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The University of California, Berkeley has joined the growing list of universities tied to the sweeping college admissions scandal — as a former Canadian football player allegedly paid someone to take the SATs for his sons, one of whom was on the school’s rowing team. David Sidoo, who played for the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds and later the Canadian Football League, was busted March 8 on charges related to the scam, ABC affiliate KGO-TV reported. Sidoo allegedly paid someone $200,000 to take the SAT for his sons in 2011 and 2012, according to court documents obtained by the station.

As a college admissions scandal rocks the University of Southern California, athletic director Lynn Swann wants everyone to know he had no idea what was going on. In his first comments since the Department of Justice indicted dozens of wealthy parents and several more college coaches and administrators, the NFL Hall of Famer told the Los Angeles Times that the first time he learned of the scandal was a phone call early Tuesday morning:

The celebrity college admissions scandal feels tremendously validating. I don’t mean I’m reveling in the misfortune of vapid celebrities with disagreeable politics, although if I’m being honest, my schadenfreude meter blew past acceptable levels for a practicing Christian as soon as the story broke.I mean this: As soon as my wife and I started talking about marriage, we started talking about having kids, and as soon as we started talking about having kids, we started talking about what a good education for them would look like. That’s not a terribly uncommon sequence of events for college-educated couples who decide...

Lori Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli brought the horse to water, but it just would not drink. The embattled couple is currently facing up to five years in prison for falsely presenting their daughters as crew recruits at the University of Southern California and then allegedly paying over $500,000 in bribes to guarantee that both teens would be admitted to the school. There were early signs however that the investment made by the two might not yield great returns, especially when their younger daughter Olivia decided to skip the first week of her freshman year and fly off to...

The NCAA has found major recruiting violations at Georgia Tech. The school is expected to announce the news Friday, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The allegations name two men — former assistant basketball coach Darryl LaBarrie and Ron Bell. The NCAA believes both men are responsible for Level 1 violations, the highest possible. Current head coach Josh Pastner has not been charged with any violations, his attorney told the Journal-Constitution.

For almost a quarter century I have been a professor of economics at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. After years of working there, I have learned something about how my department’s academic radicals, who by dint of personality but not numbers have near-decisive control over many departmental decisions. WSU economics is a master’s-level department. How its radicals operate is utterly inconsistent with all that is best about Western universities. I would like to share whatever wisdom I have gained from working in this department to give readers a sense of how at least some on the academic left think...

The FBI charged a list of well-heeled parents, including actors Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin, with fraud on March 12. Their alleged goal: to get their kids into top schools, including Yale and Stanford. The public reactions ranged from outrage to cynicism. The outrage: These parents think they can buy their kids anything. The cynicism: These parents could have done the same thing legally by “charitably” funding a new building or two. All this aside, the admissions scandal is an opportunity to separate the lofty mythology of college from the sordid reality. Despite the grand aspirations that students avow on...

The biggest school admissions scandal ever prosecuted began with a tip from an executive investigators were targeting in an unrelated securities fraud probe, it was revealed today. The unnamed businessman told Boston authorities chasing down the market manipulation scheme that Rudy Meredith, the women’s soccer coach at Yale University, said he would designated the executive’s daughter as a recruit in exchange for cash, the official said. The official was not authorized to discuss the case and spoke on the condition of anonymity.

Multiple lawsuits have been filed for more than $500 billion against elite universities and those implicated in the college admissions scandal that helped wealthy Americans cheat their children's way into school. Two Stanford students filed a $5 million class action suit on Wednesday claiming they were denied opportunities to get admitted to Yale and USC and have now had their degrees devalued in the wake of the recent charges.

Lori Loughlin has been dropped from Netflix's Fuller House after she was charged in this week's massive college bribery scandal. ……………………………...…………………...……. Loughlin's daughters Olivia Jade, 19, and Isabella Rose, 20, also decided to withdraw from the University of Southern California on Thursday. Sources told TMZ that the girls were afraid they would be 'viciously bullied' if they returned to the Los Angeles school.

The Hallmark Channel has cut ties with favored actress Lori Loughlin after she was charged in the college bribery scandal. Hallmark said it was 'saddened' by the allegations involving the actress and revealed on Thursday the network would no longer be working with her. It has no plans for her to return for season five of Fuller House - which she guest starred in - and have cancelled Sunday's episode of When Calls the Heart while it reviews her role.

