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>>A shoulder shrug was my initial reaction, too: what >>was the larger "crime" committed here? Not to be >>snotty, but it's not like she got a fake MBA from >>Harvard or Yale. And it's entirely feasible that she >>actually had enough equivalent work experience, isn't >>it? >>I just couldn't get all that outraged about this whole >>story. I suppose if I were a WVU grad, or had an MBA >>from WVU, it would tick me off. > >You shrug your shoulders? > >Think of it this way: Government is a bunch of liars. >Business people are total liars and prostitutes. The >universities should be fortresses of integrity, of >honesty. And West Virginia University totally sells >out its soul to serve the daughter of the governor who >also happens to be in the employ of the university's >largest contributor? This entire process was an >incredible perversion of ethics and integrity. The >students look at the shambles of the world around >them, and then look at their university, which is >preaching education and learning and all that, and >they see nothing but prostitution. And what kind of >message do they take from this school? > >The message they take is -- steal, cheat, deal under >the table, whore yourself away. > >We all are ready to accept that colleges cheat like >hell in athletics -- in recruiting, in getting players >into school, keeping them there, etc. We all >understand the football coach is doing all that, to >fill the stadium and his pockets. > >But we turn to the professors, to the academicians, >the philosophers, to find honest and solid ground. And >now we see that at West Virginia U., you can't trust >that you will find it. There is a decay and a rot. > >This kind of stuff happens all the time? That's the >way you justify this incredible ugly thing? It happens >all the time? Really? Where? When? Name me a school, >anywhere that has done this. Name me a school. > >And at this outrage you shrug your shoulders? > > >> >> >>>I think it was an interesting piece of investigating >>>journalism, but most people (myself included) are >>>probably just shrugging their shoulders. This stuff >>>happens all the time, and WVU unfortunately just got >>>caught.

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