Judy Rothman took a different approach to make an opinion
about the topic because she didn’t write or comment much about it. Judy posted
a transcript, a conversation between a “desperate parent” and a “cooperating
witness”. I don’t agree much with the in quotes (“ ”) names she gave the characters
of this story because before reading the story I thought “cooperating witness”
was going to be someone who was doing good and not cheating the system. But when
you read the transcript you realize that both the parent and the “money hungry witness”
(which is what I would name them) are at fault, they both did wrong, one
offered money the other one accepted. Maybe by creating these names for these
characters, Judy, wants us to form a negative opinion against the parent and a
positive one against the witness and see the witness as more of a victim.
That aside, I still believe it has really good information,
and perhaps her intention was just to put the transcript in its entirety and
show people what is really being said, and make the readers come up with their
own thoughts about it instead of Judy making comments. Judy seems to be
directing this transcript to anyone who is against the offering of money to
enter the schools. It’s very disappointing what people will do for money, for
the love of money that is, because money is not bad since we need it to buy food
and other essential needs, but when people do corrupt thigs for money it is
then that it becomes a problem.
I am referring to the college admission scandal where many parent’s
payed so that their children would be accepted to elite universities such as
Yale, Wesleyan, etc. The name of the opinion article is “Satire: Whatwere Loughlin, Huffman & other parents thinking in college admissionscandal?” I believe it should have a different name because Judy didn’t make much
of an opinion or comment. But over all it’s a good read. And makes me wonder
how long things like this have been going around. And sad to know that equal opportunity
for elite college acceptance is farther than I had realize, unless you have
money to “donate” that is.
