by Bob Walsh
A Napa Valley wine maker is the latest to be sent up the river in the college admissions scandal. Augustin F. Hunneus, 53, paid both to have her SAT score "adjusted" and to get her into USC as a water polo player. He also gave a decent size "donation" to the college with promises of more to come. (I wonder if he is still on the hook for those?)
In any event he copped out early on and on Friday received an invitation to do five months as a guest of the people. That is the longest sentence handed out so far.
As one might expect this situation has resulted in numerous actions of the legislation to prevent this from happening again. That means, of course, that people will merely get more clever in how they arrange such things. One of the bills, which would have banned preferential treatment of donors or alumni rugrats now only requires that the schools inform the legislature (not the public, the legislature) of preferential admissions policies. But that's OK because it makes the legislature feel good, like they actually accomplished something.
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