The Times editorial board writes: UCLA's hands are anything but clean in the college admission scandal. (via latimesopinion)
But the $100,000 donation was part of a quid pro quo, the report found, under which the student was admitted to the school as a track athlete. This violated University of California rules, which do not allow donations to play a role in admissions. The report noted that several other athletic applicants also appeared to be linked to donations.
To its credit, UCLA learned of the situation, investigated it and produced the report. It blamed the coaches who were involved, and they were then disciplined, though the nature of their punishment was not revealed. But even after learning of this outrageous abuse in athletic admissions, UCLA nonetheless seems to have treated it as a problem that had been contained and closed its eyes to the possibility that further underqualified students might continue to make their way into the school via the so-called side door. It never set up a bulletproof system to examine the records of athletic admissions to ensure they were legitimate.
Administrators acted like astonished victims when the bribery scandal broke last month, which either means they had conveniently forgotten UCLA’s very recent past or that it was indeed an act. UC has said it is investigating how the current scandal reached its doors, but this revelation calls for much more. A massive review is needed — matching athletic recruits and other sidedoor admissions of the past decade with family donations at UCLA and every campus — as well as ironclad policies to prevent legal or illegal abuses in the future. UC and its Los Angeles campus have a lot to answer for here.
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