Wyden's measure would target legal donations for buildings or scholarships on campus, and purchases of sports tickets.
The alleged college admissions cheating scam unveiled earlier this week has already triggered at least one call to change the law regarding some donations.
The announcement comes after federal prosecutors in Boston charged 50 people in an alleged $25 million scam in which wealthy parents allegedly paid bribes to get their children into elite U.S. colleges. "Yesterday's headlines about the wealthiest Americans buying access to our elite colleges and universities is just a new version of an old story," he said in a Wednesday statement that referred to Tuesday's news."While the prosecutor attempted to distinguish these crimes from payoffs in the form of buildings or stadiums to secure access for the undeserving, it is all part of the same corrupt system.
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