Lori Loughlin‘s daughters are dropping out of the University of Southern California — because they’re afraid of being bullied over the massive college admissions scam that has left them feeling like “a mess,” a report said Thursday. Olivia Jade, 19, and her sister, 20-year-old Isabella Rose, have decided to withdraw from USC days after their parents, “Fuller House” star Loughlin and her husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, were charged for allegedly paying the girls’ way into the school, TMZ reported. One source told the gossip website the girls worry they’ll be “viciously bullied” if they return to school.

Sephora announced on Thursday afternoon that it has ended its partnership with Lori Loughlin's YouTube star daughter Olivia Jade following a bitter backlash on social media in the days after her parents were charged in the college bribery scandal. 19-year-old Olivia, who is widely known as a social media and YouTube star with millions of followers, has worked with Sephora for some time now, and last year even released her own palette as part of a collaboration with its in-house label Sephora Collection. But the popular beauty retailer has now terminated its partnership with the teen, after it was revealed...

Hallmark announced Thursday that it will no longer work with actress Lori Loughlin after she was charged in a college admissions scandal, The Associated Press reported. Loughlin was among the roughly 40 people charged is what officials have called the “largest college admissions scam ever prosecuted by the Department of Justice.”

Hollywood celebrities are constantly lecturing the rest of America on how to live, what to eat and who to vote for. They're better than you and me. But now and then things go wrong. Like yesterday: This doesn't happen every day: Hollywood stars Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin and Loughlin's fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, were arrested Tuesday and charged with paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to cheat their daughters into college.The three were charged along with nearly 50 other people in a scheme in which wealthy parents allegedly bribed college coaches and insiders at college testing centers to...

The U.S. college admissions scandal that erupted this week has triggered private litigation accusing rich, well-connected parents of buying spots for their children at prestigious schools, and keeping children of less wealthy parents out. A $500 billion civil lawsuit filed by a parent on Wednesday in San Francisco accused 45 defendants of defrauding and inflicting emotional distress on everyone whose "rights to a fair chance at entrance to college" were stolen through their alleged conspiracy. In the largest known college admissions scandal in U.S. history, federal prosecutors on Tuesday said a California company made about $25 million by charging parents...

Nearly a Dozen Real Estate Honchos Charged in College Cheating Scheme Nearly a dozen real estate CEOs were among the nearly 50 people charged in a nationwide scheme to cheat on college entrance exams to get children into elite colleges, federal prosecutors said. The mostly California-based suspects, which include a former Cushman & Wakefield broker and the former CEO of investment management firm Pimco, allegedly bribed coaches and school administrators to gain admissions into schools like Yale, Stanford, USC and Georgetown, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston announced this morning. From 2011 to 2019, prosecutors said that William Singer, 58,...

After actress Lori Loughlin allegedly bribed her daughter’s way into college, the “Fuller House” star’s teen cashed in on her student status — despite admitting she was attending school just to party. Olivia Jade Giannulli is a social-media star in her own right, boasting 1.3 million followers on Instagram and almost 2 million on YouTube. After arriving at USC last year, she posted sponsored content on Instagram for Amazon Prime, featuring a photo of herself in her new dorm room.

I don’t know who “Felicity Huffman” is. Some big-time television star who shares an ethical paint-by-numbers palette with Jussie Smollett, I suppose. But today we all know her sleazy story. The larger narrative doesn’t begin or end with her. Way down, in the sub-basement at every college, one might find books full of great thoughts concerning human virtue. They provided a character map for advanced learners to follow as duty and obligation. These erudite considerations, collected over centuries of human existence, today provide only subsistence for the rats that dwell subterranean. The bigger rats, the ivory tower rats, wander through...

U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today seized on headlines about rich parents cheating their children into elite universities, declaring his intent to eliminate an old tax break that lets donors contribute to colleges while their kids are being considered for admission. Wyden announced that he'll introduce a bill in the U.S. Senate to "end the tax break for donations made to schools before or during the enrollment of children of the donor's family." His spokesman Henry Stern tells WW this will be the first time Wyden has introduced such a bill. "Middle-class families don't have access to this back door...