels. This is probably one of the few news stories that really touched me in a personal manner. I worked hard for my degree, my wife worked hard on her degree, her brother is fighting tooth and nail to get into the college of his choice (Purdue, is his number one choice) and my oldest son has recently started the process of getting into college. We have all worked our collective asses off for our degrees and to those that are currently plowing away, we feel you!
I have always joked about just paying for a degree and call it a day but I was not really rich enough to turn that joke into a reality. But here we are, reading article after article of 33 parents that paid tons of money to get their kids into some very highfalutin schools. Not just bribes or expensive gifts but straight up cheating, lies and fake sporting profiles!
Some of the kids have spoken out and said they did not know, and I call absolute bullshit on that one! You know what test you took or did not take, you know that you were not on the rowing team and you know your family business. I would not put it past them that they flaunted their forged entrance. I have zero sympathy for any backlash that has come their way or any that has yet to hit home. Even to the point that the government has issued letters to numerous students stating the Federal Governments intent to investigate that they were complicit in the illegal activities.
If you can get kicked out of college for plagiarizing, even the smallest amount, this should be grounds for a life time ban! And yes I am hating on those that had/have the ability to just pay their way in, because the right college can mean all kinds of things. But in my eyes you need to earn that, and how many people probably deserved those places got passed over because these twat-cicles just paid and walked?
It is not often we get to see justice but I feel this is a win for the little guy/girl. This is to all those that poured their very soul into their entrance essay, sat by the mail box waiting for the snail mail response to come in and to those that got the thanks but no thanks canned responses-Justice is coming! I feel this will help to bring things back to a more level playing field, who in their right mind would even think about trying something like this now? I am sure it will not be the last time someone pays to play but at least now those skeletons are out of the closet.
So far 50 people have been arrested, 33 of them parents and of 33 parents 13 of them have pleaded guilty to all kinds of charges, 19 have pleaded not guilty and one is still working on their plea. I am actually more interested in the ones that pleaded not guilty, what kind of legal fuckery are they going to try and pull? All of the USA is watching this and I am sure most of the people are like me, we want to see these fuckers burn! Not actually set on fire but …..a little jail time in Club Fed would be greatly appreciated.
To sum this up to everyone involved, all I have to say (And I quote)
‘How does it taste mother-fucker?’
-Dave Chappelle January 21, 2004
Not to end this post with such disdain I would like to share a picture of a free drink I got from Amazon:
I went to the Amazon pick up location in downtown San Jose, because we have porch pirates in my neighborhood, to get some picture frames that the wife had ordered and while I was there the very hipster dude at the front desk asked if I wanted a free drink. Free…..fuck yeah! But the second he gave it to me I blurted out ‘Holy Fuck its Soylent Green!’ The fact he did not laugh at that was all the proof I needed that I could never hang with him. And I hope that someone reading this knows what I am talking about or at least has the fore sight to Google it……..IT’S PEOPLE!!!!!! I laughed, and not only because I laugh at my own jokes but because if really was made out of people I would have still drank it!
‘Ha, I kill me’
-Alf, 1986
Till next post; journal often, journal more and take pictures of everything.