USC, reeling for a decade of scandals, faces a reckoning with its ties to a college admissions scam roiling higher education. To many inside and outside campus, it speaks to a culture in desperate need of change. More from MattHjourno and latimesharriet:
Over the last year, the campus has been roiled by allegations, also brought to light by the newspaper, that a longtime student health gynecologist abused and harassed hundreds of students over nearly three decades.The university recently brokered an initial $215-million settlement with former patients, and experts say the final price tag will be much higher.
USC’s interim president, Wanda Austin, said the university was barring about half a dozen current applicants connected to Singer’s firm and had identified at least $1.3 million in donations from those involved in the scheme. That money, she said, will be redirected to scholarships for underprivileged students.
“I don’t see it as akin to the other issues we have had, but our response is we are an ethical university and we are holding all of our members to that standard,” Austin said. The 204-page FBI affidavit provided a window into the desire of wealthy Southern California families to attend USC. In a wiretapped conversation last summer, Beverly Hills marketing executive Jane Buckingham strategized with Singer about paying a man from Tampa to take her son’s ACT.
USC’s board chairman, Rick Caruso, a billionaire whose children have attended the university, said he personally knew two families in which parents were charged. At least two parents charged socialized with USC trustees or top administrators. Bill McGlashan, a Marin County financier who manages funds for one of the world’s largest private equity investors, bragged to Singer in a July wiretapped phone call that “half the board knows me” and he planned to ask them to help with his son’s admission.
